St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-01-16
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
Ne,vs from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Senator S8bln at ST. raul, MIMI, TO tne
amount of S. 900.
PRINCE ALoMpRA is at the head of the
rebel force in Burmah, and claims to be
King.
In the case of Druggist Amende, at
Jersey City, N. j., charged with causing
the death Of Margaret and Ella Holtz, by
putting up prescription of morphine in
stead of quinine, and who, after discov-
ering his mistake, tried to commit suicide,
the jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
ON the 9th the Surrogate of New York
rendered decision admitting to probate
the will of Louis Chammersley, who died
in May, 1888, leaving an estate of about
$4,000, 600 to his wife. The will was con-
tested by relatives of the testator.
On the 9th the President transmitted to
Congress the draft of the bill formulated
by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in
tended to protect timber of Indian lands
from spoliation. In his letter of transmit
tai, the President says the subject is i'm
portant and is commended to the early at
tention of Congress.
On the 9Th it was announced that Miss
Sarah Althea Hill, the plaintiff in the cele-
brated Sharon divorce case, was to be
married ON the 7th at Stockton, CAL, to
David s. Terry, -Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of California, her leading
counsel in her proceedings for divorce.
COLONEL HENRY L. SCOTT, U. S. A., died
in New York on the 6th of paralysis, aged
seventy years. He was married to Miss
field Scott, and acted as Inspector General
on General Scott's staff, but retired from
active service after the Generals death in
1872. The wife of Colonel Scott died in
Baltimore recently.
ON the It'll q sensation was caused at
Cleveland, O., by the marriage Of Miss Ina
Norton, pretty blonde, to colored bar
Der.
GENERAL DECoURCEY reports that the
rebels in Anam destroyed the Catholic
mission houses at Ughean the latter part
of December and killed 500 Christians.
ON the 7th David Gindin, Polish Jew,
attempted to throw himself from the
Brooklyn bridge, but was caught by the
heels and saved.
J. CLINSKILL, a merchant of Battleford,
N. W. T., has gone to Ottawa to impress
upon the authorities there the necessity
Indian uprising. He says the Indians are
enraged because of the execution of the
eight Indians in November, and are max
ing all sorts of threats.
MEssRs. BATES, Holden and Smith, three
Cleveland capitalists, have leased 5000
acres of gas territory in Butler County,
Pa, and are negotiating 10000 acres more
in Hancock County, West Virginia. 1t is
their intention to construct a pipeline
eighty miles long, and convey the gas to
Cleveland as soon as the right to enter the
city is granted by the Councils.
THE new French Ministry is composed
as follows: M. DeFreycinet, President of
the Council and Minister of Foreign At
fairs; M. Sarrien, Minister of the Inte-
rior; M. sadi Carnot, Minister of Finance;
M. Globlet, Minister of Public Instruction.;
NJ. DeMole, Minister of Justice; NJ. De-
Velle, Minister Of Agriculture; General
Boulanger, Minister of War; M. Auber,
Minister Of the Marine and the Colonies;
M. Barbaut, Minister of Public Works; NJ.
Granet, Minister of Posts and Telegraphs.
THE guard over Garfield's tomb is to be
withdrawn next June.
KEENE, the actor, is improving, and in
tended to leave Kansas City for New York
on the nth.
THE Pope in letter to Bismarck thanks
him for being selected as mediator in the
Carolines question.
JUDGE THURMAN has rendered his de-
gcision in the arbitration between Ohio coal
miners and operators. 1t favors the
miners.
Trs to cosl hat kL,oy ,of{
executive at Dublin Castle that will re-
move the Earl of Carnarvon will be intro
duced by the British Government.
JOHN SHERMAN has telegraphed his
thanks to the Republican members of the
Ohio Assembly for re-electing him Sena-
tor.
f. Ell. WINSTON, of Chicago, whose ap-
pointment as Brigadier General of militia
recently caused some merriment, has re-
signed, and he won't "put that uniform
on"
SECRETARY WHITNEY has decided not to
reconvene the court martial in the case OF
Paymaster-G General Smith of the Navy.
He will approve the findings of the court
and submit the case to the President for
his action.
JAMES r. KEENE, the ex.California mil
lionaire. In giving testimony before ref
cree at New York ON the sth, stated that
he is absolutely without income, and is en-
gagged in no business, and that the money
necessary for his support he receives from
his wife.
THE President win give the first State
dinner of his administration on the even.
ing of the 18th. His guests win be the
Cabinet and their wives, the General of the
Army and Mrs. Sheridan, the President of
tie Senate and Mrs. Sherman, and the
Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, and the guests
sojourning at the White House during the