St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1885-07-11
TIgCELLANEOUs.

The following galaxy OF horses with re-
markable records were at Cleveland dur
ing the past week: Maud S 200 IA; Jay
Eye See, 2:1O; Maxey Cobb, 2:13 Id;
PhalIas, 2:13 ga; Clingstone, 2:14
IT is rumored that the Yaqui Indians
defeated the Mexicans in a recent engage
ment, killing 400, including General Gra-
clio. and wounding General Loaiza.
THE custodian of the Federal building
at New York was notified by Secretary
Manning on the Both TO reduce Ibis force
thirty per cent. He discharged sixteen
men.
The Wabash, ST. Louis & Pacific shops
and the Kerr Murray Iron Works at Ft.
Wayne, Ind, have resumed operations,
the striking employees having returned to
work on the 30th. One hundred and sew
enty five men are employed at the Wa
bash shops, and 40 men by the Kerr
Murray Company.
A FORCE of Cuban volunteers recently
defeated the Sanchez band and captured
"Commander" Pedro Estrada.
NEARLY all the gIass-works of South
Jersey put out their fires on the SOth for
two months
THE French Chamber of Deputies, by q
vote of PIG to 210, has restored to the wor-
ship estimates the sum for canons' sala-
ries expunged by the committee.
FORTY thousand hands are thrown out Of
employment through the masons' strike
in Berlin. The masters refuse to nego-
tiate with the men and are beginning to
employ foreign masons to take the places
of the strikers.
RECENT thunder storms in Germany
have done much damage to property,
flooding large tracts of lowlands and
many houses.
RUSSIAN advices from the Vladivostock
say that Russian steamship which at
tempted to enter Port Hamilton was inter-
cepted and forbidden to enter by an En-
glish man-of-war. The English are said
to be fortifying the port.
Dun, WYMAN g. Co. report $40 failures
in the Dominion of Canada for the first
six months of 1885, as against 752 failures
for the, first six months of 1884 The liza
bi1ities for the first half of 1855 are only
Sc. 10000, as against $40, 742. 600 in the cor
responding period of 1884
DISPATCHES from Russia report fresh
trouble on the Chinese frontier.
TOTAL number of new cases of cholera
in Spain on the Both, 1910; deaths, 615; on
the LIST, new cases, ], 16l; deaths, Ats. f
ON July 1st the total debt of the United
States, principal and interest, was s., $780,
ST., 103.75.
FIGHT1EG is reported in Mexico between
Lieutenant Davis and the Apaches. Six
teen of the latter arereported killed.
july 1st being the eighteenth anntver-
sary of the Dominion confederation, was
observed as holiday in Canada.
INTIMATIoN is given by a member of the
English Government that the Irish Crimes
Act will not be pressed.
At Indianapolis telephone rate wa
is in progress, the Company trying to
evade the rate imposed by the last Legis-
lature by charging for extras.
COERCION in Ireland is to be abandoned,
and the government will rely upon the
strict administration of the general law.
THE question of convict labor is the
cause of trouble in Johnson County, Ar
kansas. The people threaten to liberate
all the prisoners now at work in the mines.
THE proposed naval demonstration
against Zanzibar by Germany has been
countermanded by Bismarck, and the lit
tleIwar speck is vanished.
THE post of Governor of Alsace- Lor-
raine, made vacant by Manteuffeps death,
has been abolished. The civil administra-
ton will hereafter be directed from Ber-
lin. ~
Surf for $4,000 has been brought
against Lester & Co. at Chicago by Sam
uel Berkswitz for money lost on Board of
Trade contracts. The suit is brought un-
der the gambling statute
REMARKABLY cold weather was reported
from the southwestern portion of Vir-
ginia on the 1st. Snow fell in TazsweII
County, and ice formed in WYthe Counts