St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-10-30

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ST. LANDRY DEMOCRAT.
OPELOUSAS. e LOUISIANA
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
REV HENRY WARD BEEoHER mas gone
TO Ireaad.
SsLIMroR- GENERAL jerks has been
admitted to practise for the United States
Supreme Court.
A eRsAT fire occurred the night of the
18th at Salisbury, Md, causing, as esti-
mated, % 900 600 damage.
RUSSIA has sent another note to Bulga-
ria making demands which Bulgaria will
not cencede, and there is another crisis.
Sol SAYLEs, bondsman for H. l..
Sayles, New York's Doodle alderman who
fed to Canada, paid So, 1000 into court on
the 18th.
SEVEN persons died Of cholera in Siege
din, Hungary, on the 18th, and nineteen
new cases of the disease were reported in
the town.
HENRY CONES. agent of the Long Island
railroad at Westbury, L. l., was arrested
on the 18Th. There is large deficiency in
his accounts.
A MOVEMENT is ON foot at London to
erect a memorial church in honor Of the
attainment of the fiftieth year Of Queen
yictoria's reign.
! THE mayor of Minneapolis issued a
proclamation on the 10th calling on both
parties to the switchmen's trouble to ar
bitrate their differences.
MRS. LEADER, wife of a London butcher,
threw herself and five children into the
Thames river ON the 10th, and all except
ing one child were drowned.
THROUGH private letter received at
Washington comes an alarming descrip-
dion of the European situation. War in
the spring is considered certain.
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THE Masonic temple that cost the MEM
bers of the order In Cleveland $4,000 to
buld, was dedicated On the 18th by the
Hrand Lodge of Ohio. Several thousand
people attended the services.
THE Inman Steamship line has gone into
voluntary liquidation, and it Is probabl
that before long the entire outfit, consist
ing of the feet of fine vessels and docks in
Liverpool, will pass into the hands of new
owners.
In the Vermont Legislature on the 18th
the Senate gave Geo. F. Edmunds % votes
for United States Senator and W. H. H.
Bingham I. The vote Of the House stood:
EdmHnds, 1879; Bingham, q, and W. G.
veasey, 8.
! TaE issue of standard silver dollars
from the minis during the week ended Oc-
sober 49, was $s6l,0o4; same week last
year, s., oso,750. The shipments of frac-
tionai silver coin since October I. amounts
to sos, 1S9.
THE business failures occu ring through
cut the country during the seven days
ended the 18th numbered for the United
States 100, apd for Canada 10, total of
f79, as compared with total Of 100 for
the previous like period.
MRS. MANNING and Miss Mary Manning
are overseeing the completion of improve
ments I'm their Dupont Circle home. They
viii entertain lavishly this season. as
Mrs. Manning intends Miss Mary's debut
year shall be very gay one.
REPORTS continue to come in adding to
The casualties from the recent tidal wave
ON the gulf coast. Up to the 18th the loss
of life was known to be fully three hun
dreds with the chances in favor OF the
total being further augmented.
GOVERNOR HENRY LLOYD of Maryland
was married at Cambridge, Nd, on the
18th to Miss Mary E. Staplefort, also of
Cambridge. They will make short
wedding tour before going to Annapolis
20 reside in the executive mansion.
How. ADRIAN S. HEWITT, Democratic
candidate for Mayor Of New York, has
written an open letter to Henry George,
Labor candidate for the same office, in
which he declines the latter's challenge to
q public discussion of the issues between
them.
DANIEL W. STOUT, a well known char
Rcter seen ON the StrAats of Gnlrm bus