St. Landry democrat., 1885-12-19
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SlaDOT&US ulhLuST db 1 dEtS OH bHe Sbus
THE report that Minister Pendleton and
his family are dissatisfied with Berlin, and
that his resignation would be rendered
shortly, is denied by Mr.. Elliott II. Pendle-
ton, of Cincinnati, o., who says Mr.. PEN
dleton and his family are quite well salts
fed with the German court and people.
VICTORIA MoRosrNT SCHrLLING has scored
success in the title role Of the opera of
"Amoritan at the New York Casino.
SENIOR CANovAs DEL CASTILLO, ex-
Prime Minister of Spain, has declared an
open rupture with Premier Sagasta.
Rumors were current in London on the
Sth of the resignation of Lord Salisbury.
THE worldly possessions left by the late
William III. Vanderbilt are estimated to be
valued at $500, 100000
PRINCE ALEXANDER sent an answer to
King Milan on the Sth in which he rejected
the Servian peace proposals.
GENERAL LEW WALLACE, ex-Minister to
Turkey, arrived at New York on the Sth.
CONGRESSMAN BLAND criticizes the Pres
ident's message as being sectional.
NADJID PAsHA has been entrusted with q
special mission from the Porte to Prince
Alexander, the object of which is to assist
in arranging peace between Servia and
Bulgaria
ON the 9th the ten-year-old daughter Of
James Dunn, of Xenia, Ind, died Of trich-
inosis.
f. A. CRANNING, Liberal, elected to
Parliament in Northamptonshire, England,
was born in America.
GLADsToNE's desire is said to be to con-
clude his public life with the production of
a home rule measure for Ireland.
TIE London Times. says Mr.. Vanderbilt
sacrificed his health and even his life to
maintain his proud position.
On the 9th the will of the late President
Don J. Rufino Barrios of Guatemala was
fled In the Surrogate's Office at New York.
PRINCE AUGUSTUS of Portugal will ask
the hand Of Princess Augusta, daughter OF
Crown Prince Frederick William of Ger
many.
SECRETARY MANNING has instructed the
Collector Of Sitka to refuse clearance to
vessels laden wholly or in part with the
timber which has been taken Illegally from
the Government lands.
THE President has recognized Lamar C.
Quinterd as Consul of Costa Rica at New
Orleans; Horatio N. Cook, Consul of
Greece at San Francisco; Frank s. Collins,
Consul of Greece at Baltimore, and Charles
Ducloux, consular agent of the Swiss Con-
federation at Knoxville, Tenn.
THE term OF Mr.. Acton, Assistant Treas.
urer of the United States at New York,
viii expire in January, but Treasurer Jor-
dan says there is no truth in the report
that he is to be made Assistant Treasurer
at New York. He would not take the Office
he says, notwithstanding the fact that it
pays 5000 per annum more than his pres.
emit position.
JOHN LANGDoN SHELLEY, librarian at
Harvard University for many years, is
dead.
GEO. W. TowNsLEY, Postmaster at New
Holland, Pa, has disappeared, and short
age in his accounts has been discovered.
On the 10th official funeral services for
the late King Alfonso were held at Havana,
Cuba, and were very impressive.
ON the 10th Senator Cullom introduced
bill in the Senate authorizing the construc-
ton of bridge over the Mississippi, at or
near Alton, ILL.,.
THE assignee Of the estate of the late
Archbishop Purcell at Cincinnati, j. B.
Mannix, has given up his position. The
shortage in his accounts reaches 500, 900.
The remains of Riel have been taken to
the home of his mother at Winnipeg, and
have been buried beside those of his father
st St. Boniface.
A MAN recently gave himself up to the
police at Dublin for protection, who turns
out to be Joseph Smith, the Invincibie,
who informed on the Phoenix Park MUIR
derers.
THE immediate cause of VIM. q. Van
derbilt's death is pronounced TO have been
cerebral apoplexy.
ACCORDING to the terms of the win of
the late John j. Newberry, of Chicago, the
North Division of Chicago has now to it's
credit 81 800, 900 to be devoted to the founda-
ton and equipment OF a public library,
while an equal amount viii be divided
among forty heirs.
Mr.. O'KEEFE, Nationalist, has been
appointed High Sheriff of Limerick, Ire
land.
KING MILAN win abide by the decision Of
the powers if compatible with Servia's in
terssts and dignity.
QUEEN VICTORIA has donated $500 to-
ward the relief of the wounded Bulga-
rians.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says the present has
been wonderful election, and win prove
that the Liberals have gained on the Tories
since 1880.
Mr.. THOMAS Power O'CoNNoR defines
the Nationalist view of home rule for Ire
land as like that of the Government of
Canada.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 7th Patrick Slattery and William
Baker, the principals in prize fight at
Rochester, N. z, last August, were sem
l.. s....,.;rnrnns4 IL, &I,o E9n,,iko,,Ainn.rr