St. Landry democrat., 1886-12-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended
| November p was $685.; same week last
| year, G59,3S4. The shipments of fractional
| silver coin since November amounted to
| $685. POI.
! THE Pope has invited the editors Of
Catholic papers throughout the word to
| send their publications regularly to the
press office of the Vatican.
| PRESIDENT CLEvELA&D is laid up with
| rheumatism.
| A STORE burned at Mason, Neb., on the
| 3Oth, and three persons sleeping in it lost
| their lives
SnIpLEY, DoIsEY q Co., wholesale dry
| goods dealers, Cincinnati, have made an
assignment
+. A. HILL q Co., who have figured
| prominently on the Board Of Trade at Chi
| cago, have failed.
IT is estimated that the public debt de-
| creased during the month of November
| about Sl00O,000.
| A KANSAS CITY delegation on the 30th
| presented the claims Of that city for the
| Indian supply depot to Commissioner At
| kins.
ENGLAND has been asked for definite
| reply to Frances interrogatory respecting
| the Suez canal.
THE statement is sent out from New
York that an advance of sixty cents per
ton in btuminous coal is shortly to take
place.
THE hearing in the case of the British
Government against John Dillon has been
adjourned until December II.
A BROCHURE Of England 8 position among
the nations of the world is about to be pub
Itch h,-n n arh /
officer.
THE steamboat Richmond, with cargo
Of 351 bales of cotton, was burned at eau
casia, on the Red river, on the Both. Two
Of the crew were drowned.
EPREsIDENT FITZGERALD of the Irish
National League has sent out d circular
urging renewed energy to combat cocr-
ciOn in Ireland.
THE Socialist movements among work
ingmen in Germany are described as tend
ing more and more i'll d radical and cX-
treme direction.
WILLIAM kUHL, who was detained in
Jail at Milwaukee, Wis, on the suppose
ton that he was the notorious Lon Will
Jams, Of the James gang, has been award
cd 5000 damages.
A LETTER has been sent to President
Cleveland by the International Range As
ISOLATION regarding pleuro- pneumonia and
unjust discrimination by railroads.
A SYNDICATE is said to be in process of
formation to carry out the plans Of the At
lantic and Mexican Gulf canal.
JOHN H. RUMEL pleaded guilty at Salt
Lake City on the 30th to an indictment
charging him with unlawful cohabitation.
Sentence was suspended on Mr.. Rumel
pledging obedience to the law hereafter.
TIE arguments of counsel in the French
spoliation claims were concluded before
the Court of Claims on the 30th, and
the first fourteen cases on the calendar
were submitted for the decision. These
are test cases and involve the general
question of the Governments liability for
the damages claimed
A UNITED STATES bonded car on the
midnight freight bound south, was broken
into by three tramps while the train was
between Monmouth junction and Deans, |
N. j. After securing considerable plumber
the thieves cut the train in two, jumped
from the cars and fled to the woods. They |
escaped.
A FIRE broke out among the cotton on |
the city cotton platform at Raleigh, n. G., |
on the 30th. About d thousand bales were |
destroyed. Loss, $4,000; insured.
y
Ter, of Enfield, n Y. was found hanging |
by the neck in halter in Il barn on the |
Both. His death is thought to have been |
accidental
Dr.. CARL T. LIEBoLDT. one of the best |
known homeopathic specialists in New |
Y ork, was found dead on the 30th, in his |
bachelor apartments in the Union Dime |
Savings Bank building. His death was
caused by apoplexy.
Coal men deny that there is to be ma
terial advance in the price.
A BLIZZARD prevailed on Lake Michigan
on the 1st, causing disaster to shipping
still out.
A STUDENT at Erlangen university, Ger
many, was killed in a duel on the 1st
THE Amalgamated Association and
Knights Of Labor are not going to coalescc
THE American Institute of Architects
began their twentieth annual convention
1t New York on the list.
JOHN BRIGHT hopes worlsmcn will learn
lot to ask wages which trade can not
pay.
JOHN W. LAUER. the Omaha wife muir
ierer, won't be tried until March next,
having obtained a continuance.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH of Dublin indorses
United I,elana's plan for resisting the land
OrdS.
Doc WILSON is said to have solved the
famous Wilson-Moen mystery by declar-
ng himself the son Of the millionaire by
lis first wife, born but short time after
marriage.
New YORK CITY enters protest at the
indian Bureau at Washington against the
'emoval of the Indian supply depot to st.
4ouis.
BEFORE the Supreme Court at Washing
on, on the 18th, the case of the State of
fissouri against the Hannibal a. st.
oseph railroad was argued.
THREE Marseilles, (France) municipal
Ulcers have been condemned to civic
degradation for corruption.