Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-28
Summary 6E THE WEIR

a~nlode1 AT iaQl8H6p O4lS On the "a, severe
" nuring the engineer and fireman.
A fire at Fond du Lac Wisconsin, on the
n;uht of the Dist, destroyed from $4,000
to $4,000 worth of property. In Adrian
Mich. on the 22d, a FIRE did damage to the
amount of $4,000.
At caucus Of the southern congressn en-
eleot remaiuing at Washington it was deci-
dedthat the sntire body should return home
Ss and await the action Of congress.
s-a@9s TIE spanish admirsl commanding tbe
senadron of Valparaiso, has given gross
insult tothe American Minister to Peru, Mr..
TLos. II. Nelson.
- 4 - The Georgia Legislature has passed bill
making the freedmen competent witnesses
s.r5y in civil cases where freedmen are defend
ants, and ia criminal cases where the ofense
ssis against freedmen.
Mr. Bradford, Delegate to Congress from
Colorado, was run over by q street car in
Washington, on the Dist and seriously in
jurei
AN election was has held in Washington
r~sonthe 2lst, to test the sense of the voters
on the question Of negro suffrage About
1000 votes were recorded ag ainst extension
9Tbof elective franchise to negroes, and only
about seventy-fve in it's favor. The friends
sss of the measure, it is stated, abstained from
81. the polls.
Miss Harriet Z Prescott the authoress,
was married to Richard S. spoford, jr., of
Newburyport, on the roth.
Burnley, the Lake Erie pirate, is in Scot
land, writing the history of his adventures.
The President has nominated Hon John
Bigeiow as Minister to France.
Pord's Theatre, Washington is to be turn
ed over to the Surgeon Generals Bureau.
,...s-e The safe Of the Sanitary Commission at
Philadelphia was robbed Of 6,450 in Coy
eminent securities on the 22d. U. s.
paymaster was also robbed of $4,000 in
.-r bank in Washington.
Two millions of Mexican dollars coined
atEl Paso, have been deposited in O bank
20 In Washington to the credit of the Mexican
Republic.
.cevi General John A. Logan having declined
the appointment of Minister to the Republic
of Mexico, the President has nominated to
the Senate Hon. Lewis D. Campbell, late
member of Congress from Ohio, for that
s appointment.
sa' Senator Yates Of Illinois in passing out
Of the Continental Hotel, at Philadelphia,
the 2ist inst, fell and broke one of his arms
i+'w Hamburg papers state that portion of
ss the Highland Rock, having been long under
mined by the sea, has faller and been en-
gplphed in the waves Out Of five hundred
inhabitants on the island, seventy are said
to have perished.
CHILEAN privateers to prey upon Spanish
commerce are being fitted out in New York.
80 There have been 8,o77 cases of cholera
in Paris.
Rumors are current In Paris that IN the
Spanish Gillian difficulty England and
France will maintain neutrality, and that
. tho sUni:ed States will espouse the cause Of
Chill.
The Indiana Legislature has passed the
State debt compromise bill, and the eDumer-
alton bill. @ N
company Of capitalists have agreed TO
construct the indianapolis and Vincenaes
railroad, if the citizens along the line will
II donate $4,000 per mile, payable when the
iroad Is completed.
ST. Louis was visited by n destructive
ere on the 2lst, involving loss of property
amounting to $17e,000.
Charles Durkee, of Wisconsin. has been
confirmed Governor Of Utah by the.Senate,
n executive session. . ~ %
The Secretary of State has relieved Pro-
visional Governor Perry of South Carolina,
sandtugned the State over to Governor elect
Orr
Toronto letter states that prepare
ha;n ia for nm G3r
eerthworks around that city. Vi ISL III Z
b. During the past season 500 marine dis |
asters occurred on the lakes--a number |
= nearly double the average for the last five I
years
The remains Of Abraham Lincoln and his |
son Willie were yesterday transferred from /
Oak Ridge Cemetery to the temporary |
vault near the site of the proposed monu-
mont.
A Washington journal gives rurnor
that the French troops in Mexico are grad
ually approaching Vera Cruz, with view
of returning home. The Marquis de Month
Dion vaguely hints that such is the intention
of Louis Napoleon.
a commissary warehouse filed with gov
eminent stores at Camp Douglas near Salt
Lake City, was burned on the 10th inst.
Theloss is over 100000 The fire was
believed ID have been The work of incen-
diarism.
John S. Rarey the horse tanner, was struck
with paralysis at his residence in Groveport,
near Columbus, Ohio, last Saturday evening
10th, but at last accounts was slightly i'm,
proving.
AT Davenport, Iowa, on the Goth, br lex
block was destroyed by FIRE. Loss $4,000
to 5000 Insurance $4,000.
The New Hampshire House of Reforma-
ton near Manchester was burned Cd
both. Loss $4,000 Insured for $780,, 4,
q The Wakefield Mills in South Kingston
were burned on the S0th. Loss $4,000
Insurance light.
Forty nine thermometers were found on
beard the pirate Shenandoah, on her arrival
at Liverpool.
The osicia! vote of Wisconsin ct the late
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