St. Landry democrat., 1886-07-24

THE smallpox epidemic at Santiago d
Chilli is becoming worse every day, an,
the disease proves fatal to sixty or seven
ty per cent of the number of persons at
tackled.
THE Provident Savings Bank, of st
Louis, suspended payment at noon on thu
14th. Investigation showed the cashier
A. B. Thompson, defaulter the extent o
about $4,000. .....=
THE business failures during the sever
days ended the 9th, reported by telegraph
numbered for the United States, 159; fol
Canada, 20; total of 10, which is abov,
the last few weeks.
LESLEY and Wilson, the defaulting Of
fcials of the Chesapeake & Delaware
Canal Company, it is believed, have sailed
for Brazil from New York on the steamer
James Gordon Bennett.
Rev. HENRY WARD BEECHER preached
in Rev. Henry Atoms church at Islington
London, on the 18th, attended service sat
Westminster Abbey in the afternoon and
took tea with the Dean.
HUGH NJ. Brooks, alias Maxwell, was
sentenced on the 14th at ST. Louis to be
hanged August q for the murder of C. A.
Preller, but stay of execution to October
2was granted to permit of an appeal being
taken.
THE Exchange Bank at Button, DIVA S
recently burglarized and considerable
money stolen. o. S. Langan, cashier of
the bank at the time of the burglary, was
arrested on the 18th on the charge of hav-
ing committed the crime.
THE Manufacturers Record, in it's semi :
annual review of the industrial growth of
the South, shows that during the first six
months of 1856 the value of the manufact-
uring and mining enterprises of the
South have been increased by about $685.
61S000.
AFTER the adjournment of Congress the
Secretary of State and his daughters will
retire to some quiet seaside resort. The
Misses Bayard have not yet called upon
Mrs. Cleveland, owing to their recent
bereavement end will not do so until the
autumn.
"IwAs fifteen days in Connecticut"
said Colonel John A. Joyce, "and deliv-
cred several lectures and got out of that
State alive, Notwithstanding. I can not
say, though" con tinued he, s'for certain,
how many of the people Of Connecticut
are alive"
TIE Comptroller of the Currency on the
18th declared a fourth dividend of thirty
per cent. in favor of the creditors of the
Hot Springs National Bank of Hot Spri ngs,
Ark, payable on the 10Th inst. This makes
100 per cent. paid on claims proved
amounting to $36,537.
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} THE most marked features of the chol-
era epidemic in Italy are the extreme Sc
verify of the cramps in the stomach and
the rapidity with which death follows the
onset of the disease. In very many cases
the patients expire within an hour after
the beginning of the attack.
REPRESENTATIVE BRECKENRIDGE, Of
Kentucky will endeavor at an early day
to have passed the bill enabling tobacco
growers to sell their produce to any one,
whether the purchaser has a license or
not, and reducing the tax Of ninety cents
on fruit brandy to fifty cents.
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= The cholera returns for Italy on the 14th
were as follows: Brindisi, 115 new cases,
80 deaths; Fontana, A new cases, II
deaths; Latiano, % new cases, 10 deaths;
San Vito, 20 new cases. death, Cordigro, i
3 new cases, 2 deaths; Trieste, 3 new
cases, | death; Fiume, new cases, 3 !
dtelths.
GENERAL B. f. BUTLER was in Wash |
ington on private business on the 10Th. He |
is said to be in most excellent health and |
looking as fresh and vigorous as he did |
twenty years ago. He was admitted to |
practice in the United States Supreme |
Court in 1S45, the same year VIM. n. |
Seward was admitted. He is now sixty
eight years old.
THE Chicagos in their recent series of |
games with the famous Detroit base ball |
team in the city by the lake, succeeded in
doing the visitors up in elegant style in
every game, winding up on the 10th by
score of 3 to i. The Detroits housed their
ROSTERS without ever having heard a
crow, and the big tin horn was sold of
discount to a junker.
Mr.. AUBERY PARMENTER, of New York,
a nd his affianced wife, Miss Bell Osborne.
of Red Bank, N. J., went to Long. Branch
the other day for a days pleasure jaunt
and missed the last train by which they
could return to Red Bank. Taking in the
situation at glance they concluded to
get married then and there, and SO escaped
from their dilemma.