Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-24
TELEGRAPHIo J0TTINGs.

The steamer Westerland, from New York for Antwerp, passed the Lizard yesterday morning.
 Princess Louise, wife of Grown Prince Frederick of Denmark, has given birth te a daughter.
 The Delaware and Hudson directors yes- terday declared the regular quarterly dividend of 1a4 per cent.
 Major Albert N. Down of Exeter has been commissioned assistant adjutant-general of the New Hampshire National guard.
 The queen has created Prince Albert vic- tor, eldest son of the Prince of Wales, duke of Clarence and Avondale and earl of Ath- lone.
 | At Point Breeze park yesterday Maud won the 2:s7 trot, best time s.2411s; c. T. L. the 2:37 class, best time 2:24A; and Surprise the 2:30 pacing race, best time 1:24Z. The passenger rate between Chicago and New York after having been in effect hardly twenty-four hours, was rescinded by the Central Traffic association. The $16 rate re- l mains, however.
 The grand jury for the United States cir cult court st Boston yesterday reported an in- diotment against Ezra Fl. Heywood, pub fisher of the Word, for sending obscene mat ter through the mails.
 I. P. Chase, highly respected physician of Hillsboro Bridge. N. H., committed sui- it is supposed. to temporary insanity caused | by long illness.
 Mrs. Catharine Connolly of Dover, N. H., took two teaspoonfuls of arsenic yesterday forenoon by mistake. thinking it cream of | diaa oft ha leaves son two daughters. Governor Goodell of New Hampshire took his first car ride since his illness yesterday on the Concord aud Peterboro railroad, paes- ing from Bennington to Antrim. He rode frst to Bennington in carriage.
 The annual spring review of the Berlin garrison took place at the Templehof yester- day. Tho troops were reviewed by the em- peror. The empress and the princess of Saxe-Meiningen were also present. The United States man of war Pensacols arrived at New York yesterday from her trip to Africa. She had on board the party ol scientists who went to the dark continent to observe the recent eclipse of the moon.
 A verdict of 5000 was rendered in the Supreme court at Boston yesterday against the Boston and Albany railroad company fol causing the death of John Kennedy at one oi | uelcuOdubS CEOssluSs lu DIOOhuclu, CuIy 1 1888.
 At Alexandria, La, Thursday afternoon Jeff Hunt and Claude Stewart were shot an6 killed by John Bolan and Jim Johnson, al
 white men. The killing was the result o
 trouble growing out of cherivari party
 some weeks ago.
 The case of Ezra H. Haywood, charged
 with disseminating obscene literature througl
 the medium of his paper, "The Word" cam,
 up in the municipal court at Boston yester
 day. After testimony and arguments Judg
 Curtis took the papers and continued tn
 case one week.
 A special from Mare island says the cruise Charleston was sent to Honolulu at the re
 quest of the Hawaiian minister and that DOS
 sible trouble on the convening of the Hawaii
 an legislature when new members take thei seats and new officers are elected was th l reason for the request.
 , The will of Marcia M. Hoisington, filed 3 the probate office at Springfield, Mass, yes
 terday bequeathed $1 .000 to the America board, $1 900 to the New West Educationi commission, $500 to the Woman's Boari $500 to the American Missionary association and $500 to the Home Missionary society. A suit for $40,000 damages has bee
 brought against the Boston chamber of con . merce by McNeil Bros., prominent buildiE | contractors of Boston. The contract for Il chamber of commerce new building has bee , awarded to Noloross Brothers, and 1t
 claimed that certain specifications relative estimates, etc., made with McNeil Brother :, have not been lived up to. n The court of Claims made public yesterds the decision in the case of the Beerdan Fir
 arms Manufacturing company vs. the Unite
 States. The question involved has been b.
 fore the court in one form or another ft ]. eighteen years and the court concludes tn .. .. the government is using in the Springfe gun the ejector device invented by Gener
 Beerdan and covered by letters patent.