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NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
PEnsoNAn ANp ronIrIoAL.

PERSONAL. AND POLITICAL.
THE Ohio State Prohibition Conven-
ton met at Columbus on the 18th The
principles promulgated indorse the national
platform Of Chicago Of August last year,
denounce the policy OF personal liberty
advanced by the Democrats, and the policy
of taxation in the Scott law, the Pond laws
passed by the Republicans, and the repeal
ing Of the Sunday law prohibiting drink
ing on the premises, also by the Republi-
cans; condemn the taxation proposition of
the constitutional amendment and favor
the adoption Of a prohibitory clause; re-
cognize the value of the education of youth
in schools against liquor. Ferdinand Schu-
macher, of Summit County was nominated
for Governor and II. I. Ogden, of Hamil-
ton County, for observation-disclosures.
The President has appointed L. d.
Galligan, of Pennsylvania, United States
Consul at Novoressisk, Russia.
The New Hampshire Republican
Senatorial caucus nominated Edward II.
Rollins for United States Senator on the
14th. The Democratic caucus nominated
Harry Bingham, of Littleton.
JOHN BRIGHT, in a speech at Birm-
ingham, Eng. the other Gay, advocated
extension of free-trade and the franchise.
THE British House of Commons has
passed the bill providing for grants to
Lord Alcester Admiral SEYMOUR and Lord
Wolseley for services rendered during the
war in Egypt.
The President has recognized Aratu
Tatsuta as Consul for Japan at San Fran
cisco, Cal.
JAMES TAYLOR JONES has been nomi-
mated for Congress by the Democrats of the
First Alabama District.
THE death of James Washington
Sheahan, for many years leading editorial
writer ON the Chicago (Ill.) Tribune, occur
red in that city on the 18th He had been
sick long time.
PRESIDENT GREvY opposes violent
measures by the French in Anam and
Prime Minister Ferry favors them.
REAR ADMIRAL BALDWIN, of the
American Navy, gave banquet on the
18th on board his flagship at Cronstadt,
Russia. 1t was the closing festivity of the
coronation.
CAPTAIN GEORGE e. BELKNAP has
been ordered to take command. of the Nor
folk (Va.) navy yard in place of Commo-
dore Mayo, who is under charges preferred
by ex-Congressman Dezendorf.
john BRIGHT was taken to task in
the British House of Commons for the Ian
guage used in his Birmingham speech. He
said he would retract when the Irish mem
bers disavowed their connection with dis
loyal societies in America.
PARNELL will start on his proposed
trip to America about the middle of Sep
TENDER.
The Mexican Congress adjourned on
the 18th. The most important measures
passed were the authorization to the
President to settle the national debt
amendment to the Constitution submitted
to the States giving control of mining and
commercial laws to the Federal Congress,
and several railroad grants. The most inn
portant gives a charter with subvention to
the State of Michoacan over the route for
which the Mexican National Railroad for
feited its charter, after having spent large
sums in construction.
THE Thirty-third General Assembly
of Illinois, after a session of five months
and eighteen days, adjourned sine die on
the 18th.
EX-CONGREssNAN GEORGE BRIDGES
RODNEY, the oldest lawyer at the Delaware
bar, died at Newcastle, in that State, on the
18th.
THE President has appointed Freder-
ick M. Cheny, of Massachusetts, United
States Consul at Zanzibar,