Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-15
PERSONAL.

committed murders near Atlantic.
PERSONAL.
The Governor of Maine has appointed
| April IA as Fast Day.
Among the nominations sent to the SEN
ate on the 1st were: M. T. Patrick, United
States Marshal for Utah Territory; f. w.
Oakley, Postmaster at Beloit, Wis.
A meeting of the officers who served
on the 3D. Resolutions were passed. eulo-
gizing their old commander, and a com
mittee was appointed to attend the fu-
neral.
The Executive Committee of the New
York State General Republican Central
Committee has elected the following Off
GERS for the ensuing year: President,
Benjamin f. Manierre Secretaries, Geo.
Cushman and Abraham Brown, both re-
elected.
Mrs. Victoria G. Woodruff, female
broker, of New York city, announces her
self candidate for the Presidency. She
denounces the present administration, and
pronounces in favor of recognizing Cuban
independence.
The widow of the late Gen. Thomas
telegraphed to General Sherman on the
ID, expressing her regret that she could
lot yield TO the desire on the part of Gen.
Sherman and others to have the remains
G her husband buried at West Point. AS
Troy is to be her future home, she felt that
sle must bury her husband in her family
loi in the cemetery there.
DR.. VIM. L. Barron, of Geneva, has
been appointed State Entomologist of Illi-
NOS, to fill the vacancy oecasioned by the
| dea,.- Of Dr. B. d. Walsh.
Rev. Nathaniel l.. rockingham died at
Boston, on the 4th, aged II years. He
was pastor of the First Unitarian Church
from1S15 to 1850.
| The trial of Daniel Mcfarland, for the
murder Of Albert D. Richardson, was be-
gun in New York city on the 4th. The
whole day was occupied in an attempt to
procure a jury One hundred and sixty
eight persons were examined, and only
six Jurors obtained, and one of them was
excused ON the ground that his sister was
at the point of death The courtroom
was thronged. Among those present
were Mr.. Richardson's brother and wife.
Among the nominations to the Senate by
the President, ON the 4th, were: Joseph
Hobson, Assessor of Internal Revenue for
~ oP al
lett, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the Territory of Colorado.
Commissioner Delano has received a
letter enclosing whisky stamps to the
value of $465, which the writer says he
stole from the Collector of the Second
Ohio District, and wishes to return.
A story that G Mr.. Klein had been at
tackled by hydrophobia and smothered to
death by pillows in Queens county, L. L.,
is now said to have been deliberate hoax,
perpetrated for a sensation by Queens
county paper A libel suit has been COM
menced against the paper. !.
A full jury was obtained on the 9th, in
the Mcfarland case.
Commissioner Delano has forbidden the
publication of annual lists of assessment S
of income returns
A Washington special of the 9th says
a general court-martial had been ordered
for the trial Of an army officer of high
rank, on several charges, which, however,
the War Department did not wish to
make public. For the same reason his
name was suppressed. The order created
quite futter in military circles.
The nominations sent to the Senate on
the 9th were: Joseph P. Root, of Kansas,
Minister Resident at the Hague; Hugh L..
Bond, of Missouri, Judge of the Fourth
Judicial District Circuit, 0ice George A.
Pearce, withdrawn.
A New York dispatch of the 9th says
"R. B. Caldwell, the drawback forger,
who, at considerable expense to the
country, was brought from Canada to this
city, is at large, though committed in de-
fault of $25,000 bail"
Chief Justice Chase gave hearing, on
the 7th, to the counsel in the Richmond
Mayoralty difficulty, 'on motion to dis
solve the Injunction granted by Judge Un-
derwood against Ellison and his associ-
ates. After the arguments of counsel, the
Chief Justice took the case under advise
ment.
The official majority in the Tenth Ohio
District for Peck, Republican, is 2,787.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has ad-
iourned sine die.
Phillips (Democrat) was elected Mayor
| of Milwaukee, on the 9th.
Proudft 1Democrat) was reelected
Mayor of Madison on the 9th, and An
drew Pickarts (Republican) Treasurer.
At the recent election in Janesville,
Wis, the Democrats elected their candi-
dates for Mayor, Clerk, two Aldermen,
two Supervisors, and School Commits
sioner; the Republicans, the Treasurer,
Attorney, Police Justice, Justice of the
Peace, and Ward officers.
Gen. Joseph'H. Lewis, of Barren coun-
ty, has been nominated by the Democrats
as candidate for Congress, in place OF
Golladay, of Kentucky.
POlETICAL.
The adoption of the Fifteenth Amend
| ment will be celebrated at Boston on the
14th of April.
The Ohio Republican State Convention
| is to be held on the 10th of August,