Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-05-29
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

Mark S. Brewer, American Consul Cen
eral at Berlin, starts tor home on the 9th
inst.
At the municipal election in Petersburg,
Virginia, the Republicans were success
full.
Father McEvoy, of Indianapolis, has been
appointed English confessor for St. Peters,
Rome.
Robert Lowery was nominated for Con
gress by the Democracy of the Twelfth In
diana District.
The Berlin Tagblatt says Richard Muckle,
of the Philadelphia Ledger, will succeed
Minister Sargent,
Hundreds of prominent citizens of New
Y ork attended the funeral of Charles O'Con-
or at the Catholic cathedral.
General B. F. Butler has accepted the
nomin of the Anti-NonOpoly COnven-
ton at Chicago for the Presidency.
Gen. Jas. S. Negley has been nominated
for Congress by the Republicans of the
Twenty second District of Pennsylvania.
Carwardine, the famous English cattle
breeder, who has drawn 100000 per an
mum from the United States, has passed
away.
The Greenbackers of the Fifth District
(Kansas City, of Missouri, elected unin-
structed Butler delegates to the National
Convention.
The West Virginia Greenbackers nomi-
mated Judge Edwin @. Maxwell, Repubi-
can, for Governor, and will fuse with the
Republicans in the Fall elections.
Ferdinand Ward, after spending a day
endeavOring to obtain $500, 900 bail, was
taken to Ludlow Street jail and lodged in
cell. There he refused to see any one.
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the Board of Managers of the Worlds In
dustrial Exhibition, Special Commissioner
to Great Britain and London for the expo
sitiOn.
N. G. Summerfeld, of Chicago, an assist
ant chief of the railway mail service in
Washington, has been removed for allow
ing clerk to receive 1875 extra salary for
doing additional work.
The business men of New York gathered
recently at Cooper Institute in vast num-
bers to indorse the administration of Presi-
dent Arthur. The chief speakers were B.
n. Bristow and Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
A delegation of business men of Calves
ton have gone to Washington to urge Con-
gress to adopt the plan of Captain James B.
Eads to obtain deep water to the sea, in
opposition to the views of Engineer Mans
field.
A canvass of over one thousand students
of Michigan university shows $50 supporters
of Blaine 211 of Edmunds, So of Arthur,
1877 of Tilden and 26 of Butler Out of TAI
Republicans 612 are in favor of Lincoln for
Vice President.
S. J. Randall thinks all the appropriation
bills before Congress can be disposed of this
month and that an adjournment by June
25th would be practicable. But there is a
general belief at Washington that the SEN
ate viii not agree to disperse until after the
National Democratic Convention.
Justice Harlan, of the United States
Court, arrived in Chicago, and failed to Sc
cure a room at leading hotel for a month,
and was told by the clerk that he could
hardly find accommodation in the city for
the convention period. He at once caused
a chamber-set to be placed in the only va
cant room in the Custom House, and viii
make himself at home in the 81, 600, 600
structure.
Reverend DR.. J. M. Reed and
Rev. G. G. McCabe have been elected
Coordinate corresponding secretaries Of
the Missionary society by the General Con-
ference of the NJ. e. church. Rev. Kynett
was elected corresponding secretary of the
Church extension: DR.. Vincent was elect
ed secretary of the Sunday Union. Rev.
Curry was elected editor of the Quarterly
Review.
in Wilcox county, Ga, under the
same roof live the great-grandmother,
grandmother, mother, daughter, grand
daughter and great-granddaughter, the
only four persons In the family.