St. Landry democrat., 1886-05-08
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ton of the new Chinese Minister at that
port 1t does not differ, excepting in |
length, from reports previously received
PRESIDENT CHARLES CROKER of the
Central Pacific Railroad Company was
severely injured by being thrown from his
road wagon in New York on the Goth.
On the 21st the jury in the case of Gem
eraI Shaler, on trial in New York for brib-
cry, failed to agree and were discharged.
1t is understo cd they stood eight for ac-
quttal and four for conviction.
On the 21st William G.. Mcdowell testi-
fed before the Congressional committee on
the Southwest strike in Washington. Jay
Gould and his son George left New York
on the same day for Washington to APP
pear before the committee.
THE San Francisco Chamber of Com
merce adopted resolution at a meeting
ON the 21st strongly lndorsing Collector
Hager.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR is not so serious
ously i'll as reported.
MINISTER McLANE will leave France in
May for America.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR MoREHEAD of
Missouri refused to honor the Illinois
requstion for the deputy sheriffs in the St.
Louis Jail until the killing of Thompson on
the bridge has been adjudicated.
ON the 21st the remains of the Bishop of
Madrid, who was shot by priest on the
18th, were buried with imposing cere-
monies.
TURKEY has intrusted her cause in the
Grecian dispute to Lord Rosebery, British
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
THE Marquis Of Salisbury is convinced
that the nation will Indignantly reject
Gladstone's desperate scheme" for the
government of Ireland.
On the 21st, in a speech at Glasgow, the
Duke of Argyle admitted the sincerity Of
Gladstone, but believed the Premier was
mised by the Parnellites.
THE Senate confirmed Hon. VIM. l..
West on the 21st as Governor of Utah to
succeed Governor Murray.
On the 22d Jay Gould appeared before
the select Congressional committee at
Washington and detailed the status OF af-
fairs on the Southwestern roads and the
causes leading to the strike, from his
standpoint.
AMONG the nominations confirmed by
the Senate on the 22d were those of Chas.
E. Gross, to be Governor of New Mexico,
and w. S. Rosecrans, Register OF the
Treasury.
ON the 22d great Liberal mass-meet-
ing, presided over by Labouchere, was
held at ST. James Hall, London, at which
resolutions indorsing Gladstone's Irish
policy were adopted.
FATHER ABRAM j. RYAN, the "poetpriest
of the South" is lying critically i'll with
brain fever at st. Boniface Church In
Louisville, KY.
ON the 22d the African Society at Naples
gave n banquet to Henry M. Stanley, the
African explorer.
On the 22d Chang Yen Won, the new
Chinese Minister and his suite, arrived in
Washington. The minister and his party
were met at the depot by the retiring min
lister and the attaches Of the legation and
were escorted to the embassy in carriages
after which the ex-minister and his suite
returned to the hotel.
THE sixty-fourth anniversary Of the
birth Of General Grant will be celebrated
at the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
Church in Washington on Tuesday even.
ing, April 81. Chief-Justice Waite will
preside, and addresses will be made by
Senators Brown, Sherman, Logan and
Evarts and many other distinguished gen.
tlemen.
HON. WIN. WHITLEY, Associate Judge o.
the Superior Court of Delaware, died OF
the 23d of hemorrhage of the stomach aftel
a lingering illness.
IT is reported that ex-President Arthu
is rapidly convalescing, and that he |
very much better than at any time sine
the commencement of his indisposition.
LORD SELRoURNE publishes a letter, II
which he attacks certain features of Glad
= stones Home Rule bill and pronounce
the measure hopelessly faulty.
DR. FR1scH, the Austrian delegate sen
to Paris to investigate Pasteur's hydro
uhobic treatment, advises the medical pro
fession Of Austria to adopt the French
mans method.
STEPHEN D. WHITE has applied for
mandamus on Secretary Bayard to com
pei him to pay to the relator, as a ssignee
the tenth instalment of an award made b.
the Mexican claims commission, amount
ing to about one hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars.
TIE regatta committee at Quebec ha
chosen George Hosmer, of Boston, to NEE
Hanlan for three-mile sculling race o
Lake st. Joseph on the 9th of June, for
purse of $1,000.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
JoHS CRAIG and John Laurie, two pris
oners, lost their lives by the burning of tn
iail at Cornwall, Ont, on the 21st.
MINERS John Welch and VIM. Stoke
were seriously injured by fall of slate 9
the Crab-tree coal mines, near Latrob
Pa, on the 21st. Stokes, it was though
would die.
ON the 21st in drunken street brawl,