The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1878-08-22
Personal IND I,OLI7ICAL.


PERSONAL and POLITICAL.
THE movement to make Gen. Shields a
United States Senator from Missouri for the
| fragment o. Senator Bogy's term is progressing
fairly, and already includes n large number of
the most prominent new spapers and politicians.
Col. SAVAGE, Col. Burns, Col Fleming,
Col. Caldwell, Col. Blizzard, Col. COlyar and
Col. White are among the candidates for Cover
nor Of Tennessee.
IT IS now asserted that the famous pOr-
trait of Beatrice Cenci, in the Barberini Palace
| ut Rome, is not by Guido REM and is not pOr-
trait of Beatrice. 1t is believed to have been
painted before Guido's time, and TO be Man.
donna by Paola de Verona, mentioned in the
catalogue Of the Barberini pictures in 1904.
Col. VEST is making very active can
vass for the United States Senatorship in Mis-
souri,.
ACCORDING to the American Protestant
Buffers slate for the Massachusetts campaign
will be made up as follows: Benjamin F. Butler
| for Governor, ii. Il. Sargent for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, ID. n. Skillings for Treasurer. John f.
Fitzgerald for Auditor, A. J. Baily for Attorney
General, j. NJ. Buifum for Secretary Of State.
QUEEN ISABELLA is happy with the
$72O, 900 which she obtained from the sale of
her diamonds.
Now it is the state of Victor HuSO's health
that is to bother the world. The newspapers
may well get up that obituary and keep it
standing.
SENATOR BECK is said never to have
taken dose Of medicine in his life. Neverthe-
less he has gone hunting on the plains in order
to recuperate.
THE Emperor of Morocco Is sick again,
and will surely die this time.
The poems and prose works of the late
Sarah Helen Whitman will he collected and
published in separate volumes.
THE Bishop of Hayti, a negro, recently
preached n sermon in Westminster Abbey. He
was the first colored individual to do SO.
MIR. WEBB HAYES, son Of the President,
is engaged to young lady at Fremont, Ohio.
Miss LOUISA ALLEN, the Boston black
mailer, forfeited her bail recently. An order for
her arrest has been issued.
Ex-Governor MILLER, Of Minnesota,
is delivering a lecture in that State, which is
entitled. All Men are Liars" His tickets read,
All Men are Liars-admit one"
1T is reported that President Hayse's
contribution to the Republican campaign funds
5000.
Mr.. SMALLEY writes from Ohio to the
New York Tribune that, as the National party is
organized in secret councils, it is impossible to
estimate correctly its exact strength. He says
that he should not be surprised il il cast 49,
900 or 100000 votes in Ohio.
THE Democrats of the First Ohio district
have nominated Milton sayler for congress.
GEN. BUTLER is the owner OF the Yacht
America built by the government ut a cost of
SIS, 900 and sold to him by Secretary Robson
during the last administration for s., 900. With
this yacht manned by men in Buffers uniform,
he coasts about in New England waters, land
ing occasionally to denounce capitalists and
bondholders, and abuse the rich loafers in New
Yerk who waste their money playing at stage
coach.
EX-Gov. JOEL PARKER declines to be
candidate for Congress.
ROBERT LINCOLN, ssh Of President Lin
coin, is Congressional candidate in the First
Illinois district.
SPEAKER RANDALL will return to Boston
in September, when public dinner will he
rendered him by Democratic leaders.
THE total number Of voters in Massa-
chusetts, by the State census Of s.5, was 35l =
lib. OF these 69,21l were naturalizei voters.
Col. HENRY NJ. HOYT. the Republican
candidate for Governor Of Pennsylvania, esti-
mates the strength OF the Nationals in his
State at lOO,NU.
INDIANA journals hint that there Is a
Democratic dark horse in training for the SEN
atorial race in that State, and that his name is
W. ii. English.
Two MEMBERS Of the Louisiana Return.
ing Board Of $50, Madison Wells and General
Anderson. are booked as the probable Republ-
can candidates for Congress in the 4th and 9TH
Louisiana Districts.
nrUrDsr ron rrnN ~n-n.
TOHA"" "oAHS'
RIoTs continue ut Odessa, and prucla-
nation of state OF siege is expected TO be is
sued.
1T was officially stated in the British
Parliament, Wednesday, that the number Of
deaths from the famine in India reached the ar
palling total of ,S5O,OO
A BERLIN dispatch saws Prince Bismarck
has ;nstrrcte,f the German stfarhs NJ Copst.p
tinopie to inform the porte that the continuance
OF an ampigu9ns Pohcy would risk the existence
Oh turkey III Europe.
An American company has obtained
concession to lay a Geographic cable from San
Domingo City and Puerta Plata 70 ST. Thomas,
with exclusive right for twenty five pears.
THE BOSNIAN Insurgents ara r,.treafi,y
on serajevo or Bosnia Seria. the capital of the
province. The city has population Of Zoo.
mostly Mohammesians- II the Turkish garrison