St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-06-12

OpELOUSAS. e LOUISIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Mews from Everywhere.
IT is said plot has been discovered in
the Knights of Labor to GUST General Mas
ter W orkman Powderly.
FRESH and peremptory orders have been
issued for cattlemen to get their stock out
of the Indian Territory.
AN Irish landlady has applied TO the re-
lief bureau for assistance, on account of |
being unable to collect her rents.
GLADSTONE has received a letter, signed |
by five hundred Protestant residents of
Ulster, in favor of Irish home rule.
THE New Jersey Prohibition convention
on the aSth nominated General Clinton b.
Fiske for Governor by reclamation.
CHEF ENGINEER ECKEL, or the syracuse
IN. W fire department was run over and
killed bv hook and ladder truck on the
1St.
TIE triennial convention of the Protest.
ant Episcopal Church of the United States
will he held in Chicago, beginning Octo-
Der g.
ONE HUNDRED AND EIGHTY ONE fall
ures occurred throughout the United
States and Canada during the seven days
ended the 2Sth.
THE fight on the st. Louis Merchants
Exchange bridge bill at Washington has
taken the shape of efforts to prevent Its
being taken up in the House.
THE amount of National bank notes out
standing May 81 was S3l1,51o,245. de-
crease during the month of S2,o"2,359 and
a decrease since June l, 1885, of S6,9l4,-
rs.
AN endemic has broken out at Chem
nitz Germany arising from eating raw
beef. One hundred and twenty-three
victims are reported, and the disease is
still spreading.
tIT the 11UV HleLlDelS VI L al
who attended the Chamberlain meeting in
London on the 31st, fifty-two resolved to
vote against the second reading of the
Home-Rule bill.
Police CAPTAIN SCHAACK. Of Chicago,
it is said has in his possession details of
an Anarchist plot to blow up the Board of
Trade, police stations and other buildings
in that city on June A.
Our Canadian neighbors are getting
quite pugnacious, and are INDUCING IN
talk about blowing American fishing yes
sells out Of the water, and all that sort OF
thing. But that's English, you know.
THE collections of internal revenue dur
ING the first ten months of the fiscal year
ending June so, 1886, amounted to $50, $685.
cC6, being an increase Of So, 135, 182 over the
corresponding period during the last fiscal
year.
AS THE procession passed the President
at New York on the 31st, P. S. Gilmore's
band played Mendelssohn's wedding
march, the significance of which was in
stantly recognized, and evoked unbound
ed enthusiasm.
FoRTY-sEvEN hosiery manufacturers OF
Philadelphia, employing over twelve
thousand hands, met on the 2sth and or
ganized for mutual protection The or
ganization is the result of the recent de-
mands of the employees.
THE Metropolitan African M. E, Church
at Washington, one of the largest colored
churches in the United States, was dedi-
Gated on the 30th. Over 5000 persons were
present Large numbers went from Phil
adelphia, Baltimore and Richmond.
TT is said that terribly poor whisky is
being struggled into Alaska in various
ways and is being sold at an enormous
profit The matter has been in the hands
of secret Government agent, and some
Of the parties implicated will soon be
made aware of the fact.
KING MILIEToA of the Samoan islands
having appealed to the American Consul
for protection against Germany's subver.
sion Of his authority, the latter hoisted the
American flag and notified Presiden
Cleveland of his action in establishing {
protectorate over the disputed territory.
DECORATION Day was observed very
generally throughout the country on tn
31st, in some cases the ceremonials being
especially elaborate. A car load of flow
ers arrived in New York from Oakland
Cal, sent especially by devoted Califor
mans to be placed upon the grave of Gen
eral Grant.
THE President proceeded at once t.
business as soon as he arrived at tn
White House on the morning of the Isl
He approved number of bills, includln