The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-12-24
Grand totals. !. .sa4o. 462. 5O7 s298. 2O2. ia

THE joint Senate and House committee ap
| pointed to arrange for memorial ceremonies in
honor of President Garfield invited ex-Secretary
| Blaine to deliver the eulogy sbefore botl
| branches Of Congress in the hall of the House
of Representatives.
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER, of Philadel
| phia, nominated by the President to succeed
| Hon. Wayne MacVeagh as ,attorney-ge neral
| was born in Salem county, N. j., in 1916, grad
uated from Princeton college in 1884, was adj
| mitted to practice law in Philadelphia in 1888,
and was appointed attorney general Of Penn
sylvania by Governor Geary in 1867, this being
the extent of his public official life.
MYSTERIOUS packages and letters have been
sent to Mr.. Scoville, Guiteau's counsel, caus-
| ing him some alarm. 1t turns out that some
body in the far West was playing q practical
joke on an applicant for a postmastership.
IT is stated by the Peruvian minister that
ex-President Pierola, of Peru, left that coun-
try, as is believed, for Europe This leaves
no opposition to the administration of the
Peruvian government by vice-President Mon
tero while President Calderon is retained in
arrest by Chill.
GUrTEAU gave his views of his trial to the
Washington agent of the Associated Press. The
assassin praised Judge Cox, repeated his often
declared assertion that President Garfield's
removal F" was due to the Deity, and asserted
himself as satisfied with his jury and the way
in which his trial proceeded A cast of the
prisoners head was obtained by the sculptor.
Mills although it was only after some per-
suasive f1attery that Guiteau would allow his
beard to be taken off so that the cast could he
taken.
DURING November there arrived in the
United States 81, $50 emiSrants, against 81, 59S
in the same month last year.
The Senate unanimously confirmed the nom.
nation Of Benjamin Harris Brewster as attor
ney-general and J. G. Bancroft Davis as assist
ant secretary of state.
SECRETARY OF STATE FREL1NGHUYsEN has
taken possession of his Office Ex-Secretarv
and Mrs. Blaine gave reception to Mr.. Ere
hnghuysen, which was attended BY President
Arthur, the president of the Senate, speaker of
the House, all the members of the cabinet, the
justices of the supreme court, etc.
The President nominated Horace Gray, chief
justice Of the Massachusetts supreme court, as
successor to the late Justice Clifford, of the
United States supreme court. The follow
ing nominations were also made: Thomas
c. Acton, of New York, to be assistant
treasurer of the United States at New York
city; William Henry Trescot Of South Caro-
lima, to be special envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary of the United States
to the republics of Chilli Peru and Bolivia;
George NJ Duskin to be attorney Of the United
States for the Southern District of Alabama.
THE Senate, in executive session, confirmed
ex-senator Howe as postmaster general Judge
Gray as associate justice of the supreme court
Thomas G. Acton as United States assistant
treasurer at New York city, and William H.
Trescot as special envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to the republics OF
Peru, Chill and Bolivia.
TIMOTHY O. HOWE, Of Green Bay, Wis, the
new postmaster general, was born in Liver
more, Me-, in 1916, was admitted to the bar in
1889, served one term in the Maine legislature
removed to Wisconsin in 1845, was elected a
Judge of the circuit and supreme courts In
1850, became a United States Senator in 1861
and served eighteen years.