holding on by one arm, with the other
round the child, her strength failed her,
and the child was lost, but the poor mother
was hauled on board,
NEWS SU)MMA RY.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
The President has signed the bill for the re
demption of the loan of 1858.
The Senate has confirmed the nomination of
J. L. Rennington as Governor, and Oscar
Whitney as Secretary of Dakota.
The Senate has confirmed the nominations
of Win. F. Wheeler as Marshal for Montana,
James Wright, agent for the Indians of the
Crow agency, and John J. Saville, agent for
Red Cloud agency.
Governor Booth has been elected U. S.
Senator by the California Legislature, having
received two majority on joint ballot.
Col. Wm. P. Ross of the Cherokee Nation,
at the head of a delegation appointed by the
Cherokee Council to oppose the incorporation
of the Territory of Oklahoma, arrived in
Washington on Dec. 21.
It is stated that Senators Edmunds, Thur
man and Frelinghuysen, of the Judiciary
Committee, will devote a part of their time
during the recess to the drawing of a bill
which will be offered as a substitute for the
Bankruptcy repeal bill which passed the
House.
At the sixty-eighth annual dinner of the
New England Society, held in New York
City, Dec. 22, addresses were made by Sena
tor Sumner, General Sherman, Rev. H. W.
Beecher, and others.
COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY.
Gold closed in New York, Dec. 23, at 110 1-8.
The Illinois State Farmers' Association ad
journed on the 18th. Hon. William C.
Flagg was re-elected President, S. M. Smith
Secretary, and J. H. Pickerell Treasurer.
