San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

Col. JAMES O. BROADIIEAD, OF ST.
Louis, has announced his determination not
to become candidate for United States Sem
ator from Missouri ut the next Senatorial
election.
HENRY DIssToN, the well known
Philadelphia saw manufacturer, is dead.
MISS ADA SWEET has been reap
pointed Pension Agent at Chicago.
GEN. SIR VIM. O'GRADY HALEY,
Commander. in Chief Of her Majesty's
forces in North America, died at Halifax on
the 10Th.
THE marriage of the Earl of Rose
berry to Miss Hannah De Rothschild, only
daughter of Baron Meyer De ROthschild,
was celebrated in London on the Goth.
GEN. GRANT and party arrived in
Rome, Italy, on the Goth.
The Lower House of the Iowa Legis-
ature has adopted measure looking to the
enfranchisement of women, permitting them
to both vote and hold Office, the vote stand
ing 55 to AZ.
The Democrats of Rhode Island have
nominated Isaac Lawrence for Governor.
REV. ROBERT w. PATTERSON, d. D.,
one of Chicago's best known clergymen, has
filed petition in bankruptcy. His liabii-
ties are placed at $4,000, and assets at $12,-
500.
Mrs. MYRA CLARK GAINES, the cele-
brated New Orleans claimant, has offered to
compromise her entire claims to property in
that city for 81, 100000 payable in 10 annual
instalments. The city is in such an impov-
erished state that she is receiving no income
from the enormous property her legal rights
to which have been established.
GEN. GRANT, on his Upper Egyptian
trip, was accompanied by the famous Ger
man savant and traveller, DR.. Brugsch, who,
as Brugsch Bey," represented Egypt at
our Centennial Exhibition.
EX-MINIsTER PIERREPONT has re-
sumed the practice of law in New York.
Mr.. Il. H. DURFEE, of the we'll
known dian-trading firm Of Peck Il Dur
fee. died suddenly while hunting about ID
miles from Leavenworth, Kansas, on the
I'D. Apoplexy is supposed to have been
the cause.
The charges made against Judge
Whitaker of Louisiana in Gov. Wells's let
ter of the 10Th ult. are declared by the
Grand Jury to be unfounded.
The South Carolina General Assem-
bly, have adopted conciiatory resolution,
favoring the abandonment of all prosecu-
tons growing out of developments made in
the investigation of former State officials.
ATTORNEY GENERAL OGDEN, of Lou
isiana, has filed an application for rehear-
ing in the Anderson case, on the ground that
the Supreme Court has appellate jurisdiction
in criminal cases only upon questions of
pure law, and that the finding of the Jury
upon the facts presented can not be set
aside.
Hon. JOHN L. VANCE, late Demo-
cratic Member of Congress from the Elev-
enth Ohio District, has mysteriOusly disap-
peared from his home, and his friends fear
that he has been foully dealt with.
Hon. j. CLANCY JONES died at his
home in Reading, Pa, on the oath, aged G6.
He served in Congress with only brief in
terruption from 1850 to 1858, and was for
two years Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee. He was also Minister to Aus
tria, during President Buchanan's admins
tration.
Hon. JOHN ALLISON, Register of the
Treasury, died suddenly of apoplexy, on
the 23d, in Washington. He was native of
PENNSYLVANIA, 90 years of age, and was APP
pointed Register in 1860.
GEORGE p. BOWLER, well known
resident of Cincinnati, one Of the principal
owners OF the Kentucky Central Railroad,
died in Paris, France, on the 9th, aged 81.
A CURIOUS coincidence was the death
Of Theron Barnum, the st. Louis hotel
keeper, and that of his brother, Allen 5.
Barnum, also an old hotel proprietor, at
Baltimore, Nd, on the evening of the same
day, March Il.
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