St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

GENERAL LoNGsTREET had Judgment
rendered against him or the 21st for $500
for money lost in option dealing.
JUDGE TRUAx, of New York, has re-
fused to admit co citizenship Chinaman
who had already taken out his first papers.
THE English have settled it that Eu-
ropean English subjects shall be tried only
by juries composed of majority of Eu-
ropean jurors.
THE Canadian Minister of Finance is
considering a reduction in duties on wheat
from fifteen cents to seven and one-half
cents per bushel.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among Bap-
fists in Manitoba to separate from the
church of Canada and unite with tho
American Baptist Church.
Two large fires occurred in St:
Louis, No., Christmas eve, in which over
$4,000 worth OF property was destroyed
and two brave fremen lost their lives.
A NATIONAL salute was fired in New
York in honor of the centennial of Wash
ington's resignation as COMMANDMENTS
chief In Philadelphia the bell in INDIE
pendence Hall was rung hundred times.
The Pension Bureau at Washington
has received letter from an Ohio man con.
tanning the following: "Drop my name
from the pension roll and write opposite it:
Cured by faith in the Lord" He will be
dropped.
The Bond case at Hillsboro, ILL.,, con-
tinues to be a prolific source of sensational
rumors. 1t is now said that the physicians
viii be recalled and expert testimony taken
as to the mental condition of the prosecut-
ing witness.
INDIAN AGENT TUFTS has sent to
Washington report Of the trouble in the
Greek Nation, accompanied with statements
from the two rival chiefs. He says an out
break may be averted il the Government
acts promptly.
EX-SENATOR SPENCER was discharged
by Judge Wylie Of the Criminal Court at
Washington. The Court held that Spencer
was not guilty of contempt, as he had not
been properly subpenaed to appear IS
witness in the Star-route cases.
ADMIRAL CoURBET, in his official re-
port, states that three officers and Sixty
seven men were killed and ten officers and
40 men wounded before Sontay on the
18th. Admiral Courbet has been gazetted
a grand officer Of the Legion of Honor.
THERE is great excitement at Las
Vegas, N. NJ, over gold discoveries. The
find was made by workmen excavating for
a new Courthouse. They Immediately
staked out claim, and now the entire
population is said to be searching for gold.
THE King of Abyssinia is reported to
be massing troops at Adua and threatening
Massowah. It is stated that about the first
of December the Abyssinian chiefs at"
tackled the intrenched Egyptian position
near Massowah and massacred 500 Egyp-
tians.
Oh the night Of the 21th the German
Grown Prince visited the Italian Chamberot
Deputies and sat in the diplomatic gallery.
where Premier Depretis and others Min.
listers paid their respects to him. The
Prince left Rome at midnight amid great
ceremony.
THE Grand jury presented three in-
-dictments in the Washington ID. CO. Grim
inal Court on the 21st against Pension At
torneys Nathan w. Fitzgerald, Samuel G.
Fitzgerald and Andrew B. Webb for illegal
use of the mails and deyising scheme to
defraud widows Of soldiers.
FIVE of the Glasgow dynamiters, on
trial at Edinburgh, were found guilty on
the 2lst of all the charges, and were sever
ally sentenced to life Imprisonment. The
other five were found guilty of the first
charge only, and were each sentenced to
seven years. penal servitude.
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The announcement is made that Reu-
ben r. Springer, famous for gifts to the
public, has bequeathed to the Cincinnati
Art Museum his valuable art collections,
and also pictures willed by. his niece, Mrs.
Mills. 1t is also stated he has given $10,-
600 more to the College of Music for new
buildings.
The mail train on the Erie Railway
jumped the track at Sunbury, Pa, on the
18th and dashed through several freight
cars standing on siding, uncomfortably
shaking up the passengers. demolishing
several boxcars and two passenger coaches,
and disabling the engine. James Wheeler,
fireman, was severely hurt.
A WASHINGTON dispatch says: There
is good reason for the prediction that, as
constituted, the Banking aud Currency
Committee and the Coinage Committee