The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-07-12

College, at Williamstown. Mass, on the Sd inst,
Governor Butler was present and spoke. he
was followed by Ex-Governor Hoyt. Rev.
Arthur Brook, Of New York, combatted some
of Governor Buffers remarks about Harvard.
The will of the late Miss Jane Margaret
Young, of Savannah, Ga, bequeaths the greater
portion of her estate to Christ church and the
charitable institutions Of Savannah and Georgia,
under the supervision of episcopal authority
The estate is appropriated at 100000.
Hon John Dennison Baldwin, senior editor
and proprietor of the Worcester Mass spy,
died suddenly, aged "A years. he was a mem
Der of the Chicago convention in 1885, and
elected to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty ninth and
Fortieth Congresses.
A. y. Davis, of Chicago, and Rose Kennedy,
of Springfield, H., were married in the car of
balloon, at Cleveland, on July 4. and then
made wedding trip with Prof. King through
the clouds. The party landed safe few miles
from Cleveland.
Hon. J. NJ. Carey, member of the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature, is alarmingly i'll at his
brothers country residence, at City Island,
New York.
Charles L. Eggleston, postmaster at Albion,
Idaho, and Frank E. Eggleson, assistant post
master at Salmon Fall, have committed sui
eide.
General Sherman and party arrived at Fort
Ellis Montana on Friday, en- route for the
Yellowstone National Park.
Governor Hale, of Wyoming, is lying at the
point of death at Coliax, Iowa, from Brights
disease.
Ex-secretary Window has sailed from New
York to Europe.
POLITICAL.
In the anti-monopoly convention in Chicago
on the 9th inst, there was a general discussion
on political topics There was q good deal OF
diversity of opinion as to the propriety Of form
ing new party. Mr.. Wolff, of New York,
urged the convention to eontine itself to the
question Of anti-monopoly, and not to attempt
to organize q new party until it had a million
votes at its back. Mr. Streeter, of Illinois, sub
mitted the platform prepared by the committee
1t advocates a postal telegraph system; the
abolition of the national banking system; es
adjustment of a graduated income tax, and Of
postal savings banks; amendment of the pat
ent laws to secure more perfect protection o.
inventors, and combining taxation to the power
| of Congress to assess taxes for the necessary
expenses of the Government only. The plat
| form denounces gambling in the necessaries o.
| life. 1t was adopted The following officers
were elected President, John +. Henry, New
| York; secretary, D. S. Silver Indiana; assist
Ls -, ANoH AoA tiS'i9
urer. Edwin Lee Brown, New York, and vice
| president from each State.
The Supreme Court of Missouri has decided
that the high license bill passed by the las
legislature is constitutional, and that it applies
! to ST. Louis rs well as to other sections of the
State. Hereafter drinking saloon licenses vii
cost about 81 900 year.
The Massachusetts, House of Representative
has refused to pass the State tax bill for 8 900,
600 over the governors veto. The finance
! committee was instructed to report forthwith
| bill for a tax of 81 100000.
| The qualified voters in Philadelphia as re
| turned by the election assessors this year
number POO, 1856, against 20iS 1868 in 1882. TIL
vote for governor last fall aggregated 47,049