St. Landry democrat., 1886-11-13
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.


News from Everywhere.
THE great Bulgarian Sobranje to elect |
successor to Prince Alexander opened at |
Tirnuva on the 3lst. ..
Two of the conspirators engaged In the
reinforcement of Prince Alexander have
been released on bail.
ACCORDING to the demand of General
Kaaibars the plotters against Prince AL
exander have been released.
IT is estimated that the receipts from
eleemargarius licenses and stamps
throu ghout the country will aggregate
", 5so, 900 annually.
A FRIEND of James G. Blaine gives it
ext that the latter does not want the pres
idential nomination in 1888, preferring to
take his chances in 1892.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, when applied
to, refused his consent for Governor Ross
of New Mexico to take an active part in
the recent political canvass.
PRINCE BISMARCK is said to have de-
clined to read a book on the "Hygienic
and Medical Institution Of Berlin" because
it was printed in Roman characters.
GOVERNOR HARRISON of Connecticut re-
fused to honor a requisition of the Gov
ernor Of Iowa asking for the surrender OF
William H. Bradbury, accused of forg-
cry.
A MEETING of Socialists at Gotha, view
ing with alarm the increase of Russian
power, recommend the German Govern
ment to be persistent in its hostility to the
Russian policy.
THE will of Mrs. Corneiia NJ. Stewart
was filed for probate with the Surrogate
of New York on the 1st. The immense
estate is mainly divided among her inn
mediate relatives.
PRINCE LOUIS NAPOLEON is in Wash
ington, and is said to be the maddest man
there because republican America does
not go down ON its marrowbones to the
representative of imperial France.
OWING to some incendiary speeches In
Randolph County, N. c., last week, and
resulting therefrom, a race war is said to
be threatened, and the militia are being
held in readiness to respond to the call of
Governor Scales.
The President is said to be devoting
much of his spare time to an address to
be delivered at Boston on the occasion of
the two hundred aud fiftieth anniversary
of Harvard College, to which he has &C
cepted an ivitation.
IT is rather loudly whispered that Mrs.
C eveI and will not enter the social world
this season, but rather that she will find
entertainment at home of nature sug-
pested by recent purchases of diminutive
articles Of wardrobe.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the minis during the week and ended
October 80, was $SS0,0S5; same week last
year S774,45o. The shipments of frac-
tionai silver coin during the month Of
October amounted to 1921, 24l.
IT is said that the reason President
Cleveland did not go to Buffalo to vote
was that he has changed his residence to
Tenallytown, D. c., the location of his re-
Gently acquired homestead, to which his
belongings have been removed.
SAM s. PAXTON, grandson OF Ccmmo-
dore Perry, who was discharged on the
30th from Michigan State prison at jack
son, having served five years. sentence
for burglary. is said to have inherited
S25o,ooo fortune during his incarceration
THE British ambassador at Constanti-
nople has Leen instructed to insist upon
an immediate conference at Constantine
pc to consider the Bulgarian situation
and to demand the suspension of Russian
intervention pending the decision OF such
conference.
A SEALED car of the United States Ex-
press Company was broken into on the
run between Chicago AMI Toledo on the
night of the 1st, and large quantity OF
valuable merchandise distracted. The
detectives of the company are on still
hunt for clew.
CARDS are out for the marriage of Miss
Amy Hewitt, daughter of the Hon. Abram
s. Hewitt, mayor-elect Of New York, to
Mr.. James Olive Green. son of DIR. Norvin
Green, president of the Western Union
Telegraph company. Aue WouuiHS 10 W
take pl ace on November is.
THE Women's Home Missionary Society
of the NJ. e. church celebrated their ami
versary at Detroit, Mich, on the 31st.
Addresses were made by several ladies
attending the National annual meeti ng of
the society regarding the work accom-
plished and that yet to be done.
ATTORNEY SALAMoN, of counsel for the
Chicago anar chists, appeared before Judge
Gary on the 30th, armed with stack oflaw
books and asked to be heard on the motion
for q navy trial based ON the documents