St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-09-19
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been appointed to succeed her.
EDw. WILSON, Of Wyoming, and Col :
fling J. Barnett, also of Wyoming, have
been appointed assistant superintendent
Of the Yellowstone NatlonalIPa Park at 5000
year. These two men are all old noun
taineers, and are just the men that Su :
perintendent Walker Wear wanted.
THE Republicans of Mississippi will not
put up ticket this year.
THE Harbor Commissioners of Belfast,
ireland, gave banquet to Lord Carnar :
von on the 10th.
PRINCE HENRY OF BATrENBERG has re-
signed his commission in the German
army.
On the 10th, Christian Cooper, aged III
years, died at Livingston, Columbia
County, N. 7.
THE application OF Cornwall, ex- secre-
tary of the general Post-office at Dublin,
for pension has been refused.
In a public speech at Dublin, Archbish-
OPP Walsh protested against depriving
Catholic children of State aid in educa-
tion.
The Sullivan Ryan glove fight is off,
Sullivan being unable to obtain the con-
sent of the proprietors of Lester & Aliens
minstrels, with whom he is engaged.
ON the 10th Hon. A. B ingham, ex-Min-
lister to Japan, arrived at his old home in
Cadiz, o., after an absence of thirteen
years.
RESOLUTIONS on the death of General
Grant were adopted by the Society of the
Army of the Tennessee at Chicago.
BARNARD, the fugitive Vermont bank
President who was kidnapped in Manitoba,
escaped from the detectives at Minneap-
oils on the 10th, and is suppos ed to be hid
ing in Winnipeg.
ON the 10th Secretary Bayard was in
formed by cable that cholera was preva-
lent at Shanghai, China
MISS VAN ZANDT has been engaged TO
appear in opera at Moscow during the
coming winter. She will receive $500 for
each performance.
GENERAL MILES, just returned from the
Indian Territory, reports the cattlemen
on the move, and all will be off the Chey-
snne Reservation in month.
The statue of Commodore Perry was
unveiled at Newport, r. T., on the 1st,
with imposing ceremonies.
JAMES G. HOLMES, who was elected
from first-class car and compelled to
ride in smoker on the Carolina Centr al
Railway, has obtained verdict of $475
against the company.
On the 10th Mr. John z. Cross, Member
Of Parliament for Bolton, started for the
United States to inquire into industrial
questions in connection with the present
depression in Great Britain. He is ac-
companied by his son.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, Seer etary
of State for India, has become FRUSTRATED
under the strain of his official duties and
the part he has take n in the parliament
kary campaign. All of his political en-
gagements have been cancelled in accord :
ance with the imperative demands Of his
physicians.
Rev. ALBERT S. HUDSON, Congrega alton
al clergyman Of Aver, Mass, has been
sent to the insane asylum The cause is
oyerwork, be being engaged, in addition
to his pastoral labors, in writing the hiss
of the town of Sudbury.
The English provincial papers generally
contain criticisms Of Vice. President Hem
bricks speech at Indianapolis on the 9Th,
but the London papers have not alluded
to the matter.
COLONEL WILLIAM srRWELL, who COM
manded the Seventy -eighth Pennsy lvania
Regiment during the late war, died on the
9th at his resid ence in Kittanning, Pa,
from cancer Of the throat, his symptoms
being an exact counterpart of those of
General Grant.
THERE has been no personal correspond
ence between King Alfonso and Emperor
William on the Carolines affair.
MINISTER Cox had an. interview ion the
11th with Said Pasha, Grand Vizier of
Turkey, regarding the tariff laws.
CONGRESSMAN LITTLE, of Ohio, has is
sued an appeal for help for the Washing
ton Court House cy clone sufferers.
MISS CLARA BARTON, Of the Red Cross
Society, New York, proposes to vote this
fall, even if she has to take the voters
oath.
FRED PoFF, German, arrested for dis
orderly conduct at st. Paul, Mimi, on the
18th, committed suicide In the municipal
court Groom by blowing his brains out
with revolver.
BIG BEAR was tried at Regina on the
nth, on charge of treason felony, and
found guilty. Sentence deferred.
IT is understood that General Sheridan
will return to Washington about October
list, and that the new members of his staff
will be arranged at once.
M. c. ROCKWELL, the ex-banker of
Union, N. z, and his clerk, D. ]. Palmer,
were arrested on the 18th, charged with
larceny in the first degree in misappro-
priating $4,000. The complaint is made
by Mrs. Livingston, depositor.
SECRETARY BAYAgD was informed by
ca Bile on the 11th that cholera is incr cas-
ing in Palermo and Sicily generally.
INSPECTOR GENERAL NELSON q. DAVIS
viii be placed on the retired list tho 20Sh
inst His successor, it is understood, viii