St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-13
PERSONAL ANC GENERAL,

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RECENT reports that Mr.. Porch, Consul
General at the City of Mexico, had been
are denied.
SIR MICHEAL HICKS BEACH reports that
the prospects are good for peaceful win
ter in ireland.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will attend the
two hundred and fiftieth anniversary OF
the founding Of Harvard college.
THE insignia of the Chefaka order has
been sent by special envoy to Mime. de
Freycinet by the Sultan Of Turkey.
JOHN HANLEY, of New York died on
the LIST from injuries inflicted by John
McGmevy with an umbrella.
IT is officially announced at Cairo that
the English government is determined to
maintain public safety in Egypt.
SENATOR VAN WICK has been canvass
ing Nebraska for Endorsement, as under
the new constitution of the State the peo-
pie Of the State must express their prefer.
ence for Senator.
HUNGARIAN semi official papers admit
that the finances of Hungary are in
critical state, and it is rumored that the
Minister of Finance will resign.
The total coinage executed at the
minis during October was 4,l12,f 100, of
which So, 600, 900 was in standard dollars.
The marriage of Michael Davitt and
Miss Yore, of Oakland, Cal, is announced
to take place in about two months.
RICHARD PRESTON, dealer in worsted
goods, doing business in Boston, has dis
appeared, and he is said to be a defaulter
to the extent of $4,000.
A VIENNA dispatch of the I'd stated that
twelve Russian men, of war had left Sc
bastopol for Varna.
SURVEYOR BEATTIE of the port Of New
York, who was shot on the 1st by Louis
Bieral, was reported on the I'd to be inn
proving, and in no serious danger.
The Adams Express officials seem to be
as far off as ever from the solution of the
mys terry of the recent robbery on the
Frisco road. Agent Fotheringham is
still under surveillance in st. Louis, and
no weak spots are as yet known to have
developed in his story. The officials,
however, are very reticent.
AMONG the Presidents callers on the I'd
was descendant of the great Kentucky
giant who died several years ago, stand
ing seven feet two inches high, and a
dwarf of three feet and seven inches.
The President thought side show had
broken loose.
WILLIAM CAKES, colored, was killed
and Arction Richardson seriously injured
by the explosion Of two boilers in the
Charleston Is. CO. cotton factory on the
I'd. Over five hundred hands are thrown
out of employment by the wrecking of the
building.
The Russian Government has re-as-
sured Austria that Russia will not occupy
Bulgaria, but she still maintains menace
ing attitude.
SURF has been commenced against the
executors of the late William Sharon at
San Francisco for S764, 900 by William,
BENJAMIN L. and James M. Burling.
E. S. SANBoRN, agent of the Nickel Plate
railroad, who died suddenly in Maine a
few DAYS ago, was short in his accounts
in the neighborhood of $4,000.
The mounted police in the Northwest
Territory have captured Lone Man, an
Indian chief who was prominent in the
massacre at Frog Lake last year.
THE Empress Eugene is to be the guest
of Queen Victoria for couple of days
this week.
PRINCE ALBERT VIcToR, son Of the
Prince Of Wales, is undergoing the regu-
lar course of garrison instruction at the
military camp at Aldershot. The young
Prince is still junior subaltern of the
Tenth Hussars.
JAMES CAFFERY, aged seven; James
Dougherty, aged seven; John ugherty,
aged six, and Ellen Dougherty, aged three
years, were suffocated in sand pile
which caved in on them at Scranton, Pa,
on the evening of the 1st.
j. C. KIRKPATRICK, formerly Of Shreve-
port, La, was shot and killed at Crescent
Hall, in New Orleans, on the ID, by DR.. 7.
G. Ford, of Shreveport. The shooting was
the result of family troubles.
ELECTION day was characterized by fine
weather in nearly every section of the
country and by an almost unheard- of
amount Of scratching of candidates, max
ing tedious work for the canvassers of the
votes.
JOHN C. FARRELL, an election judge in
st. Louis, was taken suddenly i'll at the
polls on the I'd and was removed to his
home, where he died in few minutes.
AUGUST BRENTANo, elder member OF tn 9
firm of newsdealers of Chicago, New York
and Washington, died in Chicago on the
I'd Of pneumonia.
A LARGE white whale, about thirty five
feet long, has been making himself quite
familiar of late in the neighborhood of
Long Branch, N. j., and several parties
have been badly scared by coming in
proximity to him while DO ating or fishing.
THE Baltimore (Md.) Horseshoe Com
pany's works at Baltimore were totally
destroyed by fire on the Sd. The works
had just been placed in the hands of an
assignee; loss, between 5000 and $109, :
900.
the election for Congressman in the Eight