Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-01-30
PERSONAL AND tvniTIOAL.

PERSONAL AND FU1liTIOAL.
Paul MORN, life Senator ana Republi
can in France, is dead.
DR.. L,nderman director of the mint a.
Philadelphia is dead.
Mrs Capt. Daniel Dobbins died at Erie
Pa, Jan. %, in her 100 year.
The number of cipher kilograms il
Gen. Buffers possession is $40.
Gen. Butler says portion of the cipher
kilograms have been destroyed.
The President has signed the bill pro
viding for the payment of arrears of pensions
The Potter cOmmitte commenced the
investigation of the cipher kilograms OF
Monday. Jan. 9th.
The Senate committe on commerce
have decided to report adversely on the New
York custom house nominations.
Mr.. Potter says a subcommittee will
be sent to New York to take testimony II
the cipher dispatches investigation.
W. W. Armstrong, of the Cleveland
Plaindealey is mentioned as the next Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Ohio.
Gen. Logan, United States Senator
elect from Illinois had reception at thu
Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago, Jan. 9th.
Hon. John Cad walader of Philadelphia
Judge of the United States eastern district O
Pennsylvania died Jan. 26, aged IA years.
Jan. %, Lewis P Cloner, survivor Of
the Dartmoor massacre, during the war OIL
1912 died at Brooklyn, N. Y, aged 81 years.
In New York city, the jury in the libel
suit of Wallace P. Groom against Peter Coop.
er, for $50OUO damages brought in verdict
for the defendant.
Matt Carpenter was Ovated on his ar
rival at Milwaukee. "Lo, the conquring hero
comes" seemed to be the sentiment of his
trends.
The Senate committee on commerce
had long session, Jan. 23d, without dispos-
. ing of the New York custom house nomina
tiuus.
A bill has been introduced in the Wis
consin Senate, prohibiting the sale of]iquors
within one mile Of any building used exclu-
sively for the confinement Of insane patients.
Rev. G. D.. Brdsell, protestant mis-
sionary at Aspinwall, died January 18th. He
was graduate of Baldwin University, Bcreau,
Ohio, and had been on the Isthmus only three
months.
Attorney General Devins has requested
the solicitor general to proceed to Alabama
for the purpose OF defending federal officers
in that State recently arrested by the local
court of Selma.
Ashland, Va, telegram: r. L. Beal,
conservative, elected to the Fortv-sixth Con-
<h~ - %lo
caused by the death of Representative Doug
las. The vote was small.
In tic Senate OF Arkansas the rebel
spirit seems not to be wholly laid. A resolu
ton was introduced to remove the portraits
of Lincoln and Grant, and substitute those
of Lee and Jackson. 1t was rejected Is to 9.
The Gen IButler State central committee
of Massachusetts recently held a meeting and
announced the intention Of conducting an
earnest and aggressive campaign in behalf of
their candidate. An address to the people
has been published.
In order that members of the Wiscon-
sin legislature, who wished, might accom-
paly Matt Carpenter to Milwaukee to partici
pate in the great ovation there, Joint resolu.
ton was introduced to adjourn from Jan. 23d,
to Monday, but it failed.
The Potter committee had a long ses.
sion on Saturday, Jan. 25th. St. Martin was
on the witness stand I'LL day, making some
spicy revelations, witheut concluding bis tes-
timony the committee adjourned.
An Albany, N. r, telegram of Jan. 81,
says: the legislature nominated Roscoe
Conkling for United States Senator. The
vote stood: Senate, Conkling, 20; VIM. Dor
sheimer, IL. Assembly, Conkling, IS; Dor
sheimer, %; Peter Cooper, q:
A rare incident occurred in the history
of Pennsylvania JAM. 81. Owing to the in.
auguration of Gov. Hoyt being delayed until
1:2O p. m, the State was without governor
for an hour and twenty minutes, Hartstranfts
term having expired at noon. a., ...t...
At Sprinefield. Ill, Jan. 21st, the Leg
islature voted for United States Senator with
the following result: In the Senate Logan
received 26, Black. Democrat, "a, McAuliffs ):
Socialist. l. In the House Logan received
80, Black 60, Campbell 10. McAuliffe 8. Is .
The California Legislature is at logger
heads. A Boise City dispatch Of Jan 18th says
the tvs wings Of the lower House of the legis.
lature have come together, The Democratic