The Springdale news., 1888-11-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY. News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

ductors and drivers.
 PRESIDENT BRADFORD RAYMOND of Law rehce University, Appleton, Wis, has been rendered the presidency of Wes- leyan University, at Middletown, Conn. It is believed the offer will be accepted
 EDITOR CHARLES c. CoRBrrT, of the Providence (R. L) Dispatch, was ar rested, on the 24th, upon a suit for libel Brought by J. F. Moore, for Sl0,000.
 AN extensive purchase of coal land in Allegheny County, Pa, made by Mir. Blaine seven years ago, and which for time looked like a losing venture, has re- gently increased in value three fold.
 ON the 24th John Teemer, of McKees- port Pa, was defe eated for the champion ship of America and S2.5oo side, on the Potomac river. at Washington, by Wm. J. O'Connor, of Toronto. Can.
 ON the 231 Chief Justice Armstrong; of the Canadian Labor Commission, died of apoplexy at Sorel, Quebec.
 BISHOP FOLEY was formally installed Bishop of Detroit on the 25th The cere- monies were of very imposing charac- ter.
 ARRANGEMENTS have been made by J. Y. Williamson, of Philadelphia, to apply SIP, GOO, 900 of his vast wealth to the es- tablishment of an industrial school for boys, 10 be known as the "Williamson Free School Of Mechanical Trades" 4 meeting was held, on the 24th, to select trustees for the endowment fu i'd and to plan other details.
 CARDINAL GIBBONS has been instructed by the Pope to congratulate Mr. Harrison on his election to the presidency.
 IT is stated that Boulanger's wife is taking steps to obtain a divorce, and also that one of the richest widows in France Is willing to marry Boulanger.
 MR. PURCELL OGoRMAN, ex-me ember of the British Parliament for Waterford City. died on the 25th.
 4 LETTER has been written to the Pope thanking Cardinal Manning and the En- glish Catholics for their support Of him in the penal laws question.
 A NEW ballot will be taken in the De- partment of Var, France, the question having arisen whether NJ. C. Luzeret, an American, is eligible to seat in the Chamber of Deputies.
 COLONEL JOHN \. CoCKRILL of the New York Hor}d, has been reelected presi- dent of the New York City Press Club.
 LORD SALISBURY, with the new Austrian Ambassador, Count Deym, had q pro- tracted audience with Queen Victoria on the 26th
 ON the 25th Carl Rankin, the we'll known min rel died in Philadelphia of con- sumption.
 REPUBLICAN managers in New York City charge that there was trading and selling out Of several of the Republican Congressional candidates at the recent election.
 MR. PHELPS, Republican candidate for Congress ill the Fifth California district itwas reported on the 26th. conceded the election of Mr Clunie, his Democratic opponent by 52 majority.
 THE Russian Government has protested against tke erection by Roumania of forts at Forscari and Galatz.
 A DISPATCH from London, on the 26tb, said: "Mr. Bright grows worse every hour. His family are about him and the graEest doubts gre entertained of his re- covery."
 GENERAL BorLLNGER was continuously eheered while returning from the ban ouet of the Patriotic League in Paris, on the 25:h. Police lined the route and made forty arrests, but most of the pris- onefs were afterward discharged
 THE London Teiemaph of the 25th stated that Assis tant Commissioner Mon- roe will succeed General Warren as chief commissioner Of metropolitan police.
 SENATOR QUAY, in an interview, ou the 18th still insisted that the Republicans would have majority in the next Hous of Representatives of probably nine.
 JAMES J. kELso, who was prominently connected with the New York police from 1S5s to ls73, part of the time as chief, died on the 26th, of apoplexy. He was at the head of the detective force at the time of the Nathan murder.
 IT was stated, on the 26th, that the Pope r incl jet ha II ,.g, second rescript upon Irish affairs by the Irish bishops, several of whom will se- cretly be summoned to Rome.
 WARDEN MCLAUGHRY and family left Joliet, H., on the 26th. for Huntingdon. Pa, the new field of the Majors future work in prison management His final depar ure was taken a week sooner than announced. He delivered his farewell address 10 the convicts on the 25 th, and the feeling of the conyicts, who had formed close attachment for him, was wrought up to the highest pitch.
 THE Duke Of Marlborough, in addition to with Irawing his support to the parish school al " oods tock in resentment Of the refusal of D.. Majendie, the rector, to ring the church bells iu honor of the re- turn Of his Grace and his American wife from their wedding tour, has forbidden The reverend gentleman To live ln Been helm Park.
 CHAIRMAN BRETON of the inaugural committee received a telegram from Col onel H L. Swords, at D ,s Moiues, Ia, on the 2Gb, saying: Il accept the secretary ship yea kindly tender me through Gen. era, Dudley When shall report:n Mr Britton sent a reply requesting Colonel Swords 'o report immediately
 Mss ]. WALT WHITMAN, the handsome Eaglsh cousin of the poet, has been en- gagged by au eminent Danish sculD.or as d model for the bust of "I1terature," to