San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-04-20
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

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MUNICIPAL elections were held on the
1st and Cd in several States. The issues in
most places were local rather than political.
In Vigo County, Ind, the National party
ran straight party tickets, and carried eight
out of II towns in the county, together with
the city of Terre Haute. The Greenbackers
made almost clean sweep in Little Rock,
Ark.
A STATE Convention of the National
Party of Missouri has been called to meet at
Sedalia on the 10th Of June.
SENATOR DORSEY went before the
House Committee on POST offices on the
Sd and told the committee all about his ac-
ton in aiding mail contractors in his section
to prepare their bonds. He had done moth
ing, he said, that was not perfectly lawful
and proper, and what he should do again
whenever occasion offered. He denied that
he had any pecuniary interest, near or re-
mote, contingent or possible, in any mail
contracts or any other contracts under the
Government.
EX-AUDITOR JAMES GRAHAM, of
Louisiana, late Register of the State Land
office, Is dead, aged 81. He was Surveyor
at New Orleans under President Polk, and
United States Marshal for Louisiana under
President Lincoln.
DIR. l.. E. JENNINGS, a protested
materialistic medium" of considerable
notoriety, both in this country and England,
was detected and publicly exposed in his
trickery at St. Louis a few nights ago.
THE Massachusetts Senate, by vote
of 10 to IS, rejected resolution to amend
the State Constitution so as to permit wom-
an suffrage.
DIR. PERRY, of Exeter, N. Y, now
over 80, is one of those who rode down the
Hudson with Robert Fulton on his first
steamer.
The House Committee on Elections
have dismissed the Oregon contested cleo
tion case Of Mcdowell against Williams, aad
also the Mississippi contested case of Lynch
against Chalmers.
BAYARD TAYLOR was banqueted by
number of eminent New York gentlemen
on the 4th, prior to his departure for Ber-
lin. Hon. VIM. Cullen Bryant presided.
PROF. G. V. RILEY, of St. Louis,
formerly State Entomologist of Missouri,
has been appointed Entomologist in the Ag-
ricultural Department at Washington.
CARDINAL GIUSEPPE BERARDI is
dead. He was an italian, born in 1910, and
nominated Cardinal in 1868.
PRESIDENT HAYES and several men,
bers of the Cabinet visited Philadelphia on
the 9th to witness the launching of the
steamship City of Para, Of the New Brazil
ian line.
DIR. GEORGE F. SEYMOUR, of New
York, Bishop-elect of the Springfield Qll.)
Diocese, Protestant Episcopal Church, has
finally yielded to the solicitation of his pres
ent psrishioners and announced his deter
mination not to accept the position to
which he was chosen.
Col. o. l.. SHEPHERD, of New York,
q retired officer of the United States Army,
has been tried by court-martial for neglect
Ing to pay over the fund contributed by
brother officers in 1864, for a monument on
Stone River battle aground, and President
HAYES has approved the sentence, which is
that Shepherd be confined within the limits
of the post at Fort Adams for one year and
thereafter until the money, Sl,903, with in
terest from 1864, shall be paid.
Ex GOVERNOR MOSES of South Car
olina was arrested in New York City on the
9th, upon a requisition from Governor
Hampton, upon charge Of forgery.
SENATOR CAMERON and Miss Sher-
man will be married in Cleveland on May ..
JOHN W. AMEs, recently appointed
United States Surveyor General for Cali
fornia, is dead.
The President has nominated Justin
L. Colburn, of Vermont, United States Con-
sui General at the City Of Mexico. Mr.. Col
burn has been the chief Washington corre-
spondent Of the New York Times for num-
Der Of years.
The House Elections Committee have
agreed by unanimous vote TO dismiss the
South Carolina contested election case Of
o'COnnOr, Democrat, against Cain, Repub-
liczn, the sitting member.