St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Treasury to Senator John r. Mcpherson,
of New Jersey.
IT is stated that M. Nelidoff, the Russian
ambassador at Constantinople, in an in
terview with the Grand Vizier, limited at a
Russian occupation of Bulgaria, adding
that if a hair of one Russian was touch ed,
Russia would be compelled to interfere.
CONGRESS HALL, a summer hotel at
Sheridan Springs, VT, was broken into on
the 30th and $3.50 in cash, bonds, stocks
guests, W. T. Lincoln, of Chicago. There
is no clew to the thieves.
HENRY WARD BEECHER was breakfasted
by the Congregational. Baptist and Evan
gelical Union Association at Glasgow on
the 30th.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has issued a mani
festo approving the measures adopted by
the Stambouloff regency and confirming
the present ministry.
THE business portion Of South Royalton,
VT, was destroyed by fire on the 31st.
PRINCE ALExANDER's journey from Sis
tova to Tirnova on the 31st was series of
ovations.
| THE National encampment of Sons of
Veterans began at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
| 3lst.
GRENEFF and Bandereff, the Bulgarian
revolutionary leaders, will be tried by
court-martial at Tirnova.
SAMUEL CoLvILLE's wife and son will
| contest his will.
A THREE-Foor vein of coal has been
struck at Chillicothe, Mo.
| The London Bank has bought conces-
sions in the City of Mexico, which will
place it on firmer foundation than ever.
NICHOLS & FARNswoRTH, shoe manu-
| facturers' goods, Boston, failed. Liabili-
| ties heavy.
SIR CHARLES dixie recently passed
through Winnipeg, Man., on his way to
| the Pacific coast, under the name of
| Teetleow.
THERE was a general resumption Of
| work by the green glass bottle factories of
the West on the 1st.
| PRINCE ALEXANDER, after reviewing
the garrison at Tirnova on the 3lst, and
receiving a number of addresses, proceed
ed to Philippopolis.
JERE c. CRAvENs was nominated for
Congress by the Democratic convention of
the Thirteenth Missouri district.
| The Republican convention of the Four
teenth Illinois district nominated ]. Fl.
RoweIl, of Bloomington, for Congress.
DEMOCRATS in Pennsylvania on the 31st
made the following nominations for Con-
gress: Eighth district, Daniel Ermen-
trout; Twelfth district, J. 81. Swoyer.
SIX dories, with twelve men on bo ard
became separated from the fishing schoon-
er Meter during fog off the banks of
Newfoundland and all the men are sup"
posed to have perished.
/ REPUBLICANS of the Thirteenth Illinois
district nominated Major James A. Con-
molly for Congress.
| JACOB STEINMILLER and Mrs. Berman
have been arrested at Rochester, N. Y, on
| a charge of killing the woman's husband,
| Chris Berman, in 1880. An eyewitness of
/ the occurrence confessed on her death
bed.
/ HENRY REEDE, farmer living two
miles north of Davenport, Ia, drowned
himselfin tank for watering stock on the
night of the 30th.
HENRY PORTER ToDD, the son of Paul P.
Todd, wealthy New York lawyer heav-
lily interested in real estate trans actions,
shot and killed himself on the 31st in his
fathers house.
FIRE in Baltimore, Nd, on the 31st en-
tirely destroyed the large four-s story fur
niture factory of Mrs. George Beck, to-
gether with all it's contents, stock and ma
chinery. The damage is estimated at $50, =
000, without insurance.
AT meeting of the Philadelphia Lager
Beer Brewers Association on the 31st, it
was unanimously resolved that, beginning
with that date, the association formally
recognize the Knights Of Labor, to the
exclusion of all other labor organizations.
/ MRS. MAGGIE MCKENZIE, the bride of a
month, passed through Kansas City, Mo-,
on the 31st on her way from Florence,
Kas., to an Eastern asylum. The young
bride was said to be violently insane and
required constant attention. The case
was remarked as peculiarly sad in all of
its details.
RUSSIAN newspapers affect to have great
fears concerning the fate Of Bulgaria.
The Novoe Vremya declares that Prince
| Alexander must be prevented from return
ing to Sofia.
/ CONGRESS- directed the publication in
the records of the rebellion of a vast
| amount of material relating to the trial OF
Fitz John Porter, and supplementary
edition of volume twelve will shortly be
issued containing this matter.
The commission of Thomas E. Benedict
| as Public Printer has been received at
Washington, bearing the Presidents sig
nature OF date the Goth of August. 1t is
understood that the new Public Printer
will relieve Mr.. Rounds about the 10Th
| inst.
Il THE police have resumed riot duty along
the Shank Hill road at Belfast