Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-12
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK.
General EnfeIli-ence.

Christi, leXaS, anu mary persons been
drowned.
Hard times in The oil regions, according
to the Pithole Record, Of the 81, which says
that four-ffths of the taxes assessed by the
revenue officers will be utterly lost By par
ties leaving town, or so disposing Of their
effects as to leave nothing for the collector
to lay his hands upon.
The New Jersey Legislature have gone
home without electing a Senator, 50 that
that State will be without Senator in Con-
gress. Mr. Wright, the remaining member,
being too i'll to take his seat, and the Gov
ernor, under the facts, having no power Of
appointment
The steam tug C. II. Haynor exploded her
boiler, on the Hudson River, at Troy, on
Saturday the 9TH, instantly killing FIVE per
sons.
Gov. Oglesby of Illinois has made an in
novation upon the custom Of selecting Fri
day for the annual fast day, by appointing
it on Sunday, April 10th, the anniversary
of the death Of President Lincoln.
At a reception given in Washington, by
Lieut. Cen Grant, on Friday evening the
9Th, President Johnson, Hon. Thad.
Stevens, ex-Rebel Vice President Alexander
H. Stephens, etc, were present.
Five fine steamboats, were burned at St.
Louis with valuable freight, on the 7th inst.
They were the Nevada, Majors, Fife Deans,
Frank Bates and Fanny Ogden. Loss
$7O0,00 By fire over. twenty steamers
have been lost at st. Louis this season.
The Legislature of Wisconsin are said to
have determined to request Senator Doc
little to resign, on account of his refusal to
obey its instructions upon the Presidents
veto.
Last weeks snow storm in Canada was
the most severe for several years.
Since May last the Government has sold
100000 horses and mules, realizing therefor
the sum Of over $14,000,000.
Among the military claims just paid by
Indiana is an item of $4,000 to Jesse D.
Bright for damages to his farm.
The ice at Dubuque has broken up and
floated off, and it is believed The Mississippi
river is nov open from that point down.
The man recently arrested as Quantreh,
the rebel demon, turns out to be not he,
after all. He has been released from custody
Gov. Grape of Michigan has, by procla-
nation, appointed the 18th of April next,
as day of fasting, humiliation, and
prayer.
A call is issued for National Woman's
Rights Convention in New York on the 10th
of May next, to consider the question Of
suffrage, and other matters.
The New York metropolitan police have
issued orders for the summary arrest Of all
beggars, including children who sweep eros
sings.
There was great freshet in the Milwau-
kee River on the 4th, which did actual
damage amounting to between 100000
and 100000.
The water along the western shore of
Lake Michigan is said to be some six inches
lower than it has been, at this seast n, for
several years.
The German steamships Allemania and
Hermann are to run an ocean race from
Southampton to New York on their next
trip. Heavy bets on the result were pend
ing in Engiand.
A New York paper says thai James
Stephens, Head Centre of the Fenian Broth
erhood, has certainly escaped from Ireland.
1t was disputed at first, but is now generally
conceded
The announcement that trichiRa spiratiS
had been found in pork in New York, was a
base lie set afoat to affect the pork market.
No traces of the parasite have been found
in any pork in that city.
Gen. Dick Taylor, brother-in-law of Jeff.
Davis, Mrs. JEFF. Davis, and Burton Harri-
son, formerly Jef's private secretary, are
all at Washington, seeking permission for
Mrs. Davis to visit her husband at Fortress
Monroe.
A Spectator, well known in Washington
as having made large purchases Of arms,
munitions, Sc, sold, among other articles,
to the Fenian leader, Gen. Sweeny, week
ago on Wednesday, twenty thousand army
revolyers and seventeen thousand forage
caps.
An official proclamation from Col. O.
Mahony announces the escape Of James
Stevens from Ireland, his arrival in Paris,
and his speedy arrival in the United States,
to heal the dssentions unfortunately preva-
lent in the ranks of the brotherhood here.
A large meeting of Fenians was held at
New York on the I'd, in the Bowery, at
which much excitement occurred. At one
time collision between the O'Mahony and
Roberts factions see led inevitable. The
aid of the police was summoned and peace
was preserved
The Canadians are again in great alarm.
They have 'sreliable reports" that war
vessels and conveys, including two schoon-
ers loaded with cannon, are fitting out at
Chicago" There are runners that an ex-
petition under g. Doran Killian-consisting
OF three steamers, with $500 men-has sailed
from New York to New Brunswick (another
report gives Bermuda as its destination) !;
and it is believed that Sweeny de- gins an
attack upon Central Canada.
Political IEafters.
The plan to liberate JEFF, Davis by writ
of ha5eas corpus, has been abandoned by his
friends
Dubuque, Iowa, goes Democratic as usual,
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