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St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

In the Senate on the 26th, q joint re-
solution was reported, proposing an amend
ment to the Constitution for woman suff-
rage. The bill passed authorizing re-
ward to private parties for discovery of the
Greedy expedition. The education bin was
taken up, and Mr.. Lamar addressed the
Senate, favoring its passage. Mr.. Gull
lum wanted the bill modified SO that
it should only apply to the
South. Mr.. George favored the bill us it
stood !. In the House resolution was in
troduced and referred, fixing June as the
date for final adjournment. The McGarra-
han bill was tabled. Several private bills
passed, and night session was held to
consider pension claims, Adjourned till
Monday.
ON tie night Of the 28th the popular
dissatisfaction over the verdict in the case
of Berner, one of the murderers Of Kirk in
Cincinnati, eliminated in an attempt to
execute mob lawon the culprit. The latter
had been secretly removed Immediately
after sentence. "A mob of from ten to fif-
teen thousand persons attacked the jail
and were fired upon by State troops sta
ed, some mortally. Berner escaped from
the officers who were taking him to pris-
on.
THE malay known as '.g ub'' is
killing sheep by wholesale near Newcom-
erstown, Ohio.
SEVERAL eases of trichinosis havede-
veloped in Westmoreland County, Pa.
In the week ended the 28th there
were 1T2 business failures in the United
States and thirty-two in Canada.
A CONVENTION Of managers of all the
permanent expositions in the country is TO
be held in st. Louis, Mo-, June 8.
A CINCINNATI juror has been fined
$50 for offering to procure verdict for one
of the parties toa suit for small considera-
ton.
THE United States Civil Service Com
mission will during May hold examine
tions in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kan
sas and Colorado.
a BUILDING in pro cess of demolition
in Cincinnati uddenly lell, OH the 28th,
burying half dozen workmen -Four were
taken out badly hurt and one is still miss
ing.
A BILL will be reported to Congress
by the House Labor Committee to prohibit
the employment of United States pris-
oners under the prison contract labor
system.
SEVERAL Berlin newspapers assert
that Mr.. Sargent has declined to accept the
appointment as Minister at st. Petersburg.
They say he intends to retire from diplo-
matte service and return to the United
States, with the expectation Of re.entering
the Senate.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
BrTscELLANEoUs.

IHE newspapers OF Par1S claim that
the London dynamite explosions were
plotted in that city and that the explosives
were sent from France.
AN edict has been issued by the police
in Germany warning the people against
the danger of eating raw pork, no matter
where the hog was raised.
THE cattle quarantine in Kansas has
been entirely removed, the disease having
no contagious features.
In the sale of the thirty one cars of
Kansas corn at Cincinnati for the benefit of
the flood sufferers, outside prices were real
lied.
THE rise in the Lower Mississippi has
made serious inroads in newly constructed
levees, and the country is almost entirely
submerged. The City of New Orleans was,
on the Goth, in imminent danger if any
further rise occurred.
The Post Office Department is con-
templating fast mail from Chicago to
New York.
THE House Committee on Lands has
completed its report on the bill declaring
forfeiture of the Northern Pacific land
grant.
On the 25th herd Of imported Jersey
cattle sold in New York brought prices
ranging from 1929 to $40 head.
On the 25th the Devon cattle breed
ers Of the United States met at Pittsburgh,
Pa, and organized National Association.
TIE Well-known seaside resort in
Maine, Point of Pines, was sold on the 18th
under mortgage, and purchased for the
bondholders for $13o, OO0--less than half the
original cost.
On the 18th transaction was con-
summated at Colera, Ala, involving the in
vestment of 81 100000 capital by d Michi-
gan company inan iron furnace and agri-
cultural implement mandatory.
THREE HUNDRED Arabs have joined
the British, but the sheiks stay aloof.
ANEW bill to prevent the sale of
oleomargarine as butter has been passed
by the New York Legislature.
ON the 10Th troops were called out
to quen riot caused by striking iron-work-
ers ut Pesth.
a GAMBLT 6-HoUsE was raided in
Paris on the Goth and twenty-six ladies
were cspght playing baccarat.
THE0Pennsy1vania Railroad officers
kaYe rSAised liberal cooperation with
Southern railroads next year .iCa assisting
transport ttion to and from me Worlds
ExpositIh at New Orleans.
On tAs2eth the ice br0ko up at St.
Paul, Mfiysi:, leaving the rsSer clear for TIE
first times 9 Missy years at that date.
ADDIT1 yAL repores of damage to
life and propsaty by the recent torlladoes
continue to come in from Ohio, Kentucky
and South Carolina.
ON the Goth a dam connected with
the water works of Newport, r. l., gave
way, and the water swept over Mrs. Julia
Ward Howe's estate, causing considerable
damage
o. the 26th. among the resolutions
adopted by the Inventors Convention at
Cincinnati, was one declaring that the
Patent Office should be made department
with Cabinet officer in charge.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
Nv the 26tb Francis Marco Cummins

ON the Goth Francis Marco Cummins
died at Goshen, N. Y. He was Captain
in the Mexican war, and in the civil war
raised the first company west of the Allie
ghanies.
JAMES NUTT. of Pennsylvania, lately
found not guilty of the murder of his sis
teP's betrayer, Dukes, is to take charge of
his mothers farm, near Leavenworth,
Kas.
A MASS meeting Of the people of Lin
coin, I'LL, was held on the 26th, at which they
denounced the administration of justice in
Logan County, and adopted q resolution re-
questing Orrin A. Carpenter, late defendant
in the Zura Burns murder case, to remove
without unnecessary delay.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, Minister
to Turkey, had an audience with the Sultan
on the 26th. An emphati@ denial was
given to the report that the Porte had de-
manded America to recall Wallace.
In his suit against Sergeant-at-Arms
Thompson, Hallett Kilbourne has again re-
ceiyed verdict, this time for So, 800. This
is the third verdict in his favor, the other
two having been set aside as excessive.
WIN. L. THOMAS, the former publisher
of the st. Louis Commercial Gazette and
the st. Louis Miller, and also the Treasurer
of the Missouri Press Association, has COM
menced the publication of the Home and
School, and associated with him Mr.. ALT.
Patek, formerly of the Democrat
The paper is published in the interest Of
pupils, teachers and parents.
AUGUSTUS ScHELL died the morning
of the eth at his home in New York.
On the 9th Tom Thumbs mother
died at New Haven, Conn.
In his recent American tour Matthew
Arnold netted 5000.
PARNELL expects seventy-fve OF his
followers to be elected Parliament.
CHURCH, the defaulting Treasurer OF
Troy, N. Y, was arrested in New York
City on the 9th,
PRIME MINISTER FERRY says the
French Government will submit plans for
the revision of the Constitution in May.
On the 9th General Graham again
dispersed the rebels at Tamanieb, and now
considers his campaign at an end.
THE lroluois Club, Of Chicago, has
extended an invitation to the Democratic
members of the House of Representatives
to seats at a banquet to be held i'll Chicago,
at the Palmer House, April 10.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
Personal AND PoIIrrcAr..

The Grand jury found thirteen in
aictments against TIller and McFadden,
the St. Louis Exp press robbers.
On TIE 25th Arene, a member of the
French Chamber, was wounded in duel
with juliet, journalist
p. "A. JORDAN, one of the propri-
etors Of the johnson type foundry in Phil
adelphia. Pa, died OH the 18th.
Mr.. DANIELsoN, proprietor of the
Providence II. H. Journal, died on the
25th. He was active in many business en-
terprises.
EX-GOVERNOR JoHN w. HoYT of
Wyoming has written leading mem
Der Of the New York Legislature strongly
recommending Woman suffrage.
The Massachusetts, Republican State
COMMITTEES warns local committees not to
permit Federal of1ice-holders to hold mem
bership in such committees.
ON the 10Th, portions of Kentucky,
Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia were visited
by destructive cyclones. Many lives were
lost.
The New Hampshire Republican
+ 5UAgt 5AQ1yG4l0LuA las DcSAl CdAlSu lOF April
list. .
On the 26th Minister Lowell hoisted
the colors on the Greeley relief ship Afsrt.
AsU1T for damages against the City
Of Boston has been FLED by ex-Mayor
Palmer, his wife having received injuries
likely to prove fatal from falling upon an
icy sidewalk.
1T is said that Sims Reeves is coming
to America to wind up his public career as
singer with eclat.
The reason why Admiral Hewett dis
banded the Abyssinian scouts was because
thew were outlaws and robbers.
THE Emperor Of Germany has ex-
pressed to the President of the Relchstag
his displeasure at the defeat of the anti
Socialist law.
The Legislature Of Connecticut has
rejected bills allowing women to vote on
school and license questions.
MINISTER SARGANT has been nomi-
nated by the President and confirmed by
the Senate to succeed Minister Hunt at the
Court Of st. Petersburg.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
DIGNA'S LAST DITCH.
The soudanese Chfeftain Makes a Most I'M
dignified Retreat-The Champaign Vir~
tualIy Ended

buAaAS
LONDON, March 81.
The Suakim forces under Gen
eral Graham commenced to adj
vance on the rebel position at.
Ta1nanieb at five this morning. They.
met no serious opposition until 80 when:
brisk fire was opened up on the Brit
ish troops by the rebels, who were
strongly intrenched behind newly erected
stone works. The cavalry and mounted
infantry were ordered to charge on the
rebels. With the aid of few shells, sent
over into the rebel camp the mountedforce
succeeding in dispensing the rebels, who
quickly fed, much to the surprise of the
British, who expected stubborn resist
ance.
The British burned the village, destroy
ing the surrounding works.
General Graham will probably return
to Suakim tonight as it is thought this
latest route of the forces under Osman
Digna will dispel the delusion of the Shieks
as to Digna's receiving divine aid, and
virtually ends the campaign in this sec
ton of the Soudan. No casualties are.
reported among the British troops.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12

REPORTS of numerous murders Of
Christians by Moslems and of Moslems by
Christians come from various parts Of
Crete.
ADvIcEs from Tonquin state that q
Prince of the royal family of AMMAN has
been convicted Of promoting the massacre
| Of Christians and has been hanged.
| On the Goth the President sent mes.
sage to Congress recommending appropri.
! atoms for the reconstruction of the navy.
J THE authorities have released the sis
ter of Degareff, leader of the party which
assassinated Colonel Sudeikin, the Russian
Chief of Police, who was arrested some
days ago.
ON the 9th Montreal was reported as
expecting food.
For eight months of the fiscal year
Internal revenue receipts fell off $1S, 45i,.
26O.
a DESTRUCTIVE storm of wind swept
over Denver, Col, on the 9th, blowing at
the rate of fifty to sixty five miles an hour.
Many houses were unroofed and other dam
age done.
On the 9th in the ice breakup at
Bath, Me-, fumes, lumber and mills were
badly damaged.
EFFORTS are in progress to reopen
communication with Upper Egypt by way
of the Nile.
On the morning Of the 9th the first
through train from the City of Mexico ar
rived at Kansas City, Mo.
The German Reichstag is pushing
right ahead with the bill appropriating
IS, 900, 900 marks for torpedoes.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union in Canada wants temperance text
books introduced in the public schools.
CITIZENS of Cincinnati have been
holding mass greetings to abuse the jury
for the light verdict in the Berner murder
case.
THERE are urgent calls for materials
for repairing levees from many points in
Louisiana, and the situation continues
critical.
SEVERAL Senators have recently
started for pleasure trip to Florida, leav-
ing legislation to worry along without
them.
OFFICIAL reports made to The Reich
stag show that IN single small town 403
persons were affected with trichinosis last
year and sixty-six died.
TELEPHONE apparatus is now so per-
feet that conversation between New York
and Boston can be carried on in a whisper.
On the 9th a dynamite bomb was
discovered by the Leipsicpolice ina crowd
ed building. 1t was loaded, but didn't hap
pen to go off.
A RESOLUTION was adopted in the
National Guard Convention at Cincinnati
on the 9th, recommending the Slocum mi
litia bill now before Congress.
THE House Committee on Banking
and Currency medi.ates recommending
change in the National Banking laws so
that directors may be held accountable for
Irregularities.
The River and Harbor bill will APP
propriate about s5,GOJ,0O0 for the Missis-
sippi and tributaries, and about JIG, 001,0 900
for harbors on the lakes, gulf and ocean.
Il will be appropriated about April 20.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
SARGENT'S PROMOTION.
A Chat With Secretary FreIinshuysen on
the Subject-If bismarck Wants the Credit
He is Welcome to 1t.


He is Welcome to 1t.
WASHINGTON, D. c., March 81
Your correspondent had con.
yersation with Secretary Freling-
huysen, before that gentleman left.
his residence for the State
Department this morning, regarding the
transfer of Minister Sargent from Berlin.
to st. Petersburg. The Secretary said
that the change would be an agreeable
one to Mr.. Sargent and that this was the.
most important consideration III making,
it. 1t was a promotion, st Petersburg
ranking higher than Berlin as mission.
"Will it not appear that the Govern,
ment has decided to submit to BismaI s.
dictation in this matter?"
'tNot as ALL | am not at liberty to,
speak on this point, but you can say that,
Mr.. Sargent's course has been entirely
approved by the President and the Depart
h,ent, and that the feelings of the German,
Government in regard to Mr.. Sargent.
have neither been considered nor consult
ed in this matter. If Mr.. Sargent had
desired to remain in Berlin the change
would not have been made"
w LII hC Il 1SAANt1J
the German Goyernment-or, rather q
person whom the German government
sees no objection to-be appointed in Mr..
Sargent's placer"
at is likely thatfor the present nobody
will be appointed to the vacancy at Ber-.
lin. We can manage to get along with
a charge d. affaires. When Mr.. Sargent's
successor is appointed his name will be
sent to the Senate without waiting to-
hear from Germany. This Nation is not,
in the habit of consulting foreign nations
regarding such Matters
s'But Bismarck will claim the credit OF
driving Sargent out of Berlin"
If there is any credit in it, he is well
come to the claim. do not think that
were to make things so disagreeable for
the German Minister here as to cause
him to desire change of residence, there.
would be much credit in it for me. /
could easily do it, but not without riolat-
ing the laws of hospitality or descending
to systematic course of discourtesy."
Which Bismarck has done?"
al have not said so.
St. Landry democrat., 1884-04-12
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

OK the 18th TWEEN y-fiye cars Q; the
New Jersey Central Railway line were
wrecked, completely blocking the road.
A SEAMAN named John MCPHERSON,
on the steamer Thetis, of the Greedy relief
expedition, was drugged and robbed few
nights ago in New Y ork dive.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-17
MORE CH1RG esq

Hypocrisy has been defined to be "a sort Of
homage that vice pays to virtue The new batch
of "charges" against Mr.. Blame that has just
been brought out with so much blowing OF trumpets
and pounding of zinc by Democratic newspapers
may Justly be regarded a sort Of homage that des
pairing Democracy pays to the signal Republican
triumph in Maine
Ever since June. when Mr. Blaine was nomi-
mated the mud machines have been steadily firing
at him. When they came to study the Maine returns
the proprietors of the machines discovered, to their
intense chagrn, that their efforts had been worse
than in vain None of the mud had struck Mr..
Blaine, but the fact that he had been so wantonly
ossoiled had gained for him thousands of friends.
The Blaine Republicans had carried the State by
plurality of 20 OOO on the largest vote ever cast
for Governor; they had gained over 10000 on the
vote of 1SsOi they had elected every one of their
candidate. for the Senate and lG out of 1870 mem
hers Of Assembly; they had returned solid Repub-
licon DELEGATION to Congress- 1t was an unprcce
donted Republican triumph and it was only natural
that IA the Democratic managers surveyed its
GRAND proportions they felt that the charges they
had been ringing the changes on against Mr. Blaine
had miserably failed and that they must mme-
dntely throw some fresh ones ON the market
Hence the appearance of these additional Multi
oar, r,sbor letters A more signal confession of
dnfc,t wnq never witnessed. II Is as If Barnum and
mia follow committeeman had said We scc that the
chnrecs upon which have boon relying to destroy
MIR Hlnmc have been brought to nought Mano
Ina cnat them ont and tramplod them under foot
We are lot halllcd aud departing with an over
vholmtnp dcfcni N November staring IN In the face
In thcsc most trying circumstances It only remains
for un 10 order mp licah huply OF mud hoping
.vnln,t hope that nomr ol 10 VIII stich'
And the canvass, against the Republican party
I'm, dwindlcd down To this. Proceed gentlemen
with the hybtollcal uttomnce at your new ohalaes'
In October OHIO will show her opinion OF holh
patches by giving handsome majority Tor tho
Republican ticket. And then It Will be time lor
Barnum and his fellow committeeman TO cohcoct
another Morcy forgery.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-17
THE TALK or THE DAY.

Texas cowboy went into a side show to 400 living
two-headed calf. hut only a dead stuffed. He
suing the Snowman. who says In defence that he didn't
say when the calf was living
Lost your g1ipr n Philadelphia drummer asked hls
colleague. who looking very dismal on tho train.
no. replied the man from Market st., looking sadly
at the pretty girl three seats I'm 'front.' whose side he had
Just loft Two got tho sack Burlington liawkcyc.
The Lincoln Ncb) state Journal says that Hen Batter
would have been stronger II no had stayed East Ills
admlrcr, and friends IN tho West disappointed IN
his appearance aud his speeches
Horny Wnttoraon IA 80 seldom hoard from now that
there ls suspicion that ho has boon mnfted by ina
Democrats baltimore American. No lie. around.
utuc battered, but still In tho ring-.Loni,vils
Courier journal
Mr. Franklin n. Sargent Of tho I.yceum Theatre School
OF Acting, In this city, has been visiting Louisville In
order examine applicants FOR admission 10 the school
cleveland ana Hon tricks regiment has boon formed
nj Newport exclusively made up of prominent summer
residents who tie organizers When these dudes ars
waited, early la November they Will muster themselves
out Il New Orleans Picaunc.
TX Governor ST. John looks with apprehension on tho
immense crop Of corn this year.
The artist who reports that 10 icebergs Drift
ing sOuthward on Cape Race might have made II go
be had been disposed TO lie Tor one Iceberg These ioat-
ing aggregatiOns Of tangible frieldy are apparently
10 find the hiding place OF the recent hot WaVc-
philadelphia Press
The Mexican Government paws bounty for gra's-
hoppers number of hunters recently brought IN mora
they received Sl75.
Butler-" DO yOu print election ticketsP Printer
Yes. sir; we turn them 10y the million Butler-
GoDii | want two Printer" Two millOn,f' But
Ter" Two tickets; one FOR me ana one IOt Daha -
Philadelphia Call.
There is a -ecret society Of cOlOred men In Milwaukee
called The Watermelon club" Their grip. however
pretty generally knOwn.-l Burlincton Free Press
A Virginia tramp was attacked the other day by avs
hundred rats Did he beat retreatl Not he Just
got up and killed hundred Of them with club, and
the rest tainted when they smelled his breath.
The Nec- Orleans Times Democrat has got reporter az
is a reporter. lie wrote up the Pan Electric IeiephOno
the other day In the course or his sereeu ne Sai,
An naudble whisper brcathed in the diaphragm can 20
distinctly heard the other end OF the sshhg-
ton Critic.
The roof OF the orleans exhibition covers thirty
three acres roof OF the human mouth covers aOOul
as many achers Lowell Courier
The announcement that Baron Tennyson will bring out
a new poem In autumn shows that he isn't barren ater
all. - Atlanta Constitution.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-17
TIE TuREE LMPEKORS.

The meeting of the Empotors of Germany.
RuAAin aud Auatiin ut Slicrncwcc necessarily
ATTRACTS the attention II the world aud cApo.
cinlly at Europe. for the military force repre-
scntcd by these princca h capable of dominate
mg Continental politics, while tho ultimate
purpose of any alliance between them must bo
the maintenance, and possibly the extension, of
absolutism. 1t is not likely that the policy
agreed upon at their meeting will be known for
some time: perhaps not until it is practically
carried into effect. The press is carefully
excluded from such conferences, and the most
cnterpIising correspondents are thrown mainly
upon their own resources for accounts of what
has occurred. There has, however, for
some time been apparent tendency
among the greater Continental Powers to
make common cause against England, and it is
inevitable that the meeting of the Emperors
should be supposed to have some connection
with this subject Primarily, the feeling as re-
CARDS Germany and France has arisen ont of
a desire to initiate England's cOlOnizng policy
and it may have been intensified by the discov
cry that their island neighbor has already APP
propriated the most desirable situations while
it's people evince an aptitude for the work
when the fIehch, at least, nave seluOm ca
hibited.
France, with a dwindling population and an
Unsuitable ambition, naturally looks abroad for
new bases of growth and commerce. Germany,
steadily depleted by emigration to the United
States, has equal needs for colonial expansions.
The designs of Russia in Central Asia fully
account for its readiness to form closer union
with the great German Powers which can neu-
tralize an Anglo French alliance, or prevent
isolated action by England against Russian ag-
erosion or intrigue on the Oxus, in Persia or
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-09-17
POLITICAL: NOTES.

rre Doneudents have rejected Washington Gla"deh
,,,,co :. meet gain and demand Cleyeands with
drowaL What will he do about IT.
How Satan must hug himself with grim mii'n ""en,
aftor reading Democratic editorials on tho dignity anu
rto Of the Prohibition movement he learns that inc
manor dealers have raised $4,000 to help tue Deho
Gratis carry Ohiol
Carl schurz In $50 after showing that the kePuo'"
Marty had established industrial ana eomtIo'' P''
perty on sound basis. by wise legislatloh' "sN'"
what prudent man would now FISK 'ne'o e''Ss -,
,r,n over our financial policy to the hands OF the
ra, ,bch ia the refuge OF all destructive clements
threatening new uncertainty and oonfusionF was he
thinking OF the free traders who nave taken refuge there
and threaten the countrys business with new uneer
tainty aud confusionl'
Thomas r. Bacon OF New IIayen-Oy courtesy Rev
srend-enterains tho Same tolerant opinion OF Cle'o
lands iminoranties The Evening Post does anu To