Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-19
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

lHE IGuuSylNduld DeulOCTdllC JoUdbe
Convention was held at Allentown on the
9th, and sent a solid delegation to Chicago
instructed for Randall. w. w. FL. Davis,
a country editor, was nominated for Con-
gressman-at- Large.
THE Republicans of the First District of
Mississippi have nominated G. c. Chand-
Ter for Congressman.
THE time of holding the National Pro-
hibition Convention at Pitts burgh, Pa,
has been changed from May 21 to July %.
FOURTEEN delegates to the National Con-
vention were selected by the Arkansas
State Republican Convention at Little
Rock on the 9th. They were not instructed.
The delegation is headed by ex-senator
Powell Clayton.
JOSEPH G. CANNON has been renominated
for Congressman by the Republicans of
the Fifteenth Illinois District.
THE white Republicans of Georgia met
at Atlanta on the 9th and issued a call for
State Convention of the Whig- Repub-
lican party of Georgia, to meet at Atlanta,
May /, for the purpose of the organization
of State Convention Committee, electing
delegates to the National Republican Con-
vention at Chicago, and to nominate a
State Electoral ticket.
CONGRESSMAN REUBEN ELwooD was on
the 10th renominated by the Republicans
of the Fifth Illinois District.
THE steamer Hohenzollern arrived at
Baltimore on the 10th from Saxony with
the grand bronze statue of Marin Luther,
which is to be erected in Washington City
in May.
INDIANA Republicans on the 10th renom-
mated for Congressman Thomas M.
Browne in the Sixth and Stanton j. Peele
in the Seventh Districts.
DANIEL HAwN, aged eighty-four years,
died few days ago at Huntington, Pa.
He had been insane for sixty years, and
in all that time had been kept in solitary
confinement in a room in a house where
five brothers, all unmarried, lived. No in
tercourse was permitted him with others
during his long captivity.
The substitute reported in the United
States Senate on the 10th by Mr.. Eaton for
the bill to regulate the election of President
and Vice President provides that the State
Electors shall meet on the second Monday
in December at an appointed place; that
on the second Tuesday in the January fol-
lowing the House and Senate in joint con-
vention shall count the votes from the cer-
tificates of the Electors, the result being
delivered to the joint presiding officer,
who shall announce the persons elected.
In case of an objection to the vote of any
State, made in writing and signed by three
members of the joint convention, the re-
turns objected to shall be laid aside, de-
and v-ntQd
capita.
THE Woman's Baptist Foreign Mission
ary Society of the West closed its three
days. convention on the 18th at Milwaukee,
and selected Toledo, o., as the place of
meeting in 1885. Mrs. A. j. Howe, of Chi
cago, was elected President.
JUAN B. PATRON, ex-Speaker OF the New
Mexican Legislature, was assassinated
few nights ago at Las Vegas by cowboy.
SECRETARY FRELINGHUYSEN on the 1lth
received dispatch from General Adam
Badeau rendering his resignation as Con-
sul-General at Havana.
CHARLES READE, the popular English
novelist, died in London on the afternoon
of the 11th, aged seventy years. For
some months he had been in delicate
health.
H. j. HAMLIN was on the 18th nominated
for Congressman by the Republicans OF
the Seventeenth Illinois District, L. E.
Payson was renominated in the Ninth Dis
trict and Jonathan H. Rowen in the Four
teenth District.
THE Nebraska Democratic State Conven-
tiop will be held at Lincoln May .