St. Landry democrat., 1884-08-16
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
Personal AND POLITICAL

On the 31st the Manhattan Club of
New York gave reception at the club
rooms to members of the Democratic
Notification Committee, on their ar
rival from Saratoga. An elaborate cola.
tion was served at midnight. Many
speeches were made and toasts drank.
The Fourth Mississippi District Demo-
Gratis have nominated Fred G. Barry for
Congress.
THE Democrats Of the Thirteenth Mis-
souri, District have nominated A. L. Thorn
as for Congress.
THOMAS D. JOHNSON has been nominated
for Congress by the Democrats of the
Ninth North Carolina District.
MINISTER MORTON has subscribed 1000
francs to the fund for model of the Bar
toldi statue to be presented to Paris by
American artists.
The German poet and litterateur Henry
Laube, died on the 1st, aged seventy eight.
THE Dutch Parliament, on the 1st, by
vote OF sixty-seven to three, named Queen
Emma Regent during the minority of Prin-
cess Wilhelmina.
On the 1st Egan and Daily, the dynami-
ters tried at Warwick, Eng, were sem
fenced to penal servitude, the latter for
life. Informer Mcdonald was released on
his personal recognizance to appear when
called.
A WARRANT has been issued for the ar
rest of Savary, President of the Bank of
Lyons and Loire, France. Deputy Cham
bois fed to America on account of the
frauds. Savary founded the bank. Nor
and, Secretary, on account of the frauds
also fed TO America.
WARNER e. MERRITT, of Philadelphia,
owners of the Laura Baker, detained at
Key West, Fla, are convinced that the
Captain was killed by mutineers.
DURING the absence Of Sir Stafford
Northcote Lord Randolph Churchill is to
lead theoppositfon in the British Parlia-
ment.
On the Cd James Moore, a cripple, had
to be carried into court TO receive his SEN
tence for murder in the second degree at
Pittsburgh, Pa.
DRs. BRYCE and Cassidy, Of Montreal,
Can, have been appointed delegates to
the Sanitary Convention at Washington.
PRoMINENTmembers of both the leading
political parties are busily hunting cam
paign material at Washington.
AN animated contest took place for the
chieftainey of the Usage Nation between
Black Dog and Straight Axe. The election
took place on the 4th.
GENERAL TREvINo has been appointed
Mexican Secretary of War under Presi-
dent Diaz.
on the Sd Ex-Governor st. John Of
Kansas addressed fully 5000 people at the
Silver Lake IN. W camp-meeting.
COLONIAL societies in Germany are ar
ranging to obtain the advice and views Of
Henry NJ. Stanley upon the subject of
German emigration to the Congo country.
A SWISS refugee named Seigne and
man named Millet, have been arrested in
Paris, charged with completely in the man
ufacture of bombs in the Rue st. Jacques.
LATE advices from Cairo state that Gem
eral Gordon has recently made fierce and
frequent sorties from Khartoum, attacking
the rebels, who had built wall along the
bank of the Nile. The losses in the en-
gagement are reported to have been heavy.
on both sides.
COMPTROLLER CANNON has authorized
the Peoples National Bank of Greenports
N. Y, to begin business with a capital Of
$4,000.
JOHN WALLACE, recently Paymaster's
clerk on the Uni ed States receiving ship
st. Louis, at League Island, near Phila-
delphia, disappeared about three weeks
ago, and it is now charged that his ac-
counts were 49, 700 short The matter is
undergoing investigation by.a court Of in
quiry.
THE reception rendered to Greedy and
his companions at Portsmouth, N. H., on
the 4th, was a big affair.
WILLIAM BLISS, charged with forgeries
amounting to 5,07l marks on a firm at
Mannheim. Germany, was arrested at New
York on the 4th.
IT is reported that Ell Mahdi has dis.
patched force to Khartoum totake Cor
don, dead or alive, and has ordered the
wells between Korosho and Berber filed
up.
ON the 4th Postmaster.G General Gresham
returned to Washington.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEEcHER has been
i'll for some days at his residence in Peeks-
kill. On the night of the 81 his physician
remained AZ his bedside until morning.
He was mach better on the 4th.
In letter written TO b friend in New
York Christine Nilsson says she hopes to
see grand National conservatory Of vocal
art established in America. She wishes,
as the result@of her life's artistic work, to
be at the head of such an enterprise.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
a PARTY of masked men with .revolvers
on the 31st compelled Rhody Boyle, a
De-,
600. They escaped.
"A GANG of burglars who worked the
fashionable residence portion OF Pitts.
burgh, Pa, were captured on the 31st with
$4,000 worth of swag in the shape of jew
elry, silverware, etc.
THE suit for libel at Dublin of Bolton