Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-05
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

tuO nuhl bcuUcHCO W. bttOiy won q AAohSu
paper at Montreal saying 1t is right.
Ex.UNIrED STATES CONSUL DENNY has
been appointed foreign adviser to the Co.
rean Government
M. RocHEFoRT, in his paper, defends
Riel, AMI makes a scurrilous attack upon
Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales.
EX-SENATOR CoNKLING declined to make
speech to the New York negroes during
the present political campaign, saying
that his professional duties would not per-
NIT him to devote the necessary time.
COMPTROLLER DURHAM has made de.
cision that the head of a department can
not grant tbird.class clerk leave of alb
sence without pay and then appoint him
to another position with larger compen.
sation.
SIMON BoUNrE, liquor merchant Of In.
dianapolis, Ind, is reported to have gone
insane at Hot Springs, Ark.
ON the 23i Senator Van Wyck called at
the Treasury Department and left a note
for Secretary Manning requesting that he
would make a condition with contractors
for the construction of public buildings in
Nebraska that convict labor should not be
employed.
CHAUNcEY M. DEPEw reiterates his
recent statements of an interview with
General Grant in regard to President
johnson.
THE Second Comptroller of the Treasury
is making thorough investigation of the
accounts of Indian agents, which are re.
ported to be in very bad condition, and
has already referred about dozen cases
to the Solicitor Of the Treasury for suit to
recover balances found due the Govern.
ment.
=. The latest rumor as to the Civil Service
Commits sion is that Judge Benjamin Buck.
ner, of Louisiana, KY, who has just de.
clined the nomination of Chief Justice Of
New Mexico, wishes to be member of the
commission. His friends say that he APP
proves of the civil service policy.
BISMARCK will have grand family re
union in Berlin, October 3Oth.
X. SATENsTINE, New York milk dealer
owns a dairy farm near Williams Bridge,
Westminster County, and large number
Of his cows have been ON the sick list.
The Board Of Health made an investiga.
ton and found that the animals were suf-
fering from pleuro'pneumonia. Sixty five
of them were killed on the 23d.
Ex-Governor PAGEaof Vermont died at
Rutland, that S ate, on the 24sh, of bron :
chial pneumonia.
The official footing of the official returns
of the Ohio election from all counties
shows Foraker's plurality to be IS, 1853.
ON the Oath the Marquis of Lorne was
roughly handled by a mob at Brentford,
Eng, while making political speech.
The charges of perjury against Julius
Dexter, Treasurer of the Committee oil
dismissed.
THE Walkup case at Emporia, Kas.,
progresses very slowly. The evidence for
the s ate is in, and the defense opened on
the 18th.
THE boat race between Hanlan and
Teemer on the oath was won by the latter,
Hanlan giving up the race at the turn and
Teemer rowing leisurely home.
w. e. BEACH, Of Cadillac, Mich, con-
tributed $1,000 to the sawdust swindle
fund at New York. James Kelly, has been
arrested and identified as one of the
swindlers.
ON the 25th Rev. John Mcnamara, a
prominent Episcopal minister, died Of
paralysis a. North Platte, Neb.
j. HERBERT BLAKE, barrister who left
Ireland fer fear of dynamiters, died at San
Antonio, Tex, on the 25th.
ON the 25th Canon Farrar preached al
Trinity Church, New York, on "The
Atonement"
SISTER CIpRIANA at Cairo, Egypt, states
thai Oliver Pain WIS i'll and was buried
alive by the Arabs.
JESSE BILLINGS, wealthy farmer, liv.
ing near Washington, Ind, has been in
dicted by tie Grand Jury on charge Of
forgery.
EDWARDS prrRREPoNr has addressed g
strong letter to Hon. A. j. Warner, M. c..
In defense of silver and supporting the
Warner bill.
On the "a h Mrs. Ann Fennell, who was
bit en- by dog at Bridgeport, Conn.,, last
spring, was attacked with hydrophobia al
that place.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONERS THOMAs
has rendered his resignation, which the
President has accepted, to take effect No
vember lst.
On the 26th the taking of testimony fol
the defense was begun in the Walkup tria
at Emporia, Kas.
LORD DUFYERIN, Viceroy Of India, has
been ordered to dispatch troops to Burmaf
Immediately.
A COMMITTEE at London is preparing a
petition to Queen Victoria asking .or
communication of Riel's sentence.
LORD SALISBURY under went medical
oneratiou for an abscess In the arm on the
26th, and is confined to his room.
ANDERSON BuRRIs will be shot in the
Cboctaw Nation, on November 18th, for
murder.
Pope LEO wrote recently to the Mikadt
~ Janan thanking him for the protection
afforded missionaries within his domin
ions.
JAMES d. FISH promises to tell from th'
witness stand all he knows OF the CRAM
& Ward matter.
SECRETARY LAMAR has debarrei VII
liam A. Fruch, Of Garden City, kas''
from practice as an attorney before the
Interior Department.
A swEpE named sundstrom, living .,
saltwater, Mimi, is declared by local
MUSICIANS to b. attic Ell with leprosy'
LORD SALISBURY is rapidly recovering
from the operation for abscess recently
performed on his arm
wousS suff agists in several oounues Q
New York propose to voseat The COMING
election. VII
VIM. King, Of Minnesota, propose 70 quiz
a new telegraph line from 81 LOUIS =
Duluth
rHr Philaielphis lie dyer announces au
thoritatively that Nellie Grant ssr'orl
h.s not applied for divorce, and does no
contemplate doing so
,rnar P.RRKrr, of Evansville, Ind, ha