The Springdale news., 1888-11-09
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IT is announced that Mir. Gladstone and Mir. Harcourt will appear as witnesses in the Times suit before the Parnell Com mission.
 IN speech a. Wolverhamtou, England, on the 2d Mir. Balfour said that crime in Ireland had been reduced almost to the level of 1ss1
 AN English ve rsion of the reports of the German doctors on the case of the late Emperor Frederick has been pub lished.
 THE London Tunes states that it is the opinion in London, including resident and visiting Americans, that Lord Sack vile has been badly treated.
 RoS MAHLoS D. SPAULDING of Boston, one Of the Californians of 1s49, known for his unostentatious charities, died on the night of the 31, aged sixty-one.
 IT was said in Washington on the 4th that probable outcome of the Murchi- son letter incident would be the appoint ment of Lord Sackville as Governor Gen. eral of Canada
 IT was reported on the 4th that Justice Stanley Matthews, of the Supreme Court, who had been i'll for many weeks, was beginning slowly to convalesce, and his friends thought him out of danger.
 THE "gentleman pugilist," Charlie Mitchell, arrived ln New York from En- gland, on tue 4th, on the steamer Umbria. He says his visit is for recreation, but he will accept any suitable business offer.
 THE London Tunes says: s'There is not the slightest reason to retort by dismiss ing Mir. Phelps, but we would advise the government to show deliberation in choosing Lord Saekyille's successor"
 THE London Chronicles correspondent ba comply with Count Herbert Bismarck's request to use his influence in behalf of the government candidates in the eec- lions for the Landtag. Hence the cool ness between Germany and the Vatican. Mgr. Jacobini will be made Cardinal at the next eonsistory.
 JAMES ". VAIL, a banker, who is want ed at Point Washington, Wis, has been located at Winnipeg. Man.
 ACCORDING to the Berlin Tdqeblattp the injuries of the Gzar and Czarina in the late railroad accident were very slight The Car planes himself for having or aered the train to proceed with increased speed.
 MR. AND MRS. J. G. BLAINE lunehel with Whitelaw Reid, at the latter's Madi- son avenue residence in New York, on the 4th. aud left for Augusta, Me, via Boston, on the 5th.
 MARY ANDERSON arrived in New York from England OH the steamer Umbria on the 4th.
 IT was reported, on the 3I. that Wood. cock and Henry, the American favorites of the King of Wurtemburg, had sud 1eu- ly departed from Nice. The King had lo- cated them in pretty villa opposite his own hotel, paying all their expenses.
 DN- h. awarded damages in the sum of >17,00) from the Union Horse Railroad Company of Olneyville, R. L, for injuries received by being thrown from the platform of horse car.
 MINISTER STRAUSS has arrived in Con- stantlnople on his return from visit to the United States.
 THE Woman's Christian Temperance Union is condemned by the lFomqR's .StGHddrd female suffrage organ at Des nolues, la, for indorsing the Prohibition ticket, and says this will probably break up the organization.
 MR. GLADsToSE's unexpected reference iu his Birmingham speech to the Sack vile incident, though noticeably color. less, has caused anxiety to his friends.
 THE King of Wurtemburg is angry over the reports of the influence exerted over him by tayorite Americans.
 PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Cabinet will attend the centennial celebration of the Georgetown CD. C. University to be held February 22 next, and will deliver the honorary degrees to be awarded on the occasion.
 THERE is a special wire in the White House at all times. ca election night an operator was on hand to receive the | as were sent to the President from Brice and others
 HENRY THURsroS PECK has been ap- pointed to the vacant chair in Latin lam guages and literature of Columbia Col Iege, New York.
 THE only remaining child of the famous comedian, John L. Toole, Miss Florence Toole, died in London on the 5th. Her father was prostrated with grief at his loss.
 THE first secretary of the British Lega- ton at Washington, Mir. Henry Edwarde, IS absent on three-months' leave, ex- pecting to be back by February l, 1sS9; but in case of necessity he will be on hand to represent Great Britain at Wash ingtou.
 FREDERICK 4. PoTTs, president of the New York, Susquehana & Western Rail- road Company, was reported very sick, on the 9th, at the house Of his son in New York City.
 THE Vienna Sa1dag Morning Gazette de olares that Priuca Bismarck has asked Emperor William to relieve him of a great portion Of his duties, and to ap- point in his stead his son, Count Herbert.
 OS the 9th the Parnell Commission re- sumed its sittings. 4 New Yord Herald spondent testified to the geuulne- ness of an interview which he had with Mir. ParneiL and which was published in the HeraldS issue of January 20. 1Ss,.