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St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
a BRILLIANT OPENING.

The st. Louis Exposition Opens Its Doors
at the Beginning of It's Third Season to a
Throng of Nearly Twenty Thousand Peo-
ple-An Former Displays Eclipsed in
the Beauty and Extent of Exhibits.
ST. LOUIS, Sept 9.-The opening of
the third annual Exposition of St. Louis
last night was grand success. Never in
the history of the association have the
nayes of the great structure been SO
crowded with representatives OF the
highest circles of society, and the ex-
carnations, "Oh, how lovely!" Isn't
that just beautiful!' etc, were heard on
every side.
Long before the opening nour the
pavement in front of the great building
was thronged with ladies and gentlemen
waiting for the doors to open. No one,
not even exhibitors, were allowed to en-
ter, as a rush would have certainly been
made if the doors had been opened.
The employees engaged at the various
exhibits were admitted at the Thir-
teenth street entrance, so as not
to retard any of the preparations still
going on, but all others were excluded.
At seven O'Clock the arcade on Olive
street was illuminated, and at precisely
eight O'Clock all the front doors were
opened and the rush began. For all hour
constant stream Of humanity
passed through each of the three
entrances, and it is estimated
that nearly twenty thousand people were
present during the evening. The crowd
was critical one, who knew what had
appeared at the previous exhibitions, and
were competent to judge of the compare
tive merits of the present one. That the
Exposition of 1886 is far in advance of
the predecessors was the srinion OF all,
and expressed without hesitation.
Such decision, in view OF the fact
that the arrangements in many
cases were incomplete, is certainly en-
couraging, and is an assurance OF contin-
ued success during the season. In few
days, at farthest, every exhibit will be
completed, the electric lights working
perfectly and all the machinery running
smoothly Then, and not till then, can
fair comparison be made with previous
efforts or the expositions of other cities.
Few people imagine the enormous
amount of detail work necessary to be
done before great exposition can be
considered in perfect running order, and
the almost impossibility of a perfect
opening, but the opening last night was
nearer perfect than ever before.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
WHAT is IT 2

Suspicious Smoke Seen OFF Hilton Head
Light-What Is 1t, Volcano or a Snip
on Fire?-Prof. Mendenhalfs Theory OF
of the Earthquake.
SAVANNAH, GA, Sept. 9.-Thc keeper
at Tybee Lighthouse, at the mouth OF
the Savannah River, reports that be-
tween one and two O'Clock yesterday
afternoon an immense white column, at
first supposed to be Water-spOut, was
noticed twenty miles out az sea, in
northcasterly direction, or apparently
twenty miles due east of Hilton Head
light, at the mouth of Port Royal harbOr.
Glasses were leveled on the mysterious
stranger, but it was so far distant, and
the atmosphere SO haZy, that good view
was impossible. The fact that it still
remained stationary at five o'clock dis
PEELED the Water-spout theory, and at
that, hour the lighthouse keeper si9nif.
cantly telephoned that the column had
assumed unmistakeable evidences of be-
ing smoke of light color, peculiar to that
from volcanoes. No disturbance of the
sea is reported to have preceded
the appearance of the column, but the
people of the island are convinced that
volcano has sprung up. The smoke is
visible from the cupola of the MoralRg
Neeos building in this city, and it is felt
certain here that it is either of volcanic
origin or arises from ship on fire at sea.
AS it is forty mile cruise from this city,
it is impossible to learn anything definite
concerning the mystery. The first shock
of earthquake felt in this city Tuesday
night undoubtedly came from north
easterly direction, and this fact, coupled
with Prof. Mende nhall's theory, indicates
that the base of the disturbance is at sea,
somewhere off the coast between this
city and Charleston.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
What the Scientists Have Discovered.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.-Prof. Powell,
director of the Geological Survey, ex-
poets the members of the survey who
were sent to Charleston to make observa-
tons of the earthquake to return in a few
DAYS. From the preliminary reports
already received it is evident that some
very interesting and, probably, some very
important scientific facts have been dis.
covered. Several hundred reports have
been received from persons in the center
of the earthquake region. From these
reports and the observations of the gov
ernment scientists Director Powell con-
cludes that .he earthquake had its center
in North and South Carolina, to the
northeast of Charleston. The land area
of the earthquake was 100000 square
miles, one-third of the total area of the
United States, and the maps which have
been prepared show that the shock
traversed this distance in fifteen minutes.
The earthquake did not come from the
direction of Bermuda. Mr.. McGee will
bring with him some valuable specimens
of the soil and stones which were thrown
I'D through the assures. Director PowoR
says the scientists will agree IA sc The
maia facts Of the earthquake.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
BLESSING IN DISGUISE.

A Georgia Young Lady, Who Had Lost the
Power of Speech, Receivers 1t as the Re
suit of Excitement Incident to the Earth
quake.
NEW YORK, Sept. "a Savannah spe-
cial to the Times says: A strange incl
dent of last weeks earthquake shock is
the recovery of the power Of speech by
Miss Mamie Martus, daughter of re-
tired officer of the regular army. At the
close of the war her father was put in
charge of Forts Pulaski and Jackson, be-
low the city. While at the former tort,
the daughter, then bright, intelligent
child, had an attack of meningitis,
which left her voiceless. The best med
ical skill was obtained, and the father
took his afflicted child travelling, but
nothing did her any good. She was
dumb, but had all the other senses.
During the excitement of the first
earthquake shock last Tuesday night, she
in her fright attempted to call her bro
Their. He was frightened himself when
he heard her whisper his name. Since
then she has gradually regained her voice
and now talks with perfect fiuency. she
says she was almost delirious with Joy
when she found that she could speak.
Her voice was low and her throat, sore
for three days, and she had trouble in
finding words to express her thoughts.
1t was much like learning a new tongue,
except that she knew the words, but had
forgotten how to pronounce them. City
physicians are deeply interested in the
case. Their explanation is that the re-
covery was due to intense mental ex-
element
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

THE Mississippi Railroad Commission.
has reduced the rates on the Memphis,
Birmingham and Atlantic Railroad on cot.
ton and coal, making the Holly Springs
rate to Memphis on cotton $1.25 per bale
and on coal 81 per ton.
NOTICE has been served upon the opera
tives occupying homes owned by the Au-
gusta (Ge.) Factory that they must vacate
at once, as the houses are wanted for OPP
eratives who are going to work.
Hon. PoINDExTER DUNN, in the First
Arkansas district, and w. j. Stone, in the
Twelfth Missouri district, both Democrats,
were renominated on the 10th for congress.
THE $4,000 subscription necessary for
Jackson, Miss, TO get the cotton factory
has been raised.
DR.. GEO. J. ADAMS, of Massachusetts,
was arrested at New Orleans on the 10th,
charged with embezzlement, by a number
of persons whom he defrauded out of
money to search for hidden treasure.
The September report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows a better yield
of spring wheat than was expected a
month ago.
A TELEGRAM from the Bishop of Ton.
quin says that 700 Christians have been
massacred and forty villages burned IN
the province of Mahoa, and that 5000
Christians are perishing of hunger.
TIE Secretary of State, northumberland.
ing the release of Cutting, will. it is said,
insist upon the abrogation of article 1856 OF
the Mexican penal code, which confers
upon Mexican courts jurisdiction over for
eigners for offenses committed outside OF
Mexican territory.
ABOUT fifty people were mysteriously
poisoned at country wedding near Chi
cago on the Sth. On the 10th all the avail
able physicians were hard at work attend
ing the afflicted persons, who were retch
ing and vomiting violently.
JACKSON, MISS, is much elated over the
authoritative announcement that the de
ferred payment of the second issue OF
Green's Bank certificates will be paid on
the 10th of this month.
THE business failures occurring during
the week ending on the 10Th, throughout
the country NUMBER loi oho ehioo" o0esoe'
149, and for Canada 30, a total of IT'S, as
compared with a total of 100 last week, and
201 the week previous to last
A NEW company is being formed for the
erection of a new 100-ton furnace at Chat
| tanooga, Tenn.
TIE. Missis ippi State Board of Health
| received a telegram from the local in
spector at Biloxi on the 10th stating that
the supposed yellow fever patients were
well.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THE efforts of turkey to force Syrian
recruits into the turkish army has almost
caused an insur' lection in Syria.
ED CURTIN who recently escaped from
the Ohio Stat q penitentiary, where he was
serving a s. ontence of ten years for arson,
was capt' 4red at Philadelphia on the Sth,
as ne As about to start for Sacramento
IHE Federation of Coal Miners, in ses-
sess' on at indianapolis, refused by unan-
I'M Gus vote to unite with the knights of
labor.
Z THOUSANDS of people lined the streets
of Sofia to witness the departure of Prince
Alexander. The people were greatly af
fected.
The N0coe Temya, published at st.
Petersburg, urges a Russo-Turkish alli-
ance, which, it says, would solve the Bull
garian question.
AT meeting of the British Association
on the Sth Carvill Lewis said he was con-
WINGED that a search would reveal the
! presence of diamonds in Ken lucky.
GENERAL SIR REDvERs BUTLER reports
| that there is less serious state of law
lessness in the County Kerry and the
western portion of Cork than he expected
to find.
Dr.. MENDENHALL, of the scientific de-
partnent of the Signal Service bureau,
| and who spent three years in organizing
the polytechnic department of the old I'M
iversity of Japan at Toxic, has accepted
the presidency of the Rose Polytechnic
Institute at Terre Haute, Ind.
THE great st. Louis Exposition opened
%bo ne %ha i've h1aya NJ
glory, and with an attendance Of nearly
| twenty thousand. All former efforts are
eclipsed in the beauty, extent and
| arrangement of the exhibits, and opening
night found things 80 nearly in a state of
| completion that the visitors were unable
| to detect the shortcomings. 1t will run
for forty days.
A MISS AMELIA JACKSON, who has just
been appointed p position in the Patent
Office, is said to be the daughter Of the
Captain jackson who shot Ellsworth at
Alexandria on the oath of May, 1861.
The treasury officials are pleased with
| the success that has thus far attended
their invitations to holders of three per
| cent. bonds to surrender them for redemp-
ton. OF the $4,000, 900 included in this
new form of call, about 100000 have
been presented for redemption.
some disclosures are made at Washing
! ton of very inefficient management in
| drafting plans for the construction of
| the new naval vessels.
THE anniversary of the defense of the
Castle of Chapultepec, during the Ameri-
can war, was celebrated at the City of
Mexico on the Sth.
ANOTHER case of Mexican oppression is
| reported from Lower California, J. H.
Hanson, an American, being missing, two
of his friends in Jail, and his property
| being confiscated.
ABOUT two hundred excursionists, rep
resenting the One Hundred and Fifty
seventh and Seventy sixth New York
regiments. went to Getty sburg on the sth
to participate in the dedication of the
| monument of the Que Hundred and Fifty
| seventh New York regiment on the first
days battlefield.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
't> B7LOxpS PEST.

The Doctors Fail to Agree as to It's Nature,
But Think Precautionary Measures the
Safest Course-An Conyalescent.
NEW ORLEANS, Sept. 9.-The war be-
tween the doctors as to whether the dis
ease at Biloxi was yellow fever or not,
RACES IS warmly as ever, although the
sickness has disappeared. DR.. Holt,
president of the Louisiana Board of
Health, one of the experts who pro-
nounced it yellow fever, made q long
speech before the Board, in which he Sc
verely handles the physicians of the OPP
position. He gave complete diagnosis
of the case, declaring that the two sick
persons, who had died of the fever, had
died with black vomit, and that their
bodies turned yellow and presented other
evidence that confirms the yellow fever
theory. He declared that Biloxi
physicians had made only superficial
and careless examination Of the
cases, but he made no allusiOn to the re-
port of DR.. Godfrey, of the United States
Marine Hospital service.
DR.. Godfrey has arrived here from BIZ
loxi. He adheres to the belief that the
disease was not yellow fever, but he gave
the mayor of Biloxi the advice of Sur
geon-General Hamilton that the conva-
lescents should be kept under supervision
for six days, and all the precautions taken
to prevent spread of the disease, after
which quarantine and other restrictions
could be abolished. Popular and medical
circles are still divided as to the charac-
ter of the Biloxi fever. Whatever it was,
however, it is ended, as there are no new
cases and the sick are well again.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THE geological survey is to make COM
plete investigation of the earthquake, anc
has issued circular calling for informa-
ton,
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

GENERAL BLACK, Commissioner of PEN
sions, has accepted an invitation to be
present at the meeting of the Society of
the Army of the Tennessee, TO be held at
Rock Island, ILL.,, on the 10Th instant, and
to respond to the toast, "Our Country and
Flag" at the banquet which closes the
Meeting.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

A DECREE has been issued by Prince
Alexander summoning the Bulgarian Ma
tional Assembly to meet on the 18th inst.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THREE female telegraph operators by
laughing at an Italian doctor at the Occi-
dental Hotel, New York, on the 9th,
created row that finally landed the doc
tor in iaa
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THE importations of dry goods at the
port of New York for the week ending
September 2, 1886, were 11,o25 packages,
valued at S2,937,036, against 9,50s pack
ages valued at S2,s57, 7s9, for the preceding
week
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

TIVE large pensions have just been
granted, one to M. D. Richardson, of Ken
lucky. the first payment in which amounts
to 81, 764.13; the other to Moses McFad.
den. of New York, ST. ,064.76.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

The election in Arkansas resulted n the
success of P. H. Hughes for Governor and
his associates on the Democratic State
ticket by an apparent majority Of twenty
Thousand. The Agricultural Wheel elect
ed several legislative candidates.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

SPECIAL AGENT W. E. SPEIR of the su-
pervising architects Office has been direct
ed to proceed Immediately to Charleston
to inspect and to report upon the condi-
tion of the post-office and United States
custom house buildings in that city.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.

MINISTER Cox will sail from Havre
October 2 for New Y ork.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

Mr.. JACKSON, Minister to Mexico, will
remain at his post until relieved there by
the new minister. Judge Manning, or by
the Secretary of Legation, Mr.. Morgan,
who is now ON sick leave in the United
States.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THE third great st. Louis Exposition
opens on the Sth, and gives promise Of
eclipsing its predecessors. The opening
will be the beginning of forty days.
carnival such as no city in the country has
ever witnessed.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

TEE estimate of the fire loss in the United
States and Canada in August is $l3,oOO,-
600, or eighty per cent. above the usual
August average. Forest fires are esti-
mated at $1,000, 900.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

GENERAL satisfaction was expressed at
the War Department upon the receipt of
the news of Geronimo's surrender. Gem
eral Drum, acting Secretary of War, was
In good spirits after the receipt of the Of
fetal dispatch confirming the press re-
ports of the surrender. He said that this
was the end of war running, with brief
intermissions, through twenty-five years,
and General Miles deserved credit for his
vigorous work.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

TIE issue of standard silver dollars from
the Enints during the week ended Septem-
Der was $795, 1922. The issue during the
corresponding period Of last year was
500, $50
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

MARCUS A. WOLFF, who was the bearer
of s., 500 from the Knights of st. Patrick
of st. Louis to Parnell, is said to have
been stability treated by that gentleman
and is still in possession of the purse.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

THE rush of Americans 20 London from
the Continent is so great that many are
unable to obtain passage on the regular
steamers.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

CHARLES HAMILTON, an American citi-
zen, was sentenced to death at Zacatecas,
Mexico, for murder, but his sentence has
been commuted to sixteen years imprison-
IN emit.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

GENERAL MILES makes public the sue
cessful close of the Apachewa He says:
"The hostile Apaches surrendered on the
4th to the troops in the field as prisoners of
war. l arrived at Fort Bowie on the 5th
with Geronimo, Natchez and three others.
Captain Lawton brings in the remainder.
All will be shipped out of the country
about two thousand miles east. I am also
removing all from Fort Apache in the
same direction"
PARRoTsvILLE, in Cooke County, Tenn,
is in wild state of excitement over a
frightful epidemic which has made its ap-
pearance there. The disease, which in
in every case proves fatal, resembles fux,
except that the victims are attacked with
severe pains in the head and at the same
time with pains in the abdomen. The
physicians are unable to cope with the
disease and those striker with it succum
within a short time. Twenty seven
deaths had occurred up to the night Of
the Sd.
The features of the autumnal festivities
IN st. Louis are the great Exposition, wi tn
Gilmoress famous Band, the Triennial
Conclave Of Knights Templar of the
United States, the illumination of the
streets, the nocturnal parades Of the
Flambeau Battalion, the parade of the
Trades Display Association, the torch
light parade of the League of American
Wheelmen, the midnight parade and
grand ball Of the followers Of the Yelled
Prophet, and the regular season Of the
great st. Louis fair.
St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-18

abandoned.
A SPECIAL meeting of the United States
Brewers Association was held at Niagara
Falls on the 8th.
DIPLoMATEs at Constantinople believe
that the Bulgarian Assembly will re-elect
Prince Alexander.
WESTERN UNION reports a prosperous
business for the past quarter, but passes
the usual dividend.
THE French Minister of Marine denies
that forcible seizure Of the Tahiti is
lands has been ordered.
A BANQUET was given to Justin Nc
earthly on the 9Th previous TO his depart
ure from England for America. Mr.. Par
nell presided.
AT Montour, Pa, on the sth, the wife
and child of L. L. Matthews were burned
to dea tn in their home.
T. J. LoTHRoP, of Taunton, was noml-
mated for Governor by the Massachusetts,
Prohibitionists.
A NOTE has been sent to the Powers by
the Porte praying them to prevent a for
eign occupation Of Bulgaria.
The Republicans of the Eighteenth I'LL
nois Congressional district have nomi-
mated Hon. Jehu Baker.
Posi- OFFICE INSPECTOR DARBEILAY, of
the Chicago division, arrested L. J. Sulli-
van and Charles Wyman at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, on the 9th, on the charge of robbery
of the post-offices at Minneapolis, North
wood and GordonVille, Mimi.
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