Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1891 — DEATH OF ADMIRAL PORTER. [ARTICLE]

DEATH OF ADMIRAL PORTER.

Admiral David D. Porter died at Washington on the 13th inst. of fatty degeneration of the heart. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1813. He entered the navy as midshipman in 1829; promoted to Lieutenant in 1841; was appointed to the Naval Observatory in 1»47; served during the Mexican war, and was engaged in every action; in the coast survey. During the gold excitement commanded ships between New York and Panama, Took a most prominent part in the civil war from 1801 to 1865 as a Rear Admiral, fie was promoted Vice Admiral July 25, 1866, and served as superintendent of the United States Naval Academy till 1869, when he was detailed for duty in the Navy Department in Washington. August 15, 1870, he was appointed Admiral of the Navy. He is the author of a “Life of Commodore Davjd Porter’ (Albany, 1875); a romance entitled “Allen Dare and Robert le Diable” (New York, 1885), which has been dramatized and was produced in New York in 1887; “Incidents and Anecdotes of the Civil War” (1885); ‘Harry Mariana” (1886), and “History of the Navy in the War of the Rebellion” (New York, 1887).

A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark., says that the two farmer's organizations of that State have reorganized under ono head. The order will henceforth be known as the Farmer's Alliance and International Union of Arkansas. Its objects are defined as substantially those of the national alliance. The officers elected are: Paul G. Davidson, president; George Martin, vice president; J. W. Dal 1 Ison, secretary; and W. T. Dowell, treasurer 1 J. E. Bryan, State lecturerjexecutive commutes: E. C. Murphy, H. S. King, Isaac McCracken. L. H. Moore and J. W. Wybrani