The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1886-08-26
PERSONAL.

Last week Commissioner Sparks. of the General
Land Office, took prompt advantage of the adjourn
ment Of Congress to demand the resignation of
Mai s. w. Clark the Recorder Of that Bureau. Mai
Clark Is q veteran of the 9th ". Y. Cav, has FIVE
rebel bullets In his body and is crippled that he
has been unable to put his right foot the ground
since he came out of tho hospital. One of his
wounds Is still open. He has held the Office of
Recorder for 20 years. and discharged his duties to
the entire satisfaction of all Commissioner Sparkss
predecessors.
Gen. Rosecrans left the city last week to attend
the Reunion of the veterans and State militia of
Indiana, Ohio and Michigan at Fort Wayne, Ind
Gen. w. T. Sherman has sailed out at the Golden
Gate not for China but for Oregon, whence he will
return by the Northern Pacific.
Capt. f. II. Patterson, formerly of the 3Oth Ohio,
and now Superintendent of the National Cemetery
at CuIpeper Va, has been visiting Washington
The Captain went in a private and was pros
NOTED TO q commission He was so severely
wounded at the storning Of Missionary Ridge that
he lost the of his LEFT arm. He is the only ex-
Union soldier living at Culpeper.
The Republicans of the Sixth District of Ohio
now represented by Hon. W. ID. Hill, who is can
ddate for reelection have nominated for Congress
Comrade NJ. NJ. Boothman, of Bryan. COmrade
Boothman who is of the representative soldiers
of Williams County. and unusually popular with
all classes, enlisted when boy of l6 in the Ssth
Ohio, and served his country most faithfully until
he lost a leg at the battle Of JOnesboro. Sept. l.
1864 ON his recovery from his wound he began the
study of the law, and was admitted TO the bar. He
is now recognized as one of the leading members
Of the bar of Northwestern Ohio.
Gen. W. H. Dmond is q candidate for the Re-
publican nomination for Governor of California
He was born in 1910. and was just closing his coll
legiate course when the war broke out. He at once
offered his services and was commissioned Captain
and Assistant Adjutant- General and assigned
to duty in the Department. of the South. He
served in this capacity with the Tenth Corps until
the close of the war. and was offered a commission
In the Regular Army. which he declined He en-
barked in mercantile pursuits, in which he was
very successful and is now u member of the extern
sive firm of Williams DimOnd 4 Co., of San Fran
cisco. He is one of the most active members of
Geo. H. Thomas Post, of san Francisco; is Com
mander of the Loyal Legion in California, and
BrgadierG General of the Second Brigade, California
National Guard to which position he was recently
reappointed on the unanimous request of the whole
brigade. He is OF the most popular men on the
Pacific Coast, and his character is spotless None
of his competitors were soldiers.
1t Is feared that the official head of COmrade John
Lemmel, wounded veteran, who is Postmaster at
Albany, Wis, Is in danger His place is wanted
The deficit in the accounts of Col. Bolton, late
Superintendent of second-elass matter in the Chi
caso Post-Ofiee, continues 10 increase as the In
spectors proceed in their investigation and now
amounts to $4,000 Col. Bolton is still In the County
Jail He failed to find Sl5OOO additional bail as re-
CURED, and his first bondsman, Cole. has asked to
be relieved from the first bond of $1,000. Accord
ingly Bolton has been formally surrendered to the
Government and returned to the County Jail.
Miss Cleveland pays a generous compliment to
Mrs. Logan. She says that during her year i'm the
White House she met some of the finest women in
the world, and at the head of these stood Mrs.
| Logan.
The Republicans of the Seventh District of Illinois
have honored themselves and paid most deserved
compliment to one of the best Representatives any
district ever had. by renominating Gen. Thomas
j. Henderson by reclamation.
| The third edition of Gen. Logan's book was
/ issued last week. IL 20.0O0 and the largest
| part of it was shipped direct to California.
Col r. Bruce Ricketts,, the Democratic nominee
for Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, was born
at Orangeville, Columbia County, April 20, 1889,
] and Ia of Sco:Gk-Irish descent. he entered the