St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-06-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND PoLIrIcAr.

lHE Gfand Jury IN New ork has IN .
dicted Fsrd Ward for grand larceny.
On the Sd Hanlan, the oarsman, arrived
in st. Louis from San Francisco, and in
tended to remain few days.
SAcHEM JOHN KELLY is sick, and there
is discord in Tammany Hall.
THE Voters Union began convention
in Columbus, o., on the 3D.
THE members of the Cabinet, following
the example of the President, will recei We
no visitors hereafter on Saturday.
HARLAN PEFLEY has been appointed
Register of the Land Office at Boise City,
Idaho, vice Edward L, Curtis, resigned.
THE Coroner's Jury decided, after in
vestigation, that Professor Odlum jumped
from the Brooklyn bridge of his own free
will.
HERBERT SPENCER has stopped the pub
location of his book in America. Frederic
Harrison's charges caused his action.
NJ. goblet, the French Minister of
Public Instruction, takes Archbishop Gut
bert seriously to task for his ''protest
against the dissertation of the Pantheon"
THE old home of Alex. II. Stephens, at
Charlottesville, Ga, known as "Liberty
Hail." has besn decided to the Stephens
Memorial Association. Mr.. Stephens re-
mains will be removed on the 10Th inst,
from Atlanta to Liberty Hall.
COLONEL STEPHENSON, chief of the m i'd
die division of the Pension Office, has been
requested to resign. The grounds have no
been made public.
ON the Sth, in the Canadian House of
Commons, Mr.. LisIer will inquire of the
Government what steps have been taken
81 i'll of
will be made to have Gabriel Dumont ex-
tradited.
JOHN KELLY is sojourning at Clifton
Springs, N. Y, trying to get well, with
fair prospects Of success.
HERBERT BEEcHER, a son Of the preach
er, has been appointed Collector Of Gus
TOMS at Port Townsend.
SOCIETY in London is agitated over the
Adams Coleridge libel suit, now on trial.
THE President has appointed General
Rosecrans Register Of the Treasury.
THE notorious Pennsylvania outlaw,
Abe Buzzard, SURF ndered to the authori-
ties Of Lancaster County on the 4th.
ARCHBISHOP CRoKE, in replying to an
address at Kingston, Ireland, said he
'wished to see Orangeism broken down"
Hon. GEORGE v. N. LorHRoP, Minister
to Russia, addres sed joint session of the
Michigan Legislature, on the 4th, eulo-
giving Russia for her position toward this
country at a critical period.
In his reports to the Adjutant General,
General Schofeld says that the troops
have done ell that was possible to protect
settlers with the resources att his COM
mand.
LIEUTENANT w. Fl. ScHUETzE, of st.
Louis, No., who is to take the presents to
the natives of the Lena delta, is standing
an examination for promotion to Lieuten-
ancy Ct the senior grade.
SECRETARY MANNING has called on the
board of managers of the Worlds Indus
trial Exposition for an itemizsd statement
of the premiums awarded exhibitors.
The resignation of A. G. Thomson in
spector of public buildings of the Treas
ury Department, has been accepted, to
take effect June 18TH He resigned by re-
quest of Secretary Manning.
MINISTER PHELPS gets words of COM
mendation from the London Times.
1T has been discovered that Scott, the
absconding Manhattan Bank teller, was
a confirmed poker player and loved rum
punches.
CHARGES of bribery and corruption have
been made in the Illinois Legisla ture, and
committee of investigation has been put
at work.
SrR PETER LUMsDEN has been inter-
viewed in Vienna on what he calls RUS
sia's absurd demands" He declares he
will not return to India.
The Greenback- Labor party of Ohio met
at Columbus on the 9Th, adopted resolu-
tions and nominated full State ticket, |
headed by J. w. Northrop for Governor.
A CRISIS is at hand in the English Cabi-
net, Mr.. Chamberlain and Sir Charles Dixie |
having threatened to resign.
The hospitable and liberal manner in
which Secretary Bayard has been re-
ceived in Missouri is the subject of much
pleasant comment in Washington.
Consul MAcKEY, at Rio Grande do Sui,
Brazil, has been exonerated and commend
ed for his chastisement of an insolent ed.
itor.
Consul RAINE told Berlin interviewer
recently that he would undertake to re-
vive the com mercial relations Of Germany
and the IN tied States.
ONE Of the largest life insurance policies
ever paid was that Of 100000 paid On the
9th, by the Equitable Life Insurance Soci-
ETY. to the widow Of Norman b. Harwood,
of Ormand Fla. Mr.. Harwood was killed
by fall from his horse on the 10th Of last
m onth.
A CITIZEN of Montreal, Can, named
Ouillette has brought suit for 10000 dam
ages against DR.. Berry, City vaccinator,
for causing the death of two of his chill
dren with impure lymph. The doctor says
the children died from measles.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.