Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-27
On the 10Th. the Steamboat Havana was

party. No one hurt.
| Commissioner Delano has decided tina
revenue stamps cannot, under any cir
cumstance be redeemed A dealer in to
-bacco applied for the privilege of trans
ferring stamps from a lot of boxes the con
tents of which had been rendered worth
less. The request was denied, under the
/ above decision, V ia ~
In the National Labor Convention OF
| the 18th, the entire afternoon session was
consumed in discussing the rights of Miss
Anthony to seat, which was participated
in by very large number of delegates
She was finally admitted by a vote of 55 to
50, several delegates declining toyote..
| The Commissioner of Customs informs
| the Collector at New York that fees col
lected under State and municipal law are
unconstitutional, and shall hereafter in no
instance be collected. # 81 'p}c
The National Educational Convention
met at Trenton, N. j., on the 18th. The
attendance on the first day was small. n
| The. Directors of the Central Padfc
Railroad Company have received inbr-
nation Of conspiracy among some disaf-
fected men, formerly employ ed on the road,
to burn all bridges and stocks of fuel west
of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, in one
night. The company has taken measures
to Illustrate such designs.
In prize fight between Tom Allen and
Charley Gallagher, on the nth, eleven
rounds were fought and both men were
terribly punished, Gallagher levilently
the more severely. 1t is alleged that Gal
| lagher's second threw up the sponge after
the eleventh round, which ended the COM
| bat, but the referee claims that he did not
see the sponge thrown up, and hence de-
cided the battle draw. 1t was a, brutal
exhibition.
In the National Labor Convention on
the 18th, the vote admitting Miss Anthony
was reconsidered, and she was finally re-
jected by vote of 63 to 81. This action,
it appears, was taken because of her not
paying as good prices ON her own paper
as are paid to female compositors on other
papers in New York city, and because of
her generally acting against the Woman's
Union of that city.
The confession of John, Bowen, author
of the terrible Carr's Rock disaster, on the
Erie Railway, has been recently pub
lished.
A ten dollar note, of the Allegheny Ma
tional Bank, Pittsburgh, sent to Washing
ton on the 10Th, for examination, has been
pronounced counterfeit by Treasurer
| Spinner.
Customs receipts from August Z to IA,
| inclusive, amount to $3,074,441.
An Alton, ILL.,, telegram of the 10Th says :
"The cattle and horses at Monticello are
| dying off fast. The cattle seem to have a
strange disease. Their legs first swell,
and soon after the body, and death ensues.
The horses have what is called mad
| itch. >"
A Richmond, Va,, telegram of the Goth
| says the drouth was so bad in that vicinity
that the fruit trees were dying. Rain suf-
ficient to thoroughly wet the ground had
not fallen for seventy-eight days.
A German family in Chicago were re-
Gently suffering from trichina caused by
eating raw ham. Gases not fatal.
PERSONAL.
The French citizens of San Francisco
on the 10Th celebrated the centennial ami
versary of the birthday of Napoleon the
| First in becoming manner.
Senator Trumbull arrived at Helena,
Montana, on the 18th, and was received
by large crowd of citizens.
Samuel G. Clemens e' Mark Twain)
has purchased the interest of Thomas A.
Kennett in the Buffalo Express, and has
taken position on the editorial staff.
Colonel William j. Nagle, formerly of
the Irish Brigade, one of the Fenians re-
leased some time since from an English
prison, was killed by a fall from off his
residence in New York city on the 10Th.
United States Commissioner Osborne, at
New York, has discharged Pratt, the al
legged Texas rioter, for want of evidence.
President Grant and party were in Har-
risburg, Pa, ON the 18th, the guests Of
General Cameron.
A Washington dispatch of the 17th says
that the health of George Peabody, who
was at White Sulphur Springs, was no
better. He was more feeble than when he
arrived at the Springs, and those who arc
most intimate with him state that he was
falling very fast.
General John A. Dix was arrested on
the 18th, at the suit of John Mitchell, the
Irish patriot, who charges him with illegal
imprisonment Mitchell, it will be re-
membered, was arrested in New York
city and imprisoned at Fortress Monroe
by General Dix, in the summer of 1865,
and upon this fact he brings suit for $685.
900 damages General Dix gave security
of $4,000 to answer the charge
The American Association for the Ad-
vancement ofScience met at Salem, Mass,
on the 18TH About $50 members were
present %-Ss
General Banks, ex-senator Ramsey and
Senator Fenton were in Paris on the 10Th.
/ j. Ross Browne arrived in San Francis
co from China, on the 10th. 1E- u
The number of enrolled delegates present
at the National Educational Convention
at Trenton, N. j., on the 10Th, was $4,000.
Several distinct meetings were held on the
evening of the 10Th, among them the Ma
tional Superintendent Association, Amer
lean Normal School Association, and Ma