St. Landry democrat., 1886-07-31
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sian colony in New Guinea.
LONDON advces from Adelaide state
that copious rains have fallen in South
Australia, benefting the crops greatly.
PUBLIC PRINTER ROUNDS is said to have
bong hit the Omaha Republican for 100000
cash.
MoBs attacked the rovalist newspaper
offices at Marseilles, France, on the goth,
but were overpowered by gendarmes and
police.
A PROCLAMATION has Eeen issued de-
claring Belfast and Londonderry, Ireland
under the provisions of the arms clause OF
the peace-preserving act.
A PARTY of royal engineers are en- route
to British Columbia to examine and report
as to the best manner of fortifying the
Pacific coast.
A STORM of great violence, causing con :
siderable loss of life, visited Western
Nebraska and Eastern Wyoming on the
Goth.
THE annual convention of window glass
manufacturers met at Long Branch on the
21st.
THE German consulate at Canton, China,
has sent home samples of goods which are
saleable in China for the benefit of manu-
facturers exporting to the East.
SEVEN men were killed in collision on
the Louisville & Nashville road on the
Goth, near Duck river, forty eight miles
south of Nashville, Tenn.
CHARLES B. Cox, New Mexico con-
Wet, arrived at the Chester (lll) prison
on the Doth, to find that pardon had been
sent for him some months ago.
DR.. PETERS, the German traveller, after
having had conference with Henry M.
Stanley, proposes that railway be built
from OAR es-Salaam to the interior of
East Africa with English capital.
GOVERNOR OGLEsBY of Illinois and a
large and gorgeous staff reviewed the L.
N. G. at Camp Lincoln, Spring feld, on the
Goth. Every thing passed off satisfacto-
rily.
P w. CHASE, sheriff and tax collector of
Concordia parish, Louisiana, is short in
his accounts $27 900. He has a very good
bond.
DOUGLASS RooME, bookkeeper for
Wheelwright, Anderson & Co., New York
and Boston, is defaulter for $4,000.
The exports from New York for the
week ended July 20, Exclusive of specie),
were $6,3 Is, 533 in value.
CAPTAIN S. NJ. SwIGERT, Second Caval-
~, has been ordered to inspect certain
subsistence stores at Jefferson Barracks,
NO., for which Captain l.. C. Forsyth, as
sistant quartermaster, is responsible.
PAT MURPHY, aged twenty-three, of
heavy build and lelow medium height,
was arrested at Kansas City, Mo-, on the
Goth, for murder at Fourth of July pic
mic at Chicago.
WASHINGTON, Ind, makes donation of
$1,000 and sixty acres of land to secure
the Ohio & Mississippi railway shops.
IT is rumored that Baron de Courcol and
NJ. Waddington, French ambassadors at
Berlin and London, respectively, will ex-
change posts.
The preliminary examination of the men
charged with train wrecking at Wyan-
dotte, Kas., is postponed until the 18th.
D:cK HUDSON, colored, was hanged for
murder at Yazoo City, Miss, on the 21st.
AT meeting recently held at Lima,
Peru, it was resolved to petition the gov
ernment to expel the Jesuits from the
country.
The Randall & Dugan Machine Com
pany, of Cincinnati, have made an assign
ment.
IT is officially announced that the Queen
has summoned Lord Salisbury to form
new Ministry.
THE opening concert of the great SEN
gerfest at Milwaukee on the evening of
the 2lst was pronounced success.
ADMIRAL LAFoNT says the French navy
can vie with the navy of any power, and
that he would have no anxiety for its
success even in war with Great Britain.
CHAco, the Apache Indian who, it is
said, killed Judge McComas and his wife,
is now at Washington seeking faVors at
the hands OF the G. avernment.
A CALL has been issued for conferen ce
of anti-saloon Republicans to be held in
Chicago September Is.
GLADSTONE received from the Queen on
the 2lst the acceptance of the resignation
of himself and minis ers.
THE President, accompanied by Secre-
taries Bayard AMI Whitney and private
secretary Lamont, left Washington on the
21st for Albany.
WILLIAM PIERCE, of Gil 9versville, N. Y.
sentenced for horse-s ealing, and John
Kochiser, of Boonville, for forgery, escap-
ed from the jail in Rome, N. Y, on the
night of the 18th, by cutting a bar out of a
window grating in the corridor.
GLADSTONE advises Parnell against pur-
suing an obstruction policy in the coming
parliament.
SHERIFF BERGIN of Adams County
Iowa, on the 21st, caused the arrest in
Omaha of ReubenaBissett and w. H. Viers
for manning and disfguring young man
in horrible and barbarous manner las
March near Corning. AS a consequence