New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-06-23
Personal and Political.

ClOu Dllj6 were SlSucu ny tue ETeSlutuC III ClIIlc
to announce their approval before the hour
Of the final adjournment of Congress on the
10th, and consequently all became laws A
number of nominations failed to receive &C
tion, and expired at the close Of the session.
Among them was that of John F.
Hartranft as Collector of Customs
for Philadelphia. In accordance with
one of the provisions of the sundry
Civil Appropriation bill the President nomi-
mated Colonel Albert j. Mycr Chief Signal
Officer, with the rank of Brigadier- General,
and the Senate confirmed the appointment.
Among the other nominations confirmed was
that of General r. c. Drum as Adjutant Gen.
eral, nice Townsend, retired.
The Indiana State Republican Con-
vention met at indianapolis on the 18th and
nominated Hon. Albert G. Porter, First
Comptroller of the Currency at Washington,
for Governor; Hon. Thomas Hanna for Lieu
tenant Governor, and full State ticket. The
platform indorses the platform of the Ma
tional Republican Convention and its nomi-
necs; denounces the attempt of Senator
Voorhees, and the Exodus Committee to pre-
vent emigration from the Southern States,
ETC., etc.
al d 1A00VAAA VI VIC ANOGAOpO4AtSsA
Baptist Church in San Francisco on the even
ing of the 18th a preamble and resolutions were
adopted strongly indorsing the pastor, Rev. I.
8. Kalloch, present Mayor of the city.
DUblNG the recent session of Con-
gress 1877 bills and joint resolutions were in
troduced in the Senate, and 4,288 bills and
joint resolutions in the House of Representa-
tives. The numbers introduced during the
first Tor cxtra) session were, respectively, 73
and 2,526, making grand total Of S,7s4.
The National Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Cleveland on the 18th and nomi-
mated Neal Dow, of Maine, and A. H. Thomp-
son, of Ohio, for President and Vice-Presi-
dent.
The President has renominated ex-
Governor Hartranft as Collector of the Port
of Philadelphia, his previous appointment
not having been acted upon by the Senate.
J. B. HOWELL, proprietor OF the
Gate City, Of Keokuk, and at one time United
States Senator from Iowa., and later one OF
the Commissioners on Southern Claims, died
at his residence at Keokuk on the 18th. in his
sixty-fourth year.
SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina,
and Mrs. Florence Martin were married at the
| residence of the BRIDES mother in Louisville
on the evening Of the 18th.
Foreign.
HARRISON, an expert cOunterfeiter Of
| Canadian and United States bank notes, wat
arrested at Toronto on the 18th. Among thu
| plumber captured were several well-exccutct
l r1afoe for infi -<oui7 o%o
A PERA telegram of the 18th says
that thirty-fve Albanian chiefs had memorial
lied the Sultan, denying any desire for au
tonomy, and affirming that they only resisted
the alienation of a portion of Albania in favol
of Montenegro. $3.50: ~.
THE British Government has dis
patched two men-of war to the Levant t
search for pirates. .:.s.. .s.
In reply to recent note Of the sig
natory Powers to the Berlin Treaty in relation
to the Turco-Greek frontier, the Porte has re
fused to recognize the right of the Powers tt
arbitrarily dispose of any portion of Turkey /,
favor of Greece without consulting the Porte
ROBERT DE C0URsIER, who was t.
have been hung in the Toronto (Canada) jai
at eight o'clock on the morning of the 10th
committed suicide on the morning of the l5tl
by taking prussic acid. The poison was sup
piled to him by friendly visitor.
SEVEN Russian war vessels have beer
inspected and put in readiness to reinforce tn
fleet in eastern waters. a.5.;as
A ROME dispatch of the 10th say
that Chachim Pasha. formerly Minister Q
War in Egypt, had been naturalized in Italy
thus transferring his immense property, gen
orally supposed to belong to the ex-Khedive
to the protection of that power. There wa
great disgust in official circles at Cairo owe
the movement, and the Khedive had empha
sized his wrath by degrading him and forbid
ding his return to Egypt +,
| AMERICAN silver is at premium O
seven per cent. at Port Au Prince.
The King of Greece was in Londol
on the 18th. !
! CHAMBERLAIN, the President of tn
British Board Of Trade, has rendered his rel
ignation from the Ministry, because the Go,
eminent has refused to recall Sir Bartle Frere
Governor at the Cape Of Good Hope.
The trial Of Miriam, the Unite,
States official who, some months ago, shot an
killed Daham Pasha at Cairo, has resulted
bis conviction and sentence to death, Unite