Stevens County tribune., 1880-01-01
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

President Hayes spent Sunday, Dec,
% in Plamficld, New Jersey.
James Mott a student in the Normal
school at Winona, Minn, from Worthington,
Mimi; died suddenly on the night of Dec. %,
of apoplexy.
The President has approved the bill
authorizing allowance for loss by leakage or
casualty of spirits withdrawn frem distilleries
to warehouses for expectation.
The bullet which entered the chest of
Mr.. Kalloch, Mayor of San Francisco last
August, and has since his convalesenee caused
him considerable trouble, has been extracted.
The excitement in Name over the elec-
ton count OF the returning board, composed
| of the governor and council, wakes fierce and
! furious, and a serious conflict seems to be i'm
| minent.
/ The suit commenced against Gen. FIRE.
mont by the United States In 1877, to receive
| l,l0S claimed to have been paid to him erro-
ueously as Major general of the U. 8. army,
has been withdrawn.
Paul De Cassagnac in an article in the
Paris Pays proposes another SIX months
l
| ground that his place in the party and dy-
nasty has not yet been filled.
The socialistic Democrats in conven.
ton at Pitsburg, Pa, ON Sunday Dec %, re-
commended that the social Democrats put 6
candidate in the field for President in opposi
ton to the candidates of the Republican and
Democrat parties.
meeting Of the Republican State com
mittee of Maine, and prominent Republican,
from various parts of the State, held at Sena
tor Blaine's residence, Dec %, resulted in the
appointment of a committee to advise anc
cooperate with the Republican members o
the Legislature.
Gen, Grant and party reached Wash
ington from Philadelphia on the afternoon o
Dec. q. He was Ihe guest of Gen. Beale, a
whose residence an informal reception wal
held in the evening, many distiH 2nished indi
viduals, among them members Of the diplo
matte corps, calling upon him.
William =. Graham long and favorably
known as the teller in Dawson s. Co.'S bankins
house in s.. Paul is dead. He died in the insan,
hospital at Rochester, Mimi, His mental fac
ulties became impaired last summer from
overwUrk. He was q son of Hon. Chris Ora
ham of Red Wing His age was SO years.
Mrs. Agnes D. jerks, who gaineC
some notoriety as a witness in the investiga
ton of the count of the Louisiana Presidential
vote, was at the custom house in New Yorl
Dec. 26, for the purpose of getting her hus
band transferred from one of the department
in Washington to a position in the New Yorl
leustomas service.
General and Mrs. Grant, accompanied
1 ~ Gen. BSale, attended divine service th
lmorning Of Dec. o at the Metropolitan churcl
~ Washington, occupying the generals old
pew. The church was crowded, and the al
tar and surroundings were tastefully decor
ated. After the service the general sh ool
hands with many old friends.
, Gen. Grant Wis ted his aged mother
now residing in Jersey City, N. j., Dec a. o.
bis arrival the General and party were met a
the railroad station by relatives, and all pro
ceeded Immediately to the residence and we
coined by his mother. Both mother and SO
were greatly moved. After having spen
several hours among isrelatives, the Genera
returned to Philadelphia.