St. Landry democrat., 1886-03-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
MeWs from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ON the Sd Right Rev. DIR. Elder, bring.
Ing the pallium from Pope Leo to Arch
bishop Corrigan, arrived at New York on
she steamer Gallia.
THE Prussian Government has ordered
the Polish Poet, Kraszwits, to return to
prison on May l. The poet says that his
return will soon be followed by his death,
as he is now in feeble health.
JOHN KELLY, the old Tammany leader,
Us said to be improving in health rapidly,
and his friends are confident that if he es-
capes another relapse during the spring he
will be well man again.
V. P. SNYDER, Acting Comptroller of the
Currency, issued call upon the National
banks on the Sd for report of their condi-
tion at the close of business on the first
day of March, 1886.
ON the Sd Mr.. Beck introduced bill in
che Senate to modify the Sinking Fund
law. 1t provides that hereafter the Secre-
tary of the Treasury shall not redeem
more than $20,0O0,0 900 annually of the prin
cipal of the public debt.
The Senate committee on military af
fairs is understood to have agreed to
favorable report on the Fitz John Porter
bill by a vote of six to four. There will
also be minority report.
THE pallium was conferred with appro-
pirate ceremonies at New York on the 4th
upon Archbishop Corrigan.
PROCEEDINGS looking to the disbarment
Of ex-Judge Small, of Milwaukee, Wis,
have been begun in the Circuit Court of
that city.
PARNELL and his followers will support
Mr.. Gladstone in the dabate with the
Conservatives on the civil service esti-
mates.
GLADSTONE failed TO fall into the trap
net for him by the Tories, and the Holman
1aotion in the House Of Commons was
withdrawn.
GOVERNOR IRELAND of Texas has re.
voked the exGradition warrant in the case
OF J. B. Beloadsky, wanted at Chicago for
embezzlement.
THURSDAY, the 4th inst, was the twenty
third anniversary of Mr.. Randalrs service
$n Congress, and handsome flowers were
sent to his committeeman by some of his
friends in commemoration of the occasion
LORD PLUNKETT, Archbishop Of Dublin
and primate Of Ireland, at the request of
the Episcopal bishops of Ireland has con-
vened the synod for the 23d inst, to obtain
nm expression of the opinion of the church
on the political situation in Ireland.
GENERAL GRosvENoR, Of Ohio, presi-
dent of the National League, has called
meeting Of the National Council, to be
hell at the Ebbitt House, Washington. D.
C., on Saturday, March ~, at ten O'Clock
a. m.
ON the 4th the Supreme Court Of Ohio
affirmed the decision of the lower court in
refusing to grant writ of habeas corpus
I'm the case of Daniel J. Dalton, of Cincin
matt, held for contempt by the House of
Representatives.
ON the 4th Speaker Carlisle announced |
the following special committee to inves-
tigate the facts concerning the ownership |
of Pan Electric Telephone stock by certain
public officers: Messrs. Boyle, Oates, |
Eden, Hall, Hale, Ranney, Willard, Han
back and Moffatt.
JACOB Il. DIMMoCK, of Port Jervis,
N. Y, has been appointed postage stamp
agent at New York to succeed Major J. B.
Tassett. The place is worth $4,000 per
annum.
ON the night of t., 9TH Zukertort won
che thirteenth gains in the chess series at
New Orleans.
FRINGE ALEXANDER has ordered the de-
mobilization of the Bulgarian army.
WILLIAM CARVER, who was serving a
HE sentence for murder in the Indiana
has been pardoned.
JAMES L. HOLLAND, on trial at New
York for the killing of Tom Davis, the
Sawdust swindler, was acquitted by the
jury on the 9Th.
IT is authoritatively stated that Glad
stone has neither directly or indirectly con-
suited Parnell in regard to home-rule.
CHIEF PoUNDMAKER and eleven braves
were liberated from the penitentiary at |
Stoney Mountain, N. w. T., on the 4th.
They have gone West to their homes in
charge Of T ather Lacombe.
PRINCE BISMARCK, who expected to at
END the afternoon session Of the Reichstag
IN the 9th, was compelled to remain home
BY severe attack of muscular rheumatism
n the chest and shoulders.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
FIRE started in Bodine Bros' lumber
vard at West New Brighton, Staten Is .
and, on the 1st, with stiff gale blowing
Engines from neighboring towns were !.
allied to assist in fighting the flames. At:
EN- O'Clock at night the fire was thought to !
e under control. Loss, $50, 900; insurance,
81 ,00U.
BAscoM's block, containing stores, Of
ces and clubrooms, at Nashua, N. H.,
ras burned on the night of the 1st. LOSE. j