Personal And Political

lira supremo Court of the United States on the 3d rendered an opinión conflrming the constitutionality ot the Edmunds-Tucker Idalio test oath whioh prevents Mormons from voting. Rev. Dr. Talmaoe arrived at hia homo in Brooklyn on the 8d from hia pilgrimage to the Holy Land. William Hili, who in 1836 established the first newspaper at Blooming ton, 111., died In that city on the 4th, aged 80 years. The gubernatorial con test in West Virginia was settled for the present on the 4th by the Lesjislature seatmg Fleming (Dem.), who received 43 votes to 40 for General Goff. Eli Joxes, the widcly-known Quaker preacher and noted philanthropist, died at his home in South China, Mc, on the 4th, aged 83 years. The oldest native of Warren County, 111., Mrs. Craig Ilanna, tho first female whito person born in that eounty, was buried at Monmouth on the 4th.