St. Landry democrat., 1885-06-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

AT Washington, d. G., Joseph w OGDEN,
Democratic negro recently given watch
mans position, has gone crazy, said to be
the result of terror caused by threats from
his own race, who dislike his politics.
ApELTNA PATTI has been engaged for
the season of 1856 by the director of the
Stadt Theater, Hamburg, and will make
tours in Europe.
SECRETARY LAMAR is reported i'll.
The funeral of Victor Hugo occurs NJ on"
day, June list.
EDWARD MARSHAL, JR., has been APP
pointed Marshal for Southern Iowa.
SHEIKH MELT has been appointed Gov
ernor of Dongola.
ON the 9th w. P. Bentley had an inter-
view with the President on the Washing
ton Territory Governorship.
AT Boston, Mass, Hon. w. F. Davis and
Fl. t. Hastings have been arrested for
preaching on the common
THE British under Secretary for Foreign
Affairs, Lord Edward Fitzmaurice, will
soon resign.
ON the 9th protest reached Washing
ton against the appointment of M. IL
Phelan, of st. Louis, Mo-, as United States
Consul to Halifax.
PRESIDENT CLEvRLAND's sister Eliza
beth has written an exceedingly caustic
letter in reply to the recent utterances OF
Rev. Howard Crosby on total abstinence.
THE death of Victor Hugo has revi we'd
the sad romance of his daughter Adele,
now in an insane asylum either in Boston
or New York.
GENERAL. SHERIDAN returnedato Wash
jnpton on the 2Sth.
The Marquis of Harrington is sick in
Dublin.
On the 18th the remains Of Jas. A. Mills,
of New York, were cremated at Lancaster,
Pa.
ON the 2Sth John Stunph died suddenly
on the street at Indianapolis, Ind.
THE President and four of his Cabin ct
went to New York on the 2Sth to partici-
pate in the Decoration Day exercises.
SLUGGER SULLIvAN's divorce suit was
the leading attraction in Boston on the
28th.
Rev. OSCAR F. Brown, who disappeared
from his home in New York recently, has
returned.
IT has been decided to remove the re-
mains of ex-President Theirs and Leon
Gambetta to the Pantheon.
ON the 2Sth Frederick A. Palmer, for.
merly Auditor of Newark, N. J., died in
the State Prison at Trenton.
GENERAL BOOTH of the Salvation Army
has ordered brigade to prepare for
service among the Indians in the North.
west.
AT Boston, Mass, Rev. Messrs. Hastings
and Davis were fined $50 and costs fol
preaching on the Common.
THE Postmaster General has sustained
Gresham's ruling in regard to salaries o
Postmasters of the third and fourth
classes.
CAPTAIN ALFRED AWKWARD, now in New
York, pronounces the recent sensational
story from London, in which he was sale
to be the real instigator Of the Riel rebel
lion, absolutely untrue
SENATOR EDMUNDs sailed for Europe OF
the 10th.
JOHN +. SULLIvAN's wife was refused
divorce, the court deciding that she ma
not made out sufficient case.
Rev. r. L. STANTON, D. D., OF Wash
ington, d. c., died on the steamship Ne
vada, en- route to Liverpool, and was bur
led at sea.
In a letter printed in the London Time
Frederic Harrison accuses Herbert Spence
of literary piracy.
JUROR MUNsELL, of the Short case, ha
been discharged from custody in New
York.
w. A. ANDERSON, Of Wisconsin, ha
been appointed Consul General at Mont
real.
COLONEL CHARLES DENNY, of Evans
vile, Ind, succeeds John Russell Youn
as Minister to China.
JOHN HENLINe, of Evansville, Ind, ha
fallen heir to fortune. He was last hear
from in the st. Louis Workhouse.
Mrs. CHARLOTTE SMITH, sister of Odlum
who leaped from Brooklyn bridge, blame
''the low sports" for his death
ALL the personal property of the nothe
of Parnell, the Irish agitator, has been al
tached at her home near Bordentown,
j.
JAMES w. WHELPLEY, Of New York,
made Assistant Treasurer of the Unite
States. He was cashier in the Treas ur
Department. His promotion will mai
room for others.
Mr.. VALENTINE P. SNYDER, OF Ne
York, who is at present actlng as priv.
secretary to Secretary Manning, will |
appointed chief clerk oil the Treasurer
office.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
THE trial of Adolph sprckeles, son
Claus spreckles, the sugar king, for shoot
ing NJ. H. DeYoung, proprietor of the So
Francisco Chronicle, November 10Th las
commenced on the 10Th.
THE nine residents Of the Welsh Mour
tains in Pennsylvania, recently arreste
charged with harboring the Buzzards, we
orirrar, q hearing al Lancaster on the 2ht