St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-07-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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over Corea.
A FAVORABLE report has been made on
the claim for pension of Mrs. Pavy,
widow of DR.. Pavy, who persisted with the
Greedy party.
Hon. ALONzo SESSIONS, ex-Lieutenant-
Governor of Michigan, died on the sd
after a lingering illness, aged seventy six
years.
Ed. L. HATCH, proprietor of gambling
house in Sioux City, Ia, was brutally
murdered on the night of the Sd by George
Trout, formerly of Denver and late of
Omaha.
VIM HENRY, somewhat noted charac-
ter and the father of twenty -four children
by two wives, committed suicide in Green
bush, N Y, by cutting his throat with
razor.
MISS JENNIE CHAMBERLAIN, having re-
turned to England, was present at Mrs.
Mackay's dinner on the Sd, given in honor
Of the Prince of Wales, which was the
most elegant event of the season.
HooDLUMs cut off Chinaman's queue
at Washington, and there is great row
about it.
JOHN EGBERT and Jake Ward were seri-
ously injured while firing cannon at
Warren, o. This is sample instance OF
several similar casualties.
The old house recently purchased by the
President, near Washington, is being re-
modelled and converted into an elegant
modern cottage residence.
COLLECTOR OF CUSTOMS ATWOOD at
Shelburne, N. S., has ordered the Geo. w.
Cushing, City Point and C. B. Harrington,
the three seized Portland vessels there, to
be stripped.
RUSSIA has informed the Powers that
Batoum is no longer free port. The Ber-
lin press concurs in the belief that this an
nouncement is the first step in the Cars
remuneration of the treaty of Berlin.
UP to the evening of the 9th the British
elections had resulted as follows: Con-
servatives elected, 210; Unionists, So;
Gladstonians, SO; ParneIlites, 43.
PRIVATE dispatches received in Wash
ington on the 9Th announced the death at
Mt. Pleasant, Ia, of Colonel George B.
Corkhill. ex- district attorney of the Dis
trict of Columbia.
NoRTH's storehouse at Cohoes, N. Y,
containing cotton, wool and manufactured
knit goods, belonging to numerous manu-
facturers, including Parsons & Co. and
Silliman, Brooks & Co., was destroyed by
fire late on the night of the 9Th. The loss
reached 100000.
STEPHEN MoREHoUsE & Co., wholesale
grocers, New York, have made an assign
ment.
THE Denver (Col.) Academy of Music
and several adjoining buildings burned on
the 9th, involving loss of about quar-
ter of million dollars. One man was Gre
mated.
W. w. SAUNDERS, under conviction of
murder at Albany, Ore, escaped from Jail
on the 9Th.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY was defeated in Lon
donderry by Mr.. c. E. Lewis by major
ity of three votes. MIR. Mccarthy will de-
mand recount.
JOHN MORLEY, Chief Secretary for Ire
land, and Fl. C. Childers, Home Secretary,
have been reelected.
NICHOLAS BAUMANN, Of Buffalo, N. Y,
while in q fit of passion on the 9th, threw
his infant child against the wall and in
jured it fatally.
THE announcement of the result of the
election contest in Londonderry on the
9th was followed by riot at Dublin, in
which many persons were injured.
IT is said that thirty six young girls
were shipped from Montreal to Chicago
recently for immoral purposes, and that
the nefarious trade is carried on openly.
A FAVORABLE report has been made by
the postal affairs committee on the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Hyde as postmaster at st.
Louis.
AGNES LYNN and Kate Herman, two
young ladies of Providence, R. l., were
wantonly shot in the face by Joseph E.
Nolan with shotgun on the 9th.
RIGHT HON. GEORGE ). GoscHEN, one of
Gladstone's bitterest opponents, was de-
feated in the East division Of Edinburgh.
THE Rock Island railroad has cut pas
senger rates from Kansas City to st. Paul
and Minneapolis to three dollars.
MOORISH troops have sacked and de-
JUDY on the west coast of Africa.
The steamer Oconteo struck g rock in
the st. Lawrence river at Fishers Land
ing on the It'll and went to the bottom.
ALI hands saved.
A CABINET council will be held at Lon
don on the 18th to decide what course to
pursue in view of the result of the cleo
tions.
JOHN WARNER shot his son Joseph, aged
fourteen, in a New York lodging-house,
and then shot and killed himself. Re-
verses of fortune and consequent despond-
ency are the causes assigned for the act.
THE vote in the counties on which the
Gladstoneites chiefly relied is going
Unionist, and their last hope is gone.
THOMAS SEXTON scored the greatest
Parnellite victory of the British parlia-
mentary campaign, having defeated Has
let, Conservative, in the Belfast district.