St. Landry democrat., 1886-04-24
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Mr.. GLADSTONE on the 14th sent reply
to the congratulatory cablegram received
by him from the mayor of Boston.
SENATOR VEST was in his seat in the
Senate on the 14th for the first time since
bis illness.
PATRICK DUNN, who was serving a seven
years sentence at Glasgow for connection
with dynamite explosion, has been re-
leased. His health is completely shat
tered.
ALoNzo P. KENDALL, seventy years of
lge, shot and killed burglar who attempt
ID to enter his residence at Lockland, o.,
sn the night of the 18th.
APPLICATION was made to Governor
Oglesby of Illinois ON the 14th for requi-
sition for the deputy sheriffs who did the
shooting at East st. Louis, and it was re-
fused on technical grounds.
DR.. W. H. HALE, of Washington, who
was held at Pittsburgh, on a charge of con-
spring to defraud his creditors, has been
released through the efforts of DR.. Mary
Walker.
Mr. MCLANE, the American Minister at
Paris, presided at brilliant banquet
which was given on the evening of the
l4th to NJ. Pasteur. In proposing the health
of the di 5tinguished guest Mr.. McLane re-
ferred to him as benefactor of humanity,
to whom America was extremely grateful.
H. S. Roy, teller of the Bank of Montreal
at Stratford, Ont, has been missing since
the 10th. 1t is alleged that he is default
or to the extent Of several thousand dol
lars.
he
whom Beach defeated, will row Perkins,
the British champion, on the Thames at
London On May "a for the sportsman's cup
and the championship.
THE report of Rev. DR.. Charles Reilly,
treasurer of the Irish National League of
America, for the four weeks ending April
10, has been made public. March Is there
was on hand a balance of SCI 1878, and
the receipts since increased the amount to
S69.SS5.79. April draft for 1852. Is
was sent to Parnell, leaving a balance of
S$11 ,2S3.66.
R. G. DUN's herd of thoroughbred short
horns were sold at auction at Columbus, O.,
ON the 10Th.
COLONEL THos. M. RUGER has been
placed in charge of the department of the
Missouri.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
has issued circular to the Knights of La
Dor throughout the contin ent to give of
their substance to aid their striking breth
zen of the Southwest.
Hon. FRANK w. TRACEY, the millionaire
husband of Agnes Ethel, the actress, died
at Buffalo, N. Y, on the 18th, aged forty
seven years.
BISMARCK spoke in the upper hou Sc Of
the Prussian Landtag on the 18th on the
bill expropriating the land of the Poles in
Posen.
SIR WILLIAM VERNON HARcoURT, Chan
cellor of the Exchequer, introduced the
budget in the House of Commons ON the
10Th, and it was adopted.
SIR CHARLES dixie has sent to the
Queens Proctor denial of the statements
made by Mrs. Crawford, and wants the
case reopened.
GOVERNOR PATTERSON of Pennsylvania
on the 18th demanded the resignation of
Rev. R. E. Higbee, State Superintendent
of public instruction, and removed Rev. J.
W. Sayres and Mrs. E. E. Hutter, inspect
or and assistant inspector of the Soldiers
Orphans school, for gross mismanage-
ment of the schools and neglect and cru
city to the soldiers.
SENATOR MORRILL,, who was seventy =
six years old on the 10Th, has been con-
tinually in Congress-House and Senate
for thirty-one years. Senator Sherman
entered Congress the same year as Senator
Morrill-1S55.
On the 10th Bishop Cosgrove of Daven-
port, Ia, arrived home from his visit to
Rome.
Mr.. GLADSTONE introduced his Irish
land bill to the House Of Commons on the
10th.
GOVERNOR BATE has appointed Hon. W.
C. Whitthorne to succeed Howell E. Jack
son assU nited States Senator from Ten
nessee. ~ @
On the 18th Mr.. Gladstone left London
for his country seat at Hawarden, where
he proposed to take two weeks rest.
On the night of the 10th Henry Tissing-
ton, the leader of the orchestra in the Union
Square Theater, New York, died suddenly
in the theater.
THE late VIM. H. Vanderbilt's sons have
given $3.50, to the College of Physicians
and Surgeons, to build and endow a build
ling to be used exclusively for clinics. The
building will cost $4,000. 1t will be
known as the Vanderbilt clinic, in honor
of their father.
On the night of the 18th Mr.. S. S. Cox,
the United States Minister, delivered a
lecture at the British institute in Con-
stantinople. The audience was composed
of the best people in the city. Mr.. Cox
took for his subject: 'Tbe Poetry of Mech
anism, or the Tenth Muse.n
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
MRS. L. l.. FOSTER, well-dressed, good
looking woman, thirty-two years of age,