St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-21

Two more coopers, William Potts and
George Hazlitt, navigated the Niagara
whirlpool rapids in a cask on the Sth.
NOT over twenty-five persons shook
hands with the President at the White
House at the public reception on the 9th.
1T is considered probable that Secretary
Manning will return to his post in the
Treasury Department and withdraw his
resignation.
THE Prince of Wales has declined to ac-
cept testimonial service of plate valued
at $4,000 from the commission of the Col
onial exhibition.
SECRETARY LAMAR emphatically denies
certain reports that there exists a disa-
greement between him and General Black,
of the pension office.
THE President is now engaged in the
consideration of matters which he wishes
to dispose of before he leaves Washington
on his summer vacation.
A WASHINGTON rumor has it that AS
sistant Secretary Thompson of the Treas
ury Department is to succeed Secretary
Manning before Congress reassembles.
THE Ophtalmological society at Heidel-
berg has awarded Prof. Helmholtz gold
Crete medal and the sum of fifty dollars
yearly as the greatest benefactor of
science.
OWING to washouts on the railroads
leading to Atlantic City, N. j., on the
9Th, one hundred and seven car loads of
excursionists were detained there unable
to return to their homes.
MISS LAURA MOORE, of st. Louis, who
took the<prize last year at the Paris con-
servatoire, will not compete this year, it
having been decided that her stature is
too short for grand opera.
IT is generally understood now that an
extra bond call is to be made for large
amount from $10.000,000 to $12,000000,
which will be in addition to the usual
monthly call of $4,ooo,ooo.
Two HUNDRED volunteers for cow
boy cavalry battalion organized at Kio-
wa, Kas., on the 9th, and will offer their
services to the Secretary of War, awaiting
marching orders to Mexico.
The President held quite Congression-
al reception on the 9th. Fifty or sixty
Senators and Representatives called on
him, making farewell call before leaving
Washington for the summer.
FIVE HUNDRED AND SIXTY Austrian pill
grims, including many aristocrats, have
started for Lourdes. This is the first pill
grimage from German-speaking nation
to France since the war Of 1870.
THE company from California who had
undertaken to build cable tramway at
Pachuca, Mexico, had to abandon the
enterprise, and on the Goth ult. the con-
.struction of an animal traction road was
commenced.
THE formation of Turkish army corps
of $4,000 men in Macedonia is due to the
recent language of NJ. Tricoupis regard
ing Greek claims and the efforts Of Rus
sian emissaries to foment rebellion in
Macedonia.
THE relatives who went to Grey stone to
hear the will of Samuel j. Tilden read,
have returned home. 1t is understood
that there is some surprise expressed at
the bountiful requests for the public bene-
liz 1HCIO ID uO VI q COuISou
THE President has appointed and COM
missioned all of his nominees under the
Interior Department whose cases were not
acted upon by the Senate. There are
twelve gentlemen who are thus reappoint-
ed, among them George w. Julian, to be
Surveyor General of New Mexico.
Tsyr.- MTYn
placed on theretired list of the army, hav-
ing reached the age of sixty -four. Colonel
J. Fl. Baxter, Medical Surveyor of the
army, being the next medical officer in
rank, viii act as Surgeon General until
the President appoints successor to Gen.
eral Murray.
SOME Of the manufacturers at Salem,
Mass, are fitting up barracks for their
non union employees that are expected
from the provinces. One has building
with thirty hunks, dining hall, kitchen,
etc. The men will be kept in first rate
style. The knights keep sentries out for
all new men that come in.
A DETACHMENT of four hundred Mex
lean troops arrived at Nuevo Laredo on
the night of the 9Th, and two cannon,
which accompanied them, have been
placed to command Fort Mcintosh on the
Texas side of the Rio Grande. Much in
dignation is expressed by Americans, and
matters are getting squally look.
THE Canadian propeller California ar
rived in Chicago on the 9th from Mont-
real, with about forty passengers. Among