St. Landry democrat., 1885-08-15
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News from Everywhere.
pERsONAT AM PoLITTCAL.


the wheat crop places the total yield at
325, 000, 600 bushels.
Mr.. HENDRIcKs denies emphatically
that there is any u~ufriendliness between
himself and the President.
EMPEROR WILLIAM received the EN-
peror Francis Joseph at Gastein on the
9th with much affection, kissing him three
times.
THE appointment of collectors of inter-
nal revenue in the Nineteenth and
Twenty second Pennsylvania districts on
the 9th completed the list in that State.
The entire eighty internal revenue dis
tricts in the State are now under the con-
troll of Democrats.
THE leave of absence of four months
granted to Lieutenant A. w. Greedy mas
been extended one month and twenty days
on account of sickness. Lieutenant Greely
is now in Massachusetts,. His physical
condition has caused his friends to enter
tain a-pprehensions that he will not re-
cover his health.
The Department of State is in receipt
of a cablegram from Mr.. Lee, Secretary
Of the American Legation at Vienna, say
ing that the Austrian Government has
positively declined to receive Mr.. Kelley
as United States Minister. The authorl-
ties give no reason for their action, m
merely say they will not receive Mr..
Kelley.
THE Indian budget shows a deficit of
e. OPS, 900, which Lord Randolph Churchill
SAYS could have been saved if the late gov
rnmen had not abandoned the Quetta
Railway.
SIR MOSES MoNTEFIoRE's will was exc
cuted personally in 1882. He bequeathed
large sums of money to various charitable
institutions and left numerous legactes to
faithful servants.
The Amer Of A~fghanistan is preparing
a large force for the protection OF Herat,
and will place his son in command.
A NEW trial has been refused in the case
of Crown Solicitor Bolton at Dublin
against William O'Brien, editor of United
Ireland,
ROBERT l. OWENS. of the Indian Ter
ritory, has been appointed Indian agent
at the Union Agency. He succeeds Agent
Tufts.
GENERAL POTTER writes from Fort
Supply to General Miles at Fort Leaven-
worth an account of the finding of the
body of Little Medicine, a son of q Chey-
enne chief, who had been killed.
WHILE Emperor William was on his
way Is visit Emperor Francis Joseph at
Gastien on the 18th, he tripped on a stair
case and fell heavily. He rose in an in
slant, however, without apparent injury.
MINISTER KELLEY will return to the
United States. 1t is understood he will
soon resign his present office and that he
will not be appointed TO another foreign
mission.
Hon. EDWARD Henry SMITH died at
his residence at Smithtown, Long Island,
on the 7th, Of old age. He was q Con-
gresham during the war.
CHARLES I. SKINNER, of Maryland, and
VIM. d. Scott, of Michigan, have beer
disbarred from further practice before
the Treasury Department.
PRoF. j. e. HGLGARD, the suspende ed
Superintendent of the Coast and GeodetiC
Survey, rendered his resignation on the
7th, and it was accepted, to take effect i'm
medtately.
"a MAJORITY OF Russian newspapers
profess to have no confidence in the APP
parentlY Ipaci1c declarations of Prime
Minister Salisbury. They base their dis
trust on the p~erceptible and constant in
crease of England's military prepare
tions.
The President has amended rule Q
of the Civil Service act defining the class
ofIofieers excepted from examination, sc
as to make it read that medical examiners
are t'notn to be c1assed as professional
persons excepted from examination
COMMANDER WTLDEs of the Yantic in,
forms the Navy Department that he sailed
on the 7th from Colon for New Orleans
He also reports that he seized one of tht
Panama Railroad C~ompany's vessels
which the revolutionists had captured and
were using and returned it to its owners
OVER 800, 900 persons viewed the re.
mains Of General Grant s they laid il
state at the City Hall, New York. These
represented every class in life, from The
bootblack and street. arab to the million
ARE, who all paid solemn respect to th'
remains of the departed hero.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JOHN G. BRoDY was murdered by
burglar at Scotsburg, Ind, on the nigh
of the 9Th.
DERBYsHIRE (Eng.) coal miners en-
gagged in q riot ON the 9th, in which sew
eral were killed.
AT Marshield, Ind, IN the 9Th, DR.. ORR
Abern, q mad man, seriously wounded hi
friend, DR.. Boyer, and killed himself.
THE Postmaster at Southport, Ia, tele
prapaed to the Post -ofice Department. o.
the 9Th that his of1c had been entered b,
burglars, and his safe blown open ant
robbed Of its contents.
CHRISTIAN SoHENCR, Adolph Heyler AM
Martin Hughler were struck and killed By
! freight train at Engleside station, o.
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