St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-25
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died at Louisville, KY.
LORD VERNON and Miss Lawrence, an
American girl, were married at st.
Georges Church, London, on the 14th.
SAMUEL B. DYcK, of MeadvilIe, Pa, has
been appointed receiver Of the New York,
Pennsylvania & Ohio Railroad.
LOUIS ]. JENNINGS, formerly editor of
che New York Times, will stand for Par
lament for Stockport, Cheshire, England.
L. B. HARRISON, President Of the First
National Bank of Cincinnati, has been ap-
pointed Government Director of the
Union Pacific Railroad.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL stated in
the Commons on the 18th that England
has made certain pledges of assistance to
the Amecr of Afghanis tan in case he asks
for it.
A COMMITTEE, consist ting of the Arch
bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lon E
don, Cardinal Man ming and Hon. Samuel
Morley, will investigate the Pail Mall Ga
gette's charges.
SECRETARY BAYARD returned TO Wash
fngton on the 14th, and was at the State
Department, Mrs. Bayard's condition
having improved.
ON the 10Th Delos Dorr ance, one of the
oldest pilots on the Mississippi, died at LIE
Claire, la.
An Irish girl named HannahlP gott, just
landed in New York, longed for green
fields and her native lamp so intently that
she became raving maniac.
CONTRIBUTIONS are to be taken up
among the common people in Canada for
Reil's defense.
GENERAL HOWARD states that an In
tensely bitter state of feeling prevails at
Salt Lake between Mormons and Gentiles.
He says bloodshed may be looked for.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE, of the United
States Supreme Court, is ruralizing in
Scotland.
On the evening Of Wednesday,, August
9Th, Mr. Cyrus w. Field will give ban
quet at the Star and Garter Hotel, Rich
mond, Eng, to celebrate the anniversary
of the completion Of the first Atlantic
cable.
THE Communist Gorsuch who was ar
rested in Cleveland on the 18th, was re-
leased on the 18th on $4,000 bail, and it is
said he instigated the attack on that day
which brought on the fight.
ON the 10Th Joseph Taylor was hanged
at Philadelphia, Pa, for murder.
ADvIcEs received at Cairo, Egypt, say
the Mahdi is really dead.
JEROME HILL, of st. Louis, Mo-, was
elected Vice President of the National
Cotton Exchange.
REPRESENTATIVE HoLMAN's Indian in
vestigating committee will recommend
the concentration of the unsettled Sioux
and Crow tribes in the Indian Territory,
and the purchase of the Sioux reservation
in Dakota by the Government.
SECRETARY LAMAR is still in receipt of
kilograms from cattlemen In the Indian
Territory, complaining that the cattle
trails through the Cherokee strip remain
obstru cted, and asking for relief
SECRETARY WHITNEY has issued an
order granting employees of the Navy De-
partment thirty days. leave of absence
with pay during the year when their serv-
ices can be spared without interference
with the public business.
THE President has dismissed from the
service Ensign Jeffreys of the navy for
appropriating $500 which did not belong
to him, in accordance with the finding of
a court-martial in New York.
A. T. SMITH, the expert accountant en-
ployed to examine the accounts of Treas
urer Anderson, of Hob9ken, N, j., has
found q deficiency Of $26,675. Anderson is
requested TO explain at the next Council
meeting.
A DECREE Of divorce has been granted
the Marquis De Caux from Patti.
DR.. PRIZE, editor of the New York Oh :
serUer, was reported on the Itch to be at
the point of death at Manchester, Vt.
Ex-SEN AToR FRANCIS HERMAN declines
Pacific Railroad.
GENERAL DE CoURcY will visit Hal
phong to confer with the French General $
in Tonqutn.
THE Canadian House OF Commons, on
the 18th, voted $4,000 to General Middle
ton and thanks to the rest of the command
for their services in the Northwest
EARL CARNAvoE will recommend that
the Government give all reasonable help
to the Munster Bank.
Mr.. PARNELL moved in the House of
Commons on the 18th that the General
Government order q special inquiry into
the Maamtrasna murder case.
w. h GODDARD, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
was discharged on his own recognizance
i'm q New York court on the 18th, where he
was on trial for stealing Sic, 900 from Aus
tin Corbin in 1873. His good record since
the restitution helped him.
THE American Association OF Photog-
raphers elected T. Cramer and A. R.
Clark, of st. Louis, No., the Executive
Committee and selected ST. Louis as the
place for holding the next annual conven-
ton.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Two cowboys were recently killed by
Indians and staked to the ground on the
Charokee strip,