St. Landry democrat., 1885-04-11
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New Orleans, on education.
The President sent to the Senate num-
Der of nominations on the 31st including
foreign Ministers, Consuls, United States
Marshals and Postmasters.
THE SEVENTEEN anniversary of Bis
marck's birthday was celebrated at Berlin
on the 31st. 1t was grand affair.
THE rival of FL Mahdi is named Ell Max
XII, and the LISTERS adnerents are increas-
ing. Ell Mahdi's followers are becoming
greatly alarmed.
GENERAL NEGRIER, the French officer
wounded at Lang Son, is recover. ng*
PRINCE BISMARCK was formally pre-
sented with the title deeds of the great
Schoenhousen estate on the 1st.
THE Presid snt nominated A. Leo Knott,
of Maryland, on the 1st as Second Assist
ant Pos.m- General.
IT is thought that Baron DeCourcel will
succeed Ferry as the Ere ch Minister of
Foreign Affairs.
THE Senate Committee on the list re-
ported favorabIy the nomination of Henry
G. Pearson to BE- Postmaster of New York
city.
EARLY on the morning of the % General
Grant was reported weak and restless,
with little hope for a change for the bet
ter; in fact. his death was looked upon as
but little way of.
R. P. HUGHES, the defaulter to the
United States as Marshal at Richmond,
Va, who was caught in Texas, has been
returned East.
MRS. GARFIELD's friends deny the pub
1ished reports that she is to marry a Rev.
Mr.. Taylor, of Pennsylvania. She is liv-
ing quietly in Cleveland, and is educating
her children for careers OF usefulness.
On the 1st Queen Victoria and her
daughter, Princess Beatrice, arrived at
Aix-les- Bains. The depot was handsome
~ decorated in their honor. As had been
arranged by NJ. Ferry, guard of honor,
composed of dragons and the Partisan
Garde Mobile, met Her Majesty at the
station and acted as escort for the royal
party.
EARL CAIRNS died suddenly at Bourne
mouth, Eng, on the I'd.
BENIN DAVIS, London solicitor, failed
on the Cd with 81 900, 600 liabilities.
THE Senate confirmed Hon. Norman j.
Colman, of ST. Louis, as Commissioner of
Agriculture.
The Ameer of Afghanistan is much in
censed at Sir Peter Lumsden over his de-
cision on the frontier question.
On the I'd the President withdrew the
nomination of Alex. r. Lawton, to be Min
lister to Russia.
THE nomination of Henry G. Pearson to
be Postmaster at New York, was confirmed
by the Senate.
ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND decides
that the Grow reservation in Dakota is
not open to settlement
THE exile of the Orleans Princes, it is
thought. will be a feature of De Frey cinet's
programme at Paris.
THE Ohio Legislature passed bills to re-
organize Cincinnati and Cleveland. Re-
publicans are not in q good humor over the
measures.
On the Cd General Grant was resting
easier at night, but he was very weak,
and his doctors thought the end near. He
has great difficulty in breathing, and the
cancer is extending down the throat and
behind the nose.
JOSEPH PALMER was again convicted of
murder in the first degree at Cincinnati on
She I'd. He was the accomplish of Berner
in the Kirk murder, out of which grew the
cincinnati flob OF 1901
MOODY and Sankey begin series Of re-
viva1 meetings at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the
9th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND sent 173 nominal
tions to the Senate and 159 were con-
firmed.
GENERAL GRANT has requested that
when he dies his remains shall be taken to
Washington for burial.
JOHN r. GARRISON, of Virginia, has been
appointed deputy First Comptroller of the
Currency.
MRS. Cyrus Fl. MCCORMICK, of Chicago,
has made further donation of 100000 to
the Presby terrain Theological Seminary in
that city, making total OF $4,000 given
by the family to the institution.
GENERAL GRAHAM advanced on Tamai
on the Sd, and occupied the place with but
little resistance. Later in the day the
place was fired and Graham's forces re-
tired to the zereba. The causes for the
latter action were not stated. Losses
light.
RrEL has a telegraph operator with him
and has been tapping the wires in order to
keep posted.
MEssRs. PHELPS and Kelly, the new
American Ministers TO England and Italy
respectively, qualified on the 81 and re-
ceived their cred entails.
GENERAL GRANT was up, walking about
his room the evening of the 3D., end was
able to sign an important document. At
midnight he was sleeping in his easy
chair, an anodyne having been admins
tared.
Iris now said that Riel the rebel, has
90 armed men in the Northwest Terri
tory, including 100 Indians.
JUICE CHARLES CHEsLEY, of New
!11o,,,,shira Solicitor Of Internal Revenue