St. Landry democrat., 1884-10-04
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

in Kentucky, when a mere youCh, anu
that he was afterward married in Penn.
svIvania, as there was no record filed in
Kentucky. He gives the date Of the birth
of his first child, and many other points
concerning his domestic affairs.
I COMMISSIONER DUDLEY, Of the Pension
Bureau, has resigned to go into the
banking business.
A NEW comet has been discovered by
DR.. Wolf, of Zurich, Austria.
+ PRINCE BISMARCK is going to pay
visit to the Prince of Wales.
! On the 21st Captain James B. Eads
arrived in New York from Europe.
j F. B. HAYES, the Republican nominee
for Congress in the Fifth Massachusetts
District, died on the Goth.
KAMMERER, the Anarchist murderer,
was hanged at Vienna on the goth.
Pope LEO has granted $500 900 for thee
tablishment of hospital at Rome.
Mr.. CASE, owner Of Jay-Eye-See, wants
to match Phallas against any stallion in
the country, to trot in October, on the
course that may be decided upon.
ATTORNEYS for the plaintiff in the Blaine
Sentinel libel suit at indianapolis filed
answers on the Goth to the interrogatories
fled by defendant. Mr.. Blaine says s. L.
Blaine and Sarah Stanwood were wit
nesses to his "secret marriage" in Ken
lucky.
On the Goth George W. Buchanan, an old
pioneer of Washington Territory, died at
Chehalis at the advanced age CT ninety
years. He went to the Pacific Coast over
thirty years ago. Buchanan was captain
of the company that attacked and killed
the Mormon Apostle Joseph Smith, at
Charthage, ILL.,, in June, 1914. He also
took very active part in the Black Hawk
War.
SECRETARY EVERETT, chief the Ameri-
can Legation in Berlin, has resigned.
ON the goth messengers arrived at Cairo
bringing word that General Gordon had
vanquisaed numerous tribes and their
chiefs were begging for mercy. Many
tribes have come in and laid down their
arms.
ON the 22d Captain W. P. Clark, of Gen
eral Sheridan's staff, died at Washington,
D. G.
Ell MAHDI will, it is reported, materially
increase his fighting forces in front OF
Khartoum.
OK the 22d James Gordon Bennett, Of the
New York Herald, was badly shaken up
in a railroad accident near San Francisco,
CAL
On the 22d Hon. Harry Clay, Of. Ken
lucky, grandson of the illustrious Henry
Clay, died from the wounds inflicted by
Councilman WepIer, of Louisville.
MAxEY CoBB's owner is willing to &C
commodate Mr.. Case and trot his horse
against Phallas.
On the 22d Edward Clayton, Of Wheel
ing, w. Va, defeated Priddy, Of Pitts.
-burgh, in a, three mile scull race tor 81 ,OGC
a side.
on the 22d Sadie Robinson, twelve
tyear-oId girl Of birmingham, Mass,
packed a valise with 1000 worth of dia-
monds and negotiable bonds belonging to
her mother and prepared to elope, but was
arrested at Boston.
Elk UNITED STATES SENATOR NEsMITH
of Oregon, is now an inmate OF the Insane
Asylum at Salem, Oregon.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, during the recent
maneuvres of the German army, declined
to receive a deputation with an address
from the Catholic nobility of Westphalia
remarking that the parade ground was not
"a fit place for polemics.
Mr.. Coon, Acting Secretary of The
Treasury, has directed the Collector o
Customs of New Y ork to admit, free o
duty, the cup won by Keene's Foxhall
which has been in the custody of the Col
Hector nearly two years.
In Dublin fund is being raised to as
sist the families Of Daily and Egan, wn'
are undergoing life imprisonment for com
uniting outrages by the use of dynamite
IT is said that Ell Mahdi has twenty
Krupp cannon, and that 10000 Of his fol
lowers are armed with American rifles.
AN opinion was delivered by Justic'
Field in San Francisco, Cal, on the 23d, il
reference to the Chinese question.
FREDERICK s. NICHOLS, editor of th
Memphis (renn.) Avalanche, died sud
denly at Davenport, Ia, on the 23d, Q
paralysis of the brain.
PROF. JOHN LORD TAYLOR, an eminen
Congregational divine of Andover, Mass
died on the 23l, in the seventy third yea
of his age.
In a three-mile scull race at Peekskill
IN. Y, on the 23d, Ten Eyck defeated RI
ley.
MISS MINNIE GARRISON, eldest daughte
OF the late VIM. L. Garrison, was marrief
on the 23l to NJ. CASTOR Chandon de Baail
less, son Of French Count, at her moth
,er's country seat near Elberon, N. j.
THE last letter from General Gordon
stated that many OF the rebels besiegint
lKhartoum were retiring. Supplies wer
coming in well from the South. He ha
sentfour steamers to relieve SEMINAR.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 2Osh John Lange, of Dubuque
Ia. shot his wife through the head an
then killed himself.
On the 205h robbers gagged wido'
named Gait at Heath, Mass, and obtaine