St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-09-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
PRESIDENT ARTHUR received the officers
of the Greedy relief expedition on the 21st
at New York.
IT is reported that the followers of Ell
Mahdi are dying at the rate of thirty per
day from disease.
MANY sections of the country in which
drought prevailed have been benefited by
recent copious rains.
FIRE destroyed w. H. Wilson's Abdal-
lah stables at Cynthiana, KY. Seventeen
fine horses and one man were burned to
death.
THERE were fourteen deaths from cholera
at Marseilles during the twenty four hours
ending at p. M, on the Oath, and i've at
Toulon.
THE Democratic State Convention OF
Texas, nominated as elecbors-at'large'
Judge Silas Hare, of Grayson, and Jno. ID.
McLeary, of Bexar.
THERE were, during the twenty -four
hours ended at 8 p. m. on the 2lst1 elgnt
cholera deaths at Marseilless and one IN
the suburbs of Toulon.
VINCENT L. BRADFORD, Of Philadel phla
beuueaths his law library and other oooKs'
as we'll as his pictures, to the Washington
and Lee University at lexington va
THE United States charge datfalres at
Rome has notified the State Department.
of a sudden outbreak of cholera at Spezla.
OF sixty-one cases ON the Esd, forty proved
fatal.
THE Pope is Mortified at the results OF
the divorce law recently put in force in
France. 1t is understood that he will pro-
test to the French Government against the
measure.
THE Kansas Democrats fused with the
Resubmission Republicans, and nominated
Governor Click for reelection and z. &.
Halliday, Resubmissionist, for Lieutenant
Governor.
A. s, WARNER, President or an ALploh
IN. W Bank, is missing, and matters are
in a very crooked shape. He is said to
have speculated quite extensively with
trust funds.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN was met at the depot
at Harrisburg, Pa, on the 10Th, and well
coined by a large delegation from Phila-
delphia. In the latter city ne was also en-
Enthusiastically received.
WARRANTS for conspiracy were issued
IN the DIST against all miners in camp at
Woods Run, Pa. Trouble is anticipated
in making arrests. Strikers are returning
to work in the Third Pool.
ITALIANS are said to be leaving New
York in droves. Nearly two thousand have
recently returned to their native land.
Cessation of railroad building and inabil-
ity to obtain employment are the causes.
A STATEMENT is published in Chicago
shat the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Com
pany has offered $23,O00,0 900 for control
ing interest in the Illinois Central; but
Ehe President of the latter declares there
will be no sale.
ACCORDING to reports made to the Cen
.eraI Land Office, Land grabbing in the Ter
ritories by the big cattle companies is on
the increase. Fraudulent entries and IL
legal fencing have been on greater scale
the past year than ever before
THE Joint committee of the two Houses
of the Virginia Legislature reported bill
on the 10Th recommending the re.enact'
ment Of the old election law with the word
ssfreeholdero left out. This, it is believed,
will remove all objections to its constitu-
;tionality.
THE London Standard, in its financial
article of the 10th, says that all the well,
known facts are so dead against Erie that
English investors must absolutely refuse
to invest their money in it. Mr.. King, ii
SAYS, comes from very bad school of rail.
way management.
THERE were 20S failures in the United
States reported TO Bradstreet's during the
week ended the ed, as compared with 264
in the preceding week, and with 179, IS.
and 10 respectively in the corresponding
weeks Of 1883, 1882 and 1881. Canada had
II, against II the week previous.
THE Secret Service Division is in posses.
sion of news of counterfeit $40 note on
the Third National Bank Of Cincinnati
1t is of the series Of 1882, with chocolate
colored back. The vignettes on the face
of the note have coarse, scratchy appear
ance, but tie back is well executed and
calculated to deceive.
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i ASSISTANT LAND COMMISSIONER HARRI
SON will go to Dakota early next month tc
examine and straighten the fraudulent
surveys made in that Territory. Persons
with whom the Government contracted
some years since to make surveys Of Gov
eminent lands in Dakota made returns d