Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-03


The official vote of New York at the re,
cent election has just been published. 1t
gives Mexican, Republican, for Secretary
of State, 325099; Nelson, Democrat,
373, O29; Nelson's majority, 1890
A terrible gale swept over Pittsfeld,
Mass, on the 23d, uprooting trees, etc. A
portion of calendars block, North street,
was blown down, damaging the Berkshire
Eagle Office and the Whlpple furniture
mandatory. Two printers were serious
ly injured.
The $3,683, 1861, in checks and drafts,
stolen from a bank messenger in New
York, on the 18th instant, was received
by Police Superintendent Kennedy as q
Christmas present, and returned to the
bank. Eighty-six dollars in currency were
the sole fruits Of the robbery to the per-
petrators. Z q ~ So 6 a@g a
| The West.
The value of new buildings erected IN
| Chicago during 1867 is about $9,OOO,Ooo'
According to recently published statls'
tics, the present population Of Milwaukee
is 76, 49S. -
Henry Dean, physician, while skating
at Algonquin, ILL.,, on the 26th, broke IN
and was drowned.
Early on Christmas morning, man
named Peter keenan, was shot dead by
brewer named Charles Zeizle, at White
water, Wis.
A large fire in Cincinnati, on the 9th,
destroyed the whisky distillery Of Boyle,
Miller g. Co., and other property, amount
ing in all to 100000. E@TFTf& I'd
20 At Cheyenne, on the night of the 22d,
man, after being drugged, was robbed OF
$4,000 in greenbacks, and $4,000 in
vouchers and valuable papers. Yur7T A
/ Another locomotive explosion occurred
in Chicago on the 27th.T A switch engine
on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
Railroad exploded with terrific force, kill
ing passer-by, named Mertes, and in
juring the engineer and fireman, the latter
severely
IL AMI ~ The south. dizf.r,. T.,
General Candy has called a State Con-
vention to meet in Charleston, s. G., on
the Oath of January. , glk ETf0
A negro who had committed an outrage
on white girl was tied to a stake and
burned to death, in Georgia, December
23d. - T-v
Some dozen persons, mostly negroes,
were accidentally shot at Memphis, Christ
mas day, by the promiscuous firing OF pis-
tolls loaded with ball. go q "a -''l' = -i1'
A Washington dispatch Of the S0th ult.
says there is good reason for believing that
the recent accounts of restitution and suf-
fering at the South are exaggerated.
| Judge Busted, of the United States
District Court, was shot on the street in
Mobile, December 28tb, by District Attor-
ney l.. V. B. Martin. The wounds inflict-
ed were not considered mortal. u ~
A furious snow storm commenced at
Nashville, Tennessee, on Sunday night
goth ult }, and continued all next day.
The snow was five inches deep and drift
ing badly
The steamer Little Rock, Memphis
and Fort Smith packet, struck snag six
miles above Little Rock, on the 23d, took
fire and burned to the waters edge. The
boat and cargo are total loss. No lives
| lost. 40
The steamer Raleigh was burned at sea,
on the Carolina coast, December Gath.
Fifty five persons were on board, of whom
thirty-one had reached Charleston on the
Goth, ten were known to be drowned, and
the balance were still missing.
Great restitution is reported by the
Southern press as prevailing all over the
South. A Washington special to the New
York Herald says An estimate compiled
from statistics collected by the Governors
of the Southern States places the number
of whites and blacks in Louisiana, Missis-
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas,
who are in starving condition, at about
three millions"