St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Of $4,000.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
declared final dividend of Ito per
cent. in favor of the creditors of the City
National Bank of Lawrenceburg, Ind.
This makes in all 81 ITO per cent. on
claims amounting to $100,SS4.
THE Russian consul at Varna has asked
for war ship to protect the consulate
and Russ ian residents of that place from
the violence of the populace.
JAMES &. BLAINE visited Washington
and Jefferson college at Washington, Pa,
on the 18th, and made a speech to the stu
dents.
A CLERK in the New York post office
stole $500, and on the Goth was arrested.
A TERRIBLE massacre of Christians is
reported to have taken place i'll Uganda,
Africa, by order of King Mwanga.
THE general council of the Lutheran
church began its animal session at Chicago
on the 10Th.
IMPROVEMENTS in the New Hebrides by
the French point to the permanent occu-
patton of the islands by France.
w. MCLAUGHLIN, of Chica GO. has gone
crazy over a false report that Queen Vic
toria was dead.
THE object of Sir Charles bikes resur-
rection of the recent scandal is said to be
to prepare the way for his return to pub
lie life.
A coSvocATIoS of Catholic prelates be-
gan in Baltimore on the 9th to consider
the relations of the Catholic Church and
the Knights of Labor.
DYNAMITE cartridges have been found
at the doors of hotels in Anglers, France,
gress are stopping.
NJ. E. BENTON, United States attorney
for the Western district of Missouri, has
been suspended by the President for too
active participation in politics.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says he holds on to pcl-
itics in the hope of possibly helping to
settle the Irish question; but general SUBJ
jects he leaves to others.
THE Protestant Bishop of Cork exhorts
the clergymen of his diocese not to allow
prejudice to prevent the acceptance of any
just change likely to benefit Ireland.
GAUDAUR and Hanlan are matched for
a series of rowing races for next spring
and summer
FOURTEEN moonlighters were arrested
in County Kerry, Ireland, on the Goth.
PRINCESS HELENE of Orleans was con-
firmed at London on the 10Th by Cardinal
Manning.
AT midnight of the 18th fire completely
destroyed the mill of W. V. & W. c.
Penoyer, of Oscoda, Mich. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000.
BIsMARCK's organ says Germ any has
no cause to complain of England's colo
NAL policy.
FRIENDLY and diplomatic relations be-
tween Servia and Bulgaria are to be re-
sumed.
Two men named James Jordan and
Thomas Good er riding on a speeder on
the West Branch railroad near Bradford,
Pa, on the night of the 18th, when they
were run down by freight train and in
stantly killed,
A SON of Carley SarrelI, living near
Owingsville. KY, accidentally discharged
a rifle on the Goth and shot his sixteen
year-old sister through the head, inflict-
ing mortal wound.
PETER CoNNoRs, Lewis Schwab and W.
E. Jones, news dealers of Broadway and
v ely SlEeel, NO. % CeAdi StEeeJ anu NO.
2s6 Third street, New York, respectively,
were held in IS 70 each at the Tombs on
the 2sth on a charge Of selling immoral
literature.
A TRUNK, containing $4,000 worth of
jewelry samples, belonging to the agent
Of Cincinnati firm, was checked for
Kansas City from Wakenda, Mo-, on the
Wabash road and due there on the 23d.
1t had not arrived up to the Goth, and the
authorities are unable to find it,
FRANK S. MACINTYRE, twenty-seven
Line, was killed at indianapolis, Ind, on
the night of 9th by being run over by
an engine. His body was terribly man.
yled, the head crushed, under jaw torn
rom the face, neck nearly severed, and
he back, arms, legs and feet all broken.
THE execution of Maxwell and the Chi
lese at st. Louis has been again post
ooned in order to allow time for tran
scripts of their cases to be presented to the
Supreme Court.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has sent ten
dollars to the pastor of the Emanuel
African Methodist Episcopal Church at
S. c., to aid in repairing the
.hurch edifice.
THE Case School of Applied Science at
O., with its wealth Of geolog-
cal collections, apparatus, etc., was de-
troyed by fire on the 9th.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL was pre-
ented with four hundred addresses at
ON his recent visit.
GPEAT nranarations were male fnr the |
dwelling of the Bartholdi statue at New |
ork on the 18th.
AUSTRIAN newspapers are URGING an al !
lance between Italy, England and Austro-
hungary.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND issued a procla-