Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-05-07
POLITICAL AND PERSONAL.

AMI SE6SONALs
Grants condition continues to improve
Hiram Walker, millionaire of Spring.
field, ILL.,, is dead.
Geo. II. Valiant. general freight agent Of
the Lake Shore line, resigned to 60 to the
Erie.
Hon. George II. Parker, of Iowa, has
been appointed Q spe cial gent of the treas.
ury department.
The 63d anniversary of the birth of Gen.
Grant, April 9th, was generally observed
all over the country
E. J. Baldwin of Los Angeles. CAL, has
been sued by Lou Perkins for $500, 200 fol-
breach of promise of marriage.
Henry DAILY, merchant of Carterville,
Ills, is said to have lost q pocketbook con.
tanning &c. 600 in government bonds.
John Kelly, the Tammany leader, is re.
ported rapidly breaking down in health and
is greatly troubled with insomisn.
Mr.. Wyman, treasurer ofthe United States
rendered his resignation, and G. N. Jordon
of New York was appointed his successor.
Gov. Marmaduke appointed the new
board of managers for the Jackson County
Reform school.
The Ohio legislature has passed a Law
fixing heavy fine and imprisonment fol
Offering to receive money at primary OF
general elections.
The refusal of the Illinois senate to con.
frm the governors appointments of peni.
tertiary commissioners causes much com.
ment at Springfield.
The Confederate Survivors association al
Augusta, Ga, passed q resolution extolling
Gen. Grant, and wishing him restored
health and long life. e.
Hon. A. M. Kelley, of Richmond, Va,
denies that he has resigned the Italian mis-.
sion. He has his commission in his pocket
and will soon sail for Italy.
President Andrew D. White of Cornell
university, who was Blaine man, think g
Mr.. Cleveland is doing well, but he regards
Mr.. Hendricks as dead against civil-service
reform.
SIt is reported that Gen. Sheridan has
come in conflict with the new secretary OF
Mar, and that the president will issue an or
der defining the duties of the lieutenant
general.
Judge 8. Burke has resigned the director.
ship of the Nickle Plate. His firm of law
yers are retained to push the suit against
the road, which was the reason for his
resignation.
Judge Andrew Wylie, Associate Justice
of the Supreme Court of the District of Co.
lumoia, has; dered his resignation to
appointment and qualification Of his sue
cess0r.
In view of the excellent records and dis
scH IS H. f4n~
consuls, the president has decided that they
shall be retained: w. F. Grinnell, at Brad
ford, England; Lyle T. Adams, at Geneva;
Samuel w. Dsbney, at Fayal.
g. Finde of Chicago, acting for mayor
Carter Harrison, has entered three heavy
damage suits in the Circuit Court; one for
500, 900 against the Inter. Ocean Publishing
Company; one for SOC, 900 against Edwin
LeBrown, and one for $40O, 600 against the
Inter. Ocean and Edwin LeBrown Jointly.
The President has made the following
appointments: Chas. L. Scott, of Alabama
Minister Resident and Consul General to
Venezuls; Warren Green, of Kentucky,
ID. Bacon, South Carolina, Charged Affairs
to Paraguay and Uruguay. 70 be U. 8.
Consul: Berthold Greenebaum, of Cali
fornia, at Apia; Albert Looming. of New
York, at Bremen; Joseph B. Hughes of
Ohio, at Honolulu; Victor A Sartoy, of
Pennsylvania, at Leghorn: Robert E.
Withers, of Virginia, at Hong Kong.
After the question had been brought up
in the Senate on the las day of its special
session % to the eligibility OLA. r. Lawton,
of Georgia, to the position of Minister to
Russia, to which position he had been
nominated, the President submitted the
matter to the Attorney General for his
opinion. That opinion is now made pub
lie under date of April 2lst. After stating
his reasons at length the Attorney Gener-
is qualified to hold civil Office under the
United States government.
Gen. Grants physicians, some time ago,
decided that . change to . dryer atmos-
phsre would be more beneficial that it
would be unwise for their patient to spend
the warm months at the sea shore. Mr..
Drexel has given directions that his cottage
shall Be put in order at once for the Grant
family, and will send quantity of bric-a-
brac and pictures from his residence in the.
city to make the summer house of the
suffering general g pleasant a possible
Col. Grant says that he belives lis fathers
changed condition was due in Q great
measure to the many kind and generous
manifestations of public interests and re-
gard. It is believed by those in Q position
to know that the General will survive the
summer.
The President has appointed E. J. Hale
Of North Carolina, to bs United States
Council ct Manchester, England, vice, A.
D. Shaw; John Goode, of Virginia, to be
Solicitor General, vice, Samuel r. Phillips,
resigned, and VIM. n. Nerrick. of Mary
Land, to b an Associate Justice of the