Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-05-02
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

SENATOR VANCE, of North Carolina, in q
speech on the Sth at Danville, Va, prom.
ised that there would never be another in.
vestigation of Southern outrages, as, he
said, there would be no occasion.
A NUMBER of prominent white Republic
ans Of Georgia met at Atlanta on the sth
and laid the foundation for what they pro.
pose to call the Wing party of 1884.
SENATOR BLA1R's Educational bill as
passed recently by the United States Sem
ate will give to Illinois schools 81, 1S5, 100;
to Iowa, Kansas and Michigan, $500, 900
each; and to Wisconsin, 100000.
ROBERT JOHNSTON, the %well.known
horse-trainer, died az Louisville, KY, a
few days ago, as the result of a blow of a
stone thrown at him by a negro boy,
whom he not paid for holding his horse.
The New Hampshire Prohibition State
| Convention met on the Sth at Manchester
and renewed feaity to the cause, declared
in favor of woman suffrage, and called for
a new National party in the spirit of these
declarations.
H Arkansas Republicans met in State
Convention at Little Rock on the Sth and
elected delegates to the National Conven-
ton favorable to President Arthur.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention was held at Allentown on the
9th, and sent a solid delegation to Chicago
instructed for Randall. w. w. H. Davis,
a country editor, was nominated for Con
gresham at Large.
The Republicans of the First District of
Mississippi have nominated G. c. Chand.
Ter for Congressman.
REV. JOHN G. BACKUs, one of the best
known Presbyterian Ministers in America,
for forty-eight years pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church at Baltimore, Nd,
died in that city on the 9th, aged seventy
three years.
The time of holding the National Pro.
hibition Convention at Pittsburgh, Pa,
has been changed from May 81 to July 90.
FOURTEEN delegates to the National Con.
vention were selected by the Arkansas
! State Republican Convention at Little
Rock or 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
CIV vi UuO Jul ulU 1SSuOu u Cali 1OI
a State Convention of the Wing epub.
lican party of Georgia, to meet at Atlanta,
May l, for the purpose of the organization
of a State Convention Committee, ~eleot;ne
delegates to the National Republican Con-
vention at Chicago, and to dominate a
State Electoral ticket.
CONGRESSMAN REUBEN ELwooD VIZ on
the 10th yeno>ninated by the Republicans
I of the Fifth Illinois District.
THE steamer Hohenzollern arrived at
Baltimore on the 10th from Saxony with
the grand bronze statue of Martin Luther,
which is to be erected in Washin pton CITY
i9 May.
INDIANA Republicans on the 10th lenom.
mated for Congressman Thomas NJ.
Browne in the Sixth and Stanton j. Peele
in the Seventh Districts.
DANIEL HAWN, aged eighty.four years,
died a 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 q room in q house where
five brothers, all unmarried, lived. No in
tercourse was permitted him with others
during his long captivity.
HE 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 Ger.
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.