St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-30

OPELOUSAS, LOUISIANA.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
BowsER, of Murraysville gas-wells riot
fame in Pennsylvania, was convicted on
the 14th of murder in the second degree.
MILITARY and naval movements on the
coast of China look warlike. Pirates are
also active and are ravaging the country.
THE Army of the Tennessee, at its meet
ing at Lake Minnetonka, elected all the
present officers for the ensuing year. Chi.
cago is the next place of meeting.
JAMES G. BLAINE has instructed friends
In Indianapolis to enter suit against the
publishers Of the Sentinel of that city for
alleged libel concerning his marriage.
TELEeRAMs received at Washington
from Consul Mason report cholera de-
creasing in the cities of Marseilles and
Toulon, but spreading in other localities
EARL GRANVILLE has assured Bismarck
chat England is friendly toward Germany
in the development of colonial enterprises
in the unsettled part of Southern Africa.
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THE Marine Hospital Service is in
formed that there were four deaths from
yellow fever at Mazatlan, Mexico, during
Nav, eight during June, and twenty DUR
ing July.
MORGAN, United States Minister to
Mexico, started to Washington on the
18th. and it is believed the visit is in con-
nection with the imprisonment OF Amerl-
can citizens.
INDICATIONS now are that Arkansas will
produce the largest cotton crop in the his
tory of the State. In some localities pick
ing has already commenced. The crop IS
two weeks later than usual.
GOVERNOR MURRAY of Utah tele-
ayraphed on the lash to the Indian Depart
ment that the Ute Indians were on the
war-path in Colorado and Utah, and asked
that troops be sent to protect the whites.
CRAVE diggers at Les Omerques,
France, on the 14th noticed slight move
ments on the part of two supposed corpses.
BY application of friction circulation
was restored and the parties recovered.
THERE were 264 failures in the United
States reported to Bradstreet's during the
week ended the 10Th against 276 in the pre-
ceding week and 174, 14s and "a in the cor
responding weeks of 1883, 1882 and 1881
respectively.
THE gross earnings OF the Louisville &
Nashville Road for the last fiscal year. $14,.
S51 ,e82; operating expenses (6l.4s per
cent?, $3.50, 1872; after deducting other ex.
penses, net profit of the year, 81, OS5,335.
The surplus was $Sl $50.
a KNIGHTS OF Pyshias excursion train,
bound Tor Detroit ON the new Michigan &
Ohio Road, was derailed and badly
wrecked between Battle Creek and Mar
shall, Mich, on the 14Gh. The engineer
was scalded, perhaps fatally.
ANUMBER OF arrests have been made in
the City of Mexico Of prominent persons
alleged to be concerned in conspiracy to
depose President Gonzales, assassinate
General Diaz and make Jose Maria
Iglesias President. It is said they will all
be shot.
SURGEON IRWIN, at Cape Charles quar-
antine station. telegraphed the Surgeon
General of the Marine Hospital Service on
the 18th that he had detained the schooner
Taylor, from Porto Bello for Baltimore,
with three cases Of supposed yellow fever
on board.
THIRD OFFICER KELLY of the steamer
Bear says the Greedy party admitted,
when they came ON board, that they had
eaten the dead bodies of Henry and ks
lingbury in Crder to keep life in their own
bodies. At the time of the rescue every
one was sworn over to secrecy.
The United States Consul at Sierra
Leone, reports to the State Department
that he has been compelled to leave the
Consulate by the prevalence Of severe
form of African fever prevailing there,
and from which ten of the sixty European
residents have died since May 10th.
CHINA, according to London dispatch
of the 10Th from Foo Chow, reused to pay
the indemnity demanded by France, and
has declared war. French troops from
Tonquin were being massed at Foo Chow,
and the Chinese are making the most ac-
tive preparations for war. The report is
not confirmed, however, at Paris and Lon
don.
THE British Government decided on the
18th to send feet of $50 boats with the
Gordon relief expedition and contracts
for building them were being made.
They are to be built in England and to be
completed within twenty-seven working
days, under penalty Of five dollars per
day for each boat in case of non-fulfllment