St. Landry democrat., 1886-10-23


change report the crop prospect was low
cred slightly during the past month.
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IT is stated confidently that several
changes are pending in the English Cabi
net and will be announced early in No
vember.
GENERAL VILLACAMPA's daughter had
an audience with the Queen of Spain and
expressed her gratitude for the clemency
shown to her father
THE elections in Bulgaria for members
Of the great sobranje to elect successor to
Prince Alexander resulted in crushing
defeat Of the Russian party.
NATURAL gas was struck at Fairmont,
w. Va, on the Sth. It is said by expe-
rienced gas men to be the largest we'll in
the country. The noiss from the rush of
the gas can he heard from six to ten miles.
AS the result of the final games of the
series the CHICAGO Base Ball Club is again
close rub. The Browns. of st. Louis. are
again the champions of the Association.
THE recent Treasury order reducing the
rate of drawback on dried refined surar,
does not affect the existing rate of four
cents per Gallon less ten per cent. for sir
ups resulting from the refining Of import
cd raw sugar.
THE American Consul at Kingston. Ont,
having been asked by the the United
States Government to report if any dis
ease existed among cattle il that district,
made close investigation and has report
ed in the negative.
THE report of the Egyptian Cotton AS
ISOLATION shows that the crop is fully up
to the average. The worms have disap-
peared. The weld is estimated at 3.10O,-
600 canters, and arrivals at Alexandria
show it to be of superior quality.
THE director Of the French Catholic mis-
sions has heen informed that seven hun
dre' Christians have been massacred in
Tanho, Tonquin; also that thirty villages
in that district have been burned and nine
thousand inhabitants are starving.
TIE town of Sabine Pass, Tex, was
Totally destroyed by the water Of the
Sabine river on the night of the 18th.
Sixty-ffvn lives are known to have been
lost. A hotel wit fifteen or twenty guests
was swept out into the bay and all were
lest.
The State Department has received a
brief dispatch from the American Consul
General at Halifax confirmatory of the
reports touching the recent seizure by
Canadian customs officers of the Ameri-
can schooner Marion Grimes at Shelburne,
NJ. S.
AMONG the persons who graspad the
hand Of the President on the 18th, at the
public reception, were several typical
Englishman, who seemed highly delighted
to meet Mr.. Cleveland. and who created
some merriment by their peculiar actions
and manners.
TIE German Government has received
q long dispatch from Herr Thilmann, the
German agent at Sofia. He describes the
position of affairs as extremely critical.
1t is reported that Russia has notified the
Powers of the necessity for the immediate
occupation of Bulgaria.
THE biennial session of the Supreme
Council of the Thirty-third Degree NJ a.
sons for the southern jurisdiction of the
United States will begin in Washington
en the 18Th inst. This is the Supreme
Council of the Scottish Rite, of which
General Albert Pike is Grand Command
Or.
SAMUEL FIELDEN, one of the condemned
Chicago Anarchists, sends letter to the !
papers in which he speaks of the assault |
made on the informer Waller in q Chicago
drinking saloon, and intimates that the |
assault WAS arranged by the police to
make certain the doom of the cond emned |
men. /
THE second Comptroller of the Teasury |
has decided that where claim against
the government once decided has been
reopened and reheard, second rehearing |
should not be granted, except upon the |
strongest evidence of irregularity in the |
former proceeding or new discoveries of
essential fact
REAR-ADMIRAL EDWARD T. NICHOLS |
died at Pomfret, Conn.,, on the 18th, after |
a short illness. Admiral Nichols had been |
spending the summer at Pomfret, and had |
been in usual health. He was found on the |
of the 9th suffe ring from an APP |
epletic fit, and was unconscious until his |
death. He was sixty -four years old.
THE issue Of one-doIlar silver certificates |
from October / to IL was $500, 900. Many |
more might have been issued had the |
printing bureau been able to supply the |
demand. The effect which the issue of |
small certificates will have upon the cir
culation of the dollar pieces is being |
watched with interest at the Treasury De- |
partmert, as well as by those who study |
the currency question.