San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-02-02

elected United States Senator from Ken
lucky after long contested struggle.
Mrs. LILLIEA. TuoRNE, formerly Miss
Davenport, the actress, died ut Philadelphia
ON the 18th. Mrs. Thorne was the wife OF
Frost Thorne, who lost his life on Commo'
dorc Garna0's yacht Mohawk, and second
daughter Of the late +. l.. Davenport
Fanny Davenport Is her sister.
MARTHA ANGEL DoRsETT, OF Mime
apols, is Mnnesota's first woman lawyer
She was duly admitted to the bar on the
18th inst, after having passed very cred
table examination. She is about % years OF
age, personally attractive and OF becoming
modesty.
The sixty-frst annual meeting OF the
American Colonization Society was held at
Washington on the 10th. Secretary of the
Navy II. w. Thompson was among the
speakers. Emigration to Liberia the COM
ing year bids fair to be very large.
JAMES B. GRoOME will be the new
United States Senator from Maryland.
CONGRESS has passed a joint resolu-
ton thanking Henry NJ. Stanley, the African
explorer, "for solving the most important
geographical problem of the age"
JOHN r. FLIPPEN, the Citizens can
didate, has been elected MAJOR of Memphis.
The President has nominated John q.
Carpenter, Collector of Internal Revenue,
Kansas; George Baldey, Receiver of Public
Moneys, New Orleans; Henry NJ. walters,
Receiver Of Public Moneys, Independence,
Kansas.
THE members of the Louisiana Re-
turning Board were on the 18th arraigned in
the Superior Criminal Court on indictments
charging forgery and altering the returns OF
Vernon Parish. The members of the Board
pleaded not guilty and were admitted to
bail on the old bonds. The day of trial is
not fixed.
A MONSTER mass meeting of the
friends of Silver reconciliation is called for
the Both inst. at the New York Cooper Insti-
tute. 1t is expected that Senators voorhees,,
of Indiana, and Jones, of Nevada, will be
among the speakers.
A DINNER was given to ex-Secretary
Bristow at Boston on the 10Th, by the Com
mercial Club. Mr.. Bristow made speech
in which he took strong grounds in favor of
speedy resumption and against the remone-
tiZatiOn of silver.
Ex.CoMMODORE GEORGE N. HOLLINs
died in Baltimore on the 18th, aged 70. He
commanded the sloop- of-war Cyanne,which
bombarded Greytown, Nicaragua, in 1S54'
He resigned his commission in the United
States Navy and entered the Confederate
service at the breaking out of the civil war.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT has bought
the steam yacht Pandora, which will be
used for another Arctic expedition.
STANLEY was rendered banquet in
Paris on the night of the 10Th, by the Geo
graphical Society, on which occasion he was
fairly overwhelmed with honors in the shape
of decorations, gold medals, resolutions
etc. James Gordon Bennett was one of the
guests.
EX-Gov. WASHBURN, of Wisconsin,
has Just made q tender to the State of his
beautiful residence property at Edgewood,
two miles from Madison, and valued at
$1O0, 900, as the site for an industrial school
for girls. He has long been impressed with
the importance and value of such an institu-
ton, and has testified his interest and sin
certify in the most practical manner pos
sible.
EX-Gov. BULLOCK, of Georgia, has
been acquitted on the various charges
brought against him in the State courts.
Mrs. THOMPSON, a wealthy lady OF
New York, has purchased Frank b. Car
penter's painting of "Lincoln and the
Emancipation Proclamation" and will pre-
sent it to Congress on Lincoln's birthday,
February -. Hon. Alexander II. Stephens
will make the speech Of acceptance, in reply
to Mr.. Garfield's presentation address.
TABITHA ANNE HOLTON, of James,
town, has been admitted to the bar of North
Carolina after avery successful examination.
She is the first woman lawyer of that State,
and is the daughter Of a clergyman.
A SAMUEL j. RANDALL Association
has been formed in Philadelphia, having for
its object the securing of his nomination for
the Presidency in 1880.