Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1886 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Green Smith, President pro tern. of the- Indiana State Senate and hold-over Senator fiom Jennings County, has filed ■with the Clerk of the Circuit Court at Indianapolis a petition for an injunction to restrain tlie Secretary of State from transmitting to the «p*>?fe«>»- of tfie House of Kepiesenfiitives the result of .the vote cast for Lieutenant Governor at the tecent election. Senator Smith is a Democrat, and would become the actual presiding officer of the Senate should the courts hold that it was unnecessary to elect -a Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy caused by General Manson accepting a Federal position.,..Congressman Lowry, of the Fort Wayne (Ind.» district, has instituted pro-

ceedings to enjoin th# Secretary of State from limning a certificate of election to his successful opponent, Captain White, alleging that he u ineligible on account of not having heen properly naturalised. The books bf the internal revenue office at Atlanta show a recent increase of eighteen in the registeied distilldries of Georgia. They are allowed to sell to the public in ten-gallon packages. In only three coun* ties is the manufacture of liquors prohibited. , The President has appointed the /ollpwing Postmasters: AAt Carrollton, 111., Edward Smith; Albion, Mich., Frank F. Cole; Trenton, Miefi., Eckford Moore] Ipwin, Pa., A. Gant; 'Yonkers, N. Y., Lillian E. Keyes; Hamilton, Ohio, J. E. Lohmam The following appointments have also been made. Charles B. Mor* ton of Maine, to be Conimissoner of Navi ul on ; J. 11. Caidwell of Indiana, to be Deputy Second Auditor of the Treasury; A. E. Lewis of Pennsylvania, to be Deputy Fifth Auditor of the Treasury; Hugh A. Haralson, of' Georgia, to be Deputy Auditor of the Treasury for the Postoffice Department; John McCafferty, to be Collector of Customs for the district of Alaska;' John Cousins, to be Collector of Custopis for the district of Kennebunk. Me.: Ernest A. Umland, of Minnesota, to be Receiver of Public Moneys nt Taylor's Falls, Minn.; James McNamara, of Illinois, to be Indian Agent at Colorado River, Arizona. The President has made the following appointments: George L. Thompson, to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Tenth District of Ohio; Francis B. Lawrenson and Thaddeus 8. Shawatts, to be Appraisers of Merchandise in the District of Baltimore; Thomas 8. Price, to be Assistant Appraiser of Merchandise for the District of New York. Postmasters—Chas. Weaseman, Warsaw, 111.; Patrick H. Carney, Waukesha. Mis.; J. E. Lohman, Hamilton, Ohio; J. W- Smith, Blackburn, Ill.; J. P. Kerr. Dublin, 111.