St. Landry democrat., 1886-02-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
ON the Sd the new British Cabinet was
officiallXnannounceda as follows: Mr. Glad
stone, Premier and First Lord of the
Treasury; Sir Farrell Herschell, Lord
Chancellor; Earl Spencer, President of the
Council; H. E. c. Childers, Home Secre-
tary; Earl Roseberry, Foreign Affairs
Earl Granville, Colonies; Earl Kimberly,
India; H. Campbell Bannerman, War;
Sir VIM. Vernon Harcourt, Exchequer;
Marquis of Ripon; Admiralty; J. Cham
berlain, President of Local Governm ent
Board; G. o. Trevelyan, Scotland; A. j.
Morley, Ireland.
THE Prince Of Wales gave a dinner the
evening of the Sd to the leaders of both
political parties and the foreign diplomatic
representatives., including United States
Minister Phelps.
SENATOR CAMERON, from the committee
on naval affairs on the Sd reported favor
ably his bill authorizing the President to
appoint from civil life an assistant Secre-
airy of the Navy at salary of S4 900 a
year
LORD DUFFERIN has gone to Burmah to
arrange for the government of that king
dom.
A JUDGMENT of So, 900 has been rendered
against J. J. Gest, bondsman of Hon. Da-
vid H. Bailey while Consul General at
Hong Kong, China.
BARON ARrAND HAUsMANN, the would
be murderer of Count Montauzan at Paris,
has been pronounced insane.
f,-,o Sc
in London, in which Sir Charles Dixie is
Correspondent, has been further delay ed,
but will probably be begun on the 8th.
GEORGE LoRILLARD, the sportsman, died
at Nice, France, on the Sd.
JAMES H. TEMPLE, Of New York, offers
to back Vignaux against Schaefer at bill
lizards for $500 side.
LIZZIE MAY ULMER, the actress, ("Dad's
Girl") while playing at Pittsburg, Pa,
on the night of the Sd, tainted and went
blind.
JOAN VICTOR Won UNRIcH, the cele-
brated Prussian statesman, is dead.
On the 4th the seventh annual National
Sugar growers convention met at st.
Louis, Mo. Hon Norman G. Colman,
Commissioner of Agriculture, delivered
the annual address.
ON the 4th Lieutenant Commander r.
M. Curtis, U. S. N, died of internal hem
orrhage at San Francisco.
PARNELL offers to find Morley constit-
uency in Ireland in case of his defeat at
Newcastle.
Mr.. GLADSTONE has issued his address
to the voters Of Midlothian, asking re-elec-
ton to Parliament.
N. GOBLET, French Minister of Public
Instruction, made speech on the 4th in
favor of elementary secular education.
M. DE LEssEPs has invited the Chamber
of Commerce of New York to send dele
gate to Panama to witness the "inaugura-
ton of the final period of workn on the
Isthmian canal.
On the night of the 4th the territorial
normal school at Madison, Oak, one of the
finest brick structures in the Territory,
burned to the ground. Loss, $4,000; no
Insurance.
A WASHINGTON correspondent ayers
that in December last Secretary Bayard
and Minister Soteldo of Venezuela signed
a treaty by which the Venezuelan Govern
ment agrees to pay American claims
to several million dollars. The
treaty also adjusts the relations between
the two co untries, and is soon to be sub
mitted to the Senate.
Mr.. j. CEILINGS, whose amendment de-
feated the Salisbury ministry, has been
appointed secretary of the local govern
ment board under Gladstone.
DR.. ARMSTRONG was convicted by the
facia cfia
[ation of his ordination VOW.
MICHAEL DAvITT believes that Mr.. Glad
stone is the only English statesman that
has the courage to grapple with the Irish
problem and establish peace between En-
gland and Ireland.
On the 9TH John Mcmahon, defaulting
sx-collector of revenue of Hoboken, N. j.,
was sentenced to five years in State Prison.
SIR WIN. VERNON HARcoURT promises
he electors that he will support the new
Government in solving the Irish question |
n way that will maintain the union and |
he supre macy of the crown.
THE President has pardoned George r.
Sims, who was convicted of participating |
n conspiracy to defraud the govern
nent in pension case, and was sentenced |
o five years Imprisonment in the South
I'm Illinois Penitentiary
ON the 9Th the New York Assembly
'assed the bill to submit the question of
lolding a constitutional convention to
popular vote.
ON the afternoon of the 9th the Presi-
ent held public reception. There was a
cry fair attendance, notwithstanding the
old weather. Over hundred strangers
hook hands with the President, good
ortion of them being ladies.