St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-10-25
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Neas from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Guiding Alexander and Congressman Fin
erty, to visit Ireland.
ON the evening of the 10th the Tariff
Club of Cleveland, O., had monster dem
Onstration. There were go wagons in
line, brilliantly illuminated, bearing arti-
sans pursuing their usual avocations.
There were 10, 900 men In line, and the en-
tire cayalcade was seven miles in length.
The line of march covered twelve miles Of
illuminated streets.
ON the 11th George Burnett, noted
horseman, died at New Haven, Conn.
PHYSICIANS who examined the skull of
Charles Butler, the wife-murderer re-
Gently hanged in Indiana, say he was in
sane.
PRESIDENT WooLsRY is reported to have
resigned from the Yale College corpora
tion on account of advanced age.
On the 18th Mrs. Samuels, the mother of
the James boys, arrived in st. Louis to
prosecute her suit against the publishers
of the life Of the bandits.
KILOGRAMS from General Wolseley to
the war Office make many complaints con-
corning the condition of the equipments
for the Nile expedition.
In the opinion of Ferry, Prime Minister
of France, there is work ahead for that
nation. He is not altogether pleased with
England's attitude, and is disposed to
form an alliance with Germany.
STANLEY, the African explorer, is going
to Berlin, presumably for a conference
with Bismarck on the Congo affairs.
On the 18th the Emperor of Austria Of
ficiated at the opening of the nav Univer
sity building at Vienna.
AT Dubuque, Ia, an inquest held on the
18th, on the body of foater, proved him
to be man named Psalm, resident of
Turkey River, Ia, who was drowned re-
Gently by the caps.zing of boat while
crossing the river. He was a prominent
resident of that place, and leaves wife
and family.
ON the 18th s. L. Davis, banker, Ctncin-
natl, assigned, with liabilities, $4,000.
THE President dined at Old Point Com.
fort, Va, on the 18th, and then sailed for
Washington.
AT Pittsburgh, Pa, the Grand Jury has
indicted the President and Cashier of the
defunct Penn Bank and T. J. Wilson, an
oil broker.
Stewart, supposed to have been massacred
in Egypt, is still alive.
ACCORDING to a Paris correspondent,
Herbert Bismarck will be retained in his
position at The Hague on probation, and
Bismarck will ultimately appoint Her.
bert Vice Chancellor, in order to relieve
his father of many of his onerous duyies
II is stated that General WolseIey has
ordered the concentration of q camel
corps 1900 strong at DDngola. This
would indicate his intention to make
march over the dessert via Merawe or
Berber.
JOHN LOWE, Chief of the Dominion I'M
migration Bureau, will visit the West in
order to investigate and report upon this
years movement of the population from
Canada to Western States. He will
spend some time in Detroit, Port Huron
and other points along the frontier.
THE elections in Ohio and West Virginia
on the 14th brought out an unprecedented
vote in both States, owing to the day being
of the most delightful character. Returns
received up to the morning of the 10Th i'm
dictated the success Of tine Republicans in
Ohio on the Slate ticket by majority
ranging from 5000 to 1900. and the cleo
tion Of fourteen out of twenty-one Con-
gressmen. West Virginia returns In
dictated that the State had gone Democratic
by light majority.
The President appointed Frank Hatton,
of Iowa, Postmaster General, on the I4th.#
On the IA Mrs. Belva Lockwood ad !.
dressed large gathering at the Louisville
Exposition.
ON the 10Th Governor Cleveland went to
New York, and on the 165h he attended the
great Democratic barbecue at Brooklyn.
ON the 18th Hon. Justus 2. Morrill, re-
ceived the necessary votes in the Vermont
Legislature to insure his election as
United States Senator.
On the 14sh Miss Ida Theresa Foote,
daughter Of Captain Foote, United States
Navy, was married in London, Eng, to
Lord Montague Paulet. The royal family
of Great Britain sent many costly pres
ents.
AN injunction has been applied for
by Lord Lytton against the publication
of his late fathers letters to Lady Lytton,
his mother.
AT Berne, Switzerland, monument was
unveiled on the 14bh in honor of JACQUES
Staempfii, ex. President of the Swiss Con-
federation, and who presided over the
Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration, Mr..
Etaemp1i died in 1879.
ON the 14th Johann Strauss celebrated
his fortieth anniversary as conductor, in
Vienna, the public giving him a greatoya-
ton. Princely presents were received
from all quarters.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
on the Och Henry Simmons, an old and
respected pioneer of Oregon, committed
suicide near Salem, blowing out his brains.
He became insane over heavy financial
losses. Simmons was prominently identi-