St. Landry democrat., 1885-07-04
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND PoLrTICAE-

MR., BURCHARD, director OF Gne MlnG,
refuses to resign, and will test the power
of the President to remove him.
The Pope has appointed DR.. Walsh,
President of Maynooth College, Arc h
bishop of Dublin.
The marriage of Mr.. Adams and Miss
Coleridge took place in London on the
24th. The other members of the bridal
family were conspicuous by theirIabsence.
ADvIcEs were received at the State De-
partment announcing the death on the
oath of S. L. Phelps, ex- United States
Minister to Peru. MIR. Phelps died at
Lima. He was about sixty years of age,
and entered the navy in 1841, continuing
in it's service until 1864.
STEPS are being taken to place John
Mccullough, the tragedian, in an insane
asylum.
THE Postmaster General has had the
degree of Doctor of Laws conferred upon
him by the Wisconsin State University.
COMMANDER KoUNTz of the Grand Army
Of the Republic, in his annual address,
states that the Adjutant- Generals report
showed membership of 287,637.
PRoF. TYEDALL has given $40, 900 each
to Columbia, Harvard and Pennsylvania
Universities to maintain American stu :
dents of physics at European Universi-
ties, and Robert Treat Payne has given
Harvard $250,OO0 for astronomical re-
search.
REV. VIM. DE WITT HYDE has been
chosen President Of Bowdoin College.
ADMIRAL CoURBET will be buried from
the Hotel des Invalides, Paris.
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Convention at Cedar Rapids August 10Th.
JAMES ALLISON, of Cincinnati, is the
new President of the Master Plumbers
National Association.
BLEECKER BANKS, Mayor Of Albany, is
said to aspire to the Governorship of New
York
ADMIcAL CALDER, French Minister Of
Marine, threatens to resign.
Ell MAHDI has ordered all foreigners to
be killed unless they become Mussulmans.
JUDGE O'CoNNoR, of Cincinnati, O., has
brought suit for damages against Judge
Fitzgerald for language used in court.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, the Indian
Secretary, was the first member of the
Salisbury Cabinet TO assume the duties of
office.
SIR NATHANIEL RoTHscHILD, Sir Evelyn
Barring and Mr.. John Morley are to be
raised to the peerage in England.
JAMES L. STANTON, general agent of the
Department of Justice, has rendered his
resignation, to take effect June 3lth.
GENERAL GRANT is growing weaker
and losing flesh His difficulty in breath
ing increases. and he gets no sleep except
by the use of morphine.
WALKER BLAINE, son of Hon. James G.
B,aine is to be married this summer to
Miss Ettie, daughter of Ex-Governor D.
T. Farnsworth, of Buchanan, W. Va.
A CoURT-MARTIAL has been detailed by
the Secretary of the Navy to try Pay
master General Smith on charges of
scandalous conduct and inefficiency.
Hon. S. H. BUCK, the Director General
can Exposition, has established at Wash
ington bureau of information for the
press, the public and foreign legations,
in regard to the plans, purposes and prog
ress of the New Worlds Fair, to be opened
at New Orleans in the fall.
THE Cabinet meeting on the 25th was
attended by all the Cabinet officers except
Secretary Endicott, who had not returned
from Boston. It is understood that the
case OF Minister Kelley was up again and
that his recall from the Austrian mission
was practically determined upon.
The officers elected by the National En-
campment, g. A. r., at Portland, Me-,
were: Commander in Chief, S. s. Bur-
dette, of Washington; Senior Vice Conn
mander, ex- Governor Selden Connor of
Fol ff1Y, Tot Z
Lewis, Of Atlanta, Ga; Chaplain, L. Il.
Stewart, Of Ohio; Surgeon General, j. G.
Tucker, of California Mrs. Sarah 3.
Fuller was elected President of the Ma
tional Woman's Relief Corps.
Ex-PREsIDENT FISH Of the defunct Ma
rine National Bank, New York, has been
denied new trial.
On the 26th General Grant said he had
spent the best day he thad experienced
since leaving New York.
The jury in the case of E. T. johnson at
Greenville, Tenn, acquitted him of MUIR
der in the killing Of Major Henry.
ADMIRAL PORTER, under an invitation
from Secretary Whitney, is planning
new steel cruiser.
LORD SALISBURY gave an official recep-
tion on the 26th to dip1omates accredited
to the British court.
THE Pope gave an audience to the
Bishop of San Francisco at Rome on the
26th.
THE statement is repeated at Berlin that
Austria objects to Kielyl as American
Minister. He has beon recalled.
In his last crop report Talmadge, the
Milwaukee staustician, estimates the
shortage in winter wheat of the country
at 10000 bushels.
GENERAL WoLsELEY has been notified by
the Marquis OF Salisbury that the Soudan
expedition must be abandoned.
LETTERS patent have been received by