St. Landry democrat., 1885-09-12
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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spited until October 10Th. He has made
confession in which he exculpates Dennis,
his alleged accomplfce in his crime.
M. FLowRY, an Italian Treasury off,
cial, embezzled public funds, which he
lost in gambling, and commi tied suicide
when detected.
PRINCE HENRY Of Battenberg, husband
of Princess Beatrice, has been appointed
commandant in the British navy.
The employees of Sir William George
Ar mstrong's gun and machine works at
Elswick. England, are on strike. Five
thousand are idle.
On the I'd, Brooks, alias Maxwell, made
his second appearance in the Court of
Criminal Correction, at st. Louis. His
lawyer was not ready, and the case was
continued one week, when examination
may be waived.
UNITED STATES MINISTER PHELPS open-
ed workingmen's club near Rugby, En-
gland, on the I'd, and in speech advised
those who thought of emigrating that
there was no room in America for idle or
worthless per sons.
Hon. DAM MANNING visited Mr. Tilden
ut Greystone on the I'd.
THE National Convention Of the Ma
sonic Lodges of Relief, in session at Balti-
more on the Cd, elected Martin Collins, of
st. Louis, President.
A SON of Admiral Cooper was arrested
at New York on the Sd on charge of
burglary.
DREYFUL and Lsbaudy, two French
Deputies, fought duel on the Sd, in which
Lebaudy was wounded,
LIEUTENANT GENERAL JOHN 81, NELL
WILLIE DARLINGTON, of the British army,
was accidentally killed while grouse
hunting on the 3D..
Hon. WIN. WARNER, of Missouri, was
elected President of the Waterways Con-
vention at St. Paul, Mimi.
THE French Embassy at Cons stantinopIe
has assumed an aggressive attitude to-
ward Sir Henry Drummond Wolff.
EX-SENATOR GwYNN, of California, who
mad been seriously i'll at New York for
several days, died on the Sd.
LIEUTENANT ScHUETz has reached
Tomsk on his way to Yakoutsk with the
presents for the natives who aided the
Jeanette survivors.
Mr.. sTAED, editor Of the Pail Mall Ga
Sette, telegraphs from Switzerland that he
alone is res ponsibIe for the abduction of
the Armstrong girl.
TIE health of the rebel leaders Rtel and
Dumont was proposed and enthusiastical-
~ drank at banquet at Papineauvilles
Province of Quebec, on the Sd.
JUDGE G. w. McILyANE, of the Ohio
Supreme Court, has declined the Rspubli-
can nomina tion for re- election, owing to
ill health.
THE London Times, commenting on the
speech of Minister Phelps at Rugby,
congratulates the speaker on his power Of
oratory and avoidance of ofense to either
polit cal party.
Mr.. E. L. WAREMAN, former proprietor
of the Chicago Current, who disappeared
some time since. has been found in a
monastery in Wisconsin.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, in an adj
dress at Sheffield on the 3D., announced
that the Afghan frontier question had
been settled, Russia having largely modi-
fed her claims, and also stated that he
saw no reason to regret the absence of
coercion in IrsRend
Ex- CONGRESSMAN JAS. G. FREEMAN, Of
Atlanta, Ga, who appointed the ceIe-
brated negro "FIipper" to West Point,
died in that city on the Sd, aged sixty.
He was wealthy citizen and one of the
leading business men of Atlanta.
MAJOR CHERMsIDE telegraphs that the
garrison at Kassala has not surrendered.
SECRETARY MANNING met small party
of bankers in the Treasury building at
New York ON the Sd. The bankers gath
cred assurance from the interview with
Secretary Manning that the Administra-
tion was unit in desire to abolish the
silver coinage law at the next session of
Congress.
LIEUTENANT WErssMAN, the German
explorer, has discovered that the River
Kassai, heretofore believed to join the
Congo above the equator, curves and falls
into Lake Leopold IL
GOVERNOR MARMADUKE of Missouri has
offered reward of 81, 600 for the Blue
Springs train robbers.
THE reply of Germany to Spain In re-
gard to the Caroline Islands has been re :
ceived by King Alfonso.
THE remains OF ex-senator Gwinn have
been sent to his home in California by ex :
press.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, British En-
bassador at st. Petersburg, has presented
his letters OF recall, and taken leave Of
the Gear.
QUINTAs WALKER drank quart of
whisky at ReidsvilIe, Ga, on the night
of the Sd. His wre found his remains in
the yard next morn n :.
THE dead man found near Chicago, re-
ported on the 4th has been identified as
Il. sulvin, Of Springfield, Mass. He had
been drowned.
On the 4th the supreme Court Of Illi-
nois overruled the m otion for a continu-
ance in the case of Mackin, convicted of
perjury in the Chicago election fraud