Personal And Political

Sa i: a h Davis (coloree!) died at Indianapolis, Ind.. aged i:: years. Maukicb Lek. the oldest man in Chic;ifí'(], died at the age ni L07 years. He Was born in Ireland in 1784 and carne to this country fif ty years ago. Edwin Lek liitowx. ;iti old resident of Chicago and the originator of many humane institutious, died at the ae of (10 years. I)!:. i I human I!. S-.iini, a youny physician of NYw liaren, Conn., died from -n e f:;;!!1"! te smoking. 'l'iii', Massachusctts republicana will hold their ronvention in Boston un September i(. Ai.kxan [ui: Uroublbt, a veteran of the v. ar of is;, aud of tile late war, died at the national soldiers' home in Leavenworth, Kan., aged 98. lie euLii ted in the late war at the age of (ís. Ex-Gov. David S. Wai.kek, of Florida, died at his residence in Tallahassee, aged 70 years. Wii.i.iam 11. Lampebt died at Canandaigua, N, Y., aged 75 years. lie was B ini'mber of the Forty-second and Forty-third conprresses. I.ieut.-Coi.. John E. Tourtellotte, a retired officer of the regular army, died suddenly at his honae in La Crosse, Wis., aged G0 years. Col. William H. Meuritt, of Des Moines, died at the age of 71 years. He was the democratie candidato for governor in 3864 and was postmaster at Des Moines under Cleveland. WnxiAM Cokdix, aged 60 years, died at Adrián, Mich. lic scived one term in tho house of representatives and was a thirty-thir I dejfree mason. Thi people's party has oryanized in of the eighty-eiglit counties in Ohio. Beem n Raster, of Chicago, editorln-cliief of the Illinois Staats-Zeitung, died of dropsy at Cubowa, Gennany, aged G4 years. M. M, Walden, of Centerville, Ia,, who was lieutenant governor of the state in 1870, and who also served two terms in'congress, died in Washington, where he held a federal position. The seventh anniversay of the orfTPïlir'.ation of the proMM11"" ''y in ilumina was ceieDrateü on tfte 'i4tu au IndiaiKipolis.