St. Landry democrat., 1885-10-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

and Notag rivers in Alaska were pushed
to successful completion on the last cruise
of the Corwin.
IT is reported at Quebec that Archbishop
Taschereau of that place and Archbishop
Gibbons of Baltimore are to be created
Cardinals.
COLONEL SWTTZLER, Chief of the Bureau
of Statistics, has returned to Washington
and resumed his official duties.
LORDS Churchill, Salisbury and Dufferin
disagree in regard to Burmese affairs, and
it is probable Dufferin will be recalled
from his post as Viceroy OF India.
The Postmaster General says he has
seventy-ive cases of Post office changes
now waiting the Presidents action.
OWING to Misunderstanding between
King Thebaw of Burmah and the chief
Commissioner for British Burmah, the lat.
ter has asked reinforcements before send.
ing an ultimatum to the King.
REPORTS from the Ohio election on the
18th indicated that returns were being
held back and doctored in Hamilton Coun-
ty, and a citizens committee had been
formed to unearth all irregularities, one Of
it's members volunteering to stand all the
expense if necessary.
AT meeting on the 14th, the New York
Board Of Trade and transportation adopt
ed memorial to President Cleveland re-
citing the necessity for National bank
rupt law and urging him to recommend
such measure to Congress in his next
message.
Il. w. SHAW, better known as "Josh
Billings" the humorist, died at the Dell
tn nEn ol ON
of apoplexy.
testant Episcopal Church of the United
States will be held in New Haven, Conn.,,
October 10Th to 23d. Archdeacons Farrar
nd Vesey, of England, will attend the
sessions.
MISS FOLSOM, whom the gossips have
been saying President Cleveland was to
marry, has sailed for Europe.
CHIEF-JUsT1cE VINCENT Of New Mexico.
who'appointed Stephen w. Dorsey mem.
Der of the commission to draw grand and
petit jurors, has been suspended by the
President.
IT has BEEN decided that the pressure of
their public duties will not permit the
President and the members of the Cabinet
to attend the Virginia State Fair.
Postmaster GENERAL Villas has decid-
ed that the Department was under no OBJ
legation to deliver mail matter thrown in-
to its collection boxes by Wells, Fargo Sc
Co. after they have cancelled their stamps,
and Postmasters have been instructed to
refuse such matter.
j. N. WALTON, of Arkansas, has been
appointed special agent to take charge
Of the Indians on Tongue River in Mon.
tana.
ROCKFORD FARM, near Cedar Rapids,
La, was bought by VIM. Roxburys OF Glas-
cow, Scotland, for $50, 600.
PRESIDENT GREvY announces that he
will enter the contest for the French pres
idency.
H was stated in London on the 10th that
the sentence of Riel had been committed
to imprisonment for life.
The Land Office has received commu.
nication stating that DR.. Powers, who was
a Government witness in the prosecution
Of fraudulent land case in California,
has been slain by T. r. Pruett, one OF the
defendants.
The Cabinet meeting on the 18th was
short, and was devoted principally to the
consideration Of topics TO be embodied
in the annual reports Of the Cabinet
officers.
Mr.. ]. A. MANNING, the attorney whose
disbarment by the Court Of Alabama
Claims was the indirect cause OF the re-
cent official objections to the necessary
incidental expenses" of the court" filed a
motion asking for reinstatement. It was
passed upon on the 18th by the court in a
written opinion, delivered by Presiding
Judge Harlan, and concurred In by the
other two judges. The motion was de.
MED.
In speech at Trowbridge, Eng, on the
18th, Mr.. Chamberlain declared that Mr..
G. Goshen was to the Liberal party what
q deaths head was to an Egyptian feast.
A NEW Indictment having been found
against Ferdinand Ward, on which he is
TO be tried shortly, he was arraigned on the
18th in the New York Court of Oyer and
Terminer and pleaded not guilty.
MEssRs. Hill and Jones, Democratic
nominees for Governor and Lieutenant.
Governor OF New York, have sent in their
letters of acceptance.
THOMAS ATKINSON, of Chicago, has fall
en- heir to large fortune in England.
RIGHT HoN. HUGH HENRY RoLF, Field
Marshal of England, is dead.
In oil the departments at Washington
the heads Of bureaus are busy preparing
data for the annual reports to be incor-
porated in the message OF the President to
Congress.
ARCHDzACoN FARRAR, the distinguished
English divine, is sojourning In Washing
ton, and lectured on sDante" in the Con-
ersgational Church on the evening of the
10th.
SUPERINTENDENT SIXTH, Of the Cleve.
land (O.) Police Departing nts has ordered