Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The East.

| 1t Is believed that the schooner
Elizabeth, from New York to Portland,
Me-, foundered at sea, and that all
hands were lost.
"A mother and two children were
run over and killed by train on the
New Jersey railroad, at Linden, near
Elizabeth, on the 22d.
George Holland, the comedian, died
on the 2lst, in New York, aged seventy
seven. He was a representative man,
and his New York experience went
further back than that of any now left.
When the steamship Moro Castle
arrived III New York, on the 22d, from
Havana, police officer proceeded on
board and arrested the chief cook,
Robert Guiles, on charge of killing the
third assistant cook, John Cronin, ON
the I'd inst.
The steamship Fairbank, from Will
mington to New York, was forced on the
10Th to put into Hatteras Inlet for har-
Dor during the heavy gale. From some
unknown cause she took fire, and was
completely destroyed, her crew barely
escaping with their lives.
"Wednesday evening sad catas-
trophe occurred on East river, N. Y, on
board the tug David G. Cox. While the
fireman, William Marsh, was in the act
of drawing out ashes from the ash pit
under the boiler, the latter exploded,
killing him instantly. The engineer,
Henry Chapel, was scalded severely,
and the pilot, VIM. Peat, had narrow
escape.
The New York Independent contains
Theodore Tilton's valedictory. He
ceased to be its editor according to his
own wishes, because Henry c.. Bowen,
proprietor, desires the place himself,
and fails to share Tilton's social and
theological opinions. The proprietor
and editor are as firm friends as ever.
Tilton remains on the Brooklyn Union,
and will still contribute to the Indepead-
ent.
Such has been the demand for
gratis of Russian apples lately sent to
the Department of Agriculture from the
Imperial Botanic Garden at st. Peters
burg, Russia, that they are now wholly
exhausted. Ii is useless, therefore, to
make further application for this sea-
son. In the climate of the Northwest
ern States, particularly, they will doubt
less prove valuable acquisition to fruit
growers.
The ship Charters, from Antwerp,
reports that on Dec. s, latitude 36, longi-
tude 81, she fell in with the bark A. B.
| Wyman, of Savannah, for Liverpool,
which was on fire, and took off the cap
tain and crew, numbering fourteen.
The Wyman was owned and built in
Boston by Jacob Bennett, and had a
cargo of 200 bales of cotton. Sne was
struck by lightning on the same day.
All efforts to subdue the flames were un-
availing
The West.
Madame Seebach had her valuable
watch and chain stolen Thursday night
at Cincinnati.
Thomas Shay, aged ten years, was
frozen to death near Blairtown, Iowa.
Tuesday morning.
John G. Underhill, we'll known
citizen of Peoria, died, Tuesday night,
of consumption.
The Lawrenceburg lind. Woolen
Manufacturing Company has made an
assignment. Their liabilities are near
100000. Assets are estimated at $780,,
600. The mills were erected about four
years ago.
On Friday last difficulty occurred
in Alcorn county, Miss, between two
brothers named Nichols, during which
DR.. e. M Nichols was twice wounded,
when Mr. Shope, brother-in-law, inter-
fered to stop the difficulty, and was shot
and instantly killed by w. E. Nichols,
who was arrested and committed.
In the case of Cobb, Christy & Co.
as. The Illinois Central Railroad, at
Bloomington, ILL.,, verdict was rendered
for damages at $4,000 for the plaintiffs.
This was case of delay in shipments of
corn from different points on the Illinois
Central railroad, whereby the complain
ants were damaged, and a verdict was
rendered accordingly. Many more
cases of like character will now be
brought on by parties who were awaiting
Judgment in this.
In Tell county, Tenn, last week,
boy named Butler, aged IA, shot and in
stantly killed his brothers bride, who
had just arrived. The boy had threat
ened to do so before the marriage.
Since his arrest he asserts that he was
instigated 70 the deed by his father. T.
On the 26th, Zach Brown, colored,
was shot and killed by VIM. Lillytt,
clerk of Mayor Morris. Brown was
drunk and insulting, and Lillytt threat
ened to have him arrested, whereupon
he made hostile demonstrations, causing
Lillytt to shoot him through the head.
Lii ytt gave himself up to the police.
H. C. Mclaughlin, editor of the
Murfreesboro (Tenn.) Monitor, was shot
and killed at Smyrna on Saturday, by
Robert Cattles. Both parties fired sew
eral shots. Cattles was not hurt. Nc
Laughlin, on Friday, attacked and shot
at Cattles, whilst at work in the neigh
borhood of Smyrna. Both were soldiers
in the rebel army.
The Postofice Department has
offered reward of $500 for the arrest
of George Lee alas Lee Morgan, who
was one of the robbers of the Central
Pacific railroad train, on the night of
Nov. 5, 1870, between Independence
Springs and Pequok, in Nevada. The
Central Pacific Railroad Company has
also offered $1,000 in gold, and Wells,
Fargo & Co., $500, for his arrest and con-
viction.
A terrible affair occurred at Lauder
dale, Miss, last Wednesday. Mrs. Clay
ton sent a negro named jeff and her
sons, aged 13 and 26, to town with bag
of cotton to be sold, Jeff having an in
terest in the cotton. After selling,