St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

with package containing $4,000, with
which he was sent to the Express office.
DURING the twenty-four hours ended at
9p. m. on the 14th there were twenty
deaths at Marseilles from cholera. The in
crease is due to the intense heat There
were two deaths at Toulon, one at Spezzia,
one at Castelnuova, one at Villa Franco
and four at Berceto.
DR.. MACMILLAN PERTz, pro fessor ofthe
University at Berne, died on the 18th.
The recent heavy fires in Vienna are
believed to have been the work of an
archists.
The Union Pacific strikers at Denver
resumed work on the 165h.
| THE Great Falls Cotton Mills at Dover,
| N. H., have shut down until the first
proximo.
The Gordon relief expedition will push
forward to Wady Halfa as speedily as pcs
sible.
BEN SLICK, engineer at mill at Will
liams' Station, Mich, was fatally stabbed
on the 10th by a tramp.
CAPoUL, the welI-known tenor, is to
marry the daughter of wealthy land.
owner of England.
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| and the oldest Episcopal minister in New
York State, died at Newburg on the 10Th.
]. C. BURROWS, of the Fourth Michigan
District has been nominated for reelection
to Congress.
CROP prospects in Ontario are much i'm.
proved, and there will probably be some
thing like an average yield.
NUMEROUS deaths have been caused re
Gently near st. Petersburg, Russia, from
misunderstanding, induced by stings of flies
| that had come in contact with cattle in
fected with rinderpest.
EDMUND McCURTAIN, brother of the
present incumbent, has been elected Gov
ernor Of the Choctaw Nation.
SAKE, jockey, was instantly killed at
| the Brighton Beach races on the 18th by
his horse falling.
TWELVE thousand people attended the
demonstration Of the Irish National socie-
ties at Ogden's Grove, Chicago, on the
18th.
a SERIOUS accident happened to train
on the Cincinnati Short Line on the 18th,
but, strange to say, no one was fatally in
! jured.
STRIKERS who went as missionaries to
the fourth pool mining district in Penn.
sylvania induced the men at one camp to
come out.
| IT is reported that the Presidency of the
Erie Road has been rendered to John
King, formerly receiver of the Ohio &
Mississippi.
The friends of the late William Whist
| Ter, who was a member of the Greedy par
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examine them.
! SEVERAL firemen in Cincinnati were
overcome by heat on the 18th while fight
ing conhagration that destroyed nearly
100000 worth of property.
SIX hundred of the delegates to the Irish
National Convention at Boston went on an
excursion rendered by the Boston City
| Government on the 10Th.
| ACCORDING to returns from the Choctaw
Nation, Edmund McCurtain, :brother of the
present incumbent, is elected Governor of
Choctaw by majority of over 200.
| THE Coroner of Long Island City in
formed Miss Dora Buck, of Lincoln, Neb.,
| that he would exhume the remains of
Private Henry if she so desired.
REPORTS to Bradstreet's for the week
ended the 18th showed no Improvement in
the general trade Of the country, but in
the West and Southwest merchants are
purchasing literally on account of the fine
| crops.
THE United States Commissioner at Gal.
weston, Tex, issued warrant for the
arrest of Governor Ireland of Texas,
for alleged violation of the United
| States statutes in reference to mis-.
cegenation case in that State. The mat
ter furnishes lively topic for discussion.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made for fe-
male walking match, six days, go-as -you-
please, at Pittsburgh, Pa.
THE steamer Beda, just arrived, left the
Arctic Ocean July 10Th. She reports that
the whaling catch will be light owing to
the extreme severity of the winter. At
| fathoms of water.
JACOB GAUDAUR, of st. Louis, No., has
challenged Peter FL. Conley, of Portland,
| Me-, to three-mlle race at Creve Coeur
| Lake for 1000 side, and has deposited
| 800 forfeit.
! BOTH Houses of the Virginia Legislature
have passed resolutions providing for the
| appointment Of joint committee to ex-
anime and report whether there is an cleo
ton law in the State or not.
SUPERINTENDENT THOMPSON of the Rail.
way Mail Service, left Washington on the
18th, on an official tour of inspection
through New York and the New England
States.
LATEST adyices receiv6 stated that the
Frenc1 and ChineTe ironclads at Foo Chow
were cleared fos ayion, and with steam
up were awaiting oil sers to attack.
FIFTEEN @aaths ftbm cholera occurred
at Marseilles during ehe twenty -four hours
ended at 9 p. m. on Il 10th. The weatheT
was cooler.
A SPORADIC case ~ yellow fever was re-
ported at Key WesfI Fn., on the 10Th.
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