Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1878-10-10
PERSONAL IND kUA4ITICAL.
The King of Burmah is dead.

sue a proclamation announcing the failure of
negotiations between Germany and the Va
lean.
Ex-Gov. Shepard, of Washington, is of
the opinion that Gen. Grant will be unani-
mously nominated by the Republican party
for President in 1880.
The election in Colorado, October list,
resulted in the election of the entire Repub-
lican ticket over the combined Democratic
and Greenback vote.
Sir Francis Grant. the famous portrait
painter and President of the Royal Academy,
died suddenly lately at his residence at Mel
ton, Mowberry, England.
Gen. Gier has been removed from &C.
tive duty, having attained the age of 90. His
successor will not be appointed till Secretary
of war, Thompson, returns to Washington.
A dispatch from Berlin reports that
Field Marshal Count VonMoltke has rendered
| his resignation. The matter will be decided
when the emperor resumes control of the gov
eminent.
The President and family will remove
into he White House from the Soldiers
Home, about the middle of October. The ex-
ecutive mansion is being prepared for their
reception.
The rumor of the betrothal of Prince
Louis Napoleon, son of the late Emperor, to
Princess Thyron, daughter of the King OF
Denmark, is revived in the London cores
pondence of the provincial newspapers.
One of the largest political gatherings
ever held in Iowa assembled in Burlington on
the first inst, to hear the speech by Senator
Blaine. He spoke for two hours, devoting
himself exclusively to the financial issues o
he day.
In the California constitutional cenven-
ton, the legislative committee on federal re-
lations reported House bill ten, prohibiting
Cinnamon from being employed on public
works, favorably. An amendment that no
Chinaman be allowed to be employed to work
his tax was lost. III - sos
The Marquis of Lorne and Princess
Louise will sail for Canada the 18th of No.
yember, on the steamer Starvation. which
has been chartered to take the new governor
general and royal consort The Starvation
will be met at sea by the British Nortk Amer
lean squadron, now in port, and escorted to
Halifax where it is arranged the marquis and
princess will first set foot on Canada soil.
At the Republican convention, in Low
ell, Massachusetts,, of the Seventh Congress
sional district, Mr.. Durgin, Of Reading, offer
ed q resolution denouncing Gen. Butler for
proving false to the district and to the pledges
made by him in 1876, aud demanding his imme-
date resignation as member Of the Forty
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unanimously. Boutwen's name was with
drawn as candidate. - j: a.
The friends of Senator Thurman at
Washington have received dispatches from
Ohio which alarm them as to his condition.
The report is he is threatened with paralysis,
incipient symptoms Of which have appeared.
He was known to have been very much over
worked during the compaign, his ambition for
the Presidential nomination having induced
him to undertake more than his strength viii
warrant. KS: 81 *ss.ss.. US
Gen Noyes, United States Minister to
France, entertained Gen. Grant and Mrs.
Grant at dinner, Oct. Sd. Among the invited
guests were John WEIGH, minister to Eng
land; John a Kasson, minister to Austria; J..
Il. Meredith Read, charge a affairs to Greece;
Gen. Hazen, United States army; Gen. Lucius
Fairchild, consul general at Paris; Gov.
Mccormick, commissioners general to Paris
exposition; Gov. Smith. Of New Hampshire,
and Miss Waite, daugh liter of the chief justice.
The Ftz John Porter court-msrtiaIisi In
session at Governors Island, n. I. The Judge
Advocate opened the case on the part 81 the
Government IN 9 long md exhaustive adj
dress. He reviewed the former trial and was
very severe on Gen. Porter, saying that his
defense had Al been series Of after thoughts.
He also claimed that the witnesses he would
bring forward would give = different View OF
Porter's conduct than has thus far been re-
ceiyed through the evidence Of accused, and