The Red Cloud chief., 1879-02-27
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.


GEN. GRANT and party arrived at
Bombay, India, on the 18th.
LUTHER ii. CONKLING, late County
Treasurer of Oswego County, n. T., II a
defaulter TO the amount Of $1,000. His ope.
rations began In 1850.
REPRESENTATIVE CLrMER, OF Penn
sylvania, Is seriously III in Washington and
has not been in his seat for three weeks.
FIVE judges of Election have been
convicted and sentenced in Baltimore for in
terfering with United States Supervisors at
the recent Congressional election.
Ex-GOv. PIsCnBACK has accepted
the Office Of Revenue Agent Of the Louisiana
District.
THE President has nominated Hora-
ito &. Burchard, Representative in the pres
ent Congress from the Fifth District Of ILL.,
nois, Director Of the Mint, vice Linderman,
deceased. Mr.. A. Loudon Snowden, the
first nominee, declined the position.
THE President has approved the bill
to ALLOW women To practice before the Su.
preme Court.
EDWARD O'KELLY, the last of the
Fenian prisoners, has been released and Is
on his way to America.
CORDIAL letters have been exchanged
between the Pope and the German Empe-
ror.
Dow PEDRO of Brazil has contributed
to the Washington Monument 4 stone weigh.
ing nearly eight tons to perpctuate the mem-
DRY OF Washington. The stone, engraved
and inscribed, is now in New York City.
TIE Grand Jury of Rensselaer, COun-
~, n. Y, has indicted Postmaster Ford, his
two sons, and Henry o and DIR. Hager-
man for completely in the frauds recently
unearthed in the AIms-house ut Troy.
THE Pope has proclaimed a universal
jubilee and indulgence on the anniversary
Of his election.
DIR. GEORGE III. GRAY, of Denison,
Texas, who distinguished himself by pro-
fessional services at Holly Springs during
the epidemic, committed suicide at New Or
leans on the 18th by shooting himself
through the head. No cause is assigned.
JUDGE SOLOMON BLAIR, a prominent
Republican politician OF Indiana and Chair
man OF the State Central Committee, Is dead.
o. nj. BARNES is the Democratic NOM
incc for United States Senator from Michi-
gan, and Henry Chamberlain the Green
back candidate.
TIE President has nominated Will
liam Carney, Of Ohio, Indian Agent for Ne
vada.
FREDERICK w. VANDERBILT, young
est son OF VIM. III. Vanderbilt, and favOrite
grandson OF the late Commodore, has re-
Gently contracted a secret marriage with the
divorced wife Of his cousin, Alfred Tor
rance. Young Vanderbilt has just attained
his majority and come into possession Of
the handsome sum Of $4,000 o bequeathed
him by his grandfather. His wife is at least
10 years his senior, and said to be a most
beautiful and captivating blonde. IncOm-
patibility with her first husband was the
ground for divorce. The affair has caused a
great sensation in New York society, and it
is understood that the happy couple arc I'M
der the ban of parental displeasure.
Il. III. Chiffon, formerly A%djutant-
General OF Gen. Lee, and since the war
President OF the Columbus co. Manufacture
ing Company, fell dead at his desk on the 18th.
lie was over 60 years OF age. lie graduated
at West Point from Virginia, was promoted
Major in the Mexican War, and was Pay
master i'm Texas before the Civil War.
George II. Evans and three colored
men were killed and a number of other pas
sengcrs and employees severely hurt by the
falling OF a bridge on the Selma, Rome and
Dalton Railroad, on the 18th. The train
went down into the water, "a distance of 20
feet.
Hon. ZACH. CHANDLER was on the
18th formally elected United States Senator
from Michigan, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Senator Christiancy.
SENATOR BRUCE of Mississippi was
called to the chair in the Senate Chamber
on the nth and presided over the senate a
portion Of the afternoon, it being the first
time in the history Of the Government hat
4 colored man has occupied the chair.
THE report of the special committee
appointed by the Senate to investigate the
causes of the omission of the Hot Springs
section from the enrolled Sundry- APP
preparation bill, last session, says the Omis-
sion was clearly caused by a clerical error
on the part Of the Overworked clerks and
that nobody is particularly to blame.