St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-11
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


sion.
The sons of General Garfield appeared
prominently in the class day exercises of
Williams College at WILLIAMSBURG. Mass,
on the Both. James r. was one of the mar
shals of the day, and Harry a. pronounced
the Grafton. His subject was Socialism"
GENERAL A. B. UPsHAw, of Tennessee,
has been appointed Chief Clerk to the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, and entered up
on the duties of his position on the 1st.
General Upshaw is prominent journalist
and an intimate friend of Commissioner
Atkins.
COLONEL DE WINToN will return to
England from the Congo, on account of
iu-health.
g. V. N. LoTHRoP, the new United
States Minister to Russia, in London, on
his way to st. Petersburg, called upon
Minister Phelps on the Goth
DETECTIVES Tracey and Badger arrived
at Auckland, New Zealand, on the Goth.
Tracey fully identifies Maxwell as the
man whom he frequently saw in the COM
pany of Preller at the Southern Hotel, st.
Louis, before the murder. Maxwell re-
fuses to hold any conversation with Ira
cey or any body else on the subject of the
murder. He denies everything connect
ing him with the crime. He has the same
counsel whom he employed when first ar
rested, and will fight the case to the end.
Application has been made in court for his
extradition.
CONGRESSMAN ELwooD of the Fifth Illi
nois District is dead.
DR.. WALSH, recently appointed Arch
7. - TO,,L>I r., aEo1 ,N
Rome.
The jury in the Mackin perjury case at
Chicago returned verdict Of guilty, with
five years. Imprisonment.
CoRRIE GRANT is making vigorous
fight against Lord Randolph Churchill's
returned to the BIRTHS b Parliament.
CHARLES P. OLSON was So anxious to be
United States Consul at Gothenburg that
he offered Congressman Morse $1,000 to
secure him the position.
EDWARD L. HEDDEN, New Yorl1's new
Collector, has taken charge of his Office.
He retains all tn e Republican deputies for
the present.
THE firm of Coffin & Stanton, New York,
were awarded 100000 of Cincinnati
granite block-paving bonds at $1.26 per
$1,000 premium.
AT the request Of the Pope, Signor
Houx, editor of the Journal de Rome, an
Ultramontane paper, has resigned. He
will remove to Paris.
S1GNoR DEPRETIs announced in the Ital-
ian Chamber of Deputies on the 1st that
he would continue the Government policy
regulating details according to circum-
stances.
A -
assault to murder M. H. De Young, pro-
prietor of the San Francisco Chronicle, on
trial for several weeks past, was declared
s'not guilty" by the jury on the list.
The Prohibittonists of Ohio have put
full ticket in the field, headed by DR.. A. B.
Leonard.
The Gordon memorial fund now amounts
to E18,031.
GENERAL WoLsELEY and staff have left
Cairo for England.
MINISTER ROBERTS had an audience
with the President of Chilli on the ID.
LUCILLE YsEULT DUDLEY has been COM
mitted to the asylum for the insane at
Middletown, N. Y.
Elk MINISTER LOWELL has presented 68S |
volumes Of rare books picked up abroad
to Harvard University.
+ GENERAL STEVENSON, of Illinois, is
mentioned as the probable successor Of |
First Assistant Postmaster General Hay. |
I MINISTER Kelly will not be recalled. |
The Austrian Government can receive him |
or do without minister from America.
DR.. BLOWN -SEQUARD has been awarded |
the prize of $4,000 by the French Institute |
for discoveries in physiology.
A
Chicago some time ago, and whose wife |
committed suicide afterward, has turned |
up at Boston. He had been on a protract.
ed spree
COLLECTOR HEDDoN has reappointed all |
the Republican storekeepers, inspectors,
etc, at New York, much to the disgust Of
expectant Democrats
. OWEN KELLAR, the Ohio man who was |
refused position by First Auditor Cheno-
weth, has been given the place by Secre-
tary Manning, who says the civil. service
rules must be obeyed.
ON the I'd Mr.. Kimball, the new Direc-
tor of the Mint, entered on discharge of
the duties of that office.
ON the Tth banquet in honor of Judge
J. 3. Stallo, recently appointed Minister
to Italy, will be given at Cincinnati, o., i
under the auspices of the Ohio Club, the
same organization which honored Minister
PendIeton in a similar way.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A HORRIBLE murder was committed at
Oak, on the 30th. The BODY of
Mrs. Unger was found buried in the hay
in oDe Of the stalls Of the barn. She had 4
been dead some time. It is supposed
tramp that was working for Mrs. Unger
did the work by beating in her head with
an iron we dges