Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-12-03
TOPICS OF THE DAY
News from Everywhere.
pnRsONAL AND POLITICAL.

APPOINTMENT CLERK HIGGINS Is SAID
to be devoting his energies to secure the
position of Sergeant-at- Arms of the House
of Representatives.
A GERMAN American named Thielman,
a locksmith has been expelled from Fleus-
burg, Prussia
WILLIAM Il. SMITH, the successor of MIR.
Coon, as Assistant Secretary of the Treas
ury, took charge Of mis- Office on the goth.
Russell SAGE has given 100000 to Cor
nell University to found professorship
of Ethics and Moral Philosophy, which
was duly acknowledged at the fall meet
ing Of the Trustees on the 20th.
JOHN GEARHART, a farmer living near
Catawissa, Pa, has recently lost three
children by diphtheria, and on the Goth
had four lying i'll with the dread disease.
He had a family of fourteen children.
THE complete correspondence of Carlyle
and Goethe has been discovered in the
archives Of the latter.
ON the Goth Hon. Levi P. Morton, ex-Min-
lister to France, and family, arrived in
Washington. Mr.. Morton says he will
take no active part in politics this winter.
A BODY, found near Los Angeles, Cal,
has been identified as that of Benjamin H.
Longnecker, defaul.ing Poor Director Of
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
JAMES BLACKBURN, former paymaster
of the Lake Shore & Western Railway, has
been arrested at Milwaukee, Wis, in con-
nection with shortage in his accounts.
MALCOLM S. DoTY obtained judgment
for Sl,70O against the st. Joseph Hospital
at Omaha, Neb., for the loss of an eye by
a servants carelessness.
SENATOR CALL, of Florida, is building
himself a fine residence in Washington.
MRS. CoLMAN, wife of Norman j. Col
man, Commissioner of Agriculture, is dan
gerously i'll at Washington.
IT is rumored that the Duke of Con-
naught is to be made chief of Her Maj
esty's forces, vice the Duke of Cambridge,
who will shortly retire.
In an election letter the Marquis of Sails
bury says "Make the support of the
church test question above all Others"
HENRY RYDIcK was defeated in his suit
at Brooklyn, N. Y, against the Standard
Oil Company for share in property val
ued at half million dollars, and was ar
rested on charge of false swearing.
Ex-PREsIDENT ARTHUR's son Allan has
won fame as match maker at Washing
ton.
Mr.. PARNELL has issued manifesto to
the electors, signed by several Irish mem-
bers of Parliament, severely denouncing
the Liberal party.
Mr.. GLADSTONE, in speech at Dalkeith,
4 Scotland, said the dependence of the Tories
on the Irish voters was unsafe and was dis
honorable to the country.
SECRETARY WHITNEY will give grand
Christmas dinner to the Cabinet members
and their families.
!, THE officers accompanying General
i, Briere de L'Isle to Paris say that his dis
grace is unjust and that his removal has
caused discomfort in the army.
Sin JOHN MACDONALD has started for
England to confer with the government in
regard y the-isheries, reciprocity with the
Usyed States and other questions.
REV. DR.. s. SToRRs has just entered
upon the fortieth year of his pastorate of
the Congregational Church Of the Pilgrims
at Brooklyn, N. Y.
MRS. JULIA SMITH PARKER, who gained
fame in New England by refusing to pay
taxes because she was not allowed to vote,
Is at deaths door.
KING MILAN is concentrating his forces
and decisive attack on Slivnitza is immi-
nent.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has agreed to
open the American Exposition at London
next year by touching button in Wash
ington, which will start the machinery by
>, electricity in London.
On the 23d Mr.. Gladstone unveiled a
cross in Edinburgh, and joined in singing
sold Hundred"
On the 23d Elizur Wright, the well
known Abolitionist of lang syne, died at
his home in Medford, Mass. He was well
known in the field of journalism.
SAMUEL JENNINGS, who set the types for
the first printed copy of "The Star Span
gled Banner" and who was one of the
"Old Defenders" in 1914, died at Baltimore,
( Nd, on the 23d, aged eighty -eight.
DIRECTOR GENERAL JOHN W. GLENN OF
the North, Central and South American
Exposition at New Orleans has resigned
and ex-Director General Samuel NJ. Burke
has been appointed to the position.
THs Car of Russia has ordered the re.
moval of the initials of Prince Alexander
from the eqaulets Of the officers of the
Thirteenth Rifle Battalion, of which Prince
Alexander was honorary Colonel.
On the 23d indictments were found by the
Initial tat nI I,...x ,x
against Ferdinand Ward, William S. War.
ner and J. Henry Work for conspiracy tc
defraud the creditors and stockholders oi
the Marine National Bank.
SECRETARY MANNING has directed the
dismissal of H. N. Gassaway, assistant
chief of the Internal Revenue and Mercan.
tile Marine divisions to take effect Novem.
Der 3Oth.
Mrs. CoLMAN, wife of the Commissioner
Of Agri ulture, was reported better ON the
morning of the cath, and the family were
much encouraged.
PRINCE ALEXANDER sent a dispatch tc
his father on the 2Sd thanking him for his
gift OF clothing, etc, to the Bulgarian
troops. This dispatch also said: "We
fought all Sunday, and spent the night
on Dragoman Heights, which we carried
by storm. The fighting continues to-day
in the direction of Tzaribrod."
Tue monument erected in honor of Ed.
ward Kelly, the Irish leader sentenced Il
be hanged, drawn and quartered in 1857
was unveiled at Mount Hope Cemetery
Boston, on the sd.
NJ. MARTIN, editor Of a provincial news
paper of Copenhagen, Denmark, has beer
sentenced to four months Imprisonment
on charge Of melting the people to tax,
up arms and drive out the obnoxious
Estrupp.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
WILKINSON. the murderer Of Qsicer Law
renee, was hanged at Thomaston, Me-, on
the 10Th, and died coolly and unrepentant
SEVERAL persons were poisoned bv