Politics And Politicians

Thebe are 101 farmers in the Connecticut Legislatnro. The "Domocvatic-Liberal" party of Minnesota will hold its nominating convention at St. Paul July 7. Ex-Seciïetary IIioiiaiïdson, nccompanied by his wife, arrived at San Francisco May 2G, on their tour around the workl. The Minnesota Bepublican State Central Committee has detemined fco eall a State nominating convontion at St. Paul July 28. It ia said tliat "Cari Schurz intends to bring his parents to this country on his return." TJiat is to say he has gone backafter his old Scluuz. - Detroit Post. Fauit is found with Mayor Bamum's inconsistency iu beginning a cruaade againsttheSiindayli((uortrath'c,at]5ridgi'P"it white he loases hin New York hippodrome building tc (íilmore for a musió and beer garden. Genebal BBEOKiNiimdE leaves a kou wlio beara the name of " Owen Couiitv Krockiiiridge, " in honor of the eounty which secured tho election of hiw futlier to Congress in 1853, in the eoutest with Governor Letchér. Fob delinquent County Treasurers, New York bears off the 'palm. Xheir immber is fiftecn, and the aggregáte of tlicir delinquencies is $022,97:5. ■ oeedings have been ocmunenoed ngainst them by the General of the State. R. B. tiiiloTT issajcl totje thesmartèst eolored politician iu tho South. Of the iifty eolored lawyers in South Carolina, he is the only one who gives promiso of rnaehing a fair i-ank in the nrofós&ion. lic m the fnvorite eandiáate for (lic United States Senate. A bumor has been iu circulation nicntioning tliíit a serious rupture had oceiirred batweea Senator Morton and Secretary Bristow, growing out of difterence? of opinión concerningthe diKtrilmtion of o.'iicc.s uuder the Treasury Department. Tiiere is 110 foundation whateyër for this report. The oldest ex-Unitcd States Senator iiow Jiving is said to be Peleg Sprague, formerly of Mainc, who was Senator from that State from 1829 to 1835. He alfo ropresonted the Kenncbec District in Congress from 1825 to 1829, was subsequently for many years Judge of the United States District Oourt of Massacliusetts, and is now liang in Boston at a greatly advanced age. The Utica llcrald, noticing the demand of the National Temperance Convention at Chicago íor a prohibitory I actment by Congi-ess, says that Congi-ess j is as likely to subsidize a railroad to the inoon as to interfero with tho sale j of liquors. The llcrald manifestly beHeves the suppression of intemperance to be a matter of moráis rather than of politics, and holds cach of these sciencos in an exclusive domain. If Vice-PresidenfWilson should need j a certifleate of the illness ivhich the newsiapers are eonstantly chargiugnpon liim, it will not do to apply at the Tribune office. Calliug there vesterday, he found that the elo vators ware up at the moment, and so, scorniug tho idea of waiting for snch lieljis, he promptly climbed the ten Hights of stairs. Clearly he can't pl(;ad physioal weakness as a I reason for being excused from public j service, or for delaying work on that third volume of his history, which has