St. Landry democrat., 1888-05-19
MISCELLANEOUS.

| A CYCLONE struck the village Of Pecar
tonica, ILL.,, on the night OF the 10th, wreck
ing several houses and innumerable out
buildings. One woman and three children
were injured, but not fatally, by flying
timbers.
SINCE January thirty-two corporations
of Fall River, Mass, with an aggregate
capital of 81, 7ls.OOO, have made dividends
of more than $40 per cent. for the frac-
ton of the year. The dividends range
from ~ to 10 for the months already gone,
and indicate that the dividends for the year
will average 12 per cent
| AT the annual meeting of the American
Bible Society in New York the receipts
were reported as 1851, $40 and the disburse.
ments as $780, 453.
| The Turkish Cabinet has approved the
Anglo French Suez canal convention, aban-
doning its claim to preside over the asso-
citation and being given the right to use the
canal.
WILLIAM HOPKINS, who stoned a stranger
to death at a Georgia country church be-
cause he wore 'bled" shirt and was tC
have been hanged, has been resrited by
Governor Gordon.
REv.GEoRGE MCDUFFIE,a a negro preacher,
was hanged recently at Atlanta, Ga, for
the murder of William Cheney, another
negro. Illicit love on the part of McDufie
led him to commit the crime.
A. j. BRYANT, a wealthy resident of San
Francisco, who was mayor from 1875 to
1879, fell from ferry boat recently and
was drowned. He had been in lkhealth
for some time, and it ts supposed had an
attack of vertigo.
NEARLY two blocks of the business part
OF Hot Springs, Ark, was destroyed by
fire on the night of the 18th. The fire.
broke out In the Excelsior laundry and the
damage amounted to $3.50, 600.
THE Railway Conductors Association, in
session at Toronto, Ont, recently passed
resolution condemning the strike of the en-
gineers on the @" system.
LUMBERMEN say there is an over supply
of logs in the Mississippi this season. There
are more logs in the streams than the Min
neapalis mills can possibly saw, and there
are no storage booms and no market for
the logs. A decentralization of the lumber
market IS threatened.
THE offer of $4,000 reward for the cap
ture of Tascott, the murderer of millionaire
Smell, of Chicago, has expired by limita-
tion. Notwithstanding the dozens OF ar.
rests made all over the country the real
Tascott Is still at large.
IT Is FSpOFteu tnat aG recent parade OF
Russian troops cavalry Lieutenant named
Timoferef was about to fire at the Gear with
revolver when another officer seized him
by the arm and the weapon being dis
charged the bullet entered the ground.
Timoferef, who was at once arrested, ap-
peared to be insane
The body of j. b. Kiel, prominent citi-
zen of Oshkosh, Wis, was found in Cedar
river recently. He had been inspecting
bridge and it was first thought had been
drowned, but au examination revealed the
fact that he had been murdered and robbed
and his body thrown into the river.
ADvIcEs from Afghanistan say that the
Heratic regiment had fight recently with
tho Demshed tribe, which had petitioned
for Russian protection. Many were killed
on each side.
THE Southern Baptist convention met ia
annual session at Rich mond, Va, on the
l1th and was called to order by Prof. Lewis
B. Ely, of Missouri, first-vice president,
Rev. DR.. P. H. Nell, the president, having
died since the last convention.