San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1877-11-24
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

~ QigIi-lUP GrCi T9m'
JOHN BRoUGHAM, the favorite COM
edian, was taken dangerous i'll in Cleveland
on the 9th, and has been compelled to can
Gel all his present engagements.
IT is reported that Col. r. G.. Inger-
soil of Illinois has been unofficlally rendered
the mission to Berlin. ..,.
IT is charged that the firm of S. & w.
Welsh, Philadelphia, sugar importers, are
the owners Of plantation in Cuba together
with 1873 slaves. Mr.. John Welsh, who has
been appointed by President Hayes as Min
lister to England, is member of this firm.
He emphatically and fully denies the ALE
cation. E
CARDOzA, ex-State Treasurer of South
Carolina, has been found guilty of the va
rious irregularities charged against him.
The Jury in his case consisted of four white
and eight colored men. EX-Congressman
Smalls is now undergoing trial, and b. F.
Whittemore, eX-State Senator, Is under in
dictment, both for fraud and corruption.
w. o. MEAD, Cashierof the Appleton
City Bank, st. Clair County, Mo-, has abb
seconded, owing to supposed irregularity
in the handling of Kansas City and Memphis
Railroad bonds, 1000 worth OF which are
missing.
DIR. PAUL F. EVE, distinguished
surgeon and medical writer, died at his
home in Nashville, Tenn, on the 3D.. He
was II years old, and native of Georgia.
The President has nominated Henry S.
Sanford, of Colorado, to be Minister to Bel
GUM.
The Senate has unanimously confirm.
ed the nomination of Mr.. John Welsh as
Minister to England.
HON. LYMAN TRUMBULL, of Illinois,
ex-United States Senator, was recently united
in marriage to Miss MaryJ. Ingraham, eldest
daughter of the late Captain John Ingraham
of Old Saybrook, CT. The bride and groom
are cousins.
SENATOR MCDONALD, of Indiana, be.
gan his working life as a saddler.
Mrs. MARY J. PROCTOR, OF Rochester,
NY, bequeathed the bulk of her estate
amounting to about 100000, to various be-
nevolent institutions of the Episcopal
Church.
HON. A. H. STEPHENS lives at the Ma
tional Hotel, Washington, and despite his
desperate physical condition, is CHEEKY in
valid. A Washington correspondent says:
He wears gloves on his hands as small as
those of q 1O-year- child, relishes rich
food, though butter and eggs are forbidden
him; takes an occasional Whit of tobacco
and when in health has two ounces of whisky
or brandy after dinner. ..
SENATOR MORTON leaves an estate
variously estimated from $4,000 to 10000
which includes q farm in White County,
bank stock and one-half interest in the
Indianapolis Journal. The entire property
is left to his wife, with the request that 1t
be administered for the common benefit OF
herself and their three sons.
DIR. PIERCE, of Buffalo, the well
known patent-medicine man, has been elect
ed member of the New York Legislature
SENATOR FERRY, of Michigan, is an
old bachelor and an Elder in the Presbyte-
rian Church.
PROF. JAMES ORION, of Vassar Col
lege, died while crossing Lake Titicaca in
Bolivia, Oct. oath, and was buried on little
island in the harbor Of Puno, Peruvian
city on the shore of that lake. He was born
at Seneca Falls, N. Y, in 1880, and attained
high distinction as scientific investigator
Prof. Orion had been on two previous sci
entifc expeditions to South America, the
first one 1867 and the second in 1873. His
last venture was undertaken about yeal
ago, his object being to complete his eXami'
nation of the head-waters of the Amazon.
MISS Won ELsNER, of Cincinnati, has
recently made a successful debut as an OPP
n era singer in Paris. Her stage name is Mile
Litta.
JUDGE THos. A. SPENCE, Assistant
II Superintendent of the Railway Service, died
y on the 10th.
Ex-UNITED STATES Marshal Shaffen-
berger, of Colorado, who has been confined
in the Kansas Penitentiary for the past eight
II months, where he was sent after being
found guilty of robbing the Government OF
$40, 600, has been pardoned by President
a Hayes. 1t is announced that Shafienberger
is going to Europe.