Louisiana capitolian., 1880-06-15
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

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"A motion will be made in the Britisl
Housc8of Conlmous, opposing the errc'
ton of Il monument in Westminster
Abbey to Prince Imperial Eugene Louis
Napoleon.
Paul tie Cassagnac is to resign hi.
seat in the French House of Deputies
owing to disagrccments among the In
perialists.
A tornado swept through Pottomatto
mic county, Iowa, on Wednesday o1
last week, dcmolishing farm houses
etc. Six persons were killed and a
number Of others wounded.
The Arkansas Press Association, fifty
in number, left Little Rock on the It'll
inst, on an excursion to Washington
City. When will the Louisiana fratcr-
nifty have their loye-fcast!
Hon. Lyman Trumbull has been nom
mated for Governor by the Democracy
of Illinois. His name will be u tower of
strength in the approaching campaign.
House bill amending the act to cn-
courage the establishment of public ma
rinc schools, approved juno 20, 1864, so
as to extend it to the ports of Whining
ton, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, New
Orleans, Baton Rouge and Galveston,
was passed.
At Marshall, Texas, on the 1lth INST,
Hon. w. S. Coleman was fatally shot by
Burt Jennings, editor of the Messenger,
| and died III a few minutes.
The Grccnbackcrs have nominated
Gen. John B. Weaver, of Iowa, for
President, and II. j. Chambers, of
Texas, for Vicc-Prcsidcnt, who will
simply run for the fun Of the thing.
Thousands Of votes will &c lost that
otherwise would go to swell that of the
Democratic nominees of Cincinnati.
Until the party of Capitalization and
| sectional hatred is ovcrthrown, every
patriotic citizen should lay aside all
side issues.
The Aurora (Ncv.) Herald says: ''Wc
arc soScly in need of a preacher, but We
don't want any cheap trash. We want
a good, muscular Christian, who can
snatch sinners by the scrutl' of the neck
and drag them bowling up the plane of
Righteousness, and who will not drink
more than he can hold. Such man will
get a right smart layout here. If he
can play the fiddle for the regular weekly
dance it will augment his salary some
what.
A New York dispatch. says: John Gin
till, German frcscoc painter, whose wife
keeps boarding house for men at No.
10 Delaney street, beat his wife this
morning until he thought her dead, and
then flung her out upon the stairs, boltcd
his bedroom door and set the house on
fire and cut his own throat from car to
ear. The tircmcn found him ON the bed
envelopcd in tlauos and dragged him
into the street, where he died. The wo-
mans skull was fractured, and her
death is expected. The cause of the
terrible crime was improved jealousy on
the part of the husband.
Gen. Randall Gibson's only daughter,
named after the State of Louisiana, died
yesterday morning at Fortress Monroe.
She was ten years Of age. The proxi-
mate cause of her death was congestion
of the lungs, but she has long been All
invalid. The funeral took place from
Gen. Gibson's residence, and was attcn-
ded by large number of friends Of the
family, with all of whom she was a
great flvolitc.
A correspondent of the Globc-Dcno-
crat thus sketches the Republican nom
ince: "Gcn. James A. Garfield, of Ohio,
has attracted considerable attention as
dark horse. lie is q large, Inc-look-
ing man, with Gaelic or Welsh cast of
features. His beard would be full if
left untrimmcd, but he keeps it within
bounds by tonsorial attention, and it is
neatly trimmed, as his mustachc.
His hair, which is abundant ut the sides
and back of his head, is scant Oh the
top, u fact which enables him to part
it with a towel, and gives him u very
high forehead indeed. lie is convincing
i'll debate rather than eloquent, and has
the habit of "taggng' his speeches
with chat is. all have to say at pres
cnt," that it would be just as well to
drop.
Sarah Bcrnhardt, the noted French
actress, is coming to this country. She
will first appear at Booths Thcatcr, in
New York, in November.
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