St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| daylight ana maze open RAIDS III SeaICH VI
arms in farmhouses not more than half a
mile from town. The raiders were success
full in securing a quantity of arms When
the raiding was done the police hunting
| the raiders arrested two.
| A HEAvY rain-storm on the morning OF
| the 21st put an emphatic veto on the grand
parade of the knights Templar in st.
Louis, much to the disappointment of the
Knights themselves and the thousands
who had hoped to witness it.
ABOUT thirty clerks in the Pension Of
flee at Washington have been notified
that their services would no longer be
needed.
The Treasury Department has issued a
circular to customs officers in regard to
the importation of books copyrighted in
the United States.
TURKEY will remons trate against the
action of Russia in impeding the Bulga-
rian court martial, and will strongly up
hold the Porte's suzerain rights over Bull
garia.
i SECRETARY LAMAR returned to W ash
ington on the 21st, and in a few minutes
after getting off the train he was at the
Interior Department, where he remained
some time.
ALL of the officers implicated in the at
tempt at revolution in Madrid on the Goth
have been condemned to death. A band
of rebels at Dean, in the province of Tole-
do, killed their commanding officer and
then returned to allegiance and pray ed for
mercy.
| GENERAL BLACK, Commissioner of PEN
| sions, left Washington on the DIST for the
| West on public business. While absent he
will visit the Soldiers homes at Dayto
Milwaukee and Leavenworth. He will
also visit and inspect several Of the West
ern pension agencies.
THE case of Porter, or Edward Flanna-
gan, charged with the murder of Victor
Phalquist in Jersey City, N. j., in May
last, was given to the jury by Judge
Knapp on the Dist. In an hour the jurors
announced that they had agreed on a YER
dict of murder in the second degree.
FIGURES compiled at the office of the
second assistant Postmaster General
show that the cost of the Star-route serv-
| ice during the last fiscal year was $5,414,-
S04, a decrease of So, 1928, or 157 per cent.
| as compared with the preceding fiscal
year.
THE Australian mail brings news of a
conflict between the German gunboat AL
batross and the natives of the New Heb
rides. It appears that the Albatross
opened fire on the natives in revenge for
the murder of Klein and Cullen. Twenty
were killed and many wounded. Several
villages were afterward destroyed by a
party which landed from the AlbatFoss.
JOHN B. O'BRIEN has resigned the
Craftsmanship Of the New York S tate
Democratic committee. Ex-Congressman
Walker, of Steuben County, was elected
by the committee to fill the vacant chair
uanship. 1t was decided to hold no DEM
ocratic State convention this fall.
The resignation of Prof. VIM. Ferrol,
meteorologist of the Signal Service, has
been accepted by the Secretary of War.
SINCE the beginning of the issue of the
combined letter sheet and envelope 2,000,-
900 of the sheets had been sent out to
post offices up to the Dist.
QUEEN CHRISTINA returned to Madrid
| on the 21st She was received with the
greatest enthusiasm by the people. Large
crowds attended the funeral of the victims
of the revolt. All the members of the
cabinet were present, and the Queen sent
wreathes to be placed on the collins.
THE following officers for the ensuing
year W ere elected on the 21st by the Sow
ereign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows, in
session in Boston: Grand Sire, John Fl.
| White, New York; Deputy Grand Sire, J.
c. Underwood, Kentucky; Grand Secre-
| tary, E. A. Ross, New Jersey; Grand
| Treasurer, A. S. Shepard, Pennsylvania.
THE receipts from customs at New Y ork
| during the ten days ended September 20
were $3.50 900, of which per cent was in
gold, 8 per cent. in silver coin, G5.9 per
cent. in gold certificates, CS.4 per cent. in
| silver certificates and 24.S per cent. in
United States notes.
| DEsULToRY rioting was continued in Bel
| fast throughout the night of the Goth, and
was again resumed at noon on the 21st by
| the Catholic mill-hands stoning the police
on duty to keep the Orange Queens Island
| ship-yard men from coming in contact
with mill hands. The stoning was SO
heavy and skillful. that the police had to
retreat as far as Shanks' hill.
MRS. DAVID WILLIAMS, living on a
lonely road near Haddam, Conn.,, KIN ocked
out tramp with an axe on the evening
| of the 21st, after having been nearly
choked to dea tn by the miscreant in an
endeavor to extort money from her. At
ter her exploit she tainted and the tramp
| escaped.
Two citizens Of Georgetown, the west
ern suburb Of Washington, D. c., were
| fined one dollar each in the Washington
| police court on the 21st for violation of the
Sabbath by doing carpentering work and
disturbing the religious meditations of q
neighbor.
JOHN MULLIGAN was killed at Beatrice
Neb. on the 22d, by policeman.
The new commercial harbor at Frank