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St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-10-03

HE Porte is awaiting tine answer or the
signatory powers to the treaty OF Berlin
before taking action on the Koumslian
question.
GREAT damage continues to bs done by
the prairie fres in Dakota. The Town of
Tower City narrowly escaped destruction
on the gath.
AT a meeting OF the leading wire manu-"
facturers of the country, held at Now
York on the oath, the prices were adj
yanced ten to fifteen per cent. q
SIMULTANEOUS with the publication Of
an order at Panama. Announcing peace
throughout the republic, riot occurred
between rebels and the police, in VIII ch
one policeman was killed and several rel BE-
els wer5 wounded.
REV. EDWARD MCCoLGAy, Vicar Gem
eraI of the Arch diocese of Baltimore, ha S
been invested with the title Of Monsignor
in the Catholic Church.
GoLDsMiTa MAID is dead.
A PERMANENT Exposition building is to
be erected at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the site
of the one burned thres years ago.
A NEW ministry has been organized in
Turkey.
THIs year Yale College has the largest
freshman class on record.
THE Canadian Cabinet has been reor
gauized.
DURING the seven days ended the 25th,
there were 40, failures in the United
States.
OK the 18th the Sovereign Granl Lodge,
1nd spendent Order of Odd Fellows, was
in session Mt Baltimore Md
HEAVY rains and railway washouts are
reported in Mexico.
ALI. Servians in Germany have been
called homo for military duty.
SEVERAL vessels are reported to have
foundered,in the Bay OF Bengal during a
recent cyclone.
ITALY will send representatives to the
international Monetary Conference to be
held at Paris, October 21st.
ONE of the Cinnamon recently lvnched
at Pierce City, Idaho, is said to have
been wealthy merchant
ST. PETERSBURG dispatches say that
Russia will sustain Bulgaria ia the
union with Rouma ella, ev8n to the extent
OF going to war with Turkey
A DISPATCH from st. Johns, n. F.. Of
the 18th says: An unusual portent APP
peared in the sky in the north west region
last night. A huge red meteortc body
rose over Conception Bay and within
seven minutes traversed an area of be-
tween thirty and forty degrees.
TIE Swatara and Yantic engaged in
trans porting silver from the New Orleans
Mint to the Treasury in Washington, ar
rived at the Washington Navy Yard the
night of the 10Th.
TIE Captain of the Dauntless does not
take his defeat with as mucl equanimity
as the comm ander of the Gsnesta, but ex-
cuses his defeat AID boasts that he can
beat anything foat, tue Genesta pre-
ferred, on trip across thu Atlantic for
ducats.
A SEAMAN of the Italian bark Excel.
sior, Captain Longobarlo, from Mar
settles, which arrived at Nsw York on the
18th, died from cholera three days after
the vessel sailed. With this exception all
on board were we'll. The bark was de.
tanned at quarantine.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-10-03

JUDGE WM B. FLgMsNe, Chief Justice
Of New Mexico, is seriously i'll in Kan"
lucky aud has resi- ned his position.
Y CoLoNKL BRADY tel egraphs from Santa
Fe, N. NJ, to Leayenwor h that Lieu5an-
ant Cruise, OF the Sixth Cavalry, is fol-
lowing an Indian trail.
PUG o. LEARY has been turned over to
the ChicagooC Chief Of Police by the Kan
sasa City author. ties He was wanted for
murder
The Governor anil Supreme Court Of
Ohio have both refused to interfere with
the sentence OF Patrick Hartnett, to be
hanged on the 30th for wife murder.
THE mission priests, Rev. Fathers Davis,
Dupont and Martin, were among the vic-
ms in the recent massacre of Christians
in Cochin China.
THE German Government has exnelled
from Prussia Count Zlmoyski, a Polish
nobleman aud one OF the largest land
owners in Posen.
On the 25th Moses Marrencleagh, a
Christian jew, died at the County Poor
House of Duchess County, N. Y, at the
advanced age of 106 years.
THE complete ticket nominated by the
New York Democratic State Convention
is as follows: Governor, David 3. Hill;
Lieutenant Governor, Roswell T. Flower !;
Secretary OF State, Frederick Cook; At
torney General, Dennis O'Brien; Treas
urer, Lawrence J. Fitzgerald; Eng ineer
and Surveyor, Nathan Sweet.
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-10-03
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

AT Silver Creek. near Pottsv,lle, Pa,
on the evening of the 21st. Mrs. Sarah
| O'Neill, while drunk, chopped Mrs.
Keefe's head OFF with an axe.
James B. Green, a railway mail clerk,
was killed by an accident on a car at Van
dalia, ILL.,, on the I'D.
FIVE Gilman IN, Implicated in a murder
at Pierce City, Idaho. were taken from
jail on the 22d and lynchei.
| WILLIAM JONES, captain of u life boat
was drowned OF Racine, Wis, on the 22d,
while cut practising
ROBERT FOWLER. on trial at Morgan
field, KY, charged with killing b niece,
| was convicted of murder in the first de.
gree.
DoLpH ,DRAUGTx, n Deputy Sheriff,
| Sam Cook and VIM Francis. were killed
| in faction fight in Lstcher County, Ken
| lucky, on the 22d.
| MARX W. TOWNSEND, a school teacher,
living near Lancaster, Wis, shot and
killed his wife on the 22d and. with his
| babe in his arms, surrendered himself to
the authorities.
The Chinese quarters at the Black Dia-
| mond Mine, in Washington Territory
/ IS
masked men. The Cinnamon fled.
EDWARD EARNEST, engineer in Fabel's
soap factory, Louisville. XIV. was in
stantly killed and the building damaged
to the extent of Sis 600 on the 22d by the
explosion of boiler.
JNo. OsTgRMtER, agel fourteen, rock
feeder at Sankey Bros brick-yard at
Pittsburgh, Pa, fell into the rock
crusher on tho 22l, and before the engines
could be stoppe his boIy was literally
ground to dust.
ON the 231 Thomas H. Clements and
his sister Susie were murdered near Sa.
guache, COL, by members of their own
family.
ON the 23d four miners at work in a low
part of the Franklin mine at Houtz lale,
Pa, were drowned by letting in upon
them rush of water from an old mine on
higher level Fifteen acres of water fiv
feet deep must be pumped of before the
bodies can be recovered. The victims are
John Mehan, Peter Folk, Joseph Hampce,
Hungarian, and John Forsythe.
OK the 22d VIM. Winter and his wife left
home at Point Pleasant. Va, and locked
their two children, aged three and five in
the house During their absence the
house took fire and was entirely con
sumed. The two children wsrs burned to
death.
JOSEPH FISHER aud. thres of his chill
dren burned to death near Cedar Rapids,
Ia. on the Path.
TWENTY FIVE persons were wounded,
many of them seriously, by the collapse
OF circus tent at Martinsburg, W. Va,
on the 23d, during storm.
THE town OF San born, Oak, was almost
totally destroyed by fire ON the 245h,
which is supposed 10 have been started
by tramps.
On the 25:h Katie Garner attempted to
commit suicide at Kansas City, No., by
shooting herself in the breast.
TIE schooner Bertha was wrecked off
the coast of Labrador. The crew were
saved
FRANKIE MITCHELL a mulatto woman,
was murdered by some unknown party in
Chicago on the 18th.
On the 25th the yards and buildings of
the Niagara Pressed Brick Company at
Evansville. Ind, were destroyed ty fire.
"A NUMBER of incendiary fires, believed
to be the work of an organized gang have
occurred at Babylon, I. l., recently. The
Board of Supervisors have offered re-
ward Of $1,000 for their capture
St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-10-03

"A ten days journey on q bicycle or
tricycle. has been proved to be an eff
fective cure of neuralgia. Ghtcuqo
Tunes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02

ry that this might be the result of delays in
the returns. However, / am free to confess
that speculative science is filled with the
intangible.
The sun revolves upon his or heraXletree,
as the case may be, once in % to % of our
days, SO that a man would have almost two
years to pay 30-day note. We should so
live that when we come to die we may go
at once to the sun.
Regarding the suns n'stemperature, Sir John
Herschel says that it is sufficient to melt a
shell Of ice covering its entire surface to
depth of 40 feet. 1 do not know whether he
made this experiment personally or hired a
man to do it for him.
The sun is like the star spang led banner
as it is "still there" You get up to-mor-
away toward the east, and keep on looking
in that direction, and at last you will see
a fine sight, if what 1 have been told is true.
If the sunrise is as grand as the sunset, it
must indeed be one of natures most SUBJ
lime phenomena.
The sun is the great source of light and
heat for our earth. If the sun were to 60
somewhere for few weeks for relaxation
and rest it would be a cold day for us. The
moon, too, would be useless, for she is large
ly dependent on the sun. Animal life
would soon cease and real estate would be-
come depressed in price. We owe very
much of our enjoyment to the sun, and not
many years ago there was large number
CT people who worsLiped the sun. When a
man showed signs of emotional insanity
they took him up on the observatory of the
temple and sacrificed him to the sun. They
were very prosperous and happy people.
If the conqueror had not come among them
with nj utilization onh an1 GRAND ill
ries, they would have been very happy
indeed
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
THE SPOTS ON THE sun.
BILL NYE CANDLDLY SAYS HE CAN'T EN-
PLAIN THEM.

This luminous body is 100000 miles
from the earth, though there have been
mornings this winter when it seemed to me
that it was further than that. A railway
train going at the rate of fOrty-mileS per
hour would be 2G3 years in going there, to
say nothing of stopping for fuel or water, or
stopping on side tracks to wait for freight
trains to pass. Several years ago it was dis
covered that slight error had been made
in the calculation of the suns distance from
the earth, and owing to a misplaced loga-
rithm, or something Of that kind, mistake
of 100000 miles was made in the result.
People cannot be too careful in such matters.
Supposing that on the strength of the intor-
nation contained in the old time-tablea a man
should start out with only provisions suf-
ticient to take him 89,0O0,O0O miles, and
should then find that three million miles
still stretched out ahead Of him. He would
then have to buy fresh figs from the train
boy in order to sustain life. Think of buy
ing nice fresh figs on train that had been
en- route 25O years!
Imagine train boy starting out at ten
years of age and perishing at the age of 60
years with only one fifth Of his journey ac-
complished Think of five train boys one
after the other dying of old age on the way,
and the train at last pulling slowly into the
depot with not IL living thing on board ex-
cept the worms in the nice ''eating apples! J"
The sun cannot be examined through an
ordinary telescope with impunity. Only
one man ever tried that and he is now
wearing a glass eye that cost him 50. If
you examine the sun through an ordinary
solar microscope you find that it has cur
died or mottled appearance, as though suf-
fering from billiousness. 1t is also mark
ed here and there by long streaks of light
called facul2, which look like foam flecks
below cataract. The spots on the sun vary
from minute pores the size of an ordinary
school district, to spots 100, 600 miles in di-
ameter, visible to the nude eye. The centre
of these spots is as black as brunette cat
and is called the umbra, so called because it
resembles an umbrella. The next circle is
less dark and called the penumbra, because
it so closely resembles the penumbra.
There are many theories regarding these
spots, but to be perfectly candid with the
gentle reader, neither Professor Proctor nor
myself can tell exactly what they are. If
we could get little closer we fiatter our
selves that we could speak more definitely.
My own theory is they are either: first,
open air caucllses held by the colored peo-
pie of the sun or second, they may be the
dark horses in the campaign; or third, they
may the spots knocked off the defeated can
didate by the opposition.
Frankly, however, l do not believe eth
er of these theories to be tenable. Pro-
fessor Proctor sneers at these theories also
on the ground that these spots do not appear
to revolve so fast as the sun. This, hOWev-
er, am prepared to explain upon the theo-
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
geletted goetrp.
GONE,

GONE.
The shadow Of tent I saw,
Along the sloping sand,
A tent upon headland high
That bulwark Of the land.
By day I heard the ca! !apers laugh;
And when the evening star
Shone soft above the seas dark rim,
Like lighthouse lamps afar-
How jubilant the sweep of song
That burst from out that tent,
A song to which the roaring sea
It's bass deep-sounding lent.
To-day that tent is gone! 1t left
No trace upon the sand,
A lonely sky is overhead;
Below, a lonely land.
And vet the campers songs goes on;
1t sounds along the shore,
I hear it in the snowy surf
That breaks in wild uproar.
Is life tent, transient tent,
Do we often say?
A shadow on the stretching sand,
So swift we pass away?
Tonight I sit alone and hear
The songs my dead did sing,
And in mine ears their voices clear
Will never cease to ring; ..
The song of deeds by souls that went
Like saint in garments white;
Of honest speech, of highest aims.
That sought and found the light.
Oh vanished tents of pilgrim lives,
So transient by the sea, . .......
What though the singer must pass on?
The song shall stay with me.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02
red that another boat was nearer the shore

cred that another boat was nearer the shore
than the one in which he was. His heart
was set on the offered reward, but he saw
that it was about to be won by another. In
a state of despairing anxiety he seized an
axe, or some sharp instrument and cutting
off his lett hand, threw it on the shore. BY
this cruel stratagem he became the owner OF
Ireland.
Southwest of Belfast, about eight or nine
miles, is the town of Lisburn. Like Belfast,
Lisburn is on the Lagan which separates
Antrim and Down. The population of Lis
burn is near eleven thousand, of whom
about twelve hundred are in Down. The
region of country between Lisburn and
Lough Neagh was originally settled by the
English. The Welsh settled the territory
in the immediate vicinity of Lisburn. Like
some of our American towns, Iisburn is
built mainly on one long street. This runs
east and west. At the east end there is a
church which contains two very interesting
monuments. One of these was erected to
the memory of Rev. Jeremy Taylor, once
Bishop of Down and Connor; the other was
erected to perpetuate the memory of Lieu
tenant Dobbs. In this last the Americans
are interested. During the early part of the
spring of 1779, the, celebrated Paul Jones
was cruising about in the channel between
Ireland and Scotland. Here, perhaps, it
may not be amiss to mention the fact that
Paul Jones was, by birth, Scotchman, and
that his father was gardener in the employ
of the Earl of Selkirk. Leaving his native
country, young Paul Jones came to Ameri-
ca, and as he had some experience in naval
affairs, he was commissioned Senior Lieu
tenant in the American Navy. On the 23rd
of April he landed party of men at klr-
cudbright, in Scotland, with the intention
of taking Lord Selkirk prisoner. The Lord
not being at home, Jones' men plundered
his house of it's vauables. Rather, they
demanded them, and Lady Selkirk deliver
ed them into their hands. At this time the
Drake, q British man-of-war, was lying in
Carrickfergus harbor. On the 24th OF April
the Ranger and Drake met about midway
the channel. Captain Burden, the COM
mander of the Drake, was killed almost at
the beginning of the fight, and Lieutenant
Dobbs was mortally wounded. The action
lasted for an hour and fifteen minutes. The
two vessels in every respect were nearly
equal. The Drake lost two men killed, and
twenty-five wounded; the Ranger lost, in
killed three men, and five wounded, but won
the victory. Of the one hundred and fifty
five men on board the Ranger, quite num-
Der were Irishmen, and one was native OF
Carrickfergus.
It must be mentioned that the plate taken
by the Jones party was sold for the COM
mon benefit of those on board the Ranger.
1t was bought by Jones, and afterward sent
safely, and without expense, to Lord Sell
kirk. This was generous.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02

Dsy" The United States is said now to be
the third largest silk manufacturing country
in the world, and this despite all that has
been said and written to discourage the
raising of silk in this country. The value
of our annual silk product is now placed at
S35 900, 900. About 10000 pounds of cocoons
wnrn RI iSnd in 1888.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02

Bay~ Make the bridge from the cradle to
manhood just as long as you can. Have
your child child just as long as you can,
especially if you live in a city. BE not in
haste to force your child into premature de-
velopment by intelligence or anything else.
Let it be child, and not a little ape Of a
man running about the town.-,SDnyeOn.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-02

as~ All the members of Cleveland's cabi-
net are wealthy men, except Lamar and
Garland, who depend upon their official
salaries for living. Whitney and Man
ming are millionaires, and Bayard, Villas
and Endicott are very well off. Bayard,
Lamar and Garland are widowers, and
Manning was widower until recently.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-26

spiders. pieces of Reptiles, ground
-.rpcnj-, bones, scrapiug- ot th"
hOrh- OF wild goats, stays and rhinoc-
cro,c-. and the scale, of ti~hc- and I'M
-cct.. How much better to- tell their
patients to take Browr'- Iron Bitcr-
nmd be won.
The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-11-26
BOOTS AND Shoes.

Without a doubt SLEEPER,
CLIFTON & co. are selling
THE BEST BOOTS AND
SHOES for the CASH MONEY
of ANY HOUSE in the City.
THEIR GOODS APE SOLID
AND RELIABLE.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-03-13
Ry Green & Wise, Auotloneers

10y VIRTUE OF A DECREE of the Corporation
- Court of this city rendered March 8, 1853
in the suit of Marshall aud wife w Weeks ct als
| will otter for sale Oh SATURDAY, APRIL 18th
1885, al II w.. in front of the entrance TO the
Court roou, on Fairfax street, III said city, the
following property
ID HOUSE and LOT GU the north side OF
Prince street. between Henry aud Fayette streets
beginning at point 40 feet vest from the middle
of the square, running thence west 26 feet s
inches; thence north 100 !cct to q 10 feet alley
thence east 26 feet inches thence south 100
feet to the beginning.
(2l A LOT OF GROUND in Fairfax county,
JUS, beyond the Corporation line, beginning at
the lutte rsrction of Wilkes and Payne streets ex
tended, running thence south and binding on the
west side Of Payne street up to Penny Hill bury
ing ground; thence west parallel with Wilkes
street 10 The east line Of St. Pauls cemetery
thence north parallel TO Payne street 10 Witke,
street; thence east and binding OIL the south side
of Wikts street to the beginning. containing be-
tween five and six acres 0; land.
~ A LOT OF GROUND in said county of
Fairfax, situated on the west side of West lane,
east side of Hamilton lane, .outh side of Wilkes
lane aud north side of Gibbons lane and st. Paul 5
cemetery.
Terms: Cash, or 20 per cent. cash: the residue
in sir and twelve months; the purchaser giving
bonds with good security, and title retained until
full payment is made.
MORGAN H BEACH
Special COMMISSIONER
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-03-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The Baltimore and Ohio ten million loan
has all be taken.
Six ballots for United StaSes Senator were
tax en- in the Illinois Legislature yesterday
without result. There were several scatter.
ing votes.
Three coiored men arrested at Troy
Tenn for implication in a murder, were
seized hy mob aud hanged just outsid"
he town yesterday.
Since Tennessee made exhibits AT the
Louisville anl Boston rxp0sitions over
/ 600 Northern families and over 81 500 900
of capital have been brought into the State
Notwithstanding he failure Of Congress
al the last session 10 make an appropriation
for rivers aud harhora, engineers in charge
of improvements will he able to continue
tbei: work Tor some time. Of the Sl4 900,
900 appropriated ut the close Of the first
session of the last Congress there was about
So, 900 900 balance in the Treasury the latter
part OF February.
The lois! session of ne Baltimore Con-
ference Of the NJ. + Church closed yester
day in Baltimore. The special committee
on temperance presented report Gemand
ing the enforcement Of existing laws against
the liquor traffic; The removal Of legal sane
ton from he vile business" aud the total
extinction of the trade by statutory and
constitutional prohibition. The report ex-
cited considerable discussion. 1t was amend
ed 80 as to express confidence in the State
Temperance Alliance, after which it was
q loDted
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1885-03-13
VIRGINIA NEWS.

The City Council of Norfc TX yesterday
appropriated $55, 1000 TO incres SO The water
supply of that city.
Mrs Laura McGuffey, wife of the late
VIM. H. McGufey, LID, for macy years
professor of moral philosophy in The Uni
yersty of Virginia, died OF pneumonia yes.
terday at an advanced age.
Judge Wexford has rendered Al decision
in the case of M. H. Spott vs.. the Common
wealth, overruling the motion made by
Spott to quash writ Of renditioni expOnas
levied on his property in Winchester, on
the ground that his homestead claim filed
in the case was perfect defence to the ex-
ecution Of the writ. The case will go to
the Court of Appeals.
1t was generally expected that the Court
of Appeals Yesterday would render decl-
sion in q coupon case involving among
other things the question whether coupons
can be received for school taxes. No opinion,
however, was rendered 1t is he impress
sion of officials of the State that no action
will be taken by the court in this case until
the various coupon cases from this Stale
now pending in the United States Supreme
Court are passed upon by that tribunal.
For the first time train of loaded cars
| lTOm luG ~ L u ~. L ~. ~ a. ~ ~
Norfolk yesterday on the new transfer
barge and new ocean going tug Norfolk.
There were twelve cars, and the run over
from Cape Charles City was made in four
hours. A large dock has been constructed
at the depot Of the 5. & R. K K. for the
through cars by this route. The new pas
senger transfer steamer which il to ply ne
tween Norfolk and Cape Charles City will
be completed during the present month,
aud will be ready to go on the line the hrst
of April.
The Court of Appeals yesterday rendered
a decision in the case involving the owner
ship of the Rockhridge Alum Springs in
Rockhridge county, and other property APP
pertaining thereto. This decision gives
james A. Frazier superior lien on that
property over all others. The amount III
controversy is about so 900. Mr.. Frazier was
a Malone member of the Legislature OF
1881 80 and prominently connected with
that party. The case has been before the
courts Of tine State in one way or another
for the past ten or twelve years. The Other
claimant was Mr.. William Frazier, an uncle
of the gentleman in whose favor the decl
sion was given. The former has been fight
ing the matter before the courts with grea
perssteucy. The court appointed conlmis
Sioners to sell the property.