Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-21

in ecstacies.
Gen. Stephenson, commanding at Atlanta
has issued an order, allowing citizens to
carry arms for personal protection. This
action was rendered necessary BY the great
prevalence of lawlessness at that place.
Oregon ratified the anti-slavery constitu-
tional amendment on the 18th inst.
The steamer Teutouia, from Hamburg the
25th ultimo, which arrived at New York. on
Tuesday, did not touch at southampton,
owing to the prevalence Of cholera at that
port.
On the 9th instant, the boiler in the en-
CINE house of Messrs. Deliver, Sleeper and
Co g Marine Railway, at the foot Of Border
street, East Boston, exploded with tremen-
dous violence, completely demolishing the
engine house, throwing down the chimney,
and hurting the bricks and fragments IN
every direction, some Of them being thrown
through the buildings in the vicinity. "A
little son of Malcolm Campbell, who was
looking at the engine at he time was fright
fully man gled, and lived but few minutes
The engineer, John Anderson, sustained
several severe fractures Of the limbs, was
badly scalded, and otherwise injured, sothat
he died in short time.
A frightful murder was perpetrated at
Burlington, Racine county, Wis, on Sunday,
the Sd. The victims are three children, q
neice, son and daughter Of Anthony Cook,
aged respectively thirteen, nine and three
years The parents were at church when
the deed was accomplished. A man named
Frahm has been arrested, against whom the
evidence is very strong. The children were
apparently killed with an axe. 1t is sup.
posed that Frahm murdered them to secure
the sum of $1,000 which he knew that
Cook had, but which the latter had taken
VITA him. 1t is the most fendish and bru-
tai murder eyer rerpetrated in the state.
A destructive fire at GAINESVILLE, Wis,
Tuesday night, destroyed nearly the entire
block between Main and North Second SITS.
Nine buildings were destroyed by FIRE at
Ottawa, ILL.,, on Wednesday. A fire at Pom
tiac, Mich, on the same day, destroyed
$40, 900 worth of property. A FIRE at Cairo
on the same day did damage to the amount
of $4,000. III
Gov. Morton sailed from New York yes
terday, for Europe.
Alex H. Stephens, in his declination of
congressional candidacy, suggested the
selection, as Congressman, of persons not
identified with the defunct Confederacy.
A committee Of the Fenian Senate, who
visited the headquarters Of the Brotherhood
to request o. Mahoney 10 deliver up the Pre-.
sidential books, were ordered out Of the
building.
Luby, the publisher Of The irish People
newspaper, at Dublin, has been convicted
of treason, and sentenced to twenty years
penal servitude.
Stephens, the IF ish Head Centre, has ar
rived in Paris; and so has John Mitchell.
Col. Crane has been sentenced to pay g
fine of FIVE thousand dollars.
The Dubuque Herald reports that petit
ton to the House IF Representa- ives is being
circulated and signed in that city for the
impeachment of Presiden6 johnson, because
he has in violation of the Constitution, as
sumed to require Of the rebel States the
adoption of measures which he deems essen
tial before restoring them to the rights and
privileges of members Of the Federal Union
An abortive attempt was made on Sunday
night, the 10th, to FIRE the block, Nos. "A and
76, Lasalle street. Chicago, by throwing
bottle filled with kerosene oil, TO which 9
lighted fuse was attached, through q window
into liquor store
Mr.. and Mrs. Crandall, aged respectively
so and 65 years, were murdered at their
residence in Coontown, Otsego county, n. 7.
on Thanksgiving day. Three thousand dol
lars in the house escaped the. attention OF
the criminals.
The Mississippi Legislature has changed
the name of Jones county to Davis, and The
the name of Ellisvilie, County seat) to
Leesbarg. Jones county for its decided
Union sentiment during the war, has been
dubbed the Commonwealth of Jones'"
London, England was visited by gale OF
terrific violence two weeks ago, and immense
damage was done in great number of small
casualties to persons, building and shipping.
The most considerable of these was the
partial unroofng of the great depot struct-
ure at the city terminus of the Southeastern
Railway.
Bishop Quintard, of Tennessee, has
squelched the project of memorial Ep'seo,
pal church, St. Lazarus, to be erected at
Memphis, in commemoration Of the deeds
and deaths of Confederate soldiers.
The State Department at Washington has
received news from our Minister at London
to the effect that England will recedc from
her position on the Alabama question and
consent TO an equitable adjustment of the
the claim.
On the night of the 18th, barn in Chi
cago. was destroyed, together with eighteen
horses. The animals all belonged to far
mers. Total loss, over $4,000.
Another bridge on the La Crosse Rail
road was burned by the farm mortgagor'
on Saturday night, the 9th. The night
trains on the road have been discontin
ued.
Oil is reported 10 have been struck in thu
Thomas we'll, near Lodi. Fountain county
Ind. on the 9th, at depth of something
over nine hundred feet.