Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-11
PERSONAL.


ton of Lieut.. Gov. Cumback, of Indiana,
as Minister resident to Portugal.
The President, on the 2Sth, nominated
Leander Holmes, as Attorney for Wash
ington Territory; and VIM. W. Kuntz, as
Postmaster at Athens, o.
John M. Mayne, Jr., of Fredericksburg
has been appointed Lieutenant Governor
of Virginia, by Governor Walker, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the election OF
Lieutenant Governor Lewis to the Senate.
F. A. Stevens, an ex-gauger, has been
arrested in New York for making alleged
| fraudulent certificates. He was bailed in
$4,000.
The remains of George Peabody were
conveyed from the British ship Monarch
to the City Hall, at Portland, Me-, on the
29th ult, with suitable public honors, and
the streets were crowded, although the
weather was unfavorable.
Prince Arthur arrived in New York
city on the Goth ultimo. f4
Hiram r. Revels, the colored Senator
elect of Mississippi, arrived in Washing
ton on the Goth ultimo.
A Washington special says General
Candy is to be appointed to the command
of new department, carved from the De-
partment Of the East
Gen. Francis A. Walker, Of Massachu-
setts, has been nominated by the Presi-
dent for Superintendent of the Census.
Gen. Walker is son of Hon. Amasa
Walker, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
in the Treasury Department. He was
formerly of the editorial staff of the
Springfield (Mass.) Republican,.
Mr.. Revels, the colored Senator from
Mississippi, appeared on the Senate floor
on the 31st ult., and was congratulated by
number of Republican Senators. There
was but one vacant seat, and he has been
assigned it on the extreme corner of the
Republican side.
Mr.. Porter, the American Consul at
Tripoli, is dead.
Funeral services over the late Gen. Jo-
seph A. Mower took place at New London,
Conn, on the 1st.
The final rites at Portland, Me-, in
honor of George Peabody, took place on
the 1st, after which, with appropriate
ceremonies, the remains were escorted to
| the cars, which left at o'clock for the
town of Peabody, Mass, where they ar
rived in the evening, and were deposited
| in the library room of the Peabody Insti-
tute. The principal buildings particularly
the institute, were festooned with Grape.
In the Supreme Court of the United
| States, at Washington, on the 1st, there
were imposing ceremonies, including re-
marks by Chief Justice Chase, on the
! retiracy of Associate Justice Grier from
| the bench.
A New York dispatch of the Sd states
! that the Rev. Horace Cook was then with
his family, near Boston, under medical
| treatment.
Ex-Gov. Allen Trimble died at his resi-
dence, in Hillsboro, Ohio, on the morning
of the Sd. He was in his S7th year, and
| has resided In Hillsboro since 1905.
POLITICAL
The Tennessee Convention, on the 28th,
adopted-50 to 16-an amendment to the
State Convention, conferring the right OF
suffrage on all male citizens of the United
States twenty -one years of age, who shall
have been residents of the State twelve
months, and of the county in which the
vote is offered six months previous to the
election.
In the New Hampshire Labor Reform
Workingmen's Convention at Concord,
N. H., on the 2Sth, a resolution was
adopted to organize distinct political
party, and General Flint, of Lyme, was
nominated for Governor.
The Maine State Temperance Conven-
tion has resolved in favor of prohibition,
and appointed a State Executive Com
| mittee.
The Connecticut Democratic State Com
mittee has designated the 22d of February
as the day Of meeting of the State Con
vention.
The Georgia House, on the 2Sth, de-
cided-66 to 36-to qualify and seat those
persons who received the next hlghes'
votes to members who were declared in
ineligible, and those whose seats were de-
clared vacant by Gen.. Terry. Nine mem
bers were sworn in, of whom three were
colored.
An organization has been commenced
by Democratic soldiers in Brooklyn, en-
titled the Grand Army of the Constitution
Eighteen Generals and a large number Of
other officers have joined. General Koz'
lay has been elected commander. App1-
cations have been made to open fourteen
camps in the State.
The Georgia Senate, on the 29th ult.
received a communication from Genera
Terry, through Gov. Bullock, declaring
two Senators elect ineligible and the sea
of another vacant A resolution was pass
ed to give the seats to the persons receiv
ing the next highest vote. Two whit
men and one colored man were the1