St. Landry democrat., 1886-09-25

OPELOUSAS. AooA0AaN0~
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
JEFFERSON DAVIS daughter is visiting
friends at Washington.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland will
return to Washington in few days.
A TERRIBLE state of affairs is reported
in India, and the country is said to be on
the verge of financial disaster.
NEGOTIATIONS have been concluded for
the return from Massachusetts, to Canada
of one hundred French families.
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THE nineteenth annual reunion of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee be-
gan at Rock Island, H., on the 18th.
THE North German Gazette says there is
ne prospect for the enforcement of
Alexander, even if the Sobranje re elects
him.
voluntary surrender of 100000 three
per cent. bonds has been indefinitely ex-
tended.
A GRAND TIE Deum was sung in all the
churches in Malta on the 18th in gratitude
for the preservation of the island from
the recent earthquake.
ELEVEN English fishing vessels have
been seized by the French authorities It
Havre for infringement of the interna-
tional maritime and fisheries laws.
SIR CHARLES dixie has returned to
London, and it is announced that he will
re-enter public life as the proprietor and
editor of London daily newspaper.
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PASSES issued to Chinese hereafter who
are merely passing through the country
are to he numbered, so that their holders
may the more readily be kept track of.
LONDON shopkeepers say that they have
never done aslarge business with Amer
leans as during the present season. The
American customs officials have discover
ed the fact.
COUNT KALNOKY returned to Vienna
from Gastein, On the 18th, furnished with
the rudiments OF an entente cordiale be-
tween the three Emperors on the Bulga-
rian question.
A BRIDGE over the Ostrauitz a riverin
the town of Ostraw, Moravia, collapsed
on the 18th while squadron of Uhlans
were riding across and seven persons
were instantly killed.
SEVERAL cases Of cholera have occurred |
in Naples and Genoa. The total number
of cases in Italy since the outbreak of the |
disease up to the 18th was $4,000, and the |
total number of deaths 1900.
ID. w. WEAR, superintendent Of the |
Yellowstone Park, in his annual report to |
the Secretary of the Interior, calls atten-
ton to the laws of the park and says they |
are entirely inadequate for its protection.
THE return of the President to the cap
ital will be the signal for the return of the |
Cabinet and other prominent off cials,
who feel that they are not entitled to a
longer vacation than the head of the Gov
eminent
THE payment of the new ten dollar sill
yer certificates began simultaneously at
the treasury and all'the sub-treasury offices
on the 18th, the notes having been shipped
to the different cities during the preced-
ing week.
CYCLONE passed from southwest to
northeast through the edge Of Burnsides,
Conn, on the evening of the 18th. Its
course, fortunately, was mostly through
woods, where it cut a straight path an
eighth of mile wide
FROM the last statement issued by the
mint bureau, it appears that the silver
dollars coined under the Bland act has
reached total of $4,000, 900, which is
about equal in amount to the gold coin and
bullion held by the treasury.
The issues of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
September II was 1851 1858; the issue dur
ing the corresponding period of last year
was 1898, 3G. The shipments of fractional
silver coin since September / amount to
SAL, S95.
THERE has been no definite or very
clear statement respecting the intentions
of the Government in the matter Of trying
Geronimo, but this is simply because it is
absolutely impossible to obtain any exact
or satisfactory information at the War
Department.
THERE are but few persons who expect
Secretary Manning to resume his seat at
the Cabinet table. His personal friends
and those who are in frequent commune
cation with the members of the Manning
family assert positively that his decision
to retire from the Treasury Department is
final.