Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-28


the French residents; besides, an embassy
is preparing to go to France"
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth
at 113.
The census returns of Nevada show a
population of Al 1886. The property over
$32, 100000.
The Governor of Connecticut has ap-
pointed Thursday, November "a, as "a
Thanksgiving day.
A terrific tornado swept through the
southern part of Milwaukee on the 10Th,
doing great damage to buildings farms
and lake vessels.
There were eleven deaths from yellow
fever at New Orleans on the 10th.
Great fires were recently raging in the
valleys of California, in the neighbor-
hood of Napa and Calistoga. Houses,
fences and fields were destroyed. atfG
Two white children, who were captured
by Indians about twenty miles from Salt
Lake City, two years ago, passed through
Omaha on the 10th, en- route to. their pa
rents, who had moved away from Utah,
after hunting for their children eighteen
months, and giving up the hope of their
recovery The children were taken from
the Indians few weeks ago, in the vicin-
ity of Fort Bridger, by party of soldiers.
Two inches of snow fell in Cheyenne on
the 17th.
The Governor of Michigan has changed
the time for the closing of the Sault Canal,
for repairs, from November 25 to Decem
Ter 2.
A fire in Chicago on the night of the
10Th destroyed the extensive confectionery
establishment of M. E. Page & Co., "a
Michigan avenue, and other property. Loss
about 100000.
A severe earthquake shock was expert
enced on the morning of the Goth at De-
troit, Cleveland, Montreal, Schenectady,
New York, Boston, Troy, Cincinnati,
Portland, Me-, and other places at the East
and in Canada In some instances the shock
was so severe as to frighten people out OF
their houses. At Standish, Me-, sixteen
miles from Portland, three hundred feet of
the bed of the Ogdensburgh Railroad,
across Alter Creek, settled ten feet at the
time of the earthquake.
The New York Board of Education have
refused to rescind the bylaw abolishing
corporal punishment in public schools.
Customs receipts for week ending
October Is, $3,844,819.
The population of Michigan, according
to the census just completed, is 1,191, ,463
In 1860 it was 748, ,645; increase, 442,818
PERSONAL.
General Sherman returned to Washing
ton on the 14th.
1t Yves stated in Washington on the 14th
that Secretary Cox had rendered his res
ignation, and that the President had ac-
cepted it, to take effect whea. the annual
report of the Interior Department is
finished.
Benz H.Bristow, of Kentucky, has been
appointed Solicitor General by President
Grant
The President on the 18th signed the
pardons of nine of the imprisoned Fenian
leaders, Generals O'Neill and Donnelly
heading the list The fines imposed in
some of the cases were also remitted.
The news of the death of General Lee
occasioned deep feeling of gloom through
out the South, and in many cities business
was generally suspended and houses were
draped in mourning.
The President has appointed III. G..
Akeley Collector of Customs for the
district of Michigan. The following
postmasters have been appointed: Andrew
Morton, at Onihula, Wis. VIM. E. Pults,
at Milton, ILL.,; L. B. Thorn, at Baldwin's
Mills Mich; Henry Gregg, at Model
City, Mich.
The funeral obsequies of General Lee
took place at Lexington, Va, on the 18th.
The obsequies were very impressive and
imposing, and were witnessed by an inn
mense crowd of spectators.
The National Lincoln Monument Asso-
citation at Washington has appointed S. d.
Williamson its General Agent. The crown
ing figure is to be a colossal statue repre-
senting Lincoln signing the Emancipation
proclamation. The work will cost upward
of 100000.
William H. Barlow has been appointed
| Assessor of Internal Revenue for the
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