St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-03-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Nesvs from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

bishop Taschereau of quebec, as we'll q
Archbishop Gibbons, for elevation to th
cardinalate.
On the 9th Mrs. BENZ amin Harris Brew
ster, the wife of ex-United States Attor
uey-General Brewster, died at her resi-
dence in Philadelphia.
The committee on judiciary of the
House, by vote of seven to three, direct
ed an adverse report ON Representative
Oates bill prohibiting aliens from acauir
ing title or owning lands within til
United States.
ADMIRAL BARON vow ScHLEINITz, pres
ident of the photographic bureau of tn
German navy, has been appointed Gov er
Bismarck archipelago.
HON. DoRMAN B. EAToN's term as Civil
Service commissioner expired on the 9tl
under the terms of his peremptory letter o
resignation. 1t was positively stated a
the Executive Mansion that the Presiden
had not determined upon his successor
but would take the matter under consldera
ton as promptly as possible.
ADDISON CAMMACK, the well-knowr
stock broker, was married at Washington
on the 9th, to Miss Mary Hildreth, of thai
city. His wedding gift to his bride was a
necklace valued at $4,000.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY repudi-
ates the statement of an Illinois Knight OF
Labor that the knights have formed a
political party. He says that an assem-
bly, attempting to give itself political char
acter would have its charter revoked.
The remains of ex-senator J. B. Chaffee
were taken to Adrian, Mich, for inter-
ment.
UNITED STATES CONSUL GENERAL WAL
LER at London declares that the report
that the United States consuls in his iuris.
diction talk of resignation if their salaries
are reduced is mischievous and wholly
without foundation.
AN examination of the hooks, concluded
on the 10th, shows an approximate short
age against County Treasurer Holdings
worth of Knox County, Ind, of $7s, PTS. 49,
Everybody was dumbfounded and morti-
lied at this gigantic exposure. Hollings-
worth was prosperous and weakly farmer
when he took possession of the treasurer's
office.
commissioners, is to be appointed Comp
troller of the Currency.
In the billiard match at New York
Schaefer made 800 on the night of the 18th
TO 800 forNignaux, making the total score,
Schaefer, 1900; Vignaux,, 1929.
ON the 18th the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord.
Lieutenant Of ireland, attended a meeting
1t the Mansion House to devise means to
'elieve the distress among the poor.
ON the 18th motion made in the British
House of Commons by Mr.. Labouchere,
educlng the grants for maintaining the |
oval parks, was carried after lively con-
roversy.
SECOND COMPTROLLER MAYNARD has |
llsallowed two claims of John Roach, one |
4 $40 for extra work on the United |
'tates monitor Puritan, and the other of
zo,24 for watching, care, towing and |
iliotage of the monitor Roanoke from
larch II, 1877, to September "a, 1885,
The Pope has sent to Berlin a courier
caring letter to Prince Bismarck, thank
lg him for his eulogistic reference to his
lollness at the recent German parliament
ry dinner.
POPE LEO has appointed the Belgian pri-
late, Mgr Grossen, to be chief of the
ergy in the Congo State. A Catholic
is being founded at Louvain,
elglum, where students will be especial
trained for service in Congo.
NAT G. GOODWIN and several other sta ee
'tists were fined ten dollars and costs
ich at Cincinnati, on the 10Th, for taking
art in Sunday performances.
SENATOR JONES, "of Detroit,"i wanted
washington by the colleagues of the
on commerce to break tie on
e matter of the Eads Ship Railway bill,
On the night of the 18th Nine. Adelina
atti partially failed in the first act of
"a Traviata" atValencia, Spain, and was
indy Missed. She left the theater in
gh dudgeon, and had to be escorted to
II hotel by the police.
LAMAR has submitted to
'ngress, as required by law, list Of
out four thousand and five hundred
dian depreciation claims. The total
mber of claims call for an amount
proximating $4,000, 600.
PRINCESS HELENE of Ypsilanti. Greece
40 with her husband spent $25 ,0O0, 900 in
2, years, has failed with liabilities of
000,0O0.
The Postmaster General has issued an
der prohibiting the delivery of registered
Ill or the payment of money orders to
lrcus e. Frazier, operating at Des
'ines, Ia, as the secretary of the Globe :
1tual Life and Assessment Association.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
'wo men were killed, four fatally and r
ht seriously wounded by an explosion a
'he Uniondale mine at Dunbar, Pa, on t
Sth. b
N the 9th the huge paper mills at Frens- f
t, Germany, were burned. The i'm o
use structure was completely reduced to t
es. Hundreds OF men and women are
own out of employment in consequence. z
} damage will reach million marks. a