The southern argus., 1891-10-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Cleaned By Telegraph and Mail
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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THE extra session of the Tennessee
legislature adjourned without acting
on the convict lease system CT much of
anything else.
THE baltimore Sun says that Secre-
tary Blaine still expects to acquire
Mole st. Nicholas, Hayti, for coaling
station.
SECRETARY FOSTER will leave Wash
ington to make campaign speeches in
Ohio.
MAIL from Madagascar brings infor-
nation that United States Consul Wall
Ter applied direct to the Hova govern
ment for an exequatur instead of
through the French authority. 1t is
declared in Paris that in so acting Con-
sui Waller disobeyed the instructions
of the American government.
THE state department has received a
cablegraIn from Minister Egan confirm
ing the news of eX-President Balma-
ceda's suicide.
IT is reported that the king of Rou>
mania proposes to resign because of
the continued illness of his wife.
IKOF. nINDSCHIED, oL Ac1pStC1 IDS
left the Catholic church for the Protest
ant, being offended at the exhibition
of the holy coat at Treves.
RUSSIAN army maneuvers were kept
secret as far as possible. There were
reports that the supply department
broke down, men being left for ten
DAYS on half rations.
d. [-r Ir1fA tod
in the case of Mrs. May brick, con-
demned for life to an English prison for
poisoning her husband.
In the lower house of the Georgia
legislature the much noted Ocala reso-
lutions as Endorsed by the alliance and
demanded by them of the next congress
were introduced by Mr. Barrett, of Pike
county, for approval and Endorsement
and were defeated by avote of 81 to 63.
THE Russian minister of the interior
has drafted law providing for the de-
portation to Tobolsk, in Siberia, Of all
foreigners coming under the decree OF
expulsion, if their own countries refuse
to receive them. The measure will
chiefly affect Jews and Poles
LA-dON. hLbEhl AuOhEhOO
during a fit of delirium while sick at
his home in Maryville, Mo-, committed
suicide by cutting his throat The
shocking affair was startling surprise
to his friends and political associates.
REV. DR. BURCHARD. of "Rum, Ro-
manism and Rebellion" fame, was re-
ported critically sick at Saratoga, N. Y.
CAPT JOHN LIGHTFooT died at Bloom
ington, Ill. He was one of the five men
who founded the Grand Army of the
Republic,
THE president has granted full par.
don to Robert Seigel, son Of Gen. Seigel
of New York, convicted of forgery
PHILADELPHIA democrats have nomi
mated w. Redwood Wright for city
treasurer and Theodore L. Jenkins fol-
register Of wills.
THE wife of the Grand Duke Paul
youngest brother of the car. is dead.
LANGEvIN, the Canadian minister ac
cused of boodling, has been exonerated
CHINA has promised to protect for
eign residents.
A. NJ PosT, of Crete, has been nomi
mated by Nebraska republicans for as
sociatc judge. II. H. Shumway, O.
Dawson county, and Charles Marble, o
Douglas, were nominated for regents o
the state university
J. c. LAMAR, nephew of l.. c. Q
Lamar, associate justice of the United
States supreme court, committed sui
eide at Little Rock. Ark, by taking
morphine. He had led wild life.
E. j. Ewing, who, it was thought
might have been killed by Chilcat In
dams in Alaska, was alive and well il
| California,
THE president has appointed Charles
w. Erdman, of Kentucky, to be United
States consul at Stockholm.
REV SAMUEL d. BURCHARD died a
| Saratoga, n. Y, on the 25th. He wa
born September 6. 1912, at Steuben, n
Y. and had quite a reputation in thu
Presbyterian church until his famous
Rum, Romanism and Rebellion" re
mark to Mr. Blaine, when his reputa
ton was more extended.