Arkansas weekly mansion., 1883-12-01
NEWS AND NOTES.
A Summary Of Important Events.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


ago captured the Duke of CastIemonte OBJ
tanned $50 20 ransom money.
THE Quebec lumber firm of Sharples
Sons & Co. have asked for an extension.
Liabilities, 100000.
EN-KHEDIvE of Egypt, Ismail Pasha,
says the calamity in the Soudan is due to
inefIiciency of the central government at
Cairo.
EDITOR DAWSON, of the Charleston,
Is. c. -Nc'-s and Courier, has been made a
Knight OF st. George by the Pope for the
stand he has taken aSainst due1linG.
SURGEON ROBERT MURRAY has been
appointed Surgson-Genera1 of the Army.
OK the 22d the Crown Prince of Ger
many arrived III Madrid and was given an
exceedingly cordial reception by all classes
OF the populace. The city was in holiday
attire, the buildings, both public and priv
ate being profuscly decorated with Span
ism and German flags and flowers.
Ir transpircs that A. b. johnson, the
Utica ~. W lawyer who suicidcd recent
", was a defaulter for $:}o0,0l0 to the Nc
Donnell estate of Rochester, n. ", of which
lie had entire charge.
4 DEMAND has been made on all
members OF the Canadian Civil Service to
take the oath of allegiance, the attention
"t the G,vern,nent having been drawn to
the fact that several members had record
C:i their nationality that of the United
States, while in other cases they have rea-
son to believe an element hostile to British
Interests is being introduced i'll some of the
recent appoint ntmentS.
ON the 2jd a convention of the heirs
Of Waliron, Thomas, Dcllvill and others,
to whom Governor Nichols, in the year
1856, granted a large tract of land, which is
now known Morrisiana Flats, in New
York City, was held in Mansfield, o., and
attended by 100 persons. \ syndicate has
been formed and the heirs are confident
that they can provo their title TO this land,
which embraces 1909 acres, and is worth
$3n,0D,0n.
THE President pardoned Sergeant
Mason on the 2itl.
A PARIS banker, Roux dc Frossinet,
has failed for 100000 francs.
Ir is said the khcdivc of Egypt wants
to discuss the boundary question with King
John of Ahyssinia.
BpSANzA MACKEY has recently been
inspecting the railroad and Earbor facili-
ties of Galveston, Tex.
INF0EMER CAREY'S slayer. O'DOn-
neil, took ou5 his naturalization papers at
Youngstown, o.. October 10, 1876.
FRESH complaint to the Porte has
been made by Minister Wallace because of
,!"iay in bringing to justice the assailants
o. American missionaries.
CHEF ENGINEER WILLIAMSON, L. S.
NJ, who was court-martialed for extrava-
Eance i'll the matter of repairing the Gov
ernment vessel Pinta, has been acquitted.
The Grand Jury in San Francisco
have indicted Miss Hill and her attorney
in.
with the Sharon suit.
IVAN VALERA is the new Spanish
Minister to the United States.
OK the 26th Frank Reed, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, died from the effects of Il stab
received at the hands of Andrew Wilbert.
Neither was more than eleven years old.
OK The 2Gth ex-senator Spencer was
arraiGned Cor contempt before the District
Court at Washington, d. c. His counsel
raised the question of jurisdiction.
OS the 26th the conspiracy trial against
McS,.,a. Lntz, Caruth, McEntire and Butler
at St. Louis, Mo-, began. A jury was Sc
cured and tie opening argument made.
OK the 2Cth Charles II. Smith. alias
William W. Goodrich, was arrested in Bos-
ton for passing worthless check on the
Exchange National Bank. he claims to be
Il San Francisco architect.
OS the 2Gth W. S. Kirker, late cashier
Of tia. Sc .ond National Bank at Ironton, o.,
was indicted by the Grand Jury for grand
larceny and eInhczzlenent.
SoJui-HNER Truth, the noted cOlOrcd
lectures, died Al her home i'll Battle Creek,
Mich, on the 18th aged los years. The old
lady has had I'll her faculties well pre-
served until quite recently
RoUHER, Louis Napoleon s Minister
of state, i% reported to bc dying.
II is thought that the departure of
the Marquis 1seng from Paris is but the
matter of a few days time.
NJ DE LESsEPs regards the settle
nrnrlt Of the question of the construction of
the second Suez Canal as virtually accom-
pli~hed.
HENRY MONTGOMERY, OF Oil City,
Pa, in fis of jealousy, on the Goth, fired
three shots at himself with suicidal intent,
but the bullets would not kill.
\ BERLIN dispatch Of the Goth says:
.s;o:ne anxiety has been caused here about
the Emperor William. For the past two
days he has not taken his accustomed drive
from Inter Der Linden to Theirgarten.
The truth is, he returned Saturday
evening from Etzlingen, where he had been
on "A hunting excursion, and felt exhausted.
On Sunday he determined to take a rest,
and remained in the palace yesterday and
to-day, but received the Minister'S reports
as usual and there are no fears of a serious
Illness"