St. Landry democrat., 1886-08-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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| ton.
IT was thought that the last smallpox
patient hat been dismissed cured at De-
| troit, Mich, but on the 10th two more
| cases, both pronounced, were discovered.
The mother of former patient and her
child are both down with the disease.
THE ceremonies attending the unwilling
! of the DeKalb statue occurred at Annapo-
lis, Md, on the 10th. Ten thousand strang-
ers were present. Secretary Bayar re-
ceived the statue officially and made a
Short appropriate speech. A poem, an
grafton, music and fireworks closed the
festivities.
THE London newspapers generally ex-
press satisfaction at the recall of the
Afghan Commission.
THE State of Missouri on the 18th placed
100000 ga per cent. bonds at 1G2.63, and
100000 at 102.90 Ito.
THE centennial anniversary of the death
of Frederick the Great was celebrated
quietly at Pottsdam on the 18th.
EX-CoNGREssMAN BENJAMIN T. RIGGS
| was nominated for Governor on the 18th
| by the Delaware Democratic convention.
! CAPTAIN BLACK, leading counsel for the
| defense, opened his argument in the An
archist trial at Chicago on the 18th.
RIoTING was again renewed at Belfast,
on the 18th, but the rioters were promptly
dispersed by the military.
| DR.. JAMES WOODROW is undergoing an
| ecclesiastical trial before the Augusta,
| (Ga.) Presbytery on charges of heresy.
WILLIAMS, the Socialist convicted at
| Of nIctyu ho OF afS
fused to pay his fine and was sent to
prison
AN unknown tramp killed J. E. Davis,
the station agent at Huron, Ind, on the
18th, and was Immediately lynched by the
people.
The measure prepared by Lord Ran
dolph Churchill giving local government
to Ireland is to be introduced at the next
session of the British Parliament.
The Gray defalcation at Boston has
dwindled down, according to the state
ment of directors of the Atlantic Mills
Company, to about 100000.
THE family of Rasures, the Texan re-
Gently murdered by Mexicans, will put in
claim of 100000 damages against the
Mexican Government.
A GREAT slide of bog peat occurred at
Port Stanley, Falkland Islands, recently,
covering the village, destroying much
property and taking two lives.
FRANK STOUT was shot and killed OH the
18th, and his father so badly beaten that
his life is despaired of, by Charles En-
mons, in Wabash township, Gibson Coun-
ty, Ind.
ELI PURNEY, a well-to-do farmer, re-
siding near Leavenworth, Kas., committed
suicide on the 18th by hanging. Cause,
dependency, from poor crops. He leaves
a wife and three children.
A CABLE telegram from Berlin, of the
18th, announces that there can be no ques
ton of German protectorate over the
island of Samoa, in the South Pacific,
| without the assent of England and Amer
lea.
THE Presidential party arrived at Pros
d pect House, in the Adirondacks, on the
18th, after continuous and uneventful
ride from Albany. 1t comprises President
and Mrs. Cleveland, the latter's mother,
Mrs. Folsom, and Mr.. Samuel B. Ward,
of Albany.
THREE HUNDRED workmen in farm i'm
plement factory at Vierser, France, have
struck for higher wages. Troops were
sent to the scene on the 18th to preserve
order, as the strikers threatened violence.
dozen strikers were arrested for intimi-
dating non strikers.
THE great st. Louis Exposition seems
destined to be a success again this year, if
signs count for anything. Reports come
of the busy work of preparation daily 60
ing on in the monster building, and in
tending exhibitors are making rapid pro-
gress toward getting their displays ready.
Secretary Johnson is at the wheel. as
usual, and is steering things with a steady
hand, which promises that all things will
be ready for opening day. Besides the
exhibits there will be some of the
popular features of last year.
Gilmore will be on hand with
sixty-fve musicians, and there will be
music in the air; the ladies' favorite, the
tea hong, will be larger and more extern
sive in it's appointments, and the oily,
rotund figure of Mr.. Baker, the Buckeye
popcorn man, will loom up conspicuous
ly amidst his bevy of fair maidens dis
pensing the succulent cereal and other
goodies. Last year the routine between
spells of inspecting the exhibits was tea,
music and popcorn, and preparations
seem to be under way to repeat the pro-
gramme.
The operatives of the great wholesale
clothing manuf acturing houses of Boston
are preparing to make fight against the
introduction of new basting machine,
which is now in an experimental stage.
Each machine used, it is said, will throw
fifteen girls out of employment.
PATRICK MCDONALD, of Athol, Mass,
fatally assaulted his wife on the 18th with