Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-11-17


ed. and a thorough investigation will be
had IA letter from Knobnoster, Mo-, men
lions a singular physical phenomenon oc-
curing there. 1t says continual rain has
descended for two weeks from cloudless
sky, and confined to space of only twenty
miles in diameter. This phenomenon has
been observed by many persons, and the
writer asks for a scientific explanation 49,.
Gen. Schofeld will be placed by the Indian
Bureau in control of the Indians of Arizona.
He is instructed to. bring them all ia upon
reservations, and keep them there. They
will be fully protected in all their rights
while on the reservation. IF they leave to
go upon the war-path they will be punished.
MFR. N. Molter, of Adelipe, Ogle county,
H., blew out the gas in his room at the
Southern Hotel, on Tuesday night, and as a
consequence was found dead in his bed the
next day.. Philip and Daniel Jones, and
man named Wright, have been arrested by
| United States Marshal Patrick, for the muir
der of Bennett, whose body was recently
found near Salt Lake City, and who was re-
ported to have been killed while in the act
of stealing horses. tits said now, and gen
orally believed, that Bennett was shot in
cold blood, on account of a woman.....The
weather is reported extremely severe in some
of the mining districts of Utah. In the Big
Cottonwood, on Wednesday, the snow was
two feet deep on level, with fearful drifts.
AS high az $50 was offered to carry sixty
pounds of provisions up the canyon, but no
teamsters could be found to attempt the
passage. 1t is feared the miners will suffer
for want of food ......G Gov. Fairchild, of Wis
consin, announces that the sufferers by the
fires in that State have been abundantly
supplied, and that no further contributions
are needed. -
The South.
A FRIGHTFUL panic occurred in a colored
church at Louisville, KY, on the evening of
the 9TH inst, caused by the partial giving
way of the floor. Eleven women and chill
dren were trampled to death, and many
others seriously injured.
Washington. Z
THE President has issued proclamation
revoking the suspension of the habeas corpus
in Marion county, South Carolina, it having
been ascertained that unlawful combinations
| do not exist there to the extent described in
| the proclamation suspending said writ.
| The estimates submitted for the expenses of
| the Government for the next fiscal year do
not differ materially from those of last year,
except that the pension list is larger. The
net ordinary expenses last year were $780,
| 900 900. The Commissioner of Pensions
delphia, and reports the defalcation of Pen
sion Agent Forbes at $4,000. He will be
removed. ....Geo. w. Griffin, of Kentucky,
has been appointed United States Consul at
| Copenhagen.
The Secretary of the Interior desires it to
be stated that he had nothing whatever to
do with the publication of the charges
against Judge Wright in the matter of In
| H.
| tigation is now in progress, and when a
report is made it will be given to the public
Until that time he prefers to express no
| opinion in regard to the case......The inter
nal revenue receipts for the fiscal year to
| date are $48,900, 1870 1.-THE statement that
one of the largest holders of Confederate
cotton bonds negotiated through the house
of Changer & Co., by the Southern Confed-
eraey, is the Right honorable William
Ewart Gladstone, First Lord of the Treasury,
and Prime Minister of England, turns out
| to be an error. The heavy owner is a
nephew of Minister Gladstone, and son of
prominent London Observation-Disclosures Su-
perintendent Hoag informs the Indian
Bureau that over 800 of the Staked Plains
Indians came in few days ago, and ex-
pressed desire foI peace. More are COM
ing......The Comptroller of the Currency
| reports that the resources of all the National
Banks on October 2, excepting three banks
in Chicago, and one bank in Indiana, from
| which reports have not been received, the
amount is $1.724 ,046, 1872. Number of banks,
| 1,663....The instructions of the President
| to the authorities in Utah were to the effect
| that there should be firm yet judicious en-
forcement of the law. No compromise with
| criminals. --latest reports from the officials
represent that all danger of collision has
passed. ..... The President has appointed Geo.
IL. Boxer Minister to Constantinople..
| Horatio G. Sickles has been appointed Pen
sion Agent at Philadelphia.
| AT the next session of Congress ten or
twelve bills will be introduced for the re-
vival of American ship-building, which
| propose to grant subsidies, to take off the
| duty o n all articles that enter into ship
| building, to construct vessels that will suit
| the merchant service in time of peace and
| the naval service in war, etc. It is stated
| that the President and Secretary of the
Treasury in their annual messages will
make an earnest appeal to Congress for
legislation to revive our ship building in
terests...".AH the Government officials ia
vor the erection of public building in Chi
cago for Government uses which will be
| equally as large as any similar edifice in
the country. The estimated cost of such
building is fixed at about 81 900 900 The
suggestion ia his annual report to Congress,
and it is understood that the President
will in his next message recommend Con-
gress to make liberal appropriation for
the purpose. ---. ...--.-
| Foreign.
| THE New York Tribunes London letter, of
Oct. 81, Says Nothing would be better
proof of the English interest in Chicago than
| the extraordinary efforts of the London press
| to get early and full accounts. A sharp look
out was kept for the Java at Queenstown,
bringing the New York papers of the 18th.
Newspaper reporters went off in steam tug,
caught her some distance out at sea, got the
papers, and this morning we have from three
to six columns in each of the morning Jour-
nails The New York Sun doubts whether
Alexis is coming here at all. It says that
the Russian admiral is bound on general
voyage of observation, and has full authority
to go where he likes. His going to Madras
shows that it is not his purpose to visit the
United States at present...". President Theirs
| is uncertain of his tenure of life, and has
made his political will. hoping to secure the
succession of the Presidency for Casimire
Periere......The RappeI is again published,
and advocates the claims of Victor Hugo for
presidency.
INTELLIGENCE has been received of the en-