St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
prRsnNAn AND PoLITIcAL.

districts.
In the Seventh District of Texas the
Democrats nominated Hon. VIM. Fl. Grain
for Congress.
THE Sixth Iowa District Greenbackers
have nominated General J. B. Weaver for
Congress The Democrats have also NOM
mated Weaver.
THE authorities of Pittsburgh, Pa, ar
rested A. B. Lowry on the 22d for the
murder of Hiram Edmonson. One of the
principal State witnesses, Michael Donley,
was recently murdered.
THE Conference of Independent Repub-
licans at New York on the 22d was big
affair at which Blaine was oratorically
roasted, and Cleveland and Hendricks in
dorsed.
JOHN E. REDMOND and Thomas E. Sex
ton, Irish agitators, will attend the Irish
National Parliamentary party convention
at Boston next month.
THE Prohibition Convention at Pitts
burgh, Pa, was big one. Mcdonald, of
California, with his 81 ,000,0 900 contribution
to the campaign fund seemed to have the
lead for the Presidential nomination.
COLONEL GOSHEN, the giant. wants
divorce from his wife in New York.
On the 23d Rear Admiral George F. En-
mons died at Princeton, N. j., aged seven
ty-fve.
ACCORDING to London Truth PIunger
Walton has left behind unsettled accounts
for large amounts.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, in the event of an
epidemic in Germany will revoke the or
der for the autumn manmuvres.
THE King of AbYssinta binds himself in
his treaty with England to abolish slavery
and the slave trade.
ZEIGLER, the Philadelphia grocer, did
not die of cholera, as reported, but accord
ing to the post mortem, of aggravated
cholera morbus.
EUGENE KELLY is announced as Presi-
Dental e1ector-at-large for New York vice
Purcell, of the Rochester Union, who bolt
ed the Democratic ticket.
A MONTREAL newspaper has attacked
Judge Caron, who tried the Emo case, and
an application has been made for the ed
itor's arrest.
On the 23d the Prohibition Convention at
Pittsburgh permanently organized, the
committee on credentials reported and
then an adjournment was taken.
ON the 23d Salvador Landini was ar
rested in New York for wife murder.
En- route to the police station he took
poison and died before assistance came.
In the Third Congressional District of
Ohio the Republicans have nominated H.
i. Morey for Congress.
A PITTSBURGH girl named Lizzie Brad
ley, who disappeared from home recently,
was found on the 23d, covered with
wounds, at fishing camp on the Monon-
gahela.
w. N. GRANT has been nominated by the
Second District Vermont Republicans for
Congress to succeed Judge Poland.
DR.. KOCH, the eminent German scientist,
has organized transport service and is
sued rules for the public guidance in
guarding against cholera in Germany.
CARTER HARRISON has formally accepted
the nomination for Governor of Illinois in
a letter of his original kind.
CATHOLIC circles in England keep re.
peating the assertion that Mary Anderson
will become Carmelite nun.
LEO EBERT has been nominated for Con-
gress by the Democrats at Portsmouth, O.
LORD GRANVILLE will not consent to
Hollands proposed blockade of the Acheen
coast to secure the release of the crew of
the Nisero.
THE ticket chosen at Pittsburgh by the
Prohibitionists was: For President, John
P. st. John, of Kansas; for Vice-Presi-
dent, William Daniels, Of Maryland.
Platform: Down with the liquor traffic.
JOHN I. HEARD was nominated for Con-
gress from the Sixth District of Missouri
on the 389th ballot.
On the oath William Fl. Barnum and F.
o. Prince were unanimously reelected
Chairman and Secretary Of the National
Democratic Committee.
THE officers of Nelson's flagship Victory,
at Portsmouth, will give banquet to the
Philadelphia cricketers, Admiral Horribly
presiding, on July 31st.
MICHAEL DAvITT is canvassing ireland
in favor of the franchise bill and against
tine House of Lords.
On the 18th Governor Cleveland visited
and inspected the Sixty-ninth Irishg1egi-
ment in camp at Peekskill, N. II.
PARNELL denounces the holding of
National League Convention in Ireland as
contrary to Parliamentary policy.
COLONEL MORTON, Assistant Postmaster
at Brooklyn, n. Y, is missing, and there
is a slight discrepancy in the pay rolls.
GENERAL JOHN KoUNTzE, of Ohio, was
elected Commander-in.C Chief Of the Grand
Army of the Republic at Minneapolis.
THE Gar OF Russia is gong to visit
Warsaw and the most elaborate prepare
tions are being made to insure his getting
there safe.
PARRIN1, editor Of Gazette Italia at Flor
ence, is dead, the result of wounds re-
cefved in duel with man who wanted d
correction.
Ex-GovERNoR ST.. john, the Prohibition
nominee for the Presidency, has accepted
the nomination.
THE leaders of the Greenbackers think