St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1886-05-29
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


ON the 18th Queen Christina of Spain
gave birth to a son.
BEACH, the Australian sculler, has ar
rived at London in robust health, and will
shortly challenge the world.
On the 18th Paul M. Potter, editor of the
New York To,on Topics, was arrested on q
charge of criminal libel.
THE Senate confirmed Mrs. Thompson on
the 18th as postmistress at Louisville, Ky.
ON the 18th joint resolution was adopt
ed by the Senate authorizing Rear Ad-
miral J. w. A. Nicholson, U. S. N, to ac-
cept medal conferred upon him by the
King of Norway and Sweden.
THE case of President Arthur is pro-
nounced a hopeless one, and it is hardly
thought he will ever again leave his house
alive.
THE widow of Louis Riel is reported w.
ing at the point of death at ST. Vital, Man.
She has never rallied from the shock of
her husbands execution.
SPEAKER CARLISLE says if the House
should attempt to consider all the special
orders it has already made and pass the
appropriation bills beside, it would be in
session until next November.
On the 18th Miss Oracle Morse, eldest
daughter of Rev. J. B. Morse, of larry
town, N. Y, and a niece of the late Com
modore Vanderbilt, eloped with the family
coachman, George Minton. Rev. Morse is
missionary preacher attached to Black
wells Island penitentiary.
On the 18th Officer Thomas Redden, an
other of the policemen wounded at the
hi 0% i'd 81 f. s,,,,
On Decoration Day the President will
review the Grand Army of the Republic
in Brooklyn, N. Y, in the forenoon, and
will attend the exercises at the Academy
of Music in New York in the evening,
where Postma ster- General Villas will de-
liver the grafton.
PROF. JONATHAN EMERY, of William and
Mary College, after months of search, has
discovered the aerolite which fell in Wash
ington County, Pa, September IA, 1885. 1t
was. found imbedded deep in the soil on
Frederick Miller's farm, two miles north of
GAINESVILLE. Prof. Miller says it is the
largest aerolite on record, and weighs fully
two hundred tons. Its composition is
chromium, nickel, aluminium, copper,
magnesium and tin.
ON the 18th Hugh M. Brooks, alias w. Fl.
Lennox Maxwell, the alleged murderer of
Preller at st. Louis, outlined his defense
to a reporter. He admits the death of
Preller at his hands, but claims it was at
Preller's request, and that it was accident
al; that his subsequent conduct in dispos-
ing of the body. ETC., was the result of his
perturbed state of mind, and that he nei-
Their had nor needed any of Preller's
money.
j. w. CRAIG, a leading oil broker in
Pittsburgh, Pa, and the West, has failed.
He was ''long" 100000 barrels on falling
market.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is negotiatiating
for country residence near Washington.
MOTION made by Mr.. Gladstone on the
18th devoting four nights week to the
Hone-Rule debate was carried in the
House of Commons.
ON the 18th Archbishop Gibbons received
an official notification from Cardinal Ja-
cobini of his election to the cardinalate.
ON the 18th M. Floquet, of Paris, was or
dered out of the lobby of the British
House of Commons by policeman, who
thought the Frenchman was a dynamiter.
HoN. w. M. SPRINGER has been re-
nominated for Congress by the Demo-
cratic convention of the Thirteenth Illinois
district
On the 18th Secretary Manning was out
riding with Mrs. Manning, and looked
very much improved.
COMMODORE VIM. K. MACE failed to pass
mis- examination for promotion to be Rear
Admiral, and the President has granted
his request to be placed on the retired list
of the navy with the rank of Commodore
under the forty year service provision.
SECRETARY WHITNEY placed the United
States steamer Dispatch, which arrived at
Washington on the 18th, at the service of
the Senate and House committee on In
dian affairs, who wished to inspect the
school at Hampton, Va. The party in
tended to sail from Washington on the
evening of the Goth.
ON the 18th ex-President Arthur, for the
first time in seven weeks, went to drive in
Central Park. 1t is said he felt no i'll eff
fects from his outing.
CUNT TELEKY, of Austria, is organizing
an expedition to Central Africa. The party
will consist of one hundred we'll armed
men, and its rendezvous will be Zanzibar.
1t is believed the work of the expedition
will not be confined entirely to scientific |
exploration.
THE Republican County convention at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th nominated
John Dalzell for Congress from the Twen-
ty-second district and Hon. Thomas M.
Bayne from the Twenty third district.
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
ON the 18th the M. E. Church at McCon-
nellsville, Pa, was struck by lightning, |
the spire shattered and considerable dam
age done to the auditorium and lecture