The Van Buren press., 1874-01-27
NEWS.

w lSCOHsln iH Ao1o, anu h"s INV" '"''oN'
public offices.
An exchange exclaims: "Live'
there man with soul SO dead, who new
er to himself has said, I'll pay before
90 to bed, the debt l owe the print n
Yes, there are some we know full well
who never such tale could tell. but the,
l fear, will go to well, the place where
there's no winter"
- Major Frank Strong who has FOL
some years efficiently filled the position
of deputy Secretary Of State, has beer
appointed Adjutant General of the State
vice Gen A. W. Bishop, resigned. Th'
appointment is one well deserved. Maj
Strong will make an excellent adjutan
general. Always polite, courteous anc
attentive to his duties in the Secretary o.
States office, he has won the regard OF
all who came in contact with him. We
con gratulate him on his promotion
Gd-etet.
DEATH OF A REoAPTURED CONVICT
We announced yesterday the 2lst, the re-
capture and recommittal to prison ol
Charley Clarke, one Of the lately escaped
convicts. We have to announce to day
his final release by death. He died the
night before last at 10 o'clock. DIR. Car
roll, surgeon in charge Of the peniten
tiary, certifies that Clarke died from con
gestion of the brain, caused by over ex'
citement and want of food while absent
from prison. He had received no injury
And thus has ended his efforts to gain
freedom in spite of the laws delay -
Clarke was tried and convicted in John
son County last frll of an assault with in
tent to kill -Republican
--Ex- Governor Yarmouth asserts that
Senator Carpenter and General Butler
have agreed on new election bill for the
State of Louisiana, which Will be INTRO
duced in both houses this week, and af-
ter canvass of the Democrats in the
house he did not find one who would not
vote for the bill, and feels confident that
it will pass both houses.
- The Richmond, Va. Dispatch thinks
President Grant has done more to sustain
his motto, LET us have Peace" in drop
ping Gov. Davis of Texas, than he has
by all his other measures combined.
- From the Little Rock papers we
learn of the death Of Capt. Mike Roman
which occurred at the residence OF his
father in Wisconsin, Of consumption
Florida already rcjoices in green
p as and new potatoes.
Wheat in portions of Monterey Co
is four inches high.
A sister of Edgar A Poe, is in Bal
timore, destitute and homeless.
Hon. r NJ r. Hunter regards the
result of the Senatorial contest in Nr-
ginia as n wthcrng rebuke Of old fogy-
ism
Marie Verdin. girl eighteen years
Of aye, is attracting the attention of the
medical faculty of Paris She is afllict-
Ed with a strange inGrmity known as nyc-
,0iope, that is. losing the faculty of sight
when the sun is acove the horizon, and
regaininQ it in the night time. During
the day Mile Verdin is obliged to keep
her eyes closed and wear thick veil
Bnt in utter darkness she can see SO as t.
read and write with perfect ease.
In the late reconstruction of Unity
Church. Robert Collyer has had his pull
pit moved forward twcnty-eight feet,
. right in among the people" He says
- it is difficult matter either to hurt a
sinner or to help a saint at hundred and
twenty Ave feet
- There is no longer shadow of pro,
Dablity that Pinchback will be admitted
10 the L. S. Senate. and he is SO appre-
1ensive Of new election being had that
ne is already laying his traps to secure
he gubernatorial nomination for himself
If ho should succeed shrewed Louisiana
ans now say that the white Republicans,
Liberals and Democrats would probably
upon General Longstreet, or,
possibly, Gen. Bureaugard, and try to
rescue the state from negro rule.
- 1t is thought probable at Washing.
on that Secretary Richardson will retire
rom the Treasury Department, soon.
The Senate, in executive session
the nomination Of Morrison
r. Waite as chiefjustice Of the United
States, unanimously.
Gov William Pinkney Whyte, was
elected United States Senator by the Ma
yland Legislature.
- Baze, ex president Of San Domingo
S on his way to New York
- Some stir has been created at Paris
~ the appearances of pamphlet, in
which the idea is put forward that the
prince imperial is; mot too young to reign,
md that he ought to be called TO his
ather's throne
- Madame Bazine has hired, in her
WI name, a small villa at Cannes, in or
Ter to be noar her husband.
- Mrs John C. Fremont, writes to a
gentleman in Philadelphia, that the re.
port declaring her husband to he afflicted
With cancer is entirely false, and that