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St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31

On the 22d the wife of Hon. Stanley
Mathews, of the United States Supreme
Court, died in Washington, D. c.
JAMES STEWART PARNELL is reported as
seriously i'll at Cork.
THE British War Office on the 22d tele~
graphed congratulations to Generals
Wolseley and Stewart over the recent vic
tory in Egypt.
DIR. J. j. MooRMAN, President of Roam"
oke (Va.) College for forty-four years,
died on the ed, aged eighty -four years.
PRESIDENT DoDD of the Newark IN. j.
Savings Bank has been indicted for: maxi
ing illegal investments.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany has en-
tireIy recovered from his illness.
CAPTAIN PHELAN declares he will prose-
cute all those concerned in the recent
murderous attack upon him.
NJ. B. LoUREY, on one time most promi-
nent citizen and politician of Pennsyl-
vania, died in an insane asylum near
Philadelphia on the 23d.
The latest news from General Stewart is
that he is intrenched in the desert near
Metamneh, and is surrounded by the rebels.
The latter did not retreat in the disorderly
manner at first reported.
JOHN KELLY was again elected Chair
man of the Tammany Hall Committee on
Organization. A committee was appoint-
ed to attend Mr.. Cleveland's Inaugural
ton.
NATHAN H. COLE, the oldest man in
Rhode Island, died at his residence at East
Greenwich, the evening of the 23d. He
was 101 years old on the 25th of August
last, attended town meeting last Novem-
Der and voted for President, since which
time he has not been upon the street.
THE funeral of Sister Theresa, niece of
James G. Blaine, took place on the 23d
from st. Mary's Cathedral, at Wilkes
barre, Pa. Two thousand persons were
present, including the Sisters of st. Mary's
and Malinkrodt Converts. The remains
were taken to Pittsburgh for burial.
j. w. PHILLIPS of st. Louis, Mo-, is at
indianapolis to enter suit in the State
Court against the Wabash on behalf of the
Central Trust Company of New York and
James Cheney. The demand is for $780,
100000.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31
CRI0rEs AND CAsUALTIEs.

A SUPPOSED incendiary fire completely
destroyed the town of Hong Ham, near
Hong Kong, Cochin China. No details are
furnished, but it is believed many lives
were lost.
The steamer Charles Townsend Hook,
which sailed from Saigon for Hong Kong,
is thought to have been lost with $50 souls
aboard.
On the goth Thomas Parry was hanged
at Galway, Ireland, for the murder of a
young lady to whom he was engaged, but
who discarded him.
In a tumble-down tenement at Des
Moines, Ia, poor woman who had been
deserted by her husband was found on the
goth, almost frozen to death by the side of
the body Of her week old babe, who had
persisted from cold and exposure.
In the recent battle in the Soudan the
losses were: British, seventy-four killed,
including nine commissioned officers, and
ninety-four wounded; rebels, 800 killed
and about 1000 wounded. Among the
British losses was Colonel Burnaby, of the
Royal Horse Guards, one of the most ac-
complished and fearless soldiers in the
service.
On the 22d s. D. Scott, ex-County Clerk
of Council Bluffs, Ia, was arrested on a
charge of embezzling 900.
JNo. T. O'KEEFE, of Oleau, N. Y. killed
himself while standing at the grave of his
daughter, who died three years ago, on the
22d.
AN avalanche buried a number of peo-
pie in the department. of Hautes Alps
France.
CAPTAIN NJ. J. FARRELL, one of. the best
known detectives in the United States
died on the 23d at New Orleans from ac-
onite poisoning caused by druggists
mistake.
Wolves recently caught and devoured
an old hunter in the lumber region neal
Metropolitan, Mich. Before being over.
come he shot thirt cen Of the beasts with
his repeating rife, the bodies Of which lay
around his remains.
OTTo FUNK was arrested at Chicago on
the 23d for taking books from the Public
Library. Among his effects were found 8
dozen boxes of dynamite, in one of which
was an Internal machine.
THOMAS j. CHAPMAN, murderer of Nicho.
las Hubbard at Humboldt, ILL.,, was hanged
at Charleston, ILL.,, on the sd. He had
nothing to say on the scaffold, and his necl
was broken by the fall
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31
MORE DYNAMITE.
An Internal Machine Said to Have Been
Thrown From Train BY Fenian Ennis
sary En- Route to Australia.

An Internal Machine Said to Have Been
Thrown From Train BY Fenian Ennis
sary En- Route to Australia.
KANSAS CITY. Mo, January ..
Astory is published in morning paper
concerning the discovery of an Internal
machine at the east end of the Hannibal
and ST. Joseph bridge in this city. 1t.
was found by railroad laborer, who dis
covered that it continued twelve pounds
Of dynamite A reporter had converse
ton with an English detective, who told
him that the package was thrown from
last nights Wabash train from Chicago
by John Meehan, an Irish conspirator,
whom he and another detective had
been shading for four weeks, since he left,
England in the steamer Bothnia. They
were on the point of arresting him last
night, when he threw the dynamite out OF
the window. They made no attempt to-
arrest him, but one of the detectives fol-
lowed him on his way to San Francisco.
The other, who remained behind, said
that Meehan's mission was to go to Aus
tralia and blow up the prison where the
Fenian prisoners are confined. The story
is generally looked upon as very tishy.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31

On the 22d the Western Nail Association
advanced the card rate about five percen
FAMINE is said to prevail in some of the
Russian provinces.
The troops under General Hatch are re-
ported to have surrounded the Oklahoma
s'boomers" with the intention Of starving
them out.
ENGLAND and Italy are said to have
formed an agreement in reference to the
occupation of Tripoli.
On the 22d United States cavalry COM
pany arrived at Yuma, Ariz., with twelve
Mexican bandit prisoners.
MORE earthquake shocks were felt in
many of the Spanish provinces on the 22d.
A BILL having been introduced in the
Missouri Legislature to allow the sale of
oleomargarine as such, the Butter Dea lers'
Association of st. Louis has determined to
fight it and all similar measures.
On the ed the weather was intensely
cold throughout Canada, the temperature
ranging from twenty to forty degrees be-
low zero.
THE American Timed Plate Association
held it's annual meeting at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 22d. w. J. Lewis, of that city,
was elected PRESIDENT.
BIsMARCK's colonization schemes are
making rapid progress on the west coast
of Africa. The German flag has been
raised in Sierra Leone, long held by En-
gland. This news, if true, may lead to
serious complications.
The old Liberty Bell was shipped from
Philadelphia on the 23d to New Orleans.
HEAVY snow falls were reported
throughout the Northwest on the 23d,
trains were all several hours behind time.
AN epidemic of diphtheria at Hazel Green
Wis, has necessitated the closing of the
public school.
The German Reichstag has appropriated
$37, 800 to be used in exploring Central
Africa.
A RUN was commenced on the New
Haven Comm Savings Bank on the 23d,
but the concern promptly met all de-
mands.
IT is believed in London that the English
lost more heavily in the engagement in
Egypt than the War Office gave out. The
report, it is charged, has been colored.
AN Alexandria dispatch of the 23d says
that the rebels are strongly intrenched at
J
for the English to occupy before they can
proceed to Khartoum.
INDIANAPOLIS people interested in the
bonds of the Toledo, Cincinnati & st.
Louis Railway deny that Judge Gresham
has rendered a decision that gives the
Quigley committee control.
SECRETARY CHANDLER is informed that
instead of proceeding to Congo the officers
of the vessel Lancaster are abusing him,
and are holding receptions and having 8
high old time at Nice, France.
The Minnesota Senate on the 23d passed
bill authorizing the city of st. Paul to
issue bonds to the amount of 100000 for
the purpose of enlarging and extending its
water system.
.BRADsTREET's weekly review shows that
the severity of the weather had most
unfavorable effect upon trade in the West
and Northwest. Failures for the seven
days ended the 23d were 3s6, as compared
with the 445 in the preceding week and $40
in the corresponding week of 1884.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31
MIsOELLANEOUs.

At Jamesto wn, Pa, savings bank was
forced to suspend on the Dist on account
of deficit of $4,000 by one Of the officers.
The troops under General Hatch en-
route to the Oklahoma Boomers Camp on
the Saltwater, on reaching the Salt Fork
of the Arkansas River and finding the ice
too thin to. cross upon, performed the un-
precedented feat of building an ice bridge
strong enough for the command to pass
over upon by pouring water upon the
frozen surface of the river with tin-cups
and buckets until sufficient thickness had
been secured.
THE Receiver of the Bankers & Mer-
chants Telegraph Company issued checks
for the December salaries of the New York
employees on the 21st, and thus ayerted a
threatened strike.
ACCORDING to reports to the MannJaet-
arers' Record, 100000 men have gone to
work in manufac tulS enterprises since
January LIST. s
Tt I recent sale Of unmd liable articles at
Deaa> Letter Off1ceh Washington,
coH1eRised IL 900 aItsEes, Offered in 1915
THhS az Nd Memorial Hospital at
Washington + sadly in need of funds.
AT the s. Washington IN. H. signal
station on be 22d, the thermometer in
Dictated fifty degrees below zero, with the
wind blowi1t at the rate of 40 miles an
hour.
The Piute III yians arc said to be starving
on their barren reservation in Nevada.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31

4 Couple of New York EIoods Have a Bout.
with GIoves-Knocked Out in Three
Rounds.
NEW YORK, January %.
The sparring craze has invaded the New
York clubs. Last night Mr.. John Roose--
Welt, of the Union Club, and Mr.. Van Brunt,
of the Knickerbocker Club, had a boutin o.
large room on Madison avenue. Roose--
Welt has just returned from abroad, and
was considered the best sparrer at Oxford
College. MI. Van Brunt had the
same reputation at Harvard, and has
kept up his practice ever since. The,
match was to be friendly, of course, no
stakes, and to be four rounds. Marquis
of Queensbury rules. In the first round
each man got a point, when Roosevelt.
slugged Van Brunt on the ear. He asked
the referee if smuggling went, and upon
being told that everything went so long
as they kept within the rules, pitched in
to spar in earnest. Roosevelt brought
first blood, and Van Brunt BACKED Roose-
Felt's eye. In the third round each more
or less punished the other, when, just at.
its close, Van Brunt lifted Roosevelt UNI
der the chin and knocked him down.
Both men being exhausted here, the match
ended i'll draw
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

EMPEROR WILLIAM OF Germany is re-
covering from his illness.
On the 21st Sister Theresa, niece of James
G. Blaine, died at st. Mary's Convent,
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
AT Madison, Wis, on the 21st the Repub-
lican caucus nominated Colonel John C.
Spooner for United States Senator.
The President gave his first state dinner
of the season on the Dist in honor Of mem
Ibers of the Cabinet.
MRS. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON was
elected President Of the National Woman
Suffrage Association.
A NIECE of Thomas Carlyle is about to
publish life Of the great writer, contro-
verting James Anthony Froude's me-
moirs.
PosTMAsTER- GENERAL HATToN has sent
TO Congress the draft of the bill to reduce
the rate Of postage on newspapers.
GENERAL AUGUR has been instructed by
the Adjutant- General to remove the
Ssboomers" from Oklahoma.
The Legislature of Kansas favors the
enactment of law by Congress opening
the Oklahoma lands to settlement.
ON the 21st resolution was introduced
dn the Michigan Legislature asking Con-
gress to pass the Reagan Interstate COM
merce bill.
In an address to the electors Of Cork, on
the 21st, Mr.. Par sall said the IrisR party
would oppose every>ger -ument that re-
fused to concede lreland's <.s5sssts,
IT is proposed to postpone the de>--.:sssstion
ceremonies of the Washington Monumahs
until about the time of President CieYe-
lands Inauguration.
THE last will and testament of the late
Schuyler Colfax has been admitted TO pro-
bate. The estate is valued at $3.50, 600, un.
incumbered, Mrs. Colfax and Schuyler
Colfax, Jr., are the sole benefciaries.
DIRECTOR GENERAL BURKE of the New
Orleans Exposition is said to be irrepara-
bly, ruined in health as the result q
over work hi connection with the enter,
prise.
St. Landry democrat., 1885-01-31
Heightened sLUGGERs.

A Couple of New York BIoods Have Bout.
with GIoves-Knocked Out in Three.
Rounds.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
MORRISON AS A SOLDIER;


A short time ago some Of General
Logan's followers In the Illinois Sena-
torial contest attempted TO injure the
prospects Of Colonel Morrison by charg'
Ing that the latter found II convenient
to retire from. the army during the
early part OF the war, In order to accept
a seat In Congress. But these under
handed tactics have already reacted
upon their authors. Morrison's friends
have been carefully hauling over the
records and have found that when the
Democratic Congressional Convention
OF the Twelfth Illinois district met at
Carlyle, September 20, 1862, TO nominate
a candidate for Congress, Col. Morrison
was In command Of the post at Bethel,
Tenn, having returned to the field on
crutches after his partial recovery from
the dangerous wound received at Fort
DOnelson. Some Of his friends having
written him urging him to return to
the State and canvass his district, Col.
Morrison, nearly a month after his
nomination, viz, 0stober %. 1862, wrote
a letter to r, P. Tansey, then a resident
OF Alton, ILL.,, In which, after discussing
other matters, he emphatically declined
TO leave the field for the purpose OF q
political campaign, using these words,
which were at the Inc printed In the
Alton Democrat:
"The people at home know me. ]
know that they trust In me TO do my
duty here. / know that they trust In
me that | will do nothing TO mar that
glory which they prize 80 highly 40
ulinOisans and which Ia none the less
because | am Of Illinois sons. Trust
ing me, shall l distrust themp Shall
| leave the brave men, now almost In
sight Of the enemy, who left their homes
expecting me 10 lead them, and 90 TO
those homes, there TO solicit NJ the work
shops, In the fields and on the highways
the vote OF the brothers aud. fathers OF
those menp Who that 10 my friend
would have me do thisp'
And no did not leave the field till his
friends and nelghbors at home, by their
unsolicited SURFACES, decreed that the
gallant and crippled soldier would atly
represent his State In Congress. where
no might have q little rest from the IA
tlgues OF war. And when he left the
army In obedience TO the peoples will
no carried with him this official indorse'
ment OF General Grant; "Col, Wm. r,
Morrison Ia one OF our best officers"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
THE NEWS CONDENSED.

No tidings have been received OF inc
missing steamer Michigan
Property worth $lOb, 900 was swept away
by fire Sunday morning at Eufaula, Ala.
Mills, Bpellmire q Co.'s mill at Cincin-
natl was damaged $4,000 by fire Monday
night,
p. GARNER, dry goods and clothiag, az
Lansing, Mich, has assigned, with haphi-
ties Of $4,000,
John l.. Zimmerman, Wholesale contoo.
tioner at Bloomington, ILL.,, was closed lqst
evening by the Sheriff on executions Tor
$4,000.
Miss Hill, recently granted a divorce
from ex-senator Sharon at San Francisco,
wal Monday awarded 500, 900 counsel foes,
with alimony OF $4,000 a month from IAN
uary o, 1884.
The lnsolvent Exchange Bank Of Belize
Vile, o., owes more than $4,000, with as
sets Of less than 100000. The missing
cashier has returned.
John Moore, q railway postal clerk, rum
ming between New York and Pittsburgh,
has been arrested In the latter city for rob-
bling the mails. Marked pills were found
In his pockets, 4
By the collision of two sections Of a stock
train early Sunday morning near Cone
waugh, Pa, William Keller and Joseph
Erb, two drovers from Chicago, were
killed, and a tramp was fatally injured.
Quo warranto proceedings to compel jay
Gould and Others TO show cause why they
should not yacate tho offices they hold In
competing or parallel lines OF railroad, In
violation OF the State Constitution, were
bog un Monday nj Jefferson City, Mo.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19

In the Springfield. o., Mechanical
News (Bookwalter's paper a writer
gives the American manufacturer some
very valuable points on the Spanish
American trade. showing wherein we
have the advantage OF our European
competitors. The writer has been a
resident of Spanish America for fifteen
years, and has watched the details with
q view 10 benth!ting our manufacturers.
The trade OF those countries belongs To
the United States by right Of neighbor'
hood, and yet we have but seven per
cent, of II. when We should have at least
Atty per cent. Why ls thisp the writer
asks, and then answers AZ length. He
says hardly q article used by the people
of those countries but Ia manufactured
In the United States, generally as cheap
az the same article Ia made In England,
France or Germany, aud Invariably
much superior In quality, design and
finish. We build q better and cheaper
engine than they do In Europe. Our
engines are better adapted 10 the wants
OF those countries and to the class OF
labor that has the handling OF machin'
cry there; our pulleys and shafting are
superior; our adjustable hangers and
self-oiling babbitted bearings are cent
uries ahead OF anything that comes from
Europe; our boilers Of all classes are
better constructed, and admitted to be
far ahead Of the English. In fact, he
says he can think Of no branch OF the
iron trade, from q log screw TO q saw
mill, In which we do not excel In do
sign, finish and quality. But our goods
are 30 poorly packed that when they
reach their destination they are broken,
scored or entirely destroyed. The writer
tells Of eight engines ordered from the
United States which we're 80 badly dam
aged In shipping In consequence Of
poor boxing, that they we're unfit to use
On the other hand the English engines
are packed 40 securely thai
one that laid on the wharf for three
years was as bright and perfect as the
day II was shipped, American ma
chinery has been shipp'd from American
factories without the least protection
TO be bumped and dumped at the will
Of the freight handler and rough seas
until II was entirely destroyed.
The writer says that American goods
are preferable 10 the English and Ger
man, and English and German manu-
facturers imitate the American goods
both In style and label. American cot
ton goods that have q hold on the na'
tives are initiated by the English except
In quantity. They Initiate our axes,
knives and sickles.
The United States. he says, will also
have to reform the system that permits
this country TO be represented by popin.
jays who send TO London for their cloth
Inn
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19

TnE Washington Post says II there is
any doubt about the prostitution Of tho
pension Office TO political purposes, oil
one has got to do 10 10 glance at tho tes.
timoDy taken before the House Pension
Committee. The evidence given Ia con
clutiye that, In pursuance Of instruc.
tione given before the October election.
claims were passed upon or rejected. or
defined, ~ the case might DO, on purely
political considerations. The bureau
was run solely M q party machine with
only one object In view and that 10
make Republican votes or estoping the
manufacture OF Democratic votes. One
Instance Ia cited whore o merltorious
claim was temporarily set aside on the
grounds that Representative Holman
had Interested himself in IL. Such per.
version Of official duty was the rule aud
not the exception. No defense can be
pei up for such gross corruption, and
tbore Ia nj present no way 10 prevent
aheir occurrence. The Law will not
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19
THE OLD ROMAN AND THE CtBINET.

The New York World, OF Wednesday
last, copies an editorial from the Boston
Globe on the personnel OF Mr.. Cleye'
lands Cabinet, and says:
referring TO the current report that
Mr.. Cleveland Intends TO surround him
self with young, vigorous, active men
10 the exclusion OF the g~rey-haired vet
Grams Of experience and party devotion,
the Boston Globe Justly says that such a
policy would DO a reverslon OF the laws
OF God and man, and II carried out
would cause every young Democrat 10
commit the Sin OF ingratitude. The
Globe holds that the party owes some
thing TO the men who have carried the
standard through twenty-five years OF
defeat-the men In fact who have kept
the Democratic organization together,
and who have given " their guidance
and the lustre Of their intellects. Upon
this point the able and thoroughly
Democratic Globe says: .
eve expect that President Cleveland
will naturally select several compare
lively young men for his Cabinet. We
know that no can DO trusted 10 select q
Cabinet which will give universal salts.
faction. We do not believe, however,
that no can select any one man who
will give greater Joy TO the Democratic
party or b. subject 10 less criticism
from the Republican party than by
naming Allen @. Thurman, OF Ohio, for
q Cabinet position, The selection Of
this leading statesman would DO uni
versally acceptable, aud tho indorse-
ment II would receive would prove how
utterly stupid and nonsensical IL the
allegation that the veterans should DO
sent TO the rear"
This IL n well.meritei compliment
from the Democracy OF New England TO
the Nestcr Of the west. As the WASH
Post aptly and Justly says: ut
will be difficult for many Democrats TO
DO reconciled TO any Cabinet In which
MIR. Thurman has no seat"
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19

OHIO has gone Democratic every year
after the Presidential election for
twelve years, except In 1881, when Eos
ter beat BOokwalter In the midst Of the
boom, and when Garfield was dying. In
1879 Grant beat Greeley thirty'seyen
thousand, and In 1873 william Allen
was elected Governor. In 1875 Hayes
beat Tilden, aud In 1877 Bishop beat
West nearly twenty thousand. In 1884
Blaine carried Ohio by thlrty.two
thousand. The Republican papers boast
about what they are going to do In Ohio
this fall, They may DO w%iser-after
election. Next fall they will have less
material aid from United States officials.
They had better consider this.
The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1885-02-19

reach them. The bureau needs a thor
ough purgation. Dudley, a commission
or OF pensions and other employees OF the
bureau, ran the Ohio campaign with the
worst lot of scoundrels. thieves, cut
thrOats and thugs, as the testimony
taken before the House Committee ap'
pointed TO inquire into Lot Wrights
corrupt administration Of the marshaPs
Office at Cincinnati during the late cam
palgn, will bear us out In thus calling
these imps by their correct names, their
aliases having escaped us at the present
time. The MURDERS and other outrages
committed at Cincinnati during cleo
ton day. was the work Of Commissioner
Dudley's hirelings. All Of this was done
In the name Of the law or the Republl
can party's version Of 1t. Corruption
lurking In the pension bureau, corrup'
ton In the treasury, corruption In the
department Of justice. corruption In the
marshal's offices and corruption in..eyery
branch OF the government will be fer
reted out and exposed under the lncom
Ing administration.