Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-12-27

sum of $4,000
On the evening of the 17th sharp shock
of an earthquake was felt at Visalia, CAL,
but no damage was done.
The epizootic was prevailing to great
extent at Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 18th.
The bill to remove the capital of West
Virginia from Charlestown to Wheeling
passed the House ON the 17th, by vote of
33 to 80.
Edward A. Pollard, the editor and author,
died at Lynchburg, Va, on the 10th, aged
fortY-five.
The Kellogg Legislature, on the 18th,
passed the bill Furnishing bribery in office.
The Court of impeachment adjourned to the
23d instant.
In his letter of the 14th, to Attorney
General Williams, Attorney General Ogden,
of Louisiana, argues In favor of the Warmoth
side of the quarrel, and says: "The action
of the Executive in recognizing the as
semblage at Mechanics Institute In New
Orleans as the Legislature of Louisiana,
and P. B. s. Pinchbeck, as Governor, was
certaihiy prgnRattre Pihchbeck was never
Lieutenant. Governor of the State, and his
term as a Senator expired under the Consti-
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vember last. The assemblage at Mechanics
Institute was notoriously returned and
seated by Deputy United States Marshal,
under the order of an. inferior Federal
Court" Speaking of the State election,
Mr.. Ogden says 1t "was the most quiet and
orderly ever held in the State; not symp-
tom of riototfs disposition, not even per-
sonal quarrel or encounter connected with
politics was reported by the police author-
| Sfss In any direction. The machinery of
the State Government Vas in perfect order
after the election, and entirely competent to
manage its own affairs, and with courts OF
| Justice ready to protect the rights of every
citizen. Bya sudden action Of an inferior
Federal court, which was absolutely cor0'7,
| mon. j,.dice, the State Government is CON-
tletely overset, the state-House seized, and
government enacted whose officers the
people have never chosef."
The Postmaster General has recently made
| very important decision In relation to the
responsibility of Postmasters, under their
bonds, for the loss of registered letters. He
| has decided that Postmasters are RESPONSE
BILE, and will hold them accordingly. w
The President sent the following homina-
tions to the Senate on the 10th: Chas
wilkinson, Collector of Internal Revenue,
Sixth District, Missouri. Postmasters-B.
M. Crawford, Wamego, Kan; j. w. Whips,
New Lexington Ohio; L. T.. Cheever, Della
van, Ill. Mrs. Eliza Sellers, Pekin, ILL.,; F.
NJ. Tripp, Farmer City, ILL.,; Samuel Math-
ews, Sidney, Ohio; John Macarthur, Chi
cago, I'll.
Telegraph dispatches of the 10Th announce
that the negotiations between the New York
Tribune Company and Vice-President Colfax,
looking to the latter's editorship of that
paper; had failed.
Col. F. A. Eastman has resigned his posi-
tion as Postmaster at Chicago, the resigna-
tion to take effect February IA.
By an accident on the Grand Rapids & In
diana Railroad, near Reynolds, Mich, on
the 18th, ten persons-seven men and three
women-were injured, two or three probably
fatally.
A switch engine exploded at Lafayette,
Ind, on the 10Th. David McNary, engineer,
was instantly killed. The houses in the
vicinity of the explosion were completely
fidd1ed, and many hair-breadth escapes oc-
ctrred.
The Alabama Senate organized permanent
ly on the 18th, and elected Democratic Off
GERS In the House the Republicans would
not permit the journal to be read. They in
sisted on adjourning immediately after the
roll call, and carried theirpoint.
The President, his son Jesse, and Marshal
Sharpe left Washington on the Goth, for
Covington, KY, to visit the Presidents
father.
The Credit-Mobilier Committee adjourned
on the Goth to the 7th of January. Testi-
mony is said to have been given duplicating
several prominent Congressman, Ames
claiming to have sold to and carried stock
for them. " q ~~1 ,-9 .-.,4 b.
The Louisiana Committee, at their meet
ing in Washington on the Goth, agreed to
issue an address to the people of the United
States, setting forth the law and facts in the
case now disturbing that State, and to petit
tion Congress for relief when its session
shall be resumed, Immediately after the
holidays.
Jay Gould, who was some time since ar
rested on a charge of having appropriated
to his own use $9,0O0, 900 of the Erie Rail
road funds while he was President of that
corporation, has refunded that amount, and
the suit against him has been withdrawn.
The Boston Board of Aldermen have re-
fused licenses to Mesdames Woodruff and
Clafin to lecture in Music Hall.
George Francis Train was arrested in New
York on the Goth and locked up in station
house, on bench warrant, to answer the
charge Of publishing obscene literature.
The Committee on recounting the votes
for Mayor and Aldermen of Boston, con.
cluded the Mayoralty count on the 10th, and
their figures elect Henry L. Pierce, by plu-
rality of 79 votes over Mayor CASTOR. The
recount of the ballots in the Second Ward
shows mistake of about 500 votes; and
other wards also show discrepancies in fg-
uring up the votes for Aldermen.
! Fifteen hundred and thirty-one buildings
| have been erected in st. Louis during the
past year, at cost of s5,6s4, 600. Of these
buildings only eighty-six are frame. r.
The semi-annual report of the Ohio State
Commissioners shows that the receipts for
the period ending November Is, 1872, were
| SS7s, ,S45, and the disbursements $6S5, ,845.
| There was on deposit in New York at the
date of the report s125, 5,312, for the purchase
and redemption of Ohio State stocks. Dur
| ing the past six months 1892, ,203 of funded
debt has been. redeemed, and the amount
| outstanding November Is was So, $50, $40.
The Alabama House permanently organized
on the Goth, by the election of L. G. Parsons,
Speaker; Robert Barber, Clerk; r. Whitaker
(colored), Door-Keeper; and w. V. Turner,
Assistant Clerk, all being Republicans. AT
the election for doorkeeper, more votes
were cast than members present. Both cam
didates were Republicans.