The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1889-04-13
PERSONAL AND GtNERAL

| PERSONAL AND GtNehaI
GEORGE WARD, assistant postmaster at
Elmira, N. Y. is missing, ga 50 are the
contents Of the Office safe, supposed TO
amount to $500. Ward ISt on a night
train, and is thought to b in Canada.
He leaves a wife and six Children.
| A BAILIFF who had charts Of farm
from which the tenants had been evicted
at Coleraine, County Londonderry, was
| shot dead, on the 4th, by unk+awn parties.
AT Halifax, N. s.. on tht 4th, Judge
Gtchie granted extradition in the case Of
Hardie, the New York foyer, and the
| prisoner has been remandot to await the
arrival of fhe necessary pspers at Otta-
wa. Hardie's counsel will probably ap-
peal TO the Supreme Court
TIE reports to Bradstret's of stocks
Of wheat in store, out OF fafmers' hands,
east Of the Rocky mountains, March 30
give total Of 39,638, 900 b1.hels against
n, $50, 900 bushels on Mardh 1, 1899, and
Sc, So9, 900 bushels April /, 1888. Stocks of
-four at principal points of accumulation,
not in retailers hands, aggregate 1,Sli,-
600 barrels against l,S23,0U barrels one
month ago, and 1,G90, 900 barrels one year
ago.
SETTLERS on the Des Moiues river
lands, fully equipped with Winchesters,
| drove of a United States marshaPs
posse on the 4th. Fully forty shots were
fired, but no one was injured.
THE British man Of war Calliope, which
ran out Of the hurricane al Apia, and for
whose safety much anxiety was felt, has
arrived at Sydney, N. S. w, No lives were
lost.
WARD McALLIsrER, Of New York, has
resigned as secretary of the entertain
ment committee Of the Centennial cele-
bration.
The sentence Of Dennis Klbride, NJ. P.
for South Kerry, to three months i'm
prisonment for offenses under the Crimes
act, has been confirmed on appeal.
FOREIGN powers are watching with
much concern tbs growing strength Of ths
| United States navy.
Rev. Z. K. BEEcHER, brother Of the late
Henry Ward Bsecher, who met with q
painful accident few days while at
tempting to board a train. is doing well.
His left foot has been amputatsd.
GENERAL BoULANGER has been per-
suaded by Count Dillon and II. Roche
| fort to withhold the manifesto he medi-
tated sending to his followers in France,
aud the electoral campaign has been sus.
pended.
Hon. FRED DOUGLASS visited the Jack
sonville tFla.) Exposition on the 4th. He
| received on ovation at the hands Of the
colored people.
Mr.. ROBERT T. LINCOLN has accepted
the English mission, and will leave the
United States in about five weeks.
THE President is making arrangements
20 Echi iy,rv t,.iy tc nha1 Ia he
! will 60 down the Chesapeake, with Secre-
| tary Window, on q revenue cutter, to be
| gone two or three days.
The President has appointed Joel B.
Erhardt collector Of customs at New York
| City.
THE United States steamship Atlanta
has been ordered TO proceed from Aspin-
wall to New York to participate in the
Washington Centennial Inauguration
| ceremonies.
GOVERNOR BULRLEY OF Connecticut
granted reprieve of two weeks in the
case Of John II. Swift, the Hartford wife,
murderer, sentenced to be hanged on the
ath.
The reduction of fore, at the Govern.
ment printing office. which always fol
lows the adjournment OF Congress, has
occurred. The force will be furth,r re.
duccd.
PRESIDENT HARRISON, on the 5th, issued
! proclamation, recommending April 80
next the date of the centennial celebra-
ton Of the Inauguration Of President
Washington, as special centen mia
thanksgiving.
JAMES CALsRY. OF Pittsburgh, one OF
the wealthiest and best.known men In
Western Pennsylvania, died suddenly al
his residence on Highland street, on the
9Th, presumably Of heart disease.
THE American Commissioners to the
Samoan Conference have engaged pas.
sage for Europe on the Umbria, which
sails from New York on the 18th. Mean
while they are frequently at the Depart
ment Of State consulting with the officials
and studying the protocols of the last con
ference.
THE Secretary Of the Navy has formall
accepted the gun. boat Yorktown, now O
the League Island Navy Yard. The ac
ceptance was made subject to the specia
reservation OF $4,000 and two other res
ervations, one Of 5000 until the compile
ton of the electric lighting plant an
the other $500, for six spare propelle
blades.
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT BELL has up
pointed the following assistant superin
tendents in the railway mail service
w. II. Lamb, OF Missouri, vice W.
Hickman, OF Kansas; J. s. Smith, Of Wis
consin, vice l.. J. Moss, of Iowa.
MARTIN THOMAS, prominent grocer n
Lancaster, Pa. was found hanging in hi
stable on the morning OF the 5th. Hi
suicide was the elimination Of hnancia
troubles. He was forty-seven years o
age, and leaves a wife, but no children.
AMONG the sufferers by the late prairi
ires in Dakota were one hundred fam
! lilies in Brule County, who lost eyery thin
they owned, and are in great distress.
AID is asked for the burned-Out farm
: ers in the neighborhood OF Lawrence
Oak.
r WISE and Morrill,, OF the Boston Base
: ball Club, have been sold to the Wash
: ingtons.
r 1t was rumored in Washington, on th
5th, that the Nipsic had been floated.
THE action of the Chamber of Deputie
: in voting for the prosecution OF Gener'
Boulanger Is viewed as a death blow I
himself and followers by the Opportuni
and Radical press Of France. The GOV
: ernment will prosecute Henri Rochefo
= and Count Dillon for their connectio
with the Boulangist party.
THE Washington Light Infantry
a Charleston, s. c., will take part in th
centennial pageant in New York, and wi
, march under the origina. crimson bait
!, flag OF Colonel William Washington
. cavalry. This flag was actually ia Il
!, battle Of Cowpens and Eutaw Spring
Il and is the only revolutionary staad~-
extant in q condition for use in parad
A FIRE, which originatal in a gambliI
e den in Attica, o.. on the morning OF Il
= 5th, destroyed $1,000 worth Of propert
d The steamship Santiago from Hawai-
a / arrivad in Eaw Work on fine .th $