San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-06-29
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
THE President has nominated Ben
jamin F. Potts, of Helena, for Governor OF
Montana.
ERNST DICKMAN, of Wisconsin, has
been nominated by the President for Minis
ter to the United States Of Colombia
MACGAHAN, the famous war CORE
spondent of the London Daily Ne,cS, died
at Constantinope on the 9th Of spotted ty-
plus fever. He was an American, born in
st. Louis, and went abroad as correspond
ent of the New York Herald.
REV. LEoNIDAs H. BOYLE, of Ken
lucky, minister Of the NJ. E. Church South,
and at various times engaged in law and
in journalism in the South and West,
committed suicide at hotel in Indianapo-
lis on the Sth. Deceased was man OF I'M
usual ability, but ewing, it is said, to
wound received some years ago, which
troubled him greatly, had become intem-
perate in his habits and finally lost all con-
troll over his appetite for drink.
Hon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS has
written letter to the Chairman of the Dem
ocratic Executive Committee, Eighth Con-
gressional District Of Georgia, in which he
says he shall neither seek nor decline nom
ination at the hands of the Convention soon
to meet; "but it," he says, "the Convention
shall repudiate me as an unfit representative
of Democratic principles, and shall attempt
to rule me out of the Democratic party
because of any thing connected with
my recent public acts or sentiments, then l
say to you and them, plainly and distinctly,
that shall regard their edicts as but bru-
tenn fulmen, issued by an irresponsible fac
ton of tricksters, and the question whether
1 or they are sound in the faith of the
fathers shall be left for true Democracy Of
the district to be settled at the polls"
DIR. GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, the newly
elected Bishop of the Springfield ull.) Do
cese, p. E. Church, was consecrated at
Trinity Church, New York, on the 18th.
GEN. BENZ. L. E. BONNEVILLE, the
oldest officer in the United States Army,
died ut Fort Smith, Ark, on the 18th. He
was born in France, but came to America
at an early age and entered West Point Mill
tary Academy, from which he graduated in
1915, and was assigned to duty on the West
ern frontier, where by far the larger por-
ton of his life was subsequently passed. He
was retired from active service in 1861, but
acted as disbursing and recruiting officer
during the late war.
THE international Literary Congress
was organized at Paris on the 18th. Prof.
Andrew D. White, of Cornell College, was
chosen President, and William Balch Secre-
tary.
THE Empress of Russia is seriously
i'll. Prayers for her recovery have been Of
erred in all the churches.
PRESIDENT HAYES, accompanied by
members of his family and others, attended
the review of Cadets at West Point on the
18th.
THE annual convention of the Kan
sas Editors and Publishers Association
was held at Atchison on the 18th, conclud-
ing with an excursion to Putin Bay, Lake
Erie.
A DELEGATION of the National Green
back party had hearing before the Senate
Finance Committee on the 18th, and Thomas
j. Durant made speech favoring the eX
pansion of the currency to a volume equal
to the period Immediately following the war
of the rebellion.
JOHN BAILEY and Henry Combs, stu
dents in the Academy at Turkey Cave, Lee
County, Va, were rivals in love. On the
l4th they met in a secluded place, both
armed with pistols, and five shots were ex-
changed, when Combs fell, MORALLY wound
ed in the abdomen. Both were popular and
talented young men. Combs was a grand
nephew Of ex-Goy. Leslie Combs, of Ken
lucky.
THE National Executive Committee
OF the SOcialistic- Labor party have issued
circular addressed TO the members OF the
party, discountenancing the forming Of mill
itary organizations among the members
thereof, OF the carrying Of arms in process
sious. etc.
THE President has nominated VIM.
Hayden Edwards, Of the District OF Colum-
bia, Consul General al II. Petersburg, and
4. V. Perrin. Of Kansas, United States Con-
sUl II Padou-.
+. JoFFARIS has been appointed
United >taios Attorney for the Southern
District AZ Mississippi.
The Grown Prince Of Germany sends
h. sincerss; thanks 20 the President Of