St. Landry democrat., 1885-05-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Ieau6F, is Tapluly Dreak ing uOWu II Hed1k0
and is greatly troubled with insomnia
TIE Navy Department. received dis
patch from Admiral Jouett on the 29th
saying he would go to Panama, and ex-
pected to settle the difficulty peaceably.
GLADsToNE's speech dispels any idea
that may have existed throughout Europe
that En- land would make concessions to
Russia.
PRESIDENT WHITE of Cornell Univer-
sity, who was Blaine man, thinks Mr..
Cleveland is doing well, but he regards
Mr.. Hendricks as dead against civil-serv-
ice reform.
GENERAL GRANT is again at work on
his book.
THE Secretary of the Navy indorses
Admiral Jouett's action at Panama.
Mr.. BYgns, American Consul General
at Rome, has resigned and will return to
enter journalism.
On ths31th Colonel Robert Pattison,
well known citizen OF Evansville, Ind,
died suddenly.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND appointed Hon.
A. M. Kelley, of Richmond, Va, Minister
to Austria.
THE newspapers at st. Petersburg dis
cuss at length the differences between the
reports of General Komarof and Sir Peter
Lumsden.
SENATOR HARRIS, of Tennessee, denies
that there is any personal ill-will between
Secretary Bayard and himself.
G GENERAL IRWIN MCDOWELL has been
suffering for some time past at San Fran
cisco, with an affection of the principal
digestive organs, which prevents him re-
tanning anything on his stomach. Physi-
clans have given up all hopes of his recov-
cry.
On the 3lth largely attended rec option
was given to the Hon. E. j. Phelps, the
newly appointed Minister to England, by
the citizens of Burlington VT. President
Bockhorn, of the University of Vermont,
made an address in behalf of the people,
TO which Mr.. Phelps responded.
PRIVATE correspondence received from
New York by personal friend Of General
Grant in Washington says: 'The affec-
tionate demonstrations of the people have
cheered the General up, and this accounts
for his being better, but the disease is do
ing its sad work all the same" =
The Commissioner of Pensions has ren :
dered decision, subject to the approval
of the Secretary of the Interior, on the
pension application of Mrs. Emma De
Long, widow of the late Lieutenant
Commander De Long of the Jeanette.
The Commissioner holds that the officers
and men, who were on the Jeanette ex-
pedition were in the service of the United
States, and that the order of the Secre-
tary of the Navy detailing De Long to
special duty at New York, and then to the
- A. 60 oh rad bic
status from ''absent ON leave'' to that of
''acttve duty" and therefore entities his
widow to pension.
CoMMoDoRE G. K. GARRISON, of New
York, died suddenly on the LIST.
THE President has appointed Hon. John
Goode, of Virginia, Solicitor General.
GENERAL GRANT passed the 1st debating
to stenographer work for his book.
THE President appointed E. J. Hale, of
North Carolina, Consul to Manchester,
England.
ON the 4st the Ohio Legislature passed
The registration law for Cincinnati and
Cleveland.
GEO. w. PORTER and J. ]. Hanna, st.
Louis, (Mo) Post Office inspectors, have
been removed.
called the Bull Frog, which arrived at
Halifax, N. s., on the 1st.
The King of Denmark it is thought pro-
bable will " selected to mediate between
England anN Russia.
COLONEL SwITZLER, of Missouri, has
been appointed Secretary of the Bureau OF
Statistics in the Treasury Department.
On the 1st Captain John La Barge, a
well.known steamboat man, dropped dead
in the pilot-house of boat in Bismarck,
Oak.
JUDGE WIN. M. MERRIcK, of Maryland
received the appointment of Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court of the Dis.
trict of Columbia, vice Judge Wylie, re.
signed.
NAVAL CADET WIN. C. CALLAGHAN, of
Ohio, member of the third class, has re-
signed from the Naval Academy, at An.
uapolis.
The Executive Committee of the Ma.
tional Civil Service Association has voted
to hold the next annual meeting in New.
port, r. l., in August. Mr.. George VIII.
liam Curtis viii preside and deliver the
address.
The Postmaster General has forbidden
The delivery Of registered letters and
money orders to F. Ridd & Co. Of Du.
buque, Ia, on evidence that they were
conducting fraudulent business through
the mails.
Gov ERNoR OGLEsBY Of Illinois on the
1st ordered that four companies of the
Fourth Regiment State militia be sent to
Joliet at once to quell the riots among the
uuarrymen at that place A1jutant- Gen.
eral Vance aud Captain Bell left at once
for Joliet. The Sheriff of Win County
stated that threats were being made tc