St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-09-06
Personal AND GENERAL.


delegate to the late Irish Convention at
Boston, says it was understood by the
League that Irish affairs would be kept
separate from American politics. He de-
MES that any bargain was made to traoe
of the Irish American vote.
The Treasury Department. on the 2lst
purchased 415,0 900 ounces of silver for de"
livery at the New Orleans and Philadel-
phia mints.
HON. JOHN LEIsENRING, of Philadelphia,
Pa, and on the Republican electoral TICK
ct, died on the 22d.
THE River Nile is rising again.
WILLARD P. TIsDELL, OF gainesville, o.,
has been appointed by the President as
agent of the United States to the Congo
Association.
TIE Frank James trial for the Otterville
| robbery, set for the 22d, at Boonville, Mo-,
was postponed
IT is officially announced that there have
been some cases of cholera at Geneva,
| Switzerland.
THE net earnings of the New York Cen
trail Road for nine months were 81, So, $40.
MILITARY were called for in Keokuk
County, Ia, on the 22d, to prevent an an
tieipated riot at the coal mines, and
company was sent out from Muscatine.
| DURING twentY-four hours ended at p.
m on the 22d, there were five deaths from
cholera at Marseilles and two at Toulon.
THos. MURPHY, of Jackson, Mich, an
employe of the Smith Middlings Purifier
Company, in fit of delirium on the night
| of the 21st, caused by bad health, MUIR
dered his wife.
| The Peace Convention at Mystic. Conn.,,
passed resolutions condemuing the use of
dynamite.
LENA slime, of New York, aged eigh-
teen, was fatally shot on the ed by Joseph
Rice, q rejected lover of the same age.
| DISASTROUS hail and wind storms were
reported from the East on the ed. In
Virginia there was terrific cyclone.
| THE French representative at Pekin left
the city Immediately after the lowering of
the French flag on the DIST.
THE German press advise that men-of-
war be sent at once to Chinese waters to
| protect German interests and subjects in
that country.
GENERAL LEROY Pope WALKER, first
Secretary of War under Jefferson Davis,
and who gave orders for firing on Fort
| Sumter, died at Huntsville, Ala, on the
| ed.
THE Salvation Army will be permitted
to hold meetings in Switzerland on the
| ground that the meetings are not relig-
] ious.
GovERNoR BATE Of Tennessee has of.
fered reward of 81 900 for the apprehen-
sion of the parties who murdered the Nor
| mon elders in Lewis County.
THOMAS WHITE, late cashier of the col
lapsed Planters and Mechanics Bank at
/ Petersburg, Va, shot himself quite Sc
| riously on the 22d, but claims he did it &C.
| cidentalIy.
The Emperor of Austria received Mr.
Taft, American Minister to Vienna, who
| is about to leave for his new post at ST.
Petersburg, on the ed.
THE United States steamship ITALIA
poosa was sank off Cottage City, Mass,
on the 22d in collision with a collier. This
| is the vessel that Secretary Chandler was
in the habit of using for his trips The
| crew were all saved but two-Surgeon
Black and a colored servant.
/ ADMIRAL CoURBEr has been instructed
to lombard the Arsenal at Foo Chow, to
land troops and destroy the Chinese war
material.
JOHN KING, JR., it seems, is elected as.
sistant President of the Erie Railway
Company, Mr.. Jewett consenting to re-
main some time longer under such circum-
stances.
ALL miners in the Sunday Creek Valley,
along the Ohio Central Railroad, quit
work on the 22d because some cars Of the
l Tr 70 hair 1or
used by the former line.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY striking coal
miners were arrested and placed in jail in
Pennsylvania on the ed on charge OF
conspiracy. In the Fourth Pool the men
who quit few days since have returned
to work.
THos. CAMPBELL, traveller for st,
Louis millinery house, committed suicide
at Burlington, Ia, on the 22d.
COMMANDER ScHLEY, of the Greedy relief
expedition having stated privately that
the remains of the late Edward Israel, OF
Kalamazoo, Mich, meteorologist of the
Lady Franklin Bay expedition, were in,
tact, relatives didn't allow them to be ex'
humed.
CHESTERFIELD County, Virginia, was
visited the evening of the 21st by a cyclone.
Huge trees were uprooted and fences and
on. houses blown down. Considerable
damage was done to orchard trees. The
storm was accompanied in some places by
heavy rain and hail while in other places
scarcely any fell.
MICHAEL Coon, well-known citizen o.
Oil City, Pa. forty years Of age, shot
himself in the region Of the heart on the
22d. Death was almost instantaneous.
He had been in 3 dependent state Of mind
IGome time.
THE elaboE <tely carved Italian marble
column o4tGos ernor E. D. Morgan's mau
soleuRe in the Cedar Hill cemetery, at