Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1870 — PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

PERSONAL.

The General Conference of the Methodist Protestant Church assembled in Baltimore on the 6th. Delegates were present from nearly all the Southern States and conferences in Pennsylvania, Indiana Illinois, Missouri and lowa. The conference organized by the election of Rev J. G. Whitridge; of Virginia, presiding officer. ' ’ A game of base-ball between the Chicago club and the A-tlantics of New Orleans, played on the 6th, resulted in a score of 51 for the former to none for’the latter. Nino Innings were played. General Thomas Jordan, late Command-er-In-Chief of the Cuban insurgents, ar* rived in New York on the 6th, from Havana. He'reporls that “ the Cuban cause is in a better condition than at any previous stage, and the tucoees of the revolution depends only on time. The Cuban

army now numbers 10,000 men, wen armed and equipped, and supplied with artillery and mountain howitzers auffl cient for present needs of the service.’* The following nominations were sent to the Senate on the 6th i: Henry H. Wells, United States Attorney for Virginia; L. Norton, Register of the Land Office at Springfield, Dakota; Rpos Btu.tzman, Register of the Land Office at Pembina Dakota; Gabriel A. Gersbery, Receiver of Public Moneys at'Springfield, Dakota; George F. Potter, Receiver of Public Moneys at Pembina, Dakota. Admiral Farragut has been re-elected President of the Military Order of the United States for the ensuing year. General Sheridan and staff passed through Omaha on the 7th, going west. Ge.o. Vanderpool, lately convicted of murdering Robert Field, at Manistee, Mich., has been granted a new trial; and theeentM is changed to the Kalamazoo Circuit. , r At New Orleans, on the Bth, the Chicago White Stockings defeated the Lone Stars, of New Orleans, in a game of baseball—the score being 18 to 10. Gen. Sheridan arrived at Salt Lake on the evening of the Bth, on his way to Montana. A colossal bronze statue of Franklin is to be erected by Captain Degroot, in Printing House Square, New York city, at an expense of $25,000 to $30,000. The President has nominated Chas. Asher for Postmaster at Dowling Green, Ky. The Chicago Base-Ball Club defeated the R. E. Lees, at New Orleans, on the 9th—24 to 14. The residence of N. O. Sykes, in Tippah county, Miss., was burned on the night of the Bth, and two daughters, aged 8 and 18 years, perished in the flames. ...... TJ;e McFarland trial closed, in New 'York city on the 10th, and the jury, after an absence of two hours, rendered a verdict of “ Not Guilty.” The President has nominated George A. Batchelder, Secretary of Dakota Territory; Lewis C. Rockwell, Attorney of Colorado; Wm. H. West, of Ohio, Consul at Rio Janerio. Gen. Sheridan and staff arrived in Corinne, Utah, on the night of the 10th, and left the next morning by special coach, en route to Montana. Twenty families of Josephite Mormans numbering in all one hundred souls, have recently left Utah for their old homes in the States. The Board of Trustees of 1 the Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College have elected Hon. Valentine B. Horton, President; R C. Anderson, Secretary; Joseph Sullivant, Treasurer. The contemplated excursion of the Illinois Press Association has been postponed until the month of August. The route for the excursion, as decided on by the committee, is as follows: From Chicago to Sarnia by boat; thence to Montreal and Quebec by Grand Trunk Railway; thence to Boston by Grand Trunk and Vermont Central Railways, returning by the same route. The Grand Encampment Grand Army of the Republic commenced its fourth annual session in Washington on the 11th. Thirty nine States and Territories were represented. General Logan delivered an address. A game of base-ball was played in Cincinnati, on the 12th, between the “ Red Stockings,” of that city, and the “ Forest Citys," of Cleveland. Score, 12 for the former to 2 for the latter. On the 12th the National Encampment of the G. A. R. elected officers for the ensuing year. The vote for Grand Com-mander-in-Chief resulted in a total vote of 76; necessary to a choice, 89. General Logan received 40; Pleasanton, 18; Hartranft, 11; Dennison, 6; Schenck, 1. General ’ Logan was then dedared unanimously chosen. The other officers elected were: Governor Lucien Fairchild, of Wisconsin, Senior Vice-Commander; General Lewis Wag ner, of Pennsylvania, Junior Vice-Com-mander; Dr. Samuel A. Greene, of Massachusetts, Surgeon General, and Rev. Dr. G. W. Collier, of Ohio, Chaplain General, with a Member of Council of Administration from each State. The game of base-bail at New Orleans on the 11th, between the Chicago and Southern clubs, was called at the end of the seventh inning, on account of darkness. The score stood, 41 for the former to 9 for the latter. The Lodge of Masons at Boston, of which Gen. Jos. Warren was first GrandMaster, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary on the 12th.