Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-03-31
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

IHE ILnOQe lSlanO DemOcfaUlC state Con-
vention met at Providence on the Goth, and
nominated Ex-Governor Sprague for Gov
ernor. Mr.. Sprague had previously been
nominated for the same Office by the "Inde-
pendents."
GENERAL D1Az, ex-President of Mexico,
visited Chicago on the Goth. He was enter
tanned by the municipality and citizens.
PUBLIC executions in the State nave been
abolished by the Tennessee Legislature.
THOMAS j. STEPHENS is the Democratic
nominee for Mayor of Cincinnati.
The bill passed by the Forty-seventh
Congress re%adjusting the salaries of post
masters is imperative because Of the fail
ure to provide in the Post-ofice Appropria-
ton bill for the payment of the increase of
salaries involved.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR on the Goth appoint
ed George R. Gage United States Judge
for the Southern District of Ohio, vice
| William White, deceased.
THE President has directed the suspen.
sion of Judge E. j. Conger, Associate-Jus.
tice of the Territory of Montana, against
whom charges of drunkenness and gamb-
ling have been preferred.
In the Star-route trial at Washington on
the Dist General Brady concluded his testi.
mony, and General Sherman was called as
a witness for the defense, and spoke in
general terms in favor of the establishment
of mail-routes in the Territories.
The practice of clerks in Cuyahoga
County (Ohio) courts in issuing certificates
OF citizenship to aliens was passed upon by
the District Court at Cleveland Oh the 21st,
and declared to be illegal. Upon this rul.
ing thousands of persons who supposed
themselves to be citizens are still aliens.
The remains of John Howard Payne, the
author of "Sweet Home,' reached New
York OF the 22d.
The Kentucky State Prohibition Nomi.
mating Convention will be held at Louisville
on the 10Th of April.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, of the Treasury De
partment at Washington, on the 22d pro.
mulgated an opinion that the provision in
the new Tax and Tariff bill for a rebate
upon manufactured tobacco and snuff does
not extend to dealers.
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL, United States
Minister to the Court of st. James, is
mentioned as a candidate for the rectorship
OF st. Andrews University, the Oldest of
the Scottish institutions of learning.
A PROPOSITION to permit women to vote
at elections for school officers was rejected
by the Wisconsin Assembly on the sd.
The Executive Council of MASSACHUSETTS
has rejected-7 to 1.-The nomination of
Governor Butler for Insurance Commits.
sioner. The Governor Immediately there
after renominated Noah A. Plympton. the
rejected nominee.
JOHN G.. DALE, who for the last thirty
years had represented the Inman line in
New York, died suddenly on the morning
of the 23d.
Rev. S. B. HALLIDAY, assistant pastor, of
Henry Ward Beecher's church in Brook
lyn, celebrated his golden wedding on the
evening of the 23d. He was presented with
a purse of S 1900.
The new two-cent postal stamp will, it
was said on the 23d, contain the vignette of
Washington, with a neat border, instead of
a picture OF General Grant. The latter had
objected to his likeness being used, not
only on this but a previous occasion, when
the late Marshall Jewell desired to use his
vignette on the five-cent stamp.