St. Landry democrat., 1886-12-04
NEWS IN BRIEF
Gayi1ed hDm Various Sources.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

died recently in st. Louis, served nineteel
consecutive years in Congress, durin,
which time he made himself conspicu
ously useful, not only to his own constitu
ency, but to the entire West.
i. Ex-PUBLIc PRINTER ROUNDS wants tn.
committee who presented him with thre,
hundred dollar clock to raise thirty dol
lars to pay for damages sustained in it,
transit to him by express.
The one hundredth anniversary of tn,
birth of Karl Won Weber, the composer
will be observed on December IS with Cd
cratic performa noes throughout Ger
many.
IT is intimated that Secretary Lamar
will make some important recommends
tions in his report concerning territorial
grazing lands.
BALDWIN GARDINER, president of the
Pacific Stock Board at San Francisco
and leading stock broker of the CITY,
has disappe AIRED. His liabilities are sup
posed to be about $500, 900, mostly to Gus
toners.
The London Standard considers the ap-
pointment of Sir Robert Hamilton to the
Governorship of Tasmania sign that Sir
Michael Hicks Beach is weak and irreso-
Lutte.
DIR. JOHN HANCOCK DOUGLASS, who at
sended General Grant during his last i'll
ness, has been suffering recently from
nervous prostration. His friends have ad :
vised him to take trip for his health, and
the doctor has decided to travel through
the Southern States.
HEppEpr M Hovrp Gr,& -;o.
OF the Missouri Pacific railway, G company
died at New York on the 23d.
PRINCESS BEATRICE, wife of Prince
Henry of Battenberg, gave birth to q son
on the sd.
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS was buried at
Quincy, Mass, ON the 23d.
The session of the Cabinet on the e3d
was devoted to consideration of the Presi-
ident's forthcoming message.
LIEUTENANT PEARCY, who has been on
an expedition to Greenland, has arrived
at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
SENATOR EDMUNDs is to inaugur ate a
war on the Administration for not en-
forcing the Civil-Service law to suit him.
SIR CHARLES dixie says he will shortly
bring another suit to establish his inn o.
cence in connection with the Crawford
divorce scandal.
The President had taken no action up to
the 23d upon the application of District
Attorney Stone of Pennsylvania for rein
statement. Nobody knows, of course,
definitely just what the President will do.
AT the State Department on the 23d
report. which had been printed on that
day, that Minis ter Manning, the new Min
lister to Mexico, had become involved in
trouble similar to that with which Mr..
Sedgwick was charged, was treated as
wholly unworthy of attention.
ERAsTUs BROOKS, the veteran editor.
died at his home on Staten Island, N, Y.
on the 25th.
A SPECIAL train left st. Louis on the
25th loaded with employees of the Gould
system to attend the funeral of the late II.
M. Hoxie at Des Moines, Ia.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is represented as
being especially well pleased with the bids
for the new cruisers.
PRESIDENT CLEyELAND's message is said
to be well along toward completion, the
principal portion being now in type.
NUDGE TURNER of the Federal Court at
San Antonio, Tex, held court on the 25th
Thanksgiving Day. and excited much
criticism thereby.
SOME New Orleans people are making
light on Consul-General Porch at the City
of Mexico, the apparent object being to
get in man of their own.
1T develops that Iowa opposition to Col.
onel James D. Broadhead is at the bottom
of the fight against the bill creating the
new Federal circuit of Missouri and Min
nesota.
In his speech from the throne on the
18th Emperor William said the measure
for increasing the strength of the army is
justified by the increasing of the armies of |
neighboring States.
COLONEL HUSTON, cha irman of the In |
diana Republican State central commit
tee, In an interview at Dallas, claimed I
the Legislature of his State for his party,
and said that Harrison would be the Sem
ator.
BISHOP WH.PPLE had medal struck at |
he United States mint at Phila delphia,
and has presented it to Engineer Thomas
Little, of Portage, Wis, in recognition of
lis bravery in saving life at the Rio dis
,ster.
JUDGE SCoTT Of the Illinois Supreme
Court has granted supersedeas in the
chicago Anarchist cases, which stays
heir execution until the full bench of the
supreme Court can pass upon the points
aised in their behalf.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
A RUMoR was in circulation in New York
n the 22d that ex-Alderman Fullgraff,
those testimony proved him to be per-
urer, had committed suicide, but it lacked
Two half-breeds, Pierre Larocques and
is uncle, Basil Richard, met at st. Vital,