Chariton courier. (Keytesville, Chariton County, Mo.) 1878-current, 1879-11-15
NEWS SUMMARY,
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


Gen. Sherman has issued a general orde
Joseph Hooker and ordering all officers t.
wear the usual badge of mourning for y
days. Gen. Hooker's remains are to be sen
to Cincinnati for interment.
Dennis A. Mahoney, editor of the Du.
buque Uowa) Telegraph, died on the 9Th
aged about 60. During the late War Mr.
Mahoney was arrested and imprisoned by
order of Secretary Stanton, for publishing
alleged reasonable articles in his paper.
The American Woman Suffrage Associa.
tion met in Cincinnati on the 4th. Addresse,
were made by Mrs. Hazen, President of the
Association, Lucy Stone and others.
Rear-Admiral William Reynolds, U. S. n.
died on the 9TH at his home i'm Washington
ID. C.
General and Mrs. Grant arrived at theil
home at Galena, ILL.,, on the 9th. The towns
people turned out en- masse TO welcome theiI
return.
The funeral of the late Senator Chandler
took place at Detroit on the 9TH. The OBJ
sequies were very imposing. Business gen.
orally was suspended throughout the city
and many buildings were draped in mourn
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son SurveyorG General of the United States
for Colorado.
Sullivan and Gilbert, the fathers of "Pin-
afore," arrived i'm New York on the 9Th.
They purpose bringing out this and other
operas under their own immediate super
vision.
The funeral of the late Gen. Hooker took
place at Cincinnati, on the 9TH, where his
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conducted with military honors.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections will resume the investigation of
the charges of bribery against Senator In
gals on the 11th Of December. The Presi-
dent Of the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany and the managers of the company's
offices at Topeka, Atchison, Emporia, Wa
mego and Kansas City have been subpenacd
to produce on that day all original kilograms
passing between Senator Ingalls, and certain
other parties named.
Maj. NJ. A. Reno, who, two years ago, was
court-martialed for insulting woman, and
whose sentence was mitigated by President
Hayes, is again in trouble for similar Of
fense, committed while intoxicated, charges
and specifications having been formally pre-
ferred against him by Gen. Sturgis.
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Christian Temperance Union began at Fort
Wayne, Ind, on the 9TH. Francis Murphy
occupied the chair. Delegates were present
from the United States and Canada.
Congressman Wright of Pennsylvania and
Murch of Maine have been in Boston recent
ly, taking evidence for the Congressional
Committee on the Depression of Business.
President Hayes and some of the members
Of his Cabinet have accepted an invitation TO
be present at the opening OF the Fair of the
Seventh Regiment, New York Militia, in aid
Of their new Armory, on the 18th of Novem-
Der.
Mrs. Margaret Eaton, widow of Gen. John
ii. Eaton, Secretary of War under President
Jackson, died ut her residence i'm Washing
ton on the Sth. She was 81 years of age. Mrs.
Eaton had been married three times, and i'm
the course of her life occupied very con-
spicuous share of attention in fashionable
and political circles. She first married a
Paymaster named Timberlake; afterwards
Gen. Eaton, and later in life an Italian dane
ing-master named Buchignani, who after
wards eloped with her granddaughter, TAX
ing good share of her money, and went to
Italy, where he lived in afiluence. Mrs.
Eaton was one of the best known celebrities
Of the National Capital.
Richard Schell, well known New York
Democratic politician, died on the 10th.
The wife of Senator David Davis of Illinois
died at LenoX, Mass, where she was visiting
relatives, on the 9th. She was a daughter of
Judge Walker of Lenox, and was married in
1898.
Senator Bayard and wife have returned
from their European tour. The citizens of
Wilmington gave them grand reception up
on their arrival home.
DR.. Lovick Pierce, the venerable father of
Methodism in Georgia, died at his home in
Sparta, on the 10th, at the age of %.