Personal And Political

President Ci.kvki.a.vd has made a new rule ín renard to oöiceseekers, and will hereafter reíer all applicants for office to the heads of the different departments. Democrats of Nebraska in convention at Lincoln went on record as according heartily with Cleveland's fínancial policy. The president has approved the biil to extend the time for completinjf the work of the eleventh cenMi. Thb death is announced of ex-United State Senator Groóme at his home in Ualtimore. Md. Be was elected gfOVernor oí Maryland in 1ST3, and at the expiration of his term served one term in the senate. Iíf.itih.icans in state convention at Lincoln, Nob., nominated a state ticket headed by T. O. C. llariiixon' of (irand Island, for judge of the supreme court. Mabtha Ki.and, of Séneca county, o., a pensionar of the war of 1812, i rlead, aged 100 years. l. their state eonvention at Lincoln, Neb., the democrats nominated Frank I. Irvine for justice of the supreme court to head the ticket. S. A. Romxsox died at liennison, Tex., aged 64 years. He was chief of the United States secret service department the war and a delégate to the first convention that nominated Lincoln for president. Kx-l'iiEsiDENT IIakhison was installed commander of the Ohio coramandry of the Military Order of the i Loyal Legión at Cincinnati. WnjJAM Laiviïeïn'CE was confirmed bishop of Massachusetts to succeed the late Phillips Brooks of the Methodist Episcopal church. Nbw York republicana held a convention at Syracuse and placed a state ticket in the field headed by Edward T. Bartlett for judffe of the court of appeals.