The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-06-18
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL BREvlTlEs.

NR. EVARTS concluded the summing
up for the defense in the Tilton- Bcecher trial on
the sth, and was followed by Mr.. Beach, on the
9Th, for the plaintiff.
JUDGE NELSON. OF the United States
District Court, in session at Winona, Mimi. has
rendered an opinion affirming the constitution
ality of the supplementary Civil-rights bill.
The sultan of Zanzibar arrived in Eng
land on the 9th.
The Tribunal at POScn. Germany. has
sentenced Prince Bishop DR.. Forester, of Brcs-
Iau, to a fine OF 1000 marks. or l$5 days I'M
prisonment, for Illegally communicating Il
priest.
II. 3. CLAFLIN, the Wcll-knOwn dry
goods merchant of New York, and other mem
beers of his firm, have been indicted by the United
States Grand jury for completely in silk-smug-
Cling frauds.
PERSON O.. CHENEY (Itcp.) was elected
Governor OF New Hampshire by the Legislature,
on the sth, and was inaugurated on the 9th.
TEE President has signed the coElmis-
sions of :. b. ANter, to he Governor OF New
Mexico, and George ". Emery, to be Governor
of Utah.
Mr.. LEWIS l.. FISHER, whom the
Democrats are talking of nominating for Cover
nor in Minnesota, j. q brother of Prof. George
=. Fisher, of Yale College. Mr.. Lewis Fisher
was formerly a printer IN Boston. He went West
to seek his fortune over twenty-onc years ago;
stopped at It. LoU.s one winter, because he
couldn't get up the river; started for st. Paul in
the spring, and took 4 place on the Pioneer news
paper, Of which he at length became editor, and
is now engaged on the consolidated Pioneer
Press.
WV. :. KING, indicted in connection
with the Pacific Mail subsidy has been admitted
to bail in the sum of $500.
Hon. MARSH GIDDINGs, Governor of
New Mexico, who died on the Sd instant
was born in Connecticut in .Sli. lis par
ents immi@ratcd to Michigan in 1877. He
was here admitted to the bar while a young man,
and becoming interested in politics, was elected
to various official positions. lie was appointed
by President Grant Territorial Governor of New
MEXICO, which position ne held for about five
year.
lie license boni of Thomas Jefferson
for fifty pounds, 10 be enforced Gin case of the
existence of lawful cause to obstruct Il mar
riage between the said Thomas Jefferson and
Martha shelton, widow, has Just been deposited
in the State Library at Richmond.
A GENTLEMAN of Atlanta, Ga. learning
that the widow of StonewalI jackson is living at
Charlotte, y. c., in straitcned circumstances
has offered TO give her an interest in a prosperous
cotton factory.
TIE quarterly report Of the National
Grange shows that the aggregate number of sub
ordinate oranges has increased during the last
three months about l 600.
ARTHUR DWYER, a young man %
years Old, Il graduate OF Trinity College, Hart
ford, and an editorial writer on the New York
ErcRiRg Post. committed suicide in New York,
on the 10Th, by blowing out his brains. Mr..
Dwycr was a young man of great promise. His
grandfather was a well known Connecticut cler-
gyman. No cause is assigned for his sudden
taking of.
CHARLES CLINTON. State Auditor of
Louisiana, has been held to bail on four different
indictments-two for misdemcanor in office, one
for cXtOrtiOn under color of office, and one for
embezzling 81, 600 of the State funds.