Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-02-09

nanv. the commission house of M. d. Hett-
zlel 4 Co.. and the tobacco factory OF Moran
& Powell. Total loss $4,000; insurance,
$95 900.
TIE Congressional Investigating Commit
tee commenced it's session on Monday at
New Orleans. The committee is besieged
nv both parties, anxious to give their testi-
monv......A fire in Jefferson, Texas, ION Mon
day, destroyed square of buildings on the
south side of Dallas street, next to the
steamboat landing. The Office of the Jeffer-
son Times was also destroyed. Less, $780,
600; insurance, $40, 000......On Sunday morn
ing three prisoners escaped from the Gov
ington (Ky.) jail, by means of key taken
from the turnkey
SPEAKER CARTER of the Louisiana Legis-
lature testified before the Congressional In
vestigating Committee at New Orleans on
Tuesday that there were about forty news
papers in Louisiana living on State printing
| patronage, which could not be supported
| without it. He estimated the annual profits
| of the New Orleans Republican, of which
| Warmoth owns one-third, at 100000 from
| State patronage Gen. M. W. Ransom has
| been elected United States Senator from
North Carolina. The Republicans generally
| took no part in the election, claiming that
the Legislature has no right to elect Sena-
| tor at this The South Carolina House
| Of Representatives has adopted joint resolu-
| tions declaring the proposed reduction OF
| import duty on rice unwise, partial, and
disastrous also instructing Senators and re-
| questing Representatives to use their intiu-
| ence to secure the continuance OF the
| present duty 5000 The Grand Duke arrived al
| Louisville on Tuesday.
Washington.
THE Secretary of the Treasury las direct
ed the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
purchase 100000 of bonds on the first
third and fifth Thursdays of February, Of
S., 900 900 in all, and sell $1,000,000 of golG
on the second and fourth Thursdays, o.
So, 100000 in all.
Foreign.
LADY FRANKLIN has offered q reward o
$4,000 for the recovery of the records of tht
Erebus and Terror, supposed to have
been deposited in King Williams Land.
A dispatch from Nice, France, reports ter
rible railroad accident near that city. While
a train from Cannes was crossing a bridge
over the Paglione river, the structure gav'
way, and the cars were precipitated into tn
water. Fourteen persons were killed anc
wounded. 1.-THE Pope's advisers are urging
THE steamer America, plying between
Buenos Ayres and Montivedeo, burned or
the night of Dec. %. A large number O
passengers were on board Of whom 81 los
their lives, being either burned to death OF
| drowned.
A SPECIAL dispatch from Nice states tina
Minister Washburne gave grand banque
to General Sherman on the evening of hi
departure for Italy The trustees of The
Peabody fund have let out 500 houses, witt
planted grounds attached at Bristol, Eng
land, to small families, in accordance with
the directions of the late George Peabody .....
A new religious journal has been establis zee
at Rome, which will oppose the dogma o
infailiblity. Pere Hyacinthe is to be one
of the contributors.
SCHAMAcH1, a town of Asiatic Russia, has
been totally destroyed by an earthquake
Many lives are reported lost......It is re
ported that the ship Almora, of st. Johns
N. B., was destroyed by fire at sea and tha
all on board persisted.
GENERAL GLOSSY, the French Minister o
War, on Tuesday stated to the Assembly
that it was impossible at present to raise The
state of seige in Paris, because of the pres
ence in the republic of Bon&partists anc
liberated Communists, who would lose ne
opportunity to create disorder. The Genera
further stated that of the Communists cap
tured by the Government, 1922 had beer
liberated, 4,473 were sentenced to various
punishments, and 12,O45 were still confined
in the hunks at the naval stations of tht
country ..... The American survey steamer
Bibb sailed from Havana on Monday tx
make soundings between Yucatan and Cape
Catoche, for the proposed Mexico Cubar
cable.
THE boiler of the British steamship Anna
zon exploded at Bordeaux, France, on Tues
day, and two men were killed and severa
injured .... Eight thousand reinforcement
have sailed from Cadiz, Spain, for Cuba.