The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1884-07-10

Thos. W. Higginson:fbf Cambridge, the sum of
S34, and thus rendered himself liable to PEN
alties for false PRESERVATION.
Nominations for Congress: 18th Ohio district
July /, Jos. ID. Taylor, renominated by accla-
nation. w. B. Roberts, of Titusville, has been
nominated at Greentille for Representative to
Congress from the 18th congressional district of
Pennsylvania by one faction of the Republican
party. He accepts. O.
Gen. A. NJ. West Holly Springs, Miss, has
accepted the Greenback nomination to the Vice
Presidency. g y
PERSONAL.
DR.. Jesse Halves, of Greeley. Col, has been
elected President of the State Medical Associa-
tion-an honor well-deserved. The Doctor,
who is one of THE TRIBuNE's subscribers, is
ardently devoted to his profession. After
three-years' course at the University of Michi-
gan, from which place he was regularly gradu-
ated, he practiced three years. then entered
New York medical college and hospital, and after
completing the course he spent year in
Europe. He then came to Greeley and has
practiced medicine there for the last eight
years.
Gen. Mcclellan presided at the Bowen cele-
bration at Woodstock, Conn, on the 18th inst.
People from nearly every town in the country
were present some driving 90 miles and more
to see him. After short reply from the
visitor, the crowd, headed by band, proceeded
TO South Woodstock, and continued speech
making under the elms set out by the great
grandmother of Gen. Mcclellan ON the day
when she heard of the battle of Lexington.
It is proposed to erect monument to Francis
Scott Key the author of :" The Star Spangled
Banner" At Baltimore, Nd, on Jniy 4th, the
monument association held a meeting at Pat
terson Park. Addresses were delivered by
Tudoa Tn of California nd M Tho
site of the park commands full view of Fort
McHenry and the Patapsco River, in which the
British fleet lay when the fort was bombarded
Capt. " P. Twombly, of Keosauqua, Iowa, is
candidate for the Republican nomination for
State Treasurer. Capt. Twombly went out as a
private in Co. F, I'd Iowa, and by dint of good
soldiership rose to be its captain. He was
elected Treasurer of his county twice, but de-
clined third nomination.
Gen. Beauregard's daughter, Mrs. Chas a.
clarendon, died in New Orleans on the 4th
inst
Sol Smith, the well-known actor, died in
New York last week.
FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.
1t is understood that at the meeting of the
Postal. Baltimore and Ohio and Bankers and
Merchants Telegraph Companies held at New
York on Monday arrangements were completed
to perfect the consolidation of the three com
panies. Negotiations looking TO this result
have been pending for some weeks past The
details have not been made public but it is
intimated that the agreement will be based
upon the business of the different companies
up to July l.
The certificate of the incorporation of the
Drawbaugh Telephone and Telegraph Com
pany of Canada was filed in New York on the
I'd inst. The capital stock is fixed at 81 000 900.
The certificate of Incorporation of the North
America Insulated Cable Company was also
fled. Incorporators are the same as those of
the Drawbaugh Company. The capital stock
of the company is $1,000,000.
Assignee Davies, of Grant & Ward, has fled
an inventory and schedule of the firm, show
ing the liabilities to be SIG, 792, GAY; nominal
assests, $27, 1898; actual assets, $67. ia. The
creditors will receive about a quarter of cent
OF a dollar.