St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-11
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL-

serve one year.
MISS MAGDALENA DRAKE, daughter Of a
wealthy man of Harrison, n. Y, is re-
ported to have ran away and married
Jesse Carroll, her fathers coachman.
The groom is said to be man of educa-
ton and has $1,000 saved up.
Two relatives OF Gilbert Leigh, nj. P,
who was found dead at the bottom of Big
Horn Mountains in the United States on
the 22d inst, left London for New York
on the Goth in order to accompany the body
home.
GEO. LoRILLARD has sold his Long Is
aand farm for $125, 900.
The death of Commodore Fillebrowns
Commander OF the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
was announced on the 9th.
On the 9th the Emperor of Germany
formally opened the new Opera.house at
Pesth.
AT meeting of the Corn and Flour Ex-
change and City Government of Balti.
more, Nd, on the 9th, eulogistic resolu-
tions were passed on the character and
standing of the late John w. Garrett.
On the 2Sth Archbishop Corrigan laid the
CORNERSTONE of the new Italian Church of
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel, in New York.
RUMoR has it that there has come to light
a real estate transaction in Washington by
which Ben Butler is said to have got ahead
Of the Government.
In the single sculI race at Creve Cour
Lake, ST. Louis, Mo-, on the 28th, Jake
Gaudaur defeated George Hosmer. The
distance was three miles. Winners time,
twenty minutes fifty seconds.
On the 2Sth the funeral of John w. Gar
rett took place at Monticello, the country
residence of deceased, near Baltimore,
Md. 1t is reported that fully 1900 peo-
pie attended.
SAMUEL LUPPIN, the defaulting Treas
urer of the State of Kansas in 1875, and
whose whereabouts has been a matter of
mystery ever since, has been arrested.
THE President is apparently not in
hurry to get back to business. He is not
expected in Washington until the middle
of October.
GENERAL GRESHAM, the new Secretary
of the Treasury, has not yet made up
his whether to retain the portfolio or to
accept the Circuit Judgeship.
MARCH,, director of the National Jour
nal, Brussels, has been expelled from Bel
GUM for supporting the Republican cause.
On the 295h Geo. Swannattage was elect
ed Lord Mayor Of London, Eag.
On the ooh the Austrian Reichsrath was
opened by the Emperor Francis Joseph.
IN boat race on the 10Th Teemer de.
feated Ross by half a length at Point of
Pines, near Boston, Mass. The distance
was five miles.
ON the och Rev. Frank B. Sleeper. of
Gardner, Mass, was arraigned on a
tcharge of committing an assault on Mrs.
Ellen S. Halt. The affair created great
deal of excitement in the vicinity.
ADMIRAL DUPoNT's statue, which is to
stand in Dupont Circle, Washington. D.
c., has been completed in Philadelphia,
and is expected to reach its destination in
October. 1t will be unveiled the last of
October or the first part Of November.
Ok the Goth Joseph Bunker, Chief Fire
Marshal of Cincinnati, o., died from in
juries received the day previous while
driving to fire. He was fifty-two years
old and had been connected with the Gin
pcinnati Fire Department twenty EIGHT
years. For the last six years he had been
chief.
PORTRAITS Of the wives Of Presidents
Tyler and Polk have been hung up in the
green room of the White House at Wash.
ington.
BENZ. F. COBB, prominent young
business man of Lincoln, Neb., has disap-
peared.
By reason of complete mental and phys
ical collapse, the engagement Of John Ne
CuIlough, the tragedian, at McVicker's
Theater, Chicago, and all the rest of his
dates for the season, have been cancelled.
HON. THos. "A. HENDRICKS went to the
Louisville Exposition on the Both, and was
the guest of the Commissioners.
THE letter of John P. st. John for.
mally accepting the nomination as the
Prohibition party's candi date for the
Presidency was given to the public on the
Both.
On the Both George KEENAN,, well known
in connection with Arctic explo1[Aions,
and who has been travelling in Russia dur
ing the summer, arrived at his home IN
Washington, D. G.
SUIT has been begun by Maurel, the i'm
pressario, against Patti, claiming $40, 900
damages for breaking her engagements at
the Paris Italiens. Maurel alleges that
Marquis de Caux promised not to interfere
in the matter,
CLIFFORD W. RICHARDSON, convicted of
murder in Hamilton County, o., and SEN
fenced to be hung September Goth, and re-
prieved to October 2Sth, has had his SEN
fence committed to Imprisonment for life
by Governor Hoadly.
LIEUTENANT LUTz Of the revenue steam
er Corwin seized the German schooner
Adele while the crew we're killing seals at
ST.. Paul Islands, near Alaska, and brought
the vessel and a portion Of the crew to
San Francesca Lieutenant Lutz has been
instructed by the Treasury Department to
turn the vessel over to the United States
n.-.-.l..l OF Sn,a Ernrnisoa and nonsn1lt