St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-01-05
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| TO Berlin on the 23d.
In the ConneIlsVille coke regions of
Pennsylvania war has been inaugurated
on the Hungarian laborers, modelled on
| the plan of the anti Chinese war on the Pa
ciic coast.
TEE total expenses of the United
States Courts during the last fiscal year
were, in round numbers, 3d. 900, 900.
SPAIN is about to pay over to the
United States 900 (about $40, o0G), as
indemnity to American citizens for losses
sustained during the insurreetion.
The children of John u. Lock, Of
| Whitestone, L. L, contest his win dispos-
ing of his estate of a half million.
The New York Mining and National
Petroleum Exchange and the New York
! Petroleum Exchange are to be consoli-
/ dated.
The Pope has created Archbishop
Gibbons delegate apostolic to preside at
the Catholic Council, to be held in Balti-
more, Nd, next November.
The case of the Missouri River Packet
Company vs.. tie Hannibal & st. Joseph
Railroad Company, which the Missouri
l
recently, has been appealed to the Supreme
| Court of the United States.
JUDGE BLoDGETT, of the Federal
Court at Chicago, on the I'D fined three
| lottery agents $500 each for using the mails
in the dissemination of lottery literature.
These are said to be the first convictions Of
that nature in the State of Illinois.
IT is announced that Chief Engineer
Charles H. Loring is Chief of the Bureau
of Steam Engineering, vice Commodore
Shock. This settles the controversy.
LAMBoRN & GRAY, bankers, Alliance,
o., failed on the oath for big figures.
DELEssEPs says the new Suez Canal
will remain under French control.
A TRAIN ran into Washout near
Salem, Ind, on the 24th, several passen-
gers being killed or seriously hurt.
A STABLE was wrecked in Pittsburgh
on the Path and six draught animals killed
by an explosion of natural gas.
TRAVEL between Cincinnati and
Louisville on the Cairo Short Line Rail.
way was interrupted on the oath by a
landslide.
IRISH citizens of Toronto, Ont, are
holding meetings to raise funds for pauper
immigrants.
CAPTAIN Balm and five men of the
wrecked ship Regina were rescued at sea
after. being adrift five days on raft.
AT Petersburg, Ind, Charles Harvey
was taken from Jail on the night of the I'D
and lynched for the murder of Henry Gus
t.. Faxry N; rr,+ ynraxyiat7r
A LOCOMOTIVE on the New York,
New Haven g. Hartford Road stuck fast in
snow-drift and exploded on the oath. kill
ing the engineer and fireman.
GE4ReE Z WILLIAMS has been APP
pointed temporary administrator of the
Louis G. Hammersley estate, New York,
valued at $5,0oO,000.
D. G. GIBSON entered the boarding
house kept by his wife in st. Louis, Mo-,
on the evening of the oath and shot JohnF.
Burlington and Arthur Mulholland, wound
ing both seriously. He then shot himself
through the head and has since died.
THE luke emigration committee has
forwarded from Great Britain during the
year $500 persons, Of whom two-thirds
came to the United States. The report of
the committee states that many of these
people have already returned their passage
money.
REPRESENTATIVE BUCKNER IS praYar-.
ing bill which provides for an issue of
Treasury notes, without the legal tender
quality, to take the place of Withdrawn
National bank notes.
a PULLMAN train from Boston to
Portland, Me-, met with an accident at
Greenland. n. H., the night of the oath.
The mail car and two baggage cars were
wrecked, One man was slightly injured.
THE Lafayette Mill, warehouse and
other buildings at Chippewa Falls, Wis,
burned the morning of the 25th. Loss, $780,
600; insurance, $4,000,
AT McDade, Tex, the night Of the.
24th, the citizens lyncbed three men, and
in fight growing out Of this action sew
eral others were killed. More trouble was
expected.
THE King and Queen of Italy are to
visit Berlin shortly.
HENRY LEYEIzAPH, q New Haven
Conn barber, has fallen heir to S87 900. Z
PRESIDENT BRAND of the Orange
Free State has been reelected.
The Russian General, Kantakuzin,
has been appointed Minister Of War for
Bulgaria.
LOUIS JOHNSTON was crushed at
vincennes, Ind, on the 18th, by the fall Of
tree he had chopped down.
Ulysses S. GRANT, a relative of Gen
eral Grant, has been arrested. at Dallas,
Tex, for burglary.
IL Yazoo County. Miss, the night Of
the oath, three men were shot dead and
others fatally wounded in difficulty with