St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-07-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ton at Des Moines on the 30th.
THE window-glass factories of the coun-
try shut down on the Both, according to
agreement.
STONE BAsEMERE shot and fatally
wounded his father near Windsor, BERTHE
County, S. c., on the Goth, and then robbed
the safe of $500 and fed.
ALL was quiet at the Lake Shore yards
in Chicago on the Goth, several trains being
moved without trouble, but under police
protection.
A MEETING of the Grand Lodge of the
Brotherhood of Railway Postal Clerks is
down for July 9, at Indianapolis, to take
action in regard to the recent discharges.
Mr.. WILLIAM E. SMITH. assistant Secre-
tary of the Treasury. has resigned in Or
der to accept the position of solicitor for
the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba
railway.
THE Marquis of Lorne will contest the
Seven Oaks division of Kent in the coming
election as Gladstonian candidate.
THE London Financial Neaos, which has
been opposed to Mr.. Cyrus w. Field, pub
fishes his picture and congratulates him
on his victory in the libel suit against
Truth.
THE Royalists in France are organizing
an immense meeting to be held in Paris on
July 4, when a speech will be delivered by
M. Lambert de Sainte-Croix.
MAcKEREL having struck in along the
coast of Prince Edwards Island, the Do
minion Department of Fisheries has or
dered three government vess els to watch
the fisheries there. The Conrad, Terry and
Critic have been detailed for the service.
The steamer Lansdowne will also be sent
to the same coasts.
A REUNION of the "Iron Brigade" will
be held at Oshkosh, Wis, August 81 and
September l and 2. Generals Sherman,
Gibbon, Bragg, Fairchilds and other not
ed officers will be present. The local COM
mittee, in their circular, state: Com
rades are requested to bring with them
their wives and children, for we expect to
| give you day of pleasure on the most
| beautiful island in the United States"
THE police of Memphis, Tenn, received
information early on the morning of the
Goth, of double murder having been per-
| petrated some three miles east of the city.
The victims were Paul Justice and his
wife. They kept a grocery, and it is said
they were shot and killed by parties who
were detected in robbing the store.
| ANNOUNCEMENT was made at the New
| York Cotton Exchange on the 10Th of the
inability of J. & W. A. Beall to meet their
| commercial obligations. The firm is an
old one and has been known for many
years as of high rank among the cotton
| onfc Of nifxr ia
large cotton plantations in Georgia, one of
which yielded last year crop worth over
$50, 900. Their suspension, it was explained.
would be temporary.
JONES & MCLAUGHLIN's nail factory at
| Pittsburgh, Pa, was put in operation on
the 30th, after being idle since May 80,
| 1885, exactly thirteen months. This is the
| first factory to start up under the scale
recently arranged by the Amalgamated
| Association.
IT is reported that Herr Singer, Social
| Democrat and member of the Reichstag,
has been expelled from Berlin.
| THE French Senate has adopted the bill
authorizing the city of Paris to issue loan
of $40, OOo,o0O to inaugurate and carry on
public improvements for the purpose of
furnishing work to the unemployed, strik-
| ing out, however, the clause interpolated
by the Chamber of Deputies forbidding
/ the use of material obtained outside OF
| France.
AT McAlister, I. T., an eight-year' old
/ son of W. Bell started out to lariat his
pony, when the animal became frightened
and in his maneuvers entangled the lad in
the rope, dragging him fully two hundred
yards. When found he was badly mangled
and after couple of gasps expired.
| JAMES w. PORCH, ConsulGeneral to
Mexico, has sent long report to the State
Department in regard to the remarkable
growth of the silk industry in that coun
! try.
| WHILE four workmen were raisi q
frame house in Nashville, Tenn, on the
Goth, it fell, burying David Rucker and
Charles Ransom, both colored, in the
ruins. When found, Rucker was dead and
Ransom, who was lying on top of the
corpse, was severely bruised.
Four emissaries from the striking Lake
Shore switchmen arrived in Toledo on the
Goth from Chicago and endeavored to in
duce the ITO Lake Shore switchmen at that
place to join the strike. They were coldly
received, and it is authoritatively stated by
influential switchmen that they Will &C
out.
REPRESENTATIVE SowDEN, of Pennsyl-
vania, presented to the President as a
wedding present fine steel horseshoe.
which was made by Mr.. John Schaadt, Of
Allentown, Pa, and intrusted to Mr.. Sow
l N al In nf
are the initials sc. c." and on the other "F
F. c." In the center is the word "Gluck,' y
which in German means good luck.
THE red flag was hoisted on the 10Th
over the effects of the late Court of Ala.