The Springdale news., 1888-12-14
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

0N the Sth Forest Shepard, a noted min- eFalogist, formerly professor =of science in the Western Reserve College at Hud- son, O., and a Yale graduate of 1s22, died d Norwich, Conn.,. aged eighty-fiye years.
 THE Duchess ot Galfera, France, died on the 9th.
 ON the 9th the new election in the De- partment of the Var, France, resulted in the re-elect,n of General Cluseret. The returns from the Department of Ardennes indicate the necessity of another ballot.
 FOLLOWING is the official count of the vote at the late election in Colorado Har- rison, 10, 765; Cleveland, 377,A2; Prohibit ton, 2,leo; Labor, 1,2G5. Rarrison's plu- rahty G174.
 THE formation of a new Spanish Cabinet has been intrusted with Senor Sagasta. It is admitted by him, as it is claimed by his opponents, that he will experience considerable difficulty in completing his task.
 REAR ADMIRAL VIM. F. LERoYAL, aged seventy years. k reported to be dying Of apoplexy at the Victoria Hotel, New York City.
 INSPECTOR BYRNEs of New York has received dispatch from Chili. stating that Gerald F. Hanson, alias Wm. A. Bushnell, had been arrested i'll Santiago for the embezzlement of >35,001, commit. ted ill New Yo ork City ten years ago. He will be eXtradited and tried for the crime. He had become quite prominent citizen IL that country.
 IT Is the intention of the relief con- mittee of Gainesville, Fla. to present Surgeon Martin with q handsome medal for his services during the yellow fever epidemic Previous to his departure for Washington he was rendered a vote of thanks by the City Council and relief committee for his faithful and gratuitous services.
 ON the sth Wm. A. Mory. aged eighty four, one of the oldest and most highly esteemed merchants Of Boston. died after q lingering illness. He was treasurer of the Amoskeag Manufacturing Company fer forty wears; member of the board Of overseers Of Harvard College for many years, and was director o5 the Mer- chants Bank.
 OH the 9th Elisha Atkinson, one of the most widely known and successful busi- ness men of Boston, died in that city, aeed seventy-tve.
 AssEMBLYMAN E. FRANK SHORT. of ter sey City, \. J., fell dead at his home in GGttenberg, on the 9th.
 THE eyictions on the Irish estates e Lord Clanricarde have been postponed.
 PRINCE ALEXANDER of Hesse was re- ported ta be dying on the 10th.
 ON the 10th Mrs. Lucy Parsons arrived in New Y York from England by the steam er Aurania. and was greeted by a number Of her admirers. She says that her re- ception abroad was a gratifying one, and that great interest in radical reform is being shown in England.
 CHAUNCEY NJ. DEPEw is quoted as say ing that he will accept the office of Minis ter to the Court of St. James if rendered t9 him by Mr. Harrison. as he regards it as the most exalted office, next to the presidency, in the gift of the American people a.:
 AN official denial is printed by the Trib- t,1td of Rome of the statement that Prince Liehtenstein has offered his castle as residence for the Pope.
 FRANK H. THOMAS, of Michigan. has been appointed by the Postmaster Gener- al disbursing clerk and superintendent of the Post Office Department, vice John E. Enright, resigned.
 ON the 10th Mrs. Jay Gould's condition Nas reported unchanged.