Democratic Sentinel, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1885 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Larner B. Harrison, President of the First National Bank of Cincinnati, and a Republican, has been appointed a Government Director of the Union Pacific Railway, and Adolph Guernon Collector of Customs for Minnesota. The President has appointed "William T. Carrington to be Collector of Customs for tho District of Teche, Louisiana; Francis H. Underwood, of Massachusetts, to be Consul of the United States at Glasgow; Chinn Coy Woo, to be Interpreter of the United States Consulate at Canton; Cbarlos W. Fields, to be Superintendent of the Hot Springs, Ark.; L. D. Sate, of Michigan, to be Librarian of the Patent Office, vice Weston Flint, reduced; and the followinarnamed Postmasters: James H. Dobbins, at Bellefonte, Pa.; Augustus Owen, at Canton, Pa.; William A. Lewis, at Evart, Mich.; Eugene L. Brown, at Eufaula, Ala.; Theodore W. Ivory, at Glenwood, Iowa; Henry C. Stark, at Hydo Park, Mass.; George F. A. Kimball, at Vergennes, Yt.; Gardner A. Wilder, at Circleville, Ohio, vico H. E. Lutz, suspended; Lyman W. Redingtou, at Rutland, Vt., vice A. H. Tuttle, suspended. The Virginia Kepublican convention at Richmond nominated John S. Wise for Governor and H. Clinton Wood for Lieutenant Governor. Resolutions of sympathy with Gen. Grant were adopted. The President has issued a special civil-service rule, applicable to the Pension Department, providing that appointments shall be apportioned among tho States and Territories according to population, as shown by the last census. Senator Manderson„ of the Senate

Committee on Territories, has just completed a tour of New Mexico, and as a result will file a report next December against its admission as a State. The Georgia Legislature, by a vote of 122 to 111, passed a general option law for counties which have not already adopted prohibition.