Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-11-06
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL

A SPECIAL session OF the Oregon LegiS-
lature has been called to meet November
8. The principal business will be the cleo
ton of q United States Senator.
The October term of the United States
Supreme Court began at Washington on
the 18th. There were 10000 cases on the
docket.
REV. DANIEL IRVING, Secretary of the
Board of Foreign Missions OF the Presby-
terian Church, died in Orange, N. j., on
the 18th, aged sixty-four years.
The Civil Rights bill introduced in the
Georgia Legislature by Mr.. Wilson (col-
ored), of Camden, was defeated in the
House on the 18th by q vote of 1O7 to 3.
RICHARD L. DEMENT,, of Illinois, was on
the 18th appointed by the President Sur
veyor-Genera! of the Territory of Utah.
A NUMBER of letters from Ralph Waldo
Emerson to Thomas Carlyle rave been
stolen, and the public were cautioned on
the 18th against the purchase of the same.
EDITOR JOHN NICHOLSON, of the Deseret
Ncers (Eormoa organ), and two others
were sentenced at Salt Lake on the 18th
to the full extent Of the law for illegal co.
habitation.
UP to the 18th six hundred changes had
been made in Presidential post offices. OF
this number 249 were caused by removals.
CHARLES w. BRADLEY, a well-known
sporting man, died a few nights ago at
New Haven, Conn.,, aged fifty-three years.
He was formerly President of the New
York Fat Mems Club, and weighed nine
hundred pounds.
THE Georgia Legislature has instructed
the Congressman from that State to vote
for the repeal Of the Internal Revenue
law.
The Postmaster Genera has decided
that guarantee associations can not be-
come s~ureties on the official bonds of post.
masters.
ANNIE LoNGFELLow. youngest daughter
of the poet Longfellow, was married on
the 18th at Cambridge, Mass, to Mr..
James Gilbert Thorpe, of Eau Claire, Wis.
Mr.. H. w. SHAW, better known as Josh
Billings, the humorist, died suddenly on
the 14th at Monterey, CAL, of apoplexy,
aged sixty-fve years.
THE Nebraska Republican State Con-
vention met at Lincoln on the 14th end
nominated Amasa Cobb to succeed himself
on the Supreme bench, and Leavitt Burn
ham, of Douglass, and Charles H. Gere, of
Lancaster, to succeed themselves as Re-
gents of the State University.
AT he recent municipal election in In-
dianapolis the Republicans elected thor
Mayor by sixty majority and nave one
majority in the Council. The Board of
Aldermen is a tie.
= AT the recent election in Ohio the Re-
publicans carried the State by 90, 900
plurality, electing the following ticket:
For Governor, Joseph B. Foraker;
eutenan Governor, General Robert P.
Kennedy; Treasurer, John G. Brown;
Acknowledgement, Jacob A. Kohler;
Judge of Supreme Court, T. A. Miushall;
Member Board of Public Works, Wells S.
Jones.
THE Democrats of Nebraska met in State
Convention at Lincoln on the 18th and
nominated Frank Martin for Supreme
Court Judge INC r. K. Livingstone and
John F. Zolin for Regents of the State
University.
THE President has appointed c. M. Zu-
lick Governor Of Arizona Territory, and
James Mclaughlin Indian agent at Stand
ing Rock, D.. 7. w.
A STATE Convention Of the colored peo-
pie of Kentucky will be held November rs
at Lexington to "protest against the treat
ment received at the hands of the domi-
nant whites"
FIvE THOUSAND persons witnessed the
solemn cbsequies of the late Cardinal Nc.
Closkey in the Cathedral at New York on