Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-29

port, Ind.
The case of Joseph A. Berry against
Gen. Bacon Montgomery and others, for
$50,O0O damages, for false Imprisonment
and destruction of. plaintiffs newspaper
office, in 1866, by State militia for alleged
disloyal publications, was decided on the
10Th, at St. Louis, the jury returning a
verdict against Montgomery, assessing $50
damages, and finding the other defendants
not guilty. 0 p
The members of the Ohio Legislature,
on an excursion to Washington, reached
that city on the morning of the Goth
Senator Kellogg, of Louisiana, has been
added to the Senate Committee on
Claims. au 3aH
The President has nominated Adam
Badeau for Consul General to London ;
Edward Phelps, Marshal of Arizona ;
Fred Morley, Register of the Land Office
at Detroit. H.
A grand reception was given the Ohio
Legislative excursionists, by the Ohio
State Association, at the Masonic Temple,
Washington, on the evening of the 21st.
The case of Postmaster Jones, of New
York, charged with retaining letters ad
dressed to an alleged swindling concern,
was dismissed by Commissioner Osborn,
on the 21st. ii a
Owing to the illness of the Recorder,
the Mcfarland trial was adjourned on the
21st to the 25th. uf EH
The Red Stockings Base Ball Club, of
Cincinnati, en- route for New Orleans,
stopped over in Louisville on the 21st, and
beat the Eagles "a to7. Il ladt q
POLITICAL. i 81 a.
A torch-light procession paraded the
streets of Washington on the evening of
the 18th, in celebration of the ratification
of the Fifteeth Amendment and in favor
of the proposed change of Government
for the District Of Columbia. About
5000 persons were in line. A number of
residences of prominent citizens were
illuminated, as also the house of Vice
President Colfax. President Grant was
serenaded, and in reply made few re-
that those who have been enfranchised by
the new amendment will prove them
selves worthy of it, and that all classes
will be benefited by the new order of
things. -sit aff
In the Illinois Constitutional Conven-
tion, on the 18th, proposition to strike
out the word male" in the suffrage arti-
Gle was rejected-12 for to 46 against.
In the Illinois Constitutional Conven-
ton on the 10th, proposition providing
for submission to separate vote OF the
people the bare question of woman suf-
frage, was adopted-40 to 81.
The argument on the legal-tender ques-
ton in the Supreme Court at Washington
did not take place on the 18th, but was
postponed to the 25th.
The General Assembly of Ohio ad-
journed on the morning of the 18th. Dur
ing the session seventy three general, and
forty-three local, laws were enacted; also,
fifty-six resolutions adopted.
The Georgia Legislature met at Atlanta
on the 18th. at
The Georgia Legislature adjourned on
the Goth to the 25th. A member of the
House stated that Gen. Terry opposed
any legislation while the Georgia bill was
pending before Congress.
James Atkinson, Democrat, has been
reelected Mayor Of Newport, r. |.
The Massachusetts, House of Represen-
tatives has rejected-by 133 to 6o-the
proposed amendment to the State Consti-
tuition enabling women to vote.
The Maine Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Augusta, in June.
The next Legislature will elect a United
States Senator. -
A Washington telegram of the 21st
says: cat the instance of General Butler,
nearly all the members of the Reconstruc-
ton Committee have promised not to act
upon the Georgia bill until his return
from Massachusetts on the 9th of May"
The bill repeating the Registry law, ex-
cept in New York city, passed the New
York State Senate on the 21st; also,
bill removing disabilities from colored
voters.
The Massachusetts House of Represen-
tatives, on the 21st, rejected the Ten Hour
Labor bill-173 to 33. vr as
A resolution was adopted by the Missis-
sippi Legislature, on the 2ist, to appoint
joint committee to prepare an address
to the Governor asking the removal from
Office and impeachment of Judge Shackle-
ford for releasing Yerger on bail.