St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-27
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
Personal AND POLITICAL.

SGOn0 accepting d po0A 0so0' - az ~o"
fuses she will confer title on Mrs. Glad
stone.
THE insurance companies and societies
in which Baum, the famous cotton swim
dler, carried policies, doubt his death in
Chatham, Ont, and insist on proof.
M. RoUsTAN, present French Minister at
Washington, will be given the Chinese
mission replacing M. Patenotre at Pekin.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has amended
rule 10 of the Civil Service Commission so
as to include deputy Naval Officers and
deputy Surveyors of Customs in the class
of officers exempt from examination.
Ex- SENATOR JAMES N. NEsMITH died at
his country place, Deery, Polk County,
Ore, at noon on the 1Tth.
EREoT REDBURG, an ex-Mexi can war
veteran and the Oldest member Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic in the United
States, died at the Sisters Hospital, at
Vancouver, w. T., on the 17th.
Ex-CoNGREssMAN GEORGE Fl. JENKs, OF
Pennsylvania, who was rendered the As
sistant Secretaryship of the Interior De-
partment, and has had the matter under
consideration for several days, has de-
cided to accept.
HoN. ROSCOE CoNKLING will sail for
Europe on the Goth. He is going to visit
Carlsbad for his health, which has been
sacrificed to hard work as a lawyer since
he left the Senate.
EMPEROR WILLIAM was completely
prostrated when he heard of the death OF
Baron Won Manteuffel and said in mourn
ful way: ''All my friends are dying"
T.nTx is
the Presidency of Cornell University.
THE case of Ferdinand Ward at New
York was again postponed on the 18th
until the 22d.
INDIAN AGENT TAFrs, at Union Agency,
Indian Territory, has resigned.
GENERAL WESLEY MERRITT is to BE-
transferred from West Point to a new
field of duty.
Mr.. PARNELL will visit America to
raise funds for the coming campaign.
NORMAN j. CoLMAN, Commissioner of
Agriculture, has been elected President OF
the American Association of Nurserymen,
Florists and Seedsmen.
AAeoN S. CoLMAN, of New York, has
been appointed chief of the special exam
ination division of the Pension Office,
Washington.
BERNARD MAGooNAUGH, an armless vet
eran of tho ordnance service, has been
designated by the Secretary of the In
terror as custodian of the Detroit arsenal
property at Dearborn, Mich, vice J. A,
Patrick. resigned.
RUMoR says that General Alfred Pleas
anton will be appointed Governor of the
Soldiers Home at Hampton, Va, to sue
ceed the present incumbent
Ex-SECRETARY LINCOLN, who has resid-
ed in Washington since the change of the
Administration, has gone to Fortress Mon
roe. After short stay there, he will &C
to Chicago and resume the practice Of
law.
IT is said that Mr.. Gladstone will with
hold his assurance that the Liberals will
assist the Sails sbury Government, and the
Marquis of Salisbury persists in his re-
fusal to take Office in the absence of such
assurance The result is a complete dead
lock.
QUEEN VICTORIA has sent Sir Stafford
Northcote an autograph letter thanking
him for his high services and offering
him an earldom. He will assume the title
Of Earl of Iddlesleigh and Viscount st
Cyres.
WmFRED DE FoNvILLE has published
at Paris a thrilling account of the Greely
expedition under the title "Les Affairs dt
Pole Nord." Mr.. Fonville was acquainted
with Dr. Pavy of the expedition.
PoLITIcs are running high in the In
dian Territory.
The late Admiral Courbet will be buried
ah AbhaviIIa hiS birthDlaca.
A GRAND banquet was given at Paris Oh
the 10th to retiring Minister Morton of tn
United States.
HERMAN q. WEBER has been appointed
United States Marshal for the Southern
District Of Illinois.
THE Irish are satisfied with the appoint
ment of the Earl of Carnarvon as Lor'
Lieutenant of Ireland.
GENERAL EDGARToN, Post office lnspec
tor at ST. Louis, No., has been transferre
to Boston. He will be succeeded by In
speetor Crowell, of Kansas.
FRED LEWIS has been expelled from th
st. Louis League team for insubordina
tion.
JAMES T. TANNING, an old ACTOR, ha
been sent to the House of Industry at Bos
ton as a vagrant.
PRESSURE Of official business kept th
French Minister away from the Barthold
statue ceremonies at New York.
WM. A. DAY, of Illinois, has been ap
pointed Second Auditor of the Treasur
at Washington, vice Orange Ferriss, RI
signed.
THE Marquis of Salisbury denies tha
The Conservatives desire war with Russi
IT is reported that Miss Marie Van zant
Il engaged to be married to Russia
GRAND Duke, who met her in st. Peter
burg and followed her to London, whe1
the betrothal was agreed upon.
GENERAL VoN MANTEUFFEL will
ltd ikhnl1h military honorS. in accort