St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-20


ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
OPELOUSAS. .. LOUISIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
CALIFORNIA not only elected Demo-
Tatic Governor and Legislature, but four
aut of the six Congressman are Democrats.
ACCORDING to the Democratic National
committee the Dem ocrats will have at
least seventeen majority in the next
House.
ONE thousand women dressed in black
arrived at Brussels on the 9th to petition
for amnesty for the convicted rioters of
last March.
GEORGE THoBE, Republican candidate
for Congress in the Sixth Kentucky dis
trict, says he will contest Speaker Car
isles election.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland and
the Cabinet officers who accompanied him
to Boston returned to Washington on the
afternoon of the 9th.
No DISTURBANCE worth mentioning took
place during the lord mayors procession
at London, on the 9th, owing to the I'M
usual precautions taken.
JAMES A. WHITNEY, of New York, has
oeen engaged to present the case of the
condemned Chicago Anarchists to the
United States Supreme Court.
THE National convention of United
Presbvterians opposed to the action of
the General Assembly on the music ques-
tion met at Allegheny City, Pa, on the
9th.
THE Secretary Of the Treasury has APP
pointed Louis G. S:arkel, of Illinois, to be
an analytical chemist in the Internal
Revenue Bureau under the Oleomargarine
law.
LAWRENCE DONOVAN, who jumped from
Brooklyn bridge recently. jumped from
Suspension bridge, Niagara Falls, dis
tance Of 100 feet, on the 7th, sustaining no
injuries excepting broken rib and few |
slight bruises.
AN officer of the Victoria (Australia) |
Mining Department reports that pay |
ing gold reef has been discovered near
Enoch's Point, in the Woods Point Dis
trict, Queensland. Fine specimens have
been obtained.
THE four-oa shell race between Han
Ian, Teemer. Hamm and Ten Eyck in one
boat, and Ross, Lee, Bubear and Perk ms
in the other, was rowed on the Sth on the
Thames at London. Hanlan's crew won.
The race was for 500 side.
A DISPATCH from New Zealand saws
that news has been received from Samoa
stating that perfect cordiality exists at
Alpa between the respective consula tes.
The recent visit of British commissioners
was of a confidential character.
AN uproar exists at Lacrosse, Wis, on
account of the enforcement of Sunday
laws. Not only have saloons been COM
PEELED to close, but telegraph and tels-
phone companies are required to suspend
operations. Milk and bakers wagons are
also stopped.
LIEUTENANT LOUIS A. GARL1SG, Seventh
cavalry, who has been ordered to Wash
ington from Dakota, has been selected at
the request of General Dabney Fl. Maury,
Minister to Bogota, for detail as militia nv
attache to the legation to thu United
States of Colombo ia
THE Dantzig Zsitung pred lets terrible
distress during the coming winter. 1t
says that ira le is paralyzcd and that /
work is failing every where; that the au-
thori'ies of the State dockyards dis
charge men weekly and that in the arm
factories there are also many hundreds ,
idle.
The italian Ministry have drecte that
the great collection of musical works
which form ID part Of the municipal
library in Rome shall be transferred to ,
the Academia di Santa Cecilia This
has been described as the rich
EST of its kind in the world, and the cata- ,,
ogue of musical works which it con tains
Is the most complete in existence.
DRs. MURPHY and Lee performed a re- 2
narkable surgical operation on Officer d
w hitnay, one of the victims Of the Chi
ago Haymarkst bomb, on the 9th. The e
1ocfors bored a hole through Whitney's Il
reast-bone AMI extracted a particle Of
he LombshelI which was ranidly m ak;nr Fl