The Springdale news., 1889-02-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

t1N the lSt tue President notlned Con gress that Count Arco-N alley, the German Minister, had informed the State Depart ment that German troops would be with drawn from Samoa, and the neutrality of Samoa preserved.
 QUEEN VICTORIA will not be present at the reopening of Parliament.
 ON the 3lst John T, Blue, aged seventy, cashier of Wilaen's Bank, at Goshen, Ind, was stricken with paralysis Of the heart.
 TIE Haytien Minister, on the 1st, iu- formed the Secretary of State that several vessels were being fitted out at New York for an expedition against Hayti and the matter was referred to the Treasury De- partment.
 FOREIGN diplomats in London are jeal- ous of MT. Phelps personal popularity, and especially of the gift 10 his wife of a bracelet. The only parallel was Nine. Persigny, whose bracelet was presented by the diplomatic ladies. Mrs. Phelps is declared universally to be a most charm ing woman.
 BY the final agreement on the bill creat- ing the Department of Agriculture. an- other Cabine: office has been created.
 FRENCH Deputies La Guerre and La Croix on the 3d, fought duel with pis tols. Neither was hurt.
 Ix the consideration of the Legislative Appropriation blll by the Senate com mittee one of the amendments agreed to raises the salary of the private secretary of the President from S3, 250 to 5000. The eommtte was unanimously in favor of this amendment.
 ON the 2d Dr. Patton, president of Princeton College, accompanied by John II. Voorhees, and Mir. Alex. Porter Morse, of the Alumni Association, called upon the President and Mrs Cleveland.
 OS the 2d Mir. Samuel l.. Clements tMark Twain) related his experience as lobbyist on behalf of the International Copyright bill before the Ladies' Litera- " Assoclation at Washington, and incl dentally pointed a moral for the guidance of Congressman i'll dealing with this question. His remarks were continuously interrupted by laughter and applause.
 IT is asserted that the rumor that Lord Sackville has been appointed British Am bassador To Constautinople is entirely without foundation
 TIE Omaha (Neb.) Daily Republican has been sold to Fred Nye, one of it's pro- pretors at the time of it's purchase by $. r. Rounds. It is to appear as a four-page two-ceut paper.
 SIR JULIAN PAuNCEFORr, Permanent Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, il is stated. will be appointed British Minister tO Washington.
 ME. ROBERT l.. MILLER, of Ohio, chief of the loans and currency division of the Treasury Department, has been appointed deputy collector of customs at Port Townsend, W. T., and left for his post of duty.
 PREsIDENT-ELECT HARRISON, the Wash lngton Capital says, is negotiating for country seat at Avenel, Montgomery County, Md. which is ten miles north- east of the capital, on the Metropolitan branch of the Baltimore 6S Ohio railroad. CAssIUs NJ. CLAY, of Kentucky, will visit Washington this month, and will be the guest of Judge Embry. MT. Clay has not visited Washington since lie was Minister to Russia, during Mir. Lincoln's admiuis- tration.
 INTELLIGENCE from Senator Beck. re- ceived by members of his family. is to the effect that he had arrived at Tampa, Fla, on his return from Cuba. He is not ex- pected toreturn to Washington until some time in April.
 Mas. MATILDA GRIswoLp FEELING HuYsnN, widow of the late ex-Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, died st Newark, \. J., on the 3d.
 fT k announced from Washington that President Cleveland, immediately upon laying down the preside ntlal office, will resume the practice of law in New York City.
 ANOTHER candidate for Public Printer has entered the lists in the person of A. II. <. D. wis. who during the last two or three Vt 1rs has been Washington eorre- spond.i { et the Minneapolis Tribune.