The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-06-29

THE steamers State of PENNSYLVANIA
F, aud Wyoming. which arrived at New
/ York on the 2pth, both sighted large ice.
bergS on the passage.
THE New Hampshire Legislature met in
/ Joint convention, on the 18th, and form
. ally declared W. r. Chandler elected as
/ United States Senator.
/ EMPEROR WILLIAM will go on three
/ week. yachting cruise in the North seq
III July, in the comse Of which lie will
/ visit the Lofaden islands.
I \ GENTLEMAN by the name Of Middle.
ton, from Washington ID. c., is in Rich
mond, Va, buying and taking optic rs
On all land upon which Robert +. Lee
surrendered hi; army.
WILLIAM +. HOWARD, who was convict.
cd in New York City in the Electric
Sugar Refining case was, on the 2lst, sem
fenced to nine years and eight months
Imprisonment in the States prison.
s .
HENRY \. CASSIDY, who was convicted
OF setting fire To the Catholic Prutectu-
rate AZ White Plains, y. V. some weeks
ago, was, on the 22d, sentenced To sixteen
years III the State prison AT Sing Sing.
SECRETARY TRACY ordered court of
inquiry to investigate the circumstances
connected with the grounding of the
United States ship Constellation, to
meet at the Norfolk Navy Yard on the
2lSt.
j. \. llOUCK, aged twenty-uine, a teller
OF the Traders National Bank of Balti-
more, Nd, committed suicide by hang
ing on the night of the 22d. He was suf-
ferinS from an attack of nervous pros
tratiOn.
OWING TO the recent assignment of
George Calder, Jr., owner of the Fulton
Cotton Mill at Lancaster, Pa. operations
i'll the mill were indefinitely suspended on
tie aO'h. Three hundred hands were thus
thrown out of employment.
DIR. II. w. II. DUNCAN. of the steamship
Colon, was, on the 20th. taken from the
residence of CaptaiA w. II. Thompson,
Ne. l'3 Hancock street, Brooklyn, to
quarantine, the Health Board having pro-
nounced his case one of yellow fever.
MICHAEL DAvITT will testify before the
Paruell Commission. July 2d, and il is
expected that he will be the last witness
summoned for the defense His evidence
is regarded as of much importance, and
is looked forward to with considerable in
tereSt.
GENERAL SIMON CAMERON, of Pennsyl-
vania, was stricken with paralysis of the
right side on the both, and left in a crit
ical condition. Wayne MacVeagh, aud
Mrs. MacVeagh and Mrs. Haldcrman, his
daughters, are with him at his home in
Donegal Springs
\ PORTION os the Manniugham mills in
Bradford England. was destroyed by
fire, on the night of the 22l, involving
loss Of EjO,6jJ. Two firemen were killed
by falling walls, and several others were
injured. \ number of wOrkmen in the
mills Were also injured.
EEFEIRIyG to the victory of the VAL
kyrie III the Queenstown regatta, the
London Times of the 18th says: at was
Just such weather as the Nalkyrie is
likely to sail the Americas cup match in.
Nothing could be more satisfactory than
the way she acquitted herself"
THE coroner's jury investigating the
circumstances connected with the recent
frightful railway disaster near Armagh,
Ireland, returned a verdict, on the 2lst,
holding five of the officials of the railway
responsible for the loss of life and
charging them with mauslaughter.
The United States schoolship COnstel-
lation went ashore near Cape Henry, on
the 18th, with over three hundred peO-
pie on board, nearly half being cadets.
The Intelligence was received late on the
night OF the 18th, and preparations were
made to render assistance at day break.
MARTIN BURKE, the Winnipeg "sus-
pect," was positively identified, as one
of the civilians brothers," on the 2lst,
by the expressman, Martinsen, of Chi
cagO, who hauled the furniture to the
Carlson cottage, who picked him out of
crowd of fifty persons without hesitation.
\ CONSCIENCE contribution, amounting
TO Sl3O, was received at the Treasury De-
partment, on the 18th, from a lady in
Philadelphia. Her letter accompanying
the remittance stated that the money was
for the payment of customs duties on
goods which she had smuggled into the
country.
THE National Steam Filters AsSocia-
tion closed its annual session in Boston
on the 10th. The election of an executive
board, revision of the constitution, con-
sideratiOn of the auditors report and
formulation of plan for education con-
stituted the principal business Of the
days session.
JUDGE RICHTER, of New Orleans, on the
DIST, granted the motion in behalf of the
State to make perpetual the injunction
restraining the Cotton Oil Trust from ex-
ercising any of the privileges and fran
chises OF corporation within the State
OF Louisiana. The application for re-
ceiver was denied.
A TELEGRAM from Sparta, Greece. an
nounces that the inspector Of antiquities
in the old Laconian town of Pharis has
unearthed some ancient tombS containing
objects of Greek art in gold, silver and
precious stones, all of great value. The
historical museums Of Athens are being
enriched almost daily.
President AND MRS. HARRISON, DIR.
Scott and Postmaster-Gen Wana-
maker attended the Beadle Presbyterian
Church at Cape May, y. j., on the 23d.
In the afternoon the President and wife
dined with General Sewell, and Mr..
Wanamaker visited the Presbyterian and
Methodist Sunday schools.
II. 5. SALvANT, aged fifty-two, and c.
J. lie Breton, aged fOrty-three, both
clerks, were arrested, on the 22d, for fight
ing a duel in the City Park at New Or
leans. The parties had exchanged three
harmless shots before the officer came
upon the scene. They were both placed
under bonds TO keep the peace.
The movement in London to have the
museums, art galleries aud public libra
4 lnr l.