St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-06
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Nows from Everywhere.
A TELEGRAM received at Vienna from
Sofia says Russian frigates have arrived
at Varna.
A MOVE is being made to pool the entire
soft coal production of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia.
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AS result of the earthquake shocks on
the 22d seventy five chimneys will have
to be taken down at Summervlle, N. C.
TWENTY million head of sheep die1 dur
ing the recent drought in Buenos Ayres.
The loss is estimated at 100000 pounds
sterling.
DR.. SALMON, chief of the Bureau of An
itnal Industry, has made an official report
on the outbreak of pleuro- pneumonia at
Chicago.
The first volume of new translation
of the Bible into French has been pub
lished at Paris by NJ. Ledrain, a Hebrew
scholar.
A REDUCTION of twenty-i 1--WE per cent.
Of the judicial rents has been made by
Mr.. Scuily. the largest land -owner in Tip
perary, Ireland.
SECRETARY LAMAR decides that the
marriage of a woman who has made a
homestead entry docs not defeat her
right to complete the title.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURcHILL's recent
"trip to the Continent was to confer with
Bismarck and Kalnoky on Bulgarian af-
fairs, and his miss ion was failure.
THE Curtin committee will resume the
investigation of the Southwestern strike
at New York November ,, when it is ex-
pected Mr.. Hoxie will be able to attend.
JUSTICE O'BRIEN has formally declared
Justin Mccarthy entitled TO the seat in
the House Of Commons which was held by
Mr. Lewis. and ordered the latter to pay
McCarthy's costs.
MIR. GLADSTONE, while Telling a tree at
Hawarden, on the PSI, disturbed nest of
wasps, and was so badly stung by the in
sects that he was compelled to remain in
doors on the oath.
1T is estimated at the Treasury that the
ultimate issue Of the new one and two
dollar silver certificates may aggregate
Sc, 900 and of five-dollar silver GER
tifcates S60,0O3.00O.
The Treasury Department has received
the estimates of the State and Agricultural
departm ,nts and the civil establishments
of the War and Navy departments for
the next fiscal year.
HIcKLES J. LANDERs, of Landers &
Weaver, brokers, Indianapolis, is missing,
and it is alleged that he successfully prac-
fced Neeld's bogus warehouse methods to
the extent of $4,000.
THE Austrian Reichsrath has agreed to
abolish the freedom of the ports of Trieste
and Fiume. The House rejected motion
of Herr Stingi, a member of the Austro-
German club, for the conclusion of Gus
toms treaty with Germany.
LIEUTENANT d. L. BRA1NARD, better
known as Sergeant Brainard, has been
assigned to Co. g, Second cavalry. and
will be stationed at Walla Walla. This is |
his old regiment but a diff rent company
from the one he formerly belonged to.
''IT's all fabrication and lie," was
the emphatic statement of Baron Rosen, |
the Russian minister at Washington when
asked by reporter whether the Gear of
Russia, while suffering from temporary |
alteration of mind, had shot one of his
deputies.
THE express messenger on the 'Feisco [
train which left st. Louis on the night of
the 25.h was overpowered by robber
when about thirty miles out on his run,
who bound, gagged and tied him to the
safe and then coolly got away with near
~ $4,000.
THE meeting of the Cabinet on the Goth
was the first meeting at which all the
members were present since Secretary
Manning was taken sick in May last. The
Canadian fisheries ques ton and the Cab
met participation in the Barthold statue
Inauguration were discussed. 7
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has modified the regulations in regard to
the oieoinargarine law so as to make them
conform to the opinion of the Attorney
General that the components of oleo-
margarine are subject to tax only when
made in imitation or semblance of butter.
JOHN FRANCIS, a sixteen year old con-
yict sent up from Dayton to Columbus, O.,
escaped from hi, guard at the court
house on the 2Gth. He was one of the
principal witnesses for the State in the
Thirteenth ward s'Ao tally sheet forg-