St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-04-17
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
r News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GOVERNOR GRAY of Indiana refuses 10
raise the cattle quarantine.
On tho 9Th the O'Neil Arbitration bill
was reported favorably by the Senate Ia
Dor committee without the change OF
word or letter.
THE King of Greece and his ministers
have decided to abandon the war prepara-
tions, as Prince Alexander has yielded to
the Powers.
PRESIDENT BUMPERS Of the legislative
committee of the federation of labor
unions of the United States and Canada,
spoke for an hour before the House labor
committee on the 9th in advocacy of the
bill introduced by Mr.. O'Neill, of Missouri,
providing for the National incorporation
of trades unions.
On the 9Th, at the Mormon general con-
ference at Provo, Utah, lengthy epistle
to the church was read from the Presi-
dent John Taylor and George Q. Cannon.
The epistle considers though the present
sufferings are severe, they are not so bad
rs formerly experienced in Missouri and
Illinois.
SECRETARY MANNING continues to i'm.
prove.
A NEW YORK sporting man offers to back
Hanlan against Teemer for 900.
SENATOR BLAIR introduced bill on the
7th providing for only eight hours work
day for letter carriers.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY says the
general board could do nothing but what
thew did after being treated as they were
by Mr.. Hoxie.
A RECENT order of Land Commits sioner
tries upon public lands has been revoked
by the Secretary Of the Interior.
THOMAS A. THATCHER, professor of Latin
and literature in Yale College, was discov-
cred dead in his bed on the morning Of the
7th. He was in his seventy-second year.
A PETITION, signed by lawyers and citi-
Gems, has been laid before the Bar Assocla-
ton of New York, and is under considera-
ton, looking to the impeachment of Judge
Charles Donahue, of the Supreme Court.
The charges are the misuse of judicial
bowers.
ALDERMAN DELACY, Of New York, can
not be found, and it is stated that he left
the city on the night of the Nth with the
intention of remaining away until the
clouds roll by"
PRINCE ALEXANDER of Bulgaria has
formally accepted the governorship OF
Eastern Roumelia for the five-year term.
SENATOR VEST is improving slowly and
expects to resume his seat in the Senate in
few days.
DWIGHT Fl. MOODY is to be invited to
visit Chicago and continue the work begun
by Sam Jones and Sam Small.
ON the Sth Mr.. Gladstone laid his Irish
policy before the House of Commons, and
spoke for three hours in explanation Of its
features.
In his speech in the Commons ON the
9Th, Mr.. Parnell said there were one or tive
matters in the Gladstone scheme that were
Objectionable, and these the Irish mem
bers would endeavor to have rectified. As
a. whole, the bill was acceptable to the
Irish party.
THE House Judiciary committee voted
instruction on the Sth to Representatives
Oats to report favorably his bill to repeal
those sections of the Revised Statutes
prohibiting the payment of pensions OF
the allowance Of claims of any person who
was disloyal to the United States during
the last war.
taken up this week by the House labor
committee at Washington.
On the 9th funeral services took place al
Westminster Abbey over the late William
E. Forster.
REPRESENTATIVE O'NEILL, of Missouri, l.
trying to stop the military bands from
competing with other bands at picnics
parades, etc.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has entirely recovered
from the fatigue of his exertions in the
House Of Commons on the evening Of the
9Th.
Mr.. JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN spoke in the
House of Commons on the 9th in oppo-
sition to Mr.. Gladstone's Home-rule
scheme.
On the 9th Chief Keokuk of the Sac and
Fox Indians had an interview with Secre
tary Lamar about matters of interest x
his people.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
On the 7th the iron-works at Florence
Wis, were destroyed by fire.
On the 7th q train on the Fitchburg rail
road, between Bardwell's ferry and Yves
Deerfield station, Mass, went over an EN-
bankment two hundred feet high, and bu
three persons on the train escaped injury
Up to midnight of that date dozen bodie
had been taken from the wreck.
R. 8. BENHAM, superintendent of tn
Copper Queen Mining Company at Can
aneas, Sonora, Mexico, is reported to hav
been shot dead by his coachman.
MuHAMMEDAN fanatics on the island o
Mindanao, one Of the Philippines, recentl.
burned large amount of church proper
W. Twelve of them were killed and man,
wounded by Spanish troops.