Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-02-13
PERSONAL AND rv.4lTIoAL.


PERSONAL and FvAlTIGAL.
Ex-President Grant and party have left
Alden for Bombay.
1t is again reported that Prince Leopold
will take orders in the Church of England.
Richard Henry Dana, of Boston, poet
and essayist, died Sunday, Feb. ,, aged 90
years. IA So
Hiram Fredenburg died at his residence
in Owatonna on the morning of Feb Z aged
80 years.
In the Missouri legislature, articles of
Impeachment have been presented against
State Treasurer Gates. r.
The joint committee of the legislature
visited the insane asylum at ST. Peter Feb.
9th, according to annual custom.
A Vienna dispatch says that Prince
Alexander Of Battenburg has declined the can
didature of the Bulgarian throne.
Trumbu1 s. Co., of st. Johns, New
Brunswick, have recovered s1O6O0Oin bonds
stolen from them in December last.
The Minnesota House legislative COM
mittee visited the reform school in the vicin-
ity of st. Paul on Wednesday, Feb. 5.
Jud ge L, B. Villas, an old and highly
respected citizen Of Madison, Wis. z died Feb.
9th, of acute pneumonia, aged 6S years.
A Democratic caucus at Washington,
Feb. 8, agreed to report bill repeating the
test oath now required to be taken by voters.
MIR. Samuel j. Tilden requests to be
called before the cipher Investigating CON-
mittee and his request will be complied with.
Col. Pelton, the nephew of Samuul ]
Tilden, was before the Potter subcommittee
in New York, Feb. 9Th and testified in regard
to the chipher kilograms.
The West Virginia legislature has re,
scinded its former instructions to its delega-
ton in Congress to vote for the Texas Pacific
railroad leaving the members untrammeled.
Feb. 3, at Deputy, Indiana, young
man named Craven was caught by the ma
chineryin FIGURING mill, tearing his head
from his body, and otherwise mangling him
The Potter subcommittee are in New
York city, investigating the cipher dispatches
All the members are present They expect IL
conclude their special work by Saturday
Feb.8.
The Kansas Senate has passe1 thu
House resolution, for investigation of charges
of corruption in connection with the recen
senatorialeiectior in which ingalls, was the
successful candidate.
The joint committee of the Minnesota
legislature are prosecuting their investiga
tions Of charges of alleged mismanagemen
and cruelty against the managers of the peni.
Tertiary at Saltwater.
D.o11~l-r
.ry, have appointed a committee to investi
gate the conduct and proceedings OF the sen
sational preacher, Rev. T. De Witt Talmadge
common fame" having charged him witt
~falsehood and using improper methods il
preaching. shf
A Birmingham Eng, manufacturer haI
recently stated in public that during tn,
Franco-German war the Birmingham work
men were earning such high wages tina
many of them actually kept ponies and phae
tons, and it was almost impossible to bu,
ponies in Birmingham Ttor love or money
George F. Robinson, who, as privat
soldier was on duty at the house OF Secretar.
Seward on the night of April 14th, 1866, wheI
the secretary was attacked by Payne, is beinl
worked into an army paymastership by Con
gresham Beebe. Robinson was given
medal by Congress some time ago for savinl
Mr.. Stewards life.
In the Reno investigation case now il
progress at Chicago, Col Benteen, Feb. 3, re
iterated his belief that Custer conducted tn
battle badly. The bodies of all his officer
save four were found lying together and apar
from the private soldiers, showing had organ
ization. DrsLord and Lieuts. Sturgis, Han
rington and Porter were not found, and ma
be captives to-day.
John Durham of Minneapolis, charge,
with having taken improper liberties wit
young girls, and with having made infamou
proposals to young ladies, met Josiah Tow