St. Landry democrat., 1888-11-03

THREE negro murderers who were to
have been hanged at Arkadelphia, Ark,
on the 26th, have been granted a respite TO
allow the State Supreme Court to review
the case.
DANIEL HAND, an aged and wealthy
resident of Guilford, Conn.,, has given
81, 100000 to the American Missionary
Society, of New York City, to be held in
trust BY the association and the interest to
be devoted to the education of eolored
people in the old slave States of the South.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Brakemen
at Columbus, o., elected the following Of
ficers: w. G. Edens, of Bucyrus, first vice
grand master; s. c. Foster, of Ithica, N.
Y, second vice grand master: Z. 7. Slat-
terry, of Butte City, Mont, third vice grand
master.
COLLECTOR MAGoFFIN, of Ell Paso, Tex,
finds considerable difficulty with his small
force in keeping out Chinese seeking en-
trance into the United States by way OF
Mexico.
THE military court of inquiry, appointed
by the President to investigate and report
upon "the entire subject of the lining of
the tunnel extension of the Washington
aqueduct," convened on the 25th.
OVER 700 passengers of the steamship
Elbe from Bremen have been held at Hoff-
man island quarantine, New York City.
because of smallpox on the vessel.
The Chief of the Bureau Of Statistics re-
ports that the total number of immigrants
that arrived at ports of the United States
from the principal foreign countries; ex:
cept from the Dominion Of Canada and
Mexico, during the nine months ended Sep
tember 80, 1883, was 432,802, against All, ,2S2
during the same period last year.
THE more prominent members of the
jute baggng trust have been indicted by
the grand jury of Shelby County, Tenhs,
for conspiracy.
The Babylonian exploring expedition Of
the University of Pennsylvania, which
left Philadelphia last summer, has been
wrecked in the Grecian Archipelago. Nons
of the scientists were lost or hurt.
The engineer and a passenger were IA
tally and two other men badly injured by
the wrecking of passenger train near
Paris, KY, the other day.
By collision between freight and All
empty passenger train near San jose ILL.,,
recently. both locomotives and seventeen
cars were destroyed and Fireman Baum
killed.
THE new English salt trust has put the
price of common salt from 60 cents to $2. %
per ton and lump from $500 to 1915.
IT is stated that several lines of Amer
lean goods have been boycotted in China,
petroleum and -four being the principal
articles. The Chinese Times contains a
letter from Pekin officials threatening res
taliation for the passage Of the Exclusion
act.
ALFRED Fl. LOVE- merchant of Phila-
delphia, president Of the Universal Peace
Union has published letter declining the
candidacy for Vice-President on the Ma
tional Equal Rights ticket.
THE schooner Caldwell, of New York, is
reported lost in the Caribbean sea, with
probably the loss of nineteen lives.
QUARANTINE against cattle from Mexico,
except at two points, has been established
for Arizona because of Texas fever.
BUSINESS failures (Dun's report) for
the seven days ended October 25 numbered
254, as against 224 the previous week and
PIG the corresponding week last year.
HoHNBURG, the retired German officer
who was arrested at Nice while mailing a
Lebel cartridge on the charge Of being a
spy, has been sentenced to imprisonment
for five years and the payment of a fine of
81 600, and he will not be allowed to stop
in France for ten years from the expira-
tion of his sentence.
A LARGE steam gin house together with
forty bales of cotton and lot of seed, be-
longing to Frank 6 Co., on the Covington
plantation, near Greenville, Miss, was
burned recently.
BENJAMIN F. CARTER, cowboy, was
hanged on the Goth at Rawlings, Wyo.,
for the murder Of John Jeffrey, famer,
in October, 1856. The murder grew out of
the quarrels between stockmen and set
tiers.