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ward Schuyler to be assistant secretary of

ward Schuyler to be assistant secretary of
state withdrawn.
20. F. D. Grant named minister to Austria; John
C. New made consul general to London.
q. Miles Seymour nominated for governor of
Washington Territory.
@. James Tanner nominated commissioner Of
pensions.
%. Francis E. Warren made governor of Wyo-
ming and Benjamin F. White governor Of
Montana
| q. r. r. Lincoln named minister to England,
Murat Halstead to Germany, Allen Thorn
dixie Rice to Russia, George B. Loring to
Portugal, Patrick Egan to Chill and Thomas
Ryan to Mexico.
q. Senate rejected Murat Halstead for minister
to Germany.
%. Robert Adams, Jr., of Pennsylvania, nomi-
mated minister to Brazil; L. B.. Mizener, Of
California, to the Central American states;
William l.. Scruggs, of Georgia, to Vene-
zuela; W. o. Bradley, of Kentucky, to Ko-
rea, and George L. Shoup to be governor Of
Idaho.
80. John Talbot, of New Hampshire, made minis
ter to Colombia, and D. H. Terrell, Of Texas,
to Belgium.
APRIL.
/. John NJ. Huston, of Indiana, made treasurer
of the United States.
9. United States senate adjourned.
& Cornelius Van Colt made postmaster at New
York and Joel D.. Erhardt collector of Gus
toms.
10. Nathan f. Dixon elected to the United States
senate, in place of Jonathan Chace, of
Rhode Island, resigned.
Il. Lyman E. Knapp, Of Vermont, appointed
governor Of Alaska.
16. William P. Hepburn, of Iowa, made solicitor
of the United States treasury.
II. E. c. Lacey, Of Michigan, made comptroller
of the currency.
Robert P. Porter, Of New York. appointed su-
perintendent Of the census.
q. Prohibition defeated in Massachusetts,.
MAY.
z. Frank W.. Palmer, of Illinois, appointed public
printer; Theodore Roosevelt and Arthur S.
Thompson, of South Carolina, civil service
commissioners; Arthur L. Thomas governor
of Utah.
ID. Elections in both Dakotas won by Republi-
cans.
16. Solomon Hirsch, of Oregon, made minister to
Turkey; Clark L. Carr, of Illinois, to Den
mark; Henry w. Severance, of California,
consul general at Honolulu; John Jarrett,
of Pennsylvania, consul ut Birmingham;
Thomas H. Shearman, of District of Column
bia, at Liverpool.
"a. S. B. Holiday, of Pennsylvania, made COM
missioner of customs.
q. Beverly Tucker and Lew Wallace appointed
special ENJOYS to Hayti; appointments
afterwards withdrawn.
JUNE.
2. Col. Kelton appointed ~adjutant general of the
United States army.
10. Thomas ]. Morgan, of Rhode Island, appoint
ed commissioner Of Indian affairs.
IL. Calvin S. Brice elected chairman Of the ma
tional Democratic committee.
10. Prohibition defeated in Pennsylvania
10. William f. Chandler elected United States
senator from New Hampshire.
%. Rhode Island repealed prohibition.
q. John L. Stevens, of Maine, appointed minister
tO the Hawaiian Islands. Eanrpa Npopor
Of Tennessee, to Paraguay and Uruguay;
J.. NJ. Crawford, of Ohio to be consul gen.
eral at st. Petersburg.
&c. W.. W. Phelps, of New Jersey, appointed min
lister to Germany.
%. Frederick Douglass appointed minister to
Hayti.
Capt. Meredith made chief of the bureau of
the engraving and printing.
JULY.
1. A. L. Snowden, of Pennsylvania, made minis
ter to Roumania, Servia and Greece; w. II.
Edwards, of Ohio. consul general to Berlin;
A. o. Bourn, of Rhode Island, to Rome; Eu-
gene Schuyler, of New York, consul general
to Cairo.
9. II. A. Taylor, of Wisconsin,, made commits
sioner of railroads, and T.. c. Mendenhall,
Indiana, superintendent of coast survey.
AUGUST.
8. j. R. G. Pitkin, of Louisiana, appointed min
lister to the Argentine Confederation.
s. Professor William 7. Harris appointed COM
missioner of education.
81. W.. G. Veazey, of Vermont, appointed q mem
Der Of the interstate commerce commission.
SEPTEMBER.
6. Thomas H. Anderson, Of Ohio, appointed
United States minister to the United States
of Bolivia
u. Pension Commissioner Tanner resigned; res
ignation accepted.
16. L. A. Croft, of Omaha, appointed commits
sioner of the general land Office.
OCTOBER
/. Elections in North and South Dakota and Mon
tana. The Republicans carried the first two
named. In the last named the result was
very close. Prohibition won in North Do
kota.
Z. Prohibition defeated in Connecticut.
10. Gen. Green B. Raum appointed United States
commissioner of pensions.
Commodore Ramsay appointed chief of the
bureau of navigation.
20. John Field appointed postmaster ut Philadel-
phia.
81. Postmaster General Wanamaker made public
an order fixing government telegraph rates
for the current official year.
NOVEMBER
4. State canvassing board Of Montana gave the
state to the Republicans, save in the case of
the governor; senate tie; house mail Re-
publican majority.
6. Elections held in the various states for state
officers.
q. Gilbert A. Pierce elected United States senator
from North Dakota.
DECEMBER.
2 First session of the Fifty-frst congress begun;
Thomas B. Reed, of Maine, made speaker of
the house; Rev. MIR. Mlburn, the blind
preacher, Democratic candidate, elected
chaplain Of the house.
4. David j. Brewer appointed associate justice of
the supreme court of the United States.
s. Senator Ingalls,, of Kansas, reelected president
pro tenn.
9. Speaker Reed appointed Mr.. Mckinley chair
man of ways and means committee, Mr.. Can
non Of appropriations and Judge Kelley of
manufactures.
THE HAND OF DEATH,
JANUARY.
z. In California, Owen Brown, only survivor of
the famous raid at Harper's Ferry, aged "a.
Is. In New York, Helen D. Gould, wife Of Jay
Gould, aged 81.
Rev. DR.. Alexander T.. McGill, of Princeton,
NJ.
10 In Munich, Di Murska, prima donna, aged IS;
her daughter. broken hearted, poisoned her
self.
FEBRUARY.
8. In New York, Jane Poultrey Bigelow, vito
of John Bigelow, aged SO.
10. In Hong Kong, China, Ralph Chandler, rear
admiral United States navy, aged so.
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