Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-13

I AUGUSI I3, 1869.
sersus Rev. Mr.. Cheney ecclesiastical trial
has been sustained by Judge Jameson, o
the Chicago Superior Court. ,- "a 81 yea
The Committee of Ways and Means, ap
pointed by Congress to inspect the Pacif,
States and Territories, arrived in Chicago
on their return trip, ON the Sd.
President Grant, Secretary Fish and
Gen. Porter visited West Point on the 9Th
| Mr.. Mariscal, the new Mexican Minis
ter, and Mr.. Palacio, the Mexican Com
missioner, arrived in. New York city on
the 9th, from Havana. sa,,sqt..o ...'.r,
Hon. Schuyler Colfax, Governor Bross
ana party, lesH'c Omaha for further West on
the 5tb '7Ts
The examination of the steamer Du-
buque rioters closed at Rock Island, on
the 5th. Ten of them were held on the
charge Of murder. Three asked for a
further hearing, and one was discharged,
there not being sufficient testimony as to
bis taking an active part in the melee. y
Gen. Rosecrans, ex- United States Minis
ter to Mexico, arrived in San Francisco on
the Sd, and was serenaded by the Young
Mems Democratic Club.
9ii a't. .aa' POLITICAL. sa -oqa I
The Democratic State Convention of
Massachusetts will meet in Worcester on
the gath inst. et a.i; sifsir "a, s..
The Supreme Court of Louisiana has
rendered two adverse decisions to, the
power exercised by the Governor of that
State in removing State officers =. 'a'
The majority for the Virginia Constitu
ton is 1904, and the vote for it COM
prises the entire vote of all parties except
about four per cent. The majority against
the disfranchising clause is 39,957, and
that against the test oath clause 4O,992
A Louisville, KY, telegram of the I'd
says "Jas. w. Tate, Democratic candi-
date for State Treasurer, has majority
over his Radical opponent, E. Rumsay
Wing, in this city, of 5,O59. Tate's ma
jority in the State is overwhelming, and
will probably average 10000 to $4,000.
Returns from various sections Of the State
indicate the election of large number of
Democratic Legislative candidates. There
will probably be but fifteen or twenty
Republicans elected to the Legislature"
A Mobile dispatch of the Sd says: The
vote in this city for Congressman is as fol-
lows: Mann, Conservative, 4,108; Buck,
Radical, 2,S4S. Mann's majority, 1850.
Prosequer, Democratic, is elected to the
Legislature Montgomery gives Buckley,
Radical, for Congress, 3,082, and Worthy,
Democrat, 1,015. Buckleys majority g.
O67. SIS A's gs.. ae n galLsf
The Republicans of Montana have nom
mated James Tufts for Delegate to Con
gress. He was Speaker of the first Legis-
lature in Idaho, and has been acting Gov
ernor of Montana since Green Clay Smith
resigned the place. Mr.. Tufts is a native
of New Hampshire. iiI@
The Richmond Enquirer processes to
have full returns of the members chosen
to the Virginia Legislature. Itsfigures are
thus: White Conservatives, 95 colored
Conservatives, 3; total Conservatives, SO.
White Radicals, "a; colored Radicals, 1S;
total, AZ. One seat contested. & 4'aite5
The Vermont Council of Censors re-
commend that the Constitutional Co4ven-
ton, to assemble in February r,ext, in
corporate in the State Constitution an
article permitting women to vote, and one
providing for biennial sessions of the
Legislature. s,l ls
A Montgomery, Ala, dispatch of the 4th
says: Enough returns have been re-
ceived to indicate the certain election of
Parkinson, Democrat, by several hundred
majority in the Third District. Buckley,
Radical, is elected in this district" H,i
The National Union Republican party of
Mississippi have called nominating con-
vention to assemble at jackson on the 8th
of September. Is''
According to the returns received on the
morning of the 9th, from the Tennessee
election, Senter has carried Western and
Middle Tennessee by a sweeping majority,
and probably the State by 10000. The
Conservatives will probably have ma
jority in both branches of the Legislature
D. c. Slaughter, Emerson Etheridge, Ed
mund Cooper and Bailie Peyton are elect
ed to the State Senate. esa3 ds .J. !.
At Corinne, Utah. on the Sd, j. II. Rea-
die, proprietor of the Daily Reporter, was
elected to the Council, and Denis j. Loo
hey to the House of Representatives of
the Utah Legislature, over Bishop Snow,
Of Ogden, and Wright, polygamists. This
is the first defeat of Mormons at the ballot
in that territory. .a.fF@ 'tf14 49, r.a
A special dispatch from Helena, Mon
tana, states that Hon. JamesM Cavanaugh
has been reelected Delegate to Congress
by a majority Of 1900. 4
Wonderful Longevity.
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