St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-07-07

| THN POSGma8ter-G General has removed
twenty post-oface inspectors. This was
made necessary by the reduced appropria,
tion for this service for the fiscal year be-
ginning July l. Ten more will also be re
moved.
THE total number Of Presidential post Of
fees in operation (per department report TO,
July l. 1885, is 2, ,502; increase during the
year, 1865; aggregate allowance for salaries
Of Presidential postmasters for the next
fiscal year, "a, ,202, 400; increase, 1922, 100
total gross receipts Of Presidential post
offices for the year ended March 81, $88,.
s9S, 721; increase, So, 80, $50.
AT Chicago during the convention it has
transpired that ex-Mayor M. A. Smith, of
Philadelphia. while taking bath, had his
room entered by sneak thief, who stole a
diamond stud valued at 5000 and gold
watch and chain valued at $500. The police
have the matter in hand.
THEODORE CASTOR farmer, was at.
tackled on his way home from Kingston,
Iowa. the other night by three brothers,
named Drost, who demanded his money.
He shot one dead, fatally wounded another
and thinks he hit the third, who escaped
THE London Daily Neps says that the
French Government has purchased Max
| inns new repeating gun, which fires sixty
| rounds minute
A HEAVY storm was raging at Atlantic
City, N. j., on the 25th. The wind blew in.
land thirty to forty FIVE miles an hour and
| was gauged at sixty to seventy miles twenty
| miles out at sea. 1t was regarded as the
most severe wind and rain storm in four
teen years.
DISPATCH from Kronstadt, Transyl-
vania, says that mob comprising 1900 per-
sons made an attack upon legal commits
sion which was engaged in amalgamating
small agricultural holdings in Fondvar,
twelve miles north Of Kronstadt A Judge
and notary were wounded. The members
Of the commission made their escape with
difficulty A bystander was killed.
A SHOCKING affair occurred recently near
Marty, Tenn. Wendell Whitcomb was at
his barn killing rats with a shotgun He
fired charge at one of the vermin, but the
missiles went wide of the mark towards
the porch Of his house, where his two young
daughters were sitting. The shot struck
both, killing one instantly and fatally
wounding the other.
THE New York coal companies have ads
vanced prices about twenty-five cents q
ton on interior and Western business.
The brass workers strike at Cincinnati
has been declared of. The men quit work
several weeks ago for q reduction in hours,
but for want Of support the strike has
come To an end.
JOCKEY WOOD in his suit for libel got
one farthing damages at London recently.
He was accused Of pulling Sir George
Chetwynd's horses by the Licensed Vicsstat-
ers' Gdsetse.
TEE Duke Of Marlborough married Mrs.
Haminersley, at New York. ON the 18th
Mayor Hewitt performed the ceremony.
TEE large water main between George
town and Washington broke the other |
morning leaving the fashionable section Of
the capital without water.
THE internal revenue collections of the |
past eleven months were over q, 600 |
larger than for the same time last'year
ROBERT a. CowDREY, Union Labor can
didate for the Presidency, has issued his /
letter OF acceptance.
Hoes and cattle In and about St Tam
many, La, are dying by wholesale of a
disease resembling tuberculosis. No rem
edy for the disease is known
YALE defeated Harvard by twenty -four
lengths in the four mile boat at New Lon
don, Conn.,, on the 18th.