Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1885-01-31
MUNICIPALITIES.

Sir Edward Thornton, at one time
British Minister at Washington, succeeds
Lord Dufferin as Minister TO Turkey.
Modieska's pet is black cat; PATHS,
a part; Mary Anderson loves canaries,
and Mrs. Langry carries about young
China boy.
DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes describes
the late y. p. Willis as something be-
tween a remembrance of Count DUrsay
and an anticipation OF Oscar Wilde.
Both Don Carlos, the pretender to the
throne of Spain, and King Alfonso are
seriously i'll with throat difficulties.
One has gone to India and the other
starts for the Mediterranean, in search OF
he.. lth.
Belva Lockwood lectured the other
NIGHT in fremont Temple, Boston. 1t
was rainy night, yet the same hall, TO
which scarcely a corporal's guard was at
tracted to hear Dr. BurChard, was crowd
ed to sutfocation 10 hear Belva.
Mrs. McElroy, the Presidents sister,
had upon her hands the delicate task OF
deciding whether the wife of the Speaker
of the House of Representatives or the
wife of the President pro TEN: OF the
Senate was the first lady in the land.
Two distinguished foreigners now So
iourning in this country have announced
The possibility of their becoming Ameri-
can citizensiColonel Mapleson and Pro
fpssor Richard n. Proctor. AT present
these gentlemen are subjects of her Ma
iesty the Queen of England.
The biographer of the late Senator An
tbonv O: Rhode Island, is pleased to re-
cord that during his long residence in
Washington he never went a-fishlng or
shooting, never kept or drove fast horses,
never went to races, never even played
poker; in fact, his whole life is a similar
Show of negative qualitl's.
"The Prince of Wales" says the Lon
don World, twas absent from London
for weeks together last summer. The
| consequence was that the season was a
failure. and the entire social system was
dislocated. Nobody knew what to be al
or what to do, because the Marlborough
House ideal was not visible"
John B. Stetson, a Philadelphia hat
manufacturer, is the largest pollcy-hold
er IN the world. He carries three nun
dred and sixty thousand dollars ON his
own life and pays premiums ON three
hundred and sixty thousand dollars iol
others. Hamilton Disston carries alto
rether FIVE hundred and ten thousand
dollars.
Nicholas Alexandrowitch, Czarowitct
of Russia: has been betrothed to one
the Youngest daughters of the Crown
Prince of Prussia, thus forming anothel
tie between the Romanofs and bohen
zollerns. If the event occurs, 1t will re
sult in placing a German princess on th'
throne of Russia as the next czarlna.
Madame Scalchi, in her suit agalns
Manager Abbey for arrears OF salary, ha
introduced the world to the interesting
sact that prima donna assolGta can no
sing well or safely two hours after eatln
a hearty meal. She proved the TACT D.
, the testimony of several eminent singers
among then Miss Clara Louise kellog.
CONGRESSMAN John j. O'Neil, of s.
Louis, has come into public prominence
! not by any electrifying burst OF orator
ON any important measure introduced B
him for The public veal, but because b
wore a "claw-hammer" coat and ful
dress suit at the Washington opening
, the New Orleans Exposition, when a
the other gentlemen, including the Pre-
ident. wore Prince Alberts" and ligl
. trousers
e General Porfirio Diaz, the new Pres
II dent of Mexico. is now fifty-five yea
old, tall, dark, half-Indian in type, b