Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-03

rendered great assistance to those in the
water, and others who had succeeded in
getting ashore"
Hon. E. Rumsey Wing, of Kentucky
has received his commission as Minister
to Ecuador.
The court at Philadelphia has overruled
the motion for new trial of Morrow and
Dougherty, convicted of an assault on
Brooks, and ordered them to pay fine OF
$1,000, and sentenced them to imprison-
ment for seven wears.
Daniel N. Tompkins has ben appointed
Deputy Collector of the New York Gus
tom House, 0ice S. T. Blatchfard, resigned.
Pere Hyacipthe arrived in Boston on
the 10th, and was the guest of Robert G.
Winthrop.
Vice President Colfax and wife were in
Baltimore on the 22d, to attend the open
ing of the fair for the benefit of the
Inebriate Asylum.
Ex-United States Senator BENZ. Fitzpat-
rick, of Alabama, died at his residence,
near Montgomery, on the Goth, aged 10
| years.
The new Haytien Minister was formal
ly presented to the President on the 22d,
by Secretary Fish. He was in full diplo-
matte uniform. The usual friendly saluta-
tions were exchanged
| President Grant has promoted Robert
M. Douglas, son of the late Senator Doug
las, to be his Private Secretary-James T.
Ely, of Chicago, taking Mr.. Douglas
| former position of assistant Private Secre-
tary.
The fiftieth anniversary of the marriage
of Mr.. and Mrs. Reverdy johnson was
recently celebrated at Baltimore. He is
in his 74th and she in her 9th year.
They have ten children living.
The President has appointed James H.
Marsh as Postmaster at Knoxville, ILL.,, in
place of Curtis MCGOWAN. arrested for
robbing the postotlice there.
General J. H. Idrie has been elected a
Delegate to Congress from Alaska.
On the 23d Deputy Collector Blatch
ford, charged with the preparation of
gross frauds in the drawback department
of the New York Custom House,
presented verbal resignation, through a
friend, to Mr.. Grinnell, who accepted it
The whereabouts of Mr.. Blatchford had
not been ascertained by the Deputy Mar
shals who had been in pursuit of him for
several days, but the presumption was
that he was concealed somewhere in the
city.
General Butler has given bail in $15,-
900 upon the charge of Miss Florence, of
misappropriating the Twiggs swords and
certain plate.
1t is stated that the alleged defalcations
in the Methodist Book Concern in New
York have been thoroughly investigated
by committee, who report that in the
general management of the Concern there
is nothing to complain of.
President Grant has appointed Samuel
A. Wheelwright Consul at Rosario, Ar
gentine Republic.
Albert ID. Richardson, formerly war
correspondent and long an attache of the
New York Tribune, was shot, and, it was
feared, fatally wounded, on the evening of
the 25th, by Paul Mcfarland, a lawyer
by profession, between whom had existed
for considerable time past an estrange-
ment, caused by the alleged intimacy of
the former with the latter's wife. The
chances for the recovery of Mr.. Richard
son were considered favorable on the
evening of the Goth. Mcfarland had
been committed to prison to await the re-
suit.
The Women Suffrage Convention at
Cleveland on the 25th adopted a constitu-
ton and elected permanent officers, Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher being elected Presi-
dent. The Convention adjourned sine die.
One hundred Mormon preachers ar
rived at Des Moines, Iowa, on the 25th,
en- route to different parts of the country
to preach Brigham Youngs peculiar doc
trines.
James A. Bayard has been appointed
Postmaster at Athens, o. Gustavus A.
Smith, of Alabama, is appointed Collector
of Internal Revenue for the District of
New Mexico, in place of A. P. Sullivan.
The next General Synod of the Re
formed Church of the United States will
meet in Cincinnati, on the first Wednes-
day preceding the first Sunday in Advent
in 1872
The following were among the appoint
ments announced on the 26th: Assistant
Assessors-John ]. Mitzger, Thirteenth
Ohio District, and Adam Emerson, First
Ohio. Storekeepcrs-Stephen A. Wood
ruff, George Wells, Robert G. Finnell,
William V. Stone, and William Bassett,
Seventh Kentucky; John Irwin, Seventh
Ohio, and John Tolain, Eighth Tennes-
see.
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