The Springdale news., 1889-01-11
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


 Iii stated that much aispieasure is felt among all classes Of citizens of Idaho at President Cleyeland's recent pardon of five Mormous.
 TIE law faculty of Tulane University at New Orleans has been reorganized, Hons. Randall Hunt and Wm. F. Mellen having resigned their professorships. They are saeeeeded bE Hon. Thomas T. Semmes aud Judge F. X. Monroe. Hon. Randall Hunt is retained on full salary for life as emeritus rector of the university.
 TIE Legislature of Idaho convened on the 2d. after the holiday recess.
 HE glass handage which was placed on the left leg of Chauneey NJ. Depew after the strain If tendons at the heel, which he suffered some weeks ago, has been re- moved. II was sawed of. It was one quarter of an inch thick.
 MEN the attention ot Senator Reagan, Of Texas. was called to a telegram saving that there was opposition to the re-elec- tipn of his colleague, Senator Coke, he sald This is nonsense. Senator Coke will be reelected without opposition IS the Idaho House of Representatives Mr Kurtz has introduced a bill relating to the elective franchise. which k sup elemental to the Test-Oath bill, and pro- vdes that person must he nlt of the Mormon church for three years in order to become a legal voter.
 MR. GLADSTONE denies that he ever rec commended that restoration of the Pope's temporal power be made the subject of international arbitration.
 NOTICE of contest on Colonel T. R. Staekdale for the seat i'll the Flfty-trst Congress, has been served by Leon C. Duchesae, who was the Republican candi- date for Congress in the Sixth district of Mississippi.
 ON the 5th Senator Ingalls, presented to the Senate the memorial If the Common Council of Seattle, praying the admission of the Territory of Washington to the Union under its present name.
 lr is announced that Prof. Geffieken, whose trial in connection with the pub Iication of Emperor Frederiek's diary was ta take place this month, has been re- leased from custody, and the prosecution of his case abandoned.
 ON the 9th Senator Plumb introduced in the Senate bill to pay Daniel W. Bout we'll Slo00a for extra services rendered the Government during the invasion of Missouri and Kansas by General Price in ls5f
 SpALDIvG's success in Australia, it is gwen out has inspired Ted Sullivan with  notion to take to Ireland baseball team composed altogether of lrishmen.
 iS the Department of carente Infe- rieute, France, NJ. Duport tBoulangisb Us been elected to the Chamber of Depu- ses by majority of aiis.
 gV tha 9th Thomas Axworthy, the de- fa8lting treasurer of Cleveland, O., who aed to England, and afterward refund cd 5t81. .a09 to a representative of the Gieve- aud municipality, arrived at St. Jotns, t,. r.
 TIE Senate has again passed the bill ghich ISssed both House and Senate al ae las session, establishing the Lincoln lEnd district of New Mexico. The bill aftor its former passage, reached the President too late for consideration.
 ON the 1th Judge Andrews, in the Stu ,4reme Court of New York City, dismissed the writ of habeas corpus obtained by Ann Odelia Diss Debar, the ''spook princess, 2 tosobtain possession of her children, who are in the care If Mr. Gerry's socisy. and decide net to allow her to have posses sian Gt them.