St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-05-22
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

was invested WIN the DlaCk Val at Inc
Convent of Visitation, Baltimore, Md.
JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS of the
United States Supreme Court was an
nounced to be married on the 7th to Mrs.
Mary X. Theaker, widow of Judge 7. G.
Theaker, formerly a member of Congress
from Ohio, and subsequently Commits
sioner of Patents under President Lincoln.
GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana positively
refuses to interf ere with the death sem
tence again st Sam Archer, of the notori-
Gus Archer gang, recently pronounced at
Shoals. In answer to an appeal on the
9th the Governor wrote: "While deeply
sympathize with his mother, l can not in
erfer with the Judgment of the court"
JOE WADDECK, another victim of the
Mccormick riot in Chicago on the Sd,
died on the 5th.
On the 9th Captain Jeffrey Gerror, on
trial at Boston for barratry, in scuttling
and casting away the schooner Racer. was
acquitted by the jury.
DURING performance in st. Louis on
the 9th Prof. H. Hathaway, lecturer in
w. W. Coles circus, was severely bitten
by IL large anaconda which he was hand
ling.
MISS CLEVELAND will be at the White
House again in few days.
LORD HARRINGTON will introduce mo-
ton to reject the Home Rule bill on its
second reading in the House of Commons.
CHARLES RAIL-, an extensive carpet
dealer of indianapolis, Ind, is unaccount-
ably absent from home, and receiver has
been asked for his business.
On the 9th warrant was issued at Lon
don for the arrest of John Rogers, Minnie
Palmer's manager, for seeking to fight a
duel with Mr.. Arnold, an ex-member of
the company.
REV. PHILLIPS BROOKS, of Boston, who
recently left for trip to California, has
telegraphed to his parish that he will not
leave Boston to accept the bishopric for
which he has been n ominated.
On the 9th General Thomas H. Kruger,
recently appointed to the command of
the Department of Dakota, arrived at St.
Paul, Mimi, and took formal command of
the department, with headquarters at For
Smelling.
On the night of the 9TH George Coe,
nephew of the president of the American
Exchange Bank in New York, was shot
and fatally wounded at Englewood, N. j.,
by burglar. George Coe, his brother
Lewis and young man named Brinker-
hoff discovered the burglar robbing the
school house and attempted to capture
him. They succeeded, but with the above
lamentable result.
DANIEL DUNBAR, an oarsman, of Chi
cago, was drowned in the lake on the 18th.
A nf D w
shot by mistake on the night of the eth by
his clerk and killed.
A WASHINGTON rumor has it that Judge
Buckner is to succeed Land Commissioner
Sparks.
Four shots were exchanged in duel at
Paris on the It'll between Henri Rochefort
and M. Porta1ise without effect.
MICHAEL DAvITT says that the differ
ences between Chamberlain and Glad
stone being irreconcilable, the proposals
of the latter are acceptable.
IT is officially denied that General
Wolsely said he would resign his COM
mand to lead an army, Of Ulster men if
home rule was granted to Ireland.
A REHEARING has been asked for in the
case of T. j. Cluverius, convicted of the
murder of Fannie Lillian Madison at Rich
mond, Va.
A SUIT has been fled in the United States
Court in Cincinnati by the attorneys of
Martha Taylor, colored woman, who
seeks to recover $4,000 from the Cincinna-
I'll, New Orleans & Texas Pacific Railroad
Company. The plaintiff purchased at Lex
ington, KY, first-class ticket to Cincin-
natl, and was not permitted to ride in
first-class coach, but was compelled to oc-
cupy seat in the smoking car.
SECRETARY LAMAR has rendered de-
cision in the pension case Of Samuel w.
Robertson, Of Seneca, Kas., on appeal
from the Commissioner of Pensions, re-
versing the Commissioners decision and
ordering that the claimants name be
placed on the pension rolls at S72 per
month, and that he be paid the sum of
S10,7 60, the amount due at the rate speci-
fed from date of final discharge from mil
itary service.
THE remains of Thomas j. Barney, a
leading citizen of st. Paul, Mimi, lately
deceased, were cremated at Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the It'll.
GOVERNOR FORAKER of Ohio informed
the truant Democratic Senators on the eth
that unless they stopped their foolishness
and returned to their duties and attended
to the appropriation bills, the State would
go to protest in a week.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ROBERT HARDING, prominent citizen of
Cleveland, O., committed suicide on the 4th
by shooting himself through the heart
There was no known cause for the act
FRANK JOHNSON, Of Minneapolis; Will
liam Maine, of Austin, Mimi, and John
Sweeney, of Wisconsin, were arrested at
Bismarck, D. T., on the 4th for the numer-
Gus robberies which recently took place