St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1888-10-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| IHR New York Lyceum Theater bene
ht OF s'Lord Chumley," with Sothern
netted $9)o.25, on the 26th, which Mana
ger Frohman sent to Mayor Hewitt fol
the Jacksonville sufferers.
EPHRAIM 8. WELLS, of New York
manufacturer and original introducer O.
Rough on Rats" suspended, on the 25 tn
owing to losses through inJudicious ex.
penses in advertising.
The Marine Hospital Bureau received 6
telegram from Governor Perry of Florida,
on the 26th, reques ting that nurses be
| sent to Fernandina.
LIVE OAK, Fla, reported two deaths
from yell fever on the 26th.
Rev. j. 8. HUGHES, Prohibition eandi-
date for Governor of Indiana, addressed a
| large audience at Valparaiso, on the
| night Of the 25th, on street corner, as
| no hall was to be had. Some OF the
audience hooted him. Rotten eggs had
| been threatened.
/ NATHANIEL LIBBEY, a pensfoner Of the
war; Of 1872, died at Warren, N. e., on
the R5th, aged ninety.thres years and six
months.
In rowing match at Sydney, N. 8. W.,
on the 26th, for f200 side, Matterson
beat Milsen by FIVE boat lengths.
The madman who tried to kill the King
of Roumania four months ago, proves to
have been detective who had been en-
ployed to protect the King. He confessed,
that he carried dagger and a revolver
about for year with which to kill the
King.
The Egyptian corn crop is reported to
be large in quantity an d superior in quail
ity.
A DESTRUCTIVE confiagration visited the
town Of Canton, Dak., on the night OF the
25th. One Of the principal blocks Of the
town was totally destroyed.
A MONUMENT erected to the memory Of
the revolution of 1885 was unvailed at
Brussels, Belgium, on the 28th.
OVER two thousand people attended the
reunion Of the Forty Indiana
regiment at Upton on the 26th.
PORTIONS Of Dakota have been devas-
tated by prairie fires many farmers los
ing ell their perishable possessions.
A CARLOAD of live hogs were burned
In the fire following serious wreck on
the Chicago & Northwestern railroad,
near Humbold ldt, Ia, on the 10Th.
OwING to fears of q military emeute in
Spain, precautionary measures have
been taken in the barracks at Saragossa,
Seville and other places.
Mr. JOHN 3. REDMOND, Member OF Par
Lament for Wexford, was, on the 18th,
sentenced to five weeks Imprisonment
without hard labor for offences under the
Crimes act
THE British ship Resperidagera, coal
laden, from Newcastle, N. 8. W., for |
San Francisco, went ashore off Point
Fermin, Cal, on the 9th, and would, it |
was thought be total wreck.
EIGHT members Of the Jacksonville |
Ella police force were, on the 9th, re.
ported of duty suffering from attacks OF
the yellow fever.
The intelligence from Kingwood, N. j.,
to the 9th, represents Mr. CARROTS con- /
dition as more favorable and his appetite
good
WITHIN few minutes after the close /
Of the investig alton into Representative
stahlneckel's connection with contracts
Tor materials for the Congressional Liz
brary building, on the 9th, the commit- L
tee voted unanimously to report COM
piete vindication, exonerating Mr.. Stahl.
uecker from all charges.
FROM errors OF fact and date III tha Il
published extracts from the late EN-.
peror Frederickss diary Prince Bis. |.
narck is led 10 doubt their authenticity. |.