Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-04-28

The mills and other buildings of
the Castleton, VT, Slate and Railroad
Company were destroyed by fire Satur-
day night. The mills were operated for
saving and marketing slate for man
tells, billiard tables, etc. A vast amount
of manufactured goods and machinery
burned. 9 Loss $4,000; insured for
about $54 900.
The Coroner on Monday held an
inquest on the body of the man who
fell dead Saturday evening at the corner
of Twenty-sixth street and Fourth
avenue, New York. The body was
identified as that of Rev. James Brad
ley, of Saginaw City, Mich. Some. time
sinceS Bradley was appointed by the
Methodists of his own State as their
missionarycagent. to. the. Chippewa In
dian" He was on his way to Washing
ton to have the appointment confirmed.
"A sad tragedy was narrowly escaped
at st. Mary's Catholic Church, at Will
liamsburg, opposite New York, on Sun
day. The priest was baptizing converts,
and as q procession Of young girls was
entering the church, carrying lighted
tapers, one Of them set fire to the veil
of one of the girls, and in the confusion
quite a number of others burst into
flames. By active exertions, the flames
were smothered and the children saved,
james S. Mcneil, of the firm of VIM,
Este y Co., stock brokers in Broad
street, New Y ork, absconded on Satur-
day, having forged the signature of the
firm to a number of checks, the total
amount of which is not yet ascertained.
Two checks, amounting to $4,000, were
certified by the Fourth National Bank.
and on one. of them Mcneil obtained
$4,000 in gold. The bank will lose
about $4,000 by the operation, as the
firm had on, deposit about half the
amount certified. A reward of ST 900
has been offered for the arrest of Mo
nell. sf. ~ss 1t
81 The West.
A boy killed his father by cutting
ms. spinal cord in two with an axe at
Circlevile,& Ohio, on Monday. The bow
was seventeen, and his father quarrel
some drunkard. --....
Henry Harris, colored, has been
convicted Of murder in the first degree.
at Marion, Ohio, for killing J. B. Crock,
EFT, grandson of Davy Crockett, some
months since.
During the recent high wind, fire
broke out about five miles south of
Wautoma, Wis, and swept evervthine
before it for miles. The damage was
confined to the destruction of barns.
sheds, fences and growing timber.
n The South.
Henry L. Hartwell, a well-known
citizen OF louisiana, Pike county, Mo-,
shot and killed VIM. Langston, a noted
character, Saturday, for criminal con-
nection with Hartwells wife,
Judge Thomas A. Marshall, of Ken
lucky, distinguished jurist, and TWEEN
ty years Judge of the Kentucky Court
OF Appeals, died at Louisville on Sunday
night.
1t is 'unofficially stated by several
Senators that the President will con
vene the Senate in executive session
about the 10th OF May, by which time,
1t is now supposed, the Joint Commits
sion Will have concluded their labors.
Gen. Dyer, Chief Of Ordinance, re-
turned, on Saturday, from St. Louis,
where he has been to complete the ar
rangements for the transfer of all the
property Of the arsenal at that, place to
Jefferson Barracks. The arsenal will
hereafter be used as a recruiting depot.
and already the cavalry depot, which
has been at Carlisle, Pa, for a number
OF years, has been transferred to st.
Louis, and as soon as the transfer of the
property is completed 1t will become
the principal depot for infantry recruits.
Bismarck, in note to the YER
sallles Government, admits thesright Of
Marshal McMahon to occupy, with the
french troops, the ground around Paris,
made neutral by the stipulation of the
preliminary treaty of peace. =
"A report that the city is about to
be invested by the Versaillists and the
Prusslansgjointly, causes great excite
ment. THE. barrieade on the Rue Casti-
gllone have been demolished, and large
works erected at Batignolles, BeHevilie,
and Montmartre.
The quarter of the Champs Elysees
has been exceedingly damaged by shells,
which are still. falling thickly., ~ The
building occupied by the American
Legation was struck by fragments of
shell, Saturday, Nevertheless, Wash
burne continues to reside in the Ave.
nue. Josephine .GoEL1-C 5D
"A Communist decree provides for
methodical acquisitions upon the in
habitants of Paris, street by street. An
other decree convokes the Synodical
Cham berS in Ordar to draft c+o f;c+;oe of
abandoned workshops, and to arrange
for their reopening by workmen who
are not proprietors.
-A-eorrespondent, writing from Yed-
do, says the most startling political
tragedy occurred in that city on the
9th of FEBRUARY. At about | o'clock in
the morning, the residence of Hirosawa
Hloaskl-a-Sangi, a member of the high
est board of the Government, and one
OF the most distinguished, enlightened,
and progressive statesmen of Japan, was
broken open by band of armed men.
who forced their way to the chamber
where Sangi was sleeping, and cut him
to pieces with swords. His house
stands in the heart of the city, within a
few rods8of one of the guarded gates
leading to the Mikado's castle, but the
assassinsN succeeded in escaping before
an alarm could be given. The assassi-
nation was inspired undoubtedly from
political motives.
The disguised drains, falsely called
medicines, sold in bar-rooms as " tonics''
and stomachics," have nothing in com
mon with DR.. WALKERS VINEGAR BIT