The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1875-07-23
POLITICAL MEMORANDA.


SENATOR BooTH is actively canvassing
California for the Liberal Republican
ticket.
THE Washington Chronicle wants both
the National Conventions to be held in
that city.
THE Minneapolis Tribune denies that
Mr.. King intends to resign his seat in
Congress.
ID. II. PIGG is the Democratic candi-
date for the Legislature in Licking
county, Ohio.
THERE is q loud demand in Nebraska
for new State House to match the new
Constitution.
Ex-Gov. FENToN, of New York, de-
clines TO allow the use of his name in
connection with Congressional nomina-
ton.
GEN. JOHN Il. AvER1LL is mentioned
now rs one who may possibly be the
Republican candidate for Governor OF
Minnesota.
THE Hon. a. H. Rice is generally re-
garded Us most likely to receive the Re
publican nomination for Governor of
Massachusetts,.
One hundred and thirty-seven bills
passed by the New York General AS
sembly were slaughtered by Gov. Til
den, with his little veto.
THE Columbus Journal, describing an
Ohio politician, says: He is an honest
man by profession, and he earns his
bread by the sweat of his jaw"
EDWIN NJ. CHAMBERLAIN, the candi-
date of the Labor Reformers for Gov
ernor of Massachusetts, is hotel clerk,
parts his hair in the middle, and wears a
diamond pin.
VICE-PREsIDENT WILSON will spend
the summer at Saratoga, where he will
devote himself to drinking the waters
and writing on his history Of the " Rise
and Fall of Slave Power in America.
Ex-senator PATTERSON, of Credit.
Mobilier fame, came to the surface again
at the Dartmouth College Commence
ment, when he made a brief speech,
thickly studded with moral sentiments,
for the benefit of the learned and the
edifcation of the youth.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Profs. Lang
ston and Wilson, and the Rev. George
w. Williams held a meeting with other
colored people in Washington few days
since, and took initial steps toward start
ing weekly paper there, to be devoted
to the interests of the colored race.
WOMAN suffrage makes a gain in the
Republican nomination for Supreme
Court of Iowa. Mr. Adams is reported
as being in favor of the sisters voting.
His wife is one of the most eloquent and
earnest of all the Iowa women working
and canvasslng for that cause.
No Californian has any right to COM
plain that party lines are drawn too
strictly in the matter of State officers.
There are four distinct tickets in the
field. Democratic, Independent, Tenn
perance Reform and Republican, and the
voter who cannot find something to suit
him among so many must be hard to
please.
Mrs. MARY S. SANBoRN, of San Diego
county, California, is candidate for the
Office Of School Superintendent, q posi-
ton she is eligible to by the laws of that
State. The leading paper of the county,
the Union, speaks in very complimentary
terms OF her abilities, and urges that hci
name be placed upon the tickets of both
Republican and Democratic parties.
HoN. SHEPHERD LEFLER, the oppo
sition candidate for Governor of Iowa,
is Virginian by birth. He moved to
Iowa while it was still q territory, and he
was elected Congressional Delegate quite
: early. He was defeated as candidate
{ for Congress from the Chem Second Dis
, trict in 1856. In 1861, Mr.. Letter raj
for the State Senate, but unsuccessfully
Since that time he has not been inter
ested in politics until last fall, when h,
J lust failed to receive the Democratic
: nomination for Congress.
PROBABLY no man ever retired from
{ public office more reluctantly than U. s
r Treasurer Spinner, who has but weel
, more in the Treasury Department. HI
hoped. as he has often said, to die in the
harness, and would gladly have averteC
l his removal if it had been possible. HI
s is IA years of age, and says that he has
q spent sixty years of his life Mt hard work
and has not more than $780, to show
1 for it. The recent theft in his depart
, ment, of which there is no trace, de
3 presses the old gentleman very MUCH
I Boston Heratd's Washington Letter.