St. Landry democrat., 1885-03-07

will take stand at Shanghai to intercept
vessels with rice cargoes.
DR.. BALAccI, the alleged Frenc b
nobleman, who tried to elope with Mrs.
| Grissari, q wealthy Spanish American of
Santa Fe, was arrested in Mexico, and is
wanted at Santa Fe on a charge of lar
| ceny.
IT is declared by United ireland that if
| there are any demonstrations during the
visit of the Prince of Wales to Dublin
| there will be counter demonstrations which
will. overshadow any that Earl Spencer
may order.
On the 18th Senator Sherman reported
to the Senate an amendment to the sundry
civil bill, which provides for the erec-
tion in the District of Columbia statue to
the memory of General Lafayette, to cost
$4,000.
The Washington Star states that Sena-
tor Garland was rendered and has accept
ed the Attorney Generalship under Cleve-
land.
The Vice President-ele arrived at
Washington on the 9th, and was received
formally by number of political organi-
cations and distinguished men at the Ma
tional Capital.
LORD SALIsBURY's motion in the House
of Lords to censure the British Govern :
ment was adopted, 189 to 49, A similar
motion by Sir Stafford Northcote, in the
Commons was rejected, 3O2 to 28S.
The House foreign affairs committee de-
cided to submit favorable report upon
the resolution calling for retaliatory ac-
ton for Germany's restrictions upon
American products
ACCORDING to the Every EUeniBg, a
journal published at Wilmington, Del,
Senator Bayard will tender his resigna-
ton to the Legislature, as he has accepted
the State portfolio of Cleveland's Cabinet.
THE Illinois Legislature took an informal
ballot for United States Senator on the
9th, merely to maintain the record.
TELEGRAMs from Korti announce the ar
rival of General Buller's forces at Gakdul.
The Ohio Democratic members of the
Legislature will attend the Inauguration
in body.
MRS. ANNA PARKS, over one hundred
years of age and born in County Mayo,
Ireland, was buried at Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th.
ANNIE KENNEDY, twenty two years Of
age, hanged herself at Detroit, Mich, on
the 9th.
THE Prince of Wales will start on his
tour April Cd.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FRED BECKER, Treasurer of Chippewa
County, Wisconsin, is missing, and his ac-
counts are short between $4,000 and $12,-
600.
The Express Company's loss in the re-
cent terrible accident on the Virginia Mid
land Railroad is now placed at $3.50 900,
mostly in money.
EDWARD VoGELY, book-keeper of the
Butler. (Pa.) Savings Bank, is q defaulter
and has left town. The shortage is placed
between $4,000 and 100000.
WIN. A. MONTGOMERY, banker of Cos
port, Ind, committed suicide on the oath.
On the oath Oliver w. Holmes, four
teen-year- old boy, hanged himself at
Lakewood, N. ].
ON the oath the schooner F. j. Collins
and cargo, valued at $4,000, burned OFF
Ocean City, Md.
AN octogenarian, VIM. Haun, was MUIR
dered in his home, near Knoxville, Tenn,
crime.
JUDsoN DITsoN, who has been collecting
money on forged checks at Boston, was ar
rested on the 25th.
FIVE children were severely if not fatal
~ injured while coasting at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 25th, their bob-sled running
with great force into passing wagon.
THE Pittsburgh (Pa.) detective force
have unearthed an organized gang of
thieves, captured several ofsthem and re-
covered money and Yaluables to the
amount Of $1,000.
WHILE practicing roller-skating in her
room at Columbus, O., on the 25th, Miss
Ollie Fredericks, a young society lady of
that city, aged twenty zone, fell, her
head striking the floor with such force
as to fracture her skull Her life is de-
SPARED of.
JOSE GALLEGos, the Mexican who MUIR
dered SO many people at Las Novias, N.
M, was shot to death by mob.
On the 10Th terrible explosion occurred
at the Royal School Of Gunnery at Shoe
buryness, Eng, while a number of artil-
lery officers and scientists were testing a
new patent fuse Three men were killed
outright and several fatally wounded
Among the latter were some of the most
prominent officials of the Government
Laboratory at Woolwich.
JIM WATTS, a colored murderer, knocked
the jailer down at Nicholasville, KY, and
was shot and killed by the jai1er
NOSE CATION, of Union City, KY, on the
9th hanged his wife, whom he married
four years ago.
VIM. T. CoMsTocK, a Justice of Il 9
Peace, shot Geo. P. Smith near Valentine,
Neb., on the 9th.
CHAs. DEAN, of indianapolis, Ind, after