The Globe-republican., 1891-08-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL
SIR HECTOR LANGEvIN, of Ontario,
has resigned from the ministry.
VERY REV. GILBERT ELLIOTT, D. D.,
the we'll known English churchman, is
dead. He was born in $500, was APP
pointed dean of Bristol in 1850 and held
that office ever since.
w. W. ARMSTRONG, who it was claimed
was the oldest living odd fellow in the
United States, died at Salem, Ore, on
the 18th. aged SO. He was initiated in
to the order at Buffalo, n. Y. in 1854.
THE Swiss government has nearly
completed the work of fortifyinr
Mount St Gothard, thereby making 4
impossible for a hostile army to des' lend
into Switzerland from that quart r.
An ukase has just been issue 4 by the
Russian government prohib' ting from
August 81 the expectation from Russia
of rye and rye meal OF all kinds and
brands.
A DISPATCH on TIE 18th said that the
Poles were greedy excited over the
possible erection of a monument by the
Russian government to Count Mura
vieff, known as the ''Hangman OF
Poland" The Poles generally con
strue it as national insult.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, the we'll
known contributor to literature. died
at Cam bridge, Mass. on the 10th. He
was born February %. 1919.
GEORGE JOKES editor of the New
York Times, died at Poland Springs,
Me-, on the 18th. He overthrow the
Tweed ring.
The latest London advices from
southeastern Africa tell of appalling
barbarities by the Portuguese with a
view of bringing the natives to sub
lection.
Rev. DE. A. l. LINDSEY, a professor
| in the Presbyterian theological school
of Oakland, Cal. and one of the most
prominent ministers on the Pacific
coast, is dead.
The Maryland farmers convention
has Endorsed Senator German.
A DISPATCH from Erie, Pa, says: Ex.
Congressman SCOTS condition is
slightly improved. Mr. Brand, his
physician, says: II am confident Mr..
Scott will recover, though his recovery
will be necessarily slow"
EX-SENATOR BRUCE, of Mississippi.
opposes the schemes of negro emigra-
ton to Liberia and says Bishop Turner
is the only prominent colored man in
this country who advocates it Mr..
Bruce says the American negroes are
Americans They are African in moth
ing but their color.
THE Novosti, of st. Petersburg, in an
article on European politics, takes oc-
by the Salisbury government and says
that if it is the policy of Great Britain
to continue her present attitude toward
France ard Russia the peace of Europe
will be guaranteed for long time to
come
PARTIES from the Chickasaw Nation
say the Byrd party was victorious in
the late election, having secured every
member of the lower house of the
tribal legislature. The result means
that the intruders must 60 and every
white man on the expiration of his
permit.
Col. FREDERICK PHIsTER, Of New
York, has been appointed adjutant-
general of the q. A. r.
HENRY C. MILES has been appointed
United States judge of the northern
aud southern districts of Mississippi
Mrs. SARAHC. POLK, widow of James
X. Polk, tenth president of the United
States. died at Nashville, Tenn, on the
18th.
THE funeral services over the re-
mains of James Russell Lowell took
place at Harvard university. Inter
ment was in the family lot at Mount
Auburn.