Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1875 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

TheConnecticot Ix gislature organized on thc Attt by'Mho ciccttan of ttrerDcnrocratte caucus nominees az ©facers. - The Ohio State Democratic ConventioiU>-to be held at .Columbus on the 17th of June. Judge Morrieles, of the United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas, in a recentecharge to the Grand Jury, reviewed the Civil-Rights law, and expressed the opinion that all persona have legal rights to equal privileges in Hotels, public conveyances and other institutions of a public nature, While they dd not thereby acquire any social rights. He views the act in question as dot intended to affect social rights, but civil and legal rights, and he would instruct the drand Jury to find a true bill against any person violating ,its provisions. Ben Hill has been elected to Congress from the Ninth Georgia District, to take the place of Garnett McMillan, deceased. The ■ Kentucky Democratic State Convention completed its nominations on the 7th, The full ticket is composed as follows: For Governor, James B. McCreery; LieutenantGovernor, John C. Underwood; AttorneyGeneral, Thomas E. Moss; Auditor, D. Howard Smith; Treasurer, JtW. Tates.