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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
POLITICAL.

At the city election in Rome, Ga, on the
9th, the entire regular Democratic ticket,
with one exception, was elected by an
average majority of 60. P. A. Smiths
majority for Mayor is 88. ~
a At the recent election in Mississippi
there were ia, ,7S4 votes cast, against 120,-
O91 in June, 1858. Gen. Alcorn received
76,6s7, and Judge Dent, 3S,097 Alcorn's
majority, $500.
Gov. Baker, of Nebraska, has decided
to call an extra session of the Legislature,
in February. l,2i
A Galveston, Texas, telegram ofthe goth
ult. says: "The result of the election for
Governor is still uncertain. Davis is 500
ahead, with twenty five counties from
which no official returns have been re-
ceived. There are no returns cf the vote
on the constitution, but it has probably
been carried almost unanimously. If an
election was held in Milan and Navarro
counties, it is thought that Hamilton will
be elected; otherwise Davis has been
elected by several hundred majority. AS
far as heard from, the Legislature stands
about as follows: Senate conservatives,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
Weekly News . Summary. II
FOREIgN.

I The news from Cuba received on the
9th was encouraging for the insurgents,
they having defeated Gen. Carlo at Cinco
Villas, and captufed foraging party of
seventy at Holquin, while Gen. Marmont
was laying siege to Las Tunas.
During performance at a theatre in
Bristol, England, on the night of the 9th,
there was an alarm among the audience,
and in the effort of the crowd to escape
from the building, eighteen persons were
killed and many injured.
The Paris Journal 06fci@ of the sSth
announces the resignation of the Ministry,
and the Emperor's determination to ac7
cept the same. /
According to the news from the Red
River regions, received on the 2Sth, the
insurgents were gaining ground. Gov.
McDougall and suite were said to be on
the eve of returning to Canada. ~ /
The trial of Trauppmann for the MUIR
der of the Kinck family was commenced
in Paris, on the 2sth. @ e
Victor Ruffy,, President of Switz-
erland, died on the 28th uit. / TpG0u
The approaching session Of the Corps
Legislatif has been fixed for January 10.
M. Lesseps, Engineer-in Chief of the
Suez Canal, has telegraphed to London a
contradiction of the stories as to dangers
accompanying the navigation of that ca
nal. = - ,.5.Li c.s..ll ay 81 =.
1t is reported that the European powers
will make opposition to the occupation of
Samana Bay, St. Domingo, by our Coy
ernment. A United States war vessel has
been ordered to that point. ssf-os.S
The trial of Trauppmann for the murder
of : the Kinck family was concluded in
Paris on the Both ult., and he was pro-
nounced guilty and sentenced to death.
The prisoner rose and smilingly thanked
the Court. .' ''s
According to dispatches received at
Washington from Minister Sickles, it ap'
pears that Spain will not entertain prop
osition respecting mediation or pur-
chase of Cuba. s.e..' - .'.e
Intense excitement prevailed in Havana
on the 1st in consequence of an announce
ment in the journals of the termination OF
the rebellion. They claimed that the Junta
in New York had issued a circular order
ing the insurgents to lay down their arms
for the present, and among the reasons
given was the action OF the American
Government in permitting the gunboats
to leave New York. A further announce
ment was made from the interior that the
insurgents were offering to capitulate.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
Wanted a Cents Worth.

GENERAL BoYNToN, the Washington
correspondent of the Cincinnati Gazette,
tells the following incident, showing how
sharp clerk brought to light one of the
tricks of that honest fraternity known as
government contractors:
:" A clerk in the interior has done and
said good thing. Contractors who bid
for stationery in the Departments have a
trick Of bidding very low upon all articles
which do not come into general use, and
very high upon the staples. This has the
effect of making the average of bills low,
and at the same time. affording a large
profit. One of these contractors had
marked blue ink, quarts, down on his
schedule at one-eighth of a cent per doz.
en-. A day or two since he was surprised
at receiving an order for eight dozen. He
hurried up to the Department in person.
The chief of division knew no great ne
cessity for such flood of blue ink, and
the clerk ordering it was summoned to
explain the sudden demand. He replied
that nothing unusual had occurred to in
crease the call for the ink, but that he had
not thought it worth while to order less
than cents WOrth.p TFF{ fF fRhF fltat
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

Is; Republicans, IA, with, one to hear
from. House-Conseryatives, 40; Repub-
licans, SO, with nine in doubt. j. W.
Flanagan is elected Lieutenant Governor
by large majority. b @@'25 W. f''.
A case involving State and Federal ju-
risdiction has arisen in Alabama. The
State levies tax on the Southern Express
Company. The company applied to Judge
Busted, of the United States Court, for
AN. injunction, which was granted. The
State Auditor has issued a circular to Tax
Collectors ordering them to collect the
tax in spite of the injunction. The case
promises to be Of great interest, and the
State and company both have eminent
counsel to fight it through the courts
The Memphis, A0alanehe of the 3tst
ult. had information from Mississippi that
General Alcorn, Governor-eleet, posi-
lively refused to accept the Provisional
Governorship rendered him by General
Amac '.s'.a'
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

INVENT into shop the other day to buy
what the drapers call SCENTS hose" A
smiling young lady was behind the counter,
and when 1 had made an appeal to her to
show. me some socks, was somewhat
doubtful what course of action ought to
pursue in order to demonstrate to her the
length of my foot. As am not bur-
lesque writer, it was clear chat could not
lay my boot on the counter and say, with
all my. SOLE" nor could l paraphrase Dib-
din's Jack Tar, when he spoke of the
dancer who $50 daintily handled her feet"
The little. woman, however, speedily re-
moved my first perplexity, though only to
plunge me into another.
"Will YOU" said she, "please to double
up your fist, and Jay it on the counters"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
An Arab Sermon.

ONE morning Eddyn Effendi ascended
his pulpit to preach, and, addressing his
hearers, said
80 believers, know ye what am going
to talk about ?"
They replied that they did not. ~
"Well them" rejoined he, "since you
do not know, do you suppose l am going
to tell your"
Another morning he again appeared In
the pulpit and said:
90 believers, know ye not what | am
going to tell your" i1r
They replied that they did.
off you know it, then," said he, l need
not tell it to you;" and he descended from
his pulpit, and went his way.
His auditors, puzzled what to do, at
length agreed that, if he again made his
appearance, some of them would say they
did not know, others that they did.
And again Eddyn Efendi mounted into
the pulpit and said:
90 Mussulme, know ye what / am 60
ing to say to your" a.l
To which some replied:
"We know" others, "We know not"
"Good p returned he, "let those who
know tell those who do not"
---Bismark remarked, the other day, to
foreign journalist, who visited him at
Varzin, that, but for his wife, he would
have been in his grave long ago. .'.''e'
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
Report of the Agricultural Department.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 80, 1855

WASHINGTON, Dec 80, 1869.
The report of the Department of Agri-
culture for the current month will contain
detailed review of crops for the past
season. AS to corn, the only States re-
porting an increase of quantity are Mime
sofa, Missouri, Florida, Nebraska, Kansas,
Texas and California; Louisiana and Iowa
give nearly an average. The principal
corn growing section Of the West will
average q reduction of fully 20 per cent
in yield per acre; with all the increase of
farmers to produce and population to con-
sumo, and with an actual enlargement OF
area under culture, it is certain there is
actually less corn produced this year than
in 1863 .'..t..f ..a
The cotton crop is little more than ten
per cent. above the yield Of 1S68-or about
2,700,00 commercial bales, or fully 3,000,-
900 bales of 400 pounds each.
The potato crop is very large; the great
est increase is respectively in Kansas, Ne
braska, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri. All
the Eastern Stat s, except New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania, and all the
Western except Minnesota, have advanced
in production, but the Southern States,
excepting Florida, Louisiana and Texas,
have reduced their aggregate. The sweet
potato crop is somewhat less than an
average.
In tobacco the latest returns indicate a
reduction of one-third in Virginia and
Maryland; one sixth in Kentucky; sixteen
per cent. in Michigan, with slight de-
crease in Indiana and Illinois. Massachu-
setts, West Virginia, Michigan, Wisconsin,
and the States west of the Mississippi
have somewhat enlarged their production.
A fair summary of these returns would
seem to indicate an aggregate reduction OF
twenty per cent. 1853
The apple crop was more than an aver
age in the West, with the exception OF
Ohio, where reduction of twenty per
cent. is indicated; Maine, Massachusetts,,
and Rhode Island made but half a crop
New Hampshire and Connecticut, three
fourths, while Vermont enjoyed nearly an
average yield; New York and Pennsyl-
vania suffered fully tenth reduction ;
New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and
Virginia produced crops from full to large,
and the more Southern States report gen.
orally large yield. In Calhoun county,
Mich, 100000 bushels, one-third the crop,
were frozen. In Athens county, Ohio,
many thousands of bushels have been
frozen on the trees. Similar statements
come from all portions of the West.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
,TYOL, VIII
Selected Miscellany.
,tryIN SCHOOL DAYS
BY JOHN @. WHITTIER.

"a "a sTLh sits the schoolhouse by the road, .ls
ragged beggar summing;
Around 1t still the sumachs grow - r.
: Y And blackberry vines are running, II Y
Within the masters desk is seen,
Deep SCARED by raps official;
The warpng door, the battered seats,
s-t4'i The jaek-knife's carved initial; .
-" The charcoal frescoes on its wall;
It's doors worn sill, betrayinge MO
NJ The feet that, creeping slow to school, f- -
Went storming out to playing!
Long years ago a winter sun
Shone over it at setting, .
Lit up its.westerli window panes,
And low caves Icy frettng.
~ tpnched tse tangled golden chrls, -
And brown eyes full of grieving,
Oi one who still her steps delayed btI
pWhen all the school were leaving.
yyFgsDear her stood the little boy >
Her childish favor singled :; 81 2. f.,.brG
His cap pulled low upon face,
- Where pride and shame were mingled.
Pushing with restless feet the snow
4 To right and left he lingered;-s
As srestlessly her tiny hands
The blue-checked apron fingered.
He saw her lift her eyes; he felt
The soft hands light caressing, 20 a..f i
s7-- And heard the trembling OF her voice, ia Z
~ ~" Asif a fault confessing. ..t 81 -.ot
I'm sorry that spelt the word;
hate to go above you,
A~-Because''-the brown eyes lower fell
80 Bscsassayou e,Ilove you l''=
Still memory to. a gray ayhaired man @ls-
~ That sweet child-face is showing,
Dear grill the grasses on her grave
-. Have forty years been growingi ~
He lives to1earn, nlfe's hard school, @
lHow few who pass above him s7 -
N-~LatBent their triumph and his loss
Like her--because they love him.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
Timber Resources of Alaska.


WE have before us some data furnished
by a resident of Sitka, which shows,
among other things, that there is an extent
of country bordering on the coast of Alas
ka, equal to twenty miles in width and
seven hundred miles in length. in which
the white and yellow cedar predominates
How much more extensive the Cedar
Country" may be, our informant did not
know. The cedar timber is, then, mex
haustible. Our redwood timber covers a
limited area, and at the present rate of de-
struction will not last fifty years. The
time will come when the cedar forests of
Alaska will be more famous and greater
source of wealth than are now the red
wood forests of California. Probably no
tree is now growing upon the Pacific
coast of so much real value as the red
cedar of Alaska.-San Francisco Bulletin.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
DOMESTIC.

Gold closed in New York on the 31st
ult. at 1901.
The New York Tribune of the 9th has
a report from Washington that the admin
istration had under earnest consideration
the propriety of changing its course with
regard to Cuba, and speedily recognizing
the belligerent rights of the insurgents.
The report. further states that Secretary
Fish and Senator Sumner had expressed,
within three days, such views as would
indicate changing policy towards Gu
bans and a higher confidence in their fu-
ture. -a.t,jrT
The heaviest earthquake ever expert
enced in Eastern California and Nevada,
occurred on the evening of the 26th. At
Virginia City, Nevada, five walls were
thrown down, door-bells rung, clocks
stopped, dogs howled, horses snorted, and
there was general CONSERVATION. The
shock was felt severely in the lower levels
All the mines vibrated south. 1t lasted
about ten seconds. Shocks continued at
intervals during the night. ..,..,5 -.
The report of the Bureau of Statistics
shows the imports for nine months ending
with September amounted to 1854, ,563,9
in gold, an increase of $66,0OO,000 over a
similar period the previous year. $780,
100000 of the total were transported in
foreign vessels. The domestic exports
were 1921 ,S55, ,798, or about So 800, 900 less
than in 1868. Foreign goods re-ex-
ported, $22 2,164,199, or $5,500,000 over
1868. Of the total exports about two
thirds were il foreign vessels. a.
The first installment of Chinese labor
ers, numbering 255, en- route to New Or
leans, arrived at Omaha on the 26th, and
left by the Hannibal, and st. 10. road, the
following morning, for St. Louis, thence
by steamer.
A decision important to stockholders
has been rendered in the New York
Court of Appeals. The, decision is to the
effect that broker who sells out his GUS
TONER'S stock after his margin is gone,
but without giving him notice of the time
and place of the sale, is liable to the
customer for the highest price of the stock
down to the time of the trial, because the
customer owns the stock, and the act of
the broker is wrongful commission.
This was test case, selected by the
Brokers Board. "
The New York Star of the 28th states
that one of the heaviest cigar manufac-
turing firms of that city had discharged
at least 1000 hands within the preceding
three weeks, and that other trades and
business were suffering in like proper
ton, owing to the unsettled condition. of
the gold market.
Three persons belonging to a family of
Germans twenty miles southeast Of Belvi-
dere, ILL.,, had died up to the 28th ult.,
from eating pork filed with trichine
Eight others were sick, none of whom
would recover. The trichin@ could be
seen in the meat in great numbers, also in
the flesh of those who had died.
Commissioner Delano has decided that
broker is a person who merely buys and
sells stocks and gold on commission, while
a banker is one who keeps money and
stocks on deposit.
Private advices from Washington to
the New York World state that the ad-
justment of the Alabama claim is to be
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
An Incident of the Late War.

A CLERGYMAN in Lexington, Virginia,
who served as chaplain in the Confeder-
ate army, from the beginning to the end
of the late civil war, sends us an account
of the following strange incident, which,
he assures us, may be depended on as
strictly true: r
Among the Confederates wounded at
the battle of Antietam, who fell into the
hands of the Union forces, was a young
private of good family, named F., from
the mountain region of Virginia He was
a boy at school when the war broke out,
and abandoned his studies to shoulder a
musket in the army of General Lee. He
was shot through the lungs at AntietAm,
and, after lying for a long time on the
field, was carried to Union hospital, and
tenderly cared for by Maryland surgeon
attached to the Northern army, under
whose skillful treatment the young Vir-
ginian soon became convalescent. The
Marylander conceived strong liking for
his patient, and, procuring his release on
parole, took him to his own house, where
he remained in comfort and security until
he was exchanged, when he returned to
the Confederate army. aaa ia9n =
Some time late in the war, the Mary
land surgeon, while with his regiment in
Virginia, got separated from his comrades,
and, being cut off from joining them by
Early's cavalry, took to the woods to
avoid capture, and wandered for several
days among the forests and mountains
until ne became utterly exhausted with,
fatigue and hunger. In this desperate
strait, he resolved to apply for help at the
first house he should come to, even at the
risk of being arrested and consigned to a
rebel prison. He soon reached dwelling
of the better class, in which he found at
home an intelligent looking lady and
several small children. He made himself
known as surgeon in the Union army
and asked for food and shelter. The
lady replied that Federal surgeon had
been very kind to her son while prisoner
of war, and for his sake she would do
what she could for the stranger. This
remark led to mutual inquiries and expla-
nations, from which the Marylander
learned that the house to which he had
thus accidentally wandered was the home
of Young F, his patient from the
field of Antietam 1t may easily be inn
agined that he was warmly welcomed to
its hospitalities, and provided in due time
with the means of regaining the Union
lines in safety.-Appseton's Journ0l.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07
-1replied that did not want gloves, but

B Ireplied that did not want gloves, but
socks.
"And 1 want to take your measure" she
said. &c G4-zz- ~a-
"But," urged, "it is the measure of
my foot that you require" -
ayes" she replied, "and I can get it
equally as well from your hand. Once
round your clenched fist at the knuckles,
is the length of your foot"
And she took the measure of my fist,
and took the socks on the faith of the
damsel's representation and, in due
course, I found that she was quite right,
and fitted me to q nicely. Exchange.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

--One Of our subscribers sent us two
dollars the other day, with request to
"send The Courier as long as the money
lasted" As the money didn't last more
than about two hours, we hereby ask for
another remittance, for, according to his
terms, amt his time out Great Barring
ton lMdSsl Courier.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

of the 1905 mountains in the moon,
measured by Beer and Nader, thirty nine
are higher than Mont Blanc, and six are
10000 feet high. The annular (or circu-
lar) mountains are highest; Dorfel, near
the southern pole, measuring 26,691 feet,
or nearly as high as the highest peaks of
the Himalayas, the loftiest SUBMITS of our
own globe And there are also circular
caverns, or craters, in our satellite which
are 24,000 feet deep and some are 100 to
100 miles in diameter.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

A brute in Connecticut recently
thrashed his wife. She bore the indig-
nifty with becoming meekness, but upon
the assault being repeated a few days
later, the ire of the golden-haired dame
was so reused that she struck out for
herself" soundly pommelled the brute,
and turned him out of doors.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

-Ofthe Romish Bishops present at the
Ecumenical Council, two are 95 years OF
age, two others 80 and upward, and twen-
ty octegenarians, while the seven young
est are between 80 and 35 years of age,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

In France there are now 470 beet-root
factories, 116 in Belgium, and 255 in
Prussia. Thirty years ago only $1,000
tons of beet sugar were made in all
Europe; last year, 2,5o0,000 tons were
produced in Switzerland alone.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-07

made in Washington, instead of London,
and that the Duke of Argyll is to be the
Ambassador of England, clothed with au-
| thority to make the settlement upon such
terms as may be agreed upon. .a.aic0
Several shocks of earthquake, some OF
them severe, were felt in Virginia City,
Nevada, OF the night of the Both and the
morning of the 31st ult. .ao I2A'H go "a
|io Various persons interested in the New
York counterfeit money firms have been
to Washington to get the Post Office De-
partment to release their correspondence
seized few weeks ago. They admitted
the fraud on. the public, but claimed that
no honest man was deceived, and, there
fore, wrong had been done them in the
seizure of these letters. They were told
they had better go about honest business
forthwith. a'~"d q"
Z 1t was stated on the 30th ult that pri-
vate orders had been sent from Washing
ton that the work of fitting out vessels of
war for sea be vigorously prosecuted.
, The Comptroller of the Currency warns
the public to reject all $50 and 800 bills
of the First National Bank of Jersey
City, of which some $4,000 Of unsigned
impressions were stolen from the bureau
in April, 1867. The bank WILL, however,
redeem all such notes. .ss..-,s IN
The Department of the Interior states
that the estimated number of acres of pub
lie land in the South unsold and unap-
propriated, after deducting all disposals as
far as possible, is 47,479,619. There are
no public lands within the limits of Vir-
ginia, West Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia, Texas, Kentucky
and Tennessee. b Ia
A memorial has been presented to the
President, and sent to the Secretary OF
State, from property holders and business
men, Of British Columbia, in favor of
transfer to the United States.
The receipts of customs for the week
ending December 25, were $1,816,924.
Several large breweries in Brooklyn and
two large distilleries in New York have
been recently seized. ,..ia4
The smallpox, which at one time re-
Gently threatened to become epidemic in
New York city, has, it is reported, nearly
died out. ur. ta fe"
A Fenian military organization" the
Legion of st. Patrick"-is in progress of
organization in New England. The al
legged object is to be prepared for any op-
portunity for coup d etat in Ireland.
Receipts from internal revenue during
December were $1,4O2,239; and for the
fiscal year to January /, $S5,9S7, ,502.