St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-16

JACOB RoMEIs has been nominated for
Congress by the Republicans of the Tenth
Ohio district Thus Hurd and Romeis will
fight the battle over again.
MARCUS KATE murdered John Rataza-
dol in dance-house in Jersey City, n. j.,
on the morning of the 9th. The quarrel
was about some women present.
THR cultivation of tobacco in Germany
is decreasing owing to the system of taxa
ton. The decrease in the number of
planters is 12,G0), compared with 1885.
GOVERNOR HUBBARD Of Minnesota has
issued procl amation establishing quar-
antine against Illinois cattle during the
continuance of the epidemic in that State.
THE British Government has sent Col
onel Majendie, chief inspector of explo-
sives to America to inquire into the laws
regarding the storage of explosives in the
United States.
THE second season of the American
Opera Company will begin at the Acad-
envy of Music, Philadelphia, on November
Is, and will close in June Of next year in
San Francisco. ...
MRS. CLEVELAND spent her first Sunday
(the 3d) in Buffalo since her departure for
Europe year or more ago in very quiet
manner. She remained at the residence
of her cousin, Mrs. Alice Folsom, all day.
THE French Government has ordered
Prince Enrique de Bourbon, fugitive from
Spain, where he is under sentence of i'm
prsonment for insulting the Queen, to be
inferred in the department north of the
River Loire.
THE New FORK Court of Appeals handed
down decision on the 9Th confirming the
sentence of the lower court in the case OF
ex-A1derman Jaehne, who was convict ed
on a charge of bribery in the Broadway
Railroad franchise.
THE Dominion Government has just is
sued an order forbidding the SARGE In
dams to leave their reservation. This
tribe has long been giving trouble to the
settlers, but it is expected that prompt &C
tion on the part of the mounted police will
put an end to further depredations.
R
A LETTER published in the San Francis
co Bulletin under date of Rodick, Alaska,
September 16, says: ga volcanic peak OF
Pabloff mountain, three hundred miles
southwest on the Alaska peninsula, is in
eruption. Slight falls Of volcanic dust
resembling emery powder have been OBJ
served"
THE Presidents reception on the 9Th
was one Of the largest yet held in the east
room. Over five hundred people shook
hands with the President. The crowd
was SO dense that the ushers with diff
Guilty kept line and the President was
crowded, inch by inch, to the door of the
corridor.
In consequence Of the striking cigar
makers and the manufacturers of Havana
being una BILE to come to an agreement the
1atter, with the exception of six, have re-
solved to suspend work, thus cutting off
the aid the strikers have been receiving
from the op eratives working the Vuelta
Abajo leaf.
THE Spanish Cabinet was in session five
hours on the 18th discussing the sentences
of death impo sed by the court-martia1 or
the leaders Of therecent revolt, and finally
decided to advise the Queen to commute
the sentences. A petition for the pardon
of the rebels, signed by 5000 merchants
and tradesmen, is published.
The Corcoran G aiiery Of Art at Wash
ington has just co aapleted the purchase
of the Hunters tomen by Knauss, OF
Berlin. The size Of the picture is 1-2 by
4 1-2 feet and the pri rs paid was $4,000.
It is now on exhibit va at the Academy
In Berlin and will be u exhibition at tn g
Corcoran gallery after November u.
THE general distribu Hon of the new
one-dollar silver certifica ties began on the
4th, and will be continued until the de-
mand, which is very great, has been en-
tirely supplied. The no ties are being
printed at the rate of $4,000 day. The
new two-dollar silver certift .ates will not
be ready for issue for two weeks yet.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN of the Depart
ment of Agriculture has received report
from DR.. G. K. Dyer, the veterin airy sur
geon, who was sent to ascertain what dis
ease had broken out in the counties of
Loudon, Farquier and Prince William in
Virginia, communicated by cattle OBJ
tanned from Chicago, in which he says the
disease is Texas fever and not pleuro-
pneumonia.
THE total coin and bullion in the Treas
ury September so was $242, GOODS, as COM
pared with $235, 430 ,635 on the 3lst Of the.
previous month. The net gold in the
Treasury, after deducting gold certificates
In Treasury, cash and in circulation Sep
tember 80, was $157.9l7,21, as compared
with $157, ,2ss on the 3lst Of the preYi-
GUS month.