Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-04
POLITICAL.

The Tennessee House, on the 18th,
passed the bill permitting colored persons
to inherit real estate. s1
A resolution for the payment of the
ante-war debt in coin passed the New
York Assembly on the 1Sth-65 to 20.
The Louisiana Legislature, in response
to memorial from the ladies of Freder-
icksburg, Va, on the 10th appropriated
$4,000 for the benefit of the Confederate
dead.
The Rhode Island Republican State
Convention will be held on the 10th Of
March. .oa spfa
The Connecticut Democratic State Con-
vention, which met at New Haven on the
22d, nominated Ex-Governor English for
Governor; Julius Hotchkiss for Lieuten-
ant Governor; Thomas M. Walker for
Secretary of State; Seth j. Logan for
Comptroller and Charles M. Pond for
Treasurer.
The following are the nominations made
by the Republican State Convention of
Indiana, on the 22d: Judges of the
Supreme Court-John T. Elliott, of New
castle; Robert G. Gregory, of Lafayette !;
Charles A. Ray, of Indianapolis; Andrew
L. Osborn, of Laporte. Secretary of State
Max F. A. Hoffman, Of Logansport
Treasurer-Gen. Robert Fl. Milroy, of
Carroll county. Auditor-Maj. John D..
Evans of Indianapolis. Superintendent
of Public Observation-Disclosures G. Hobbs,
of Centreville. Attorney -General-Nels
Trusler, of Connersville. Clerk of
Supreme Court-Theodore W. Mccoy, of
Jeffersonville. Reporter of Supreme Court
Capt James B. Black, of Indianapolis
The Texas Legislature on the 22d elect
ed M. G. Hamilton and Lieutenant Gov
ernor Flanagan as United States Senators
the former for the long and the latter
for the short term.
Mayor Price, of Mobile, on the 23d ap-
piled to the Supreme Court for writ of
supercedeas to release himself from Jail,
and have the recent act of the Legislature
passed on by the Court. The Judges re-
fused the writ, the effect of which is to
install Harrington Mayor over Price.
The Cairo, ILL.,, municipal election oc-
Cured on the 22d, and the following Off
GERS were elected: Thomas Wilson,
Mayor; John Brown, City Clerk; John M.
Lansden, City Attorney; James B. Tay-
lor, Treasurer; Michael Bambrick, Mar
shall
The Republicans of Alabama will hold
a State Convention in Selma on the last
Tuesday in June next.
The Minnesota Senate has, by a vote of
10 to 9, concurred in the House bill pro-
viding for an amendment to the constitu-
tion allowing female suffrage. The bill
provides that the votes of women may be
taken in separate boxes and counted for
and against this proposition.
The Ohio House of Representatives on
the Gath refused to pass the bill repeating
the law of last winter providing for taxa
ton of United States bonds, notes, and
fractional currency.
The Massachusetts, House of Represen-
tatives, on the Oath, passed the license law
to be engrossed-126 to go.
The Workingmen's Protective Union,
at Boston, has unanimously resolved
against woman suffrage.
The vote in the Madison (Wis) district,
for Congress, at the late special election,
was for David Atwood, 1892; for all
others, 1906. .4 s
A special election for Member of Con-
gress is to be held in the Tenth Ohio Dis
trict, on the first Monday in April, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of
Mr.. Hoag.
The Maine Senate, on the 23d, voted,
nearly three to one, to abolish capital
nunishment " {,r X. sa-iT ee