Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-15

the work done in his of5ce, showing tha
Is, ,406 accounts were adjusted during tn,
year, involving $72, 2,0G ,l73. scI1o ID ...s
General Sherman issued general orde,
on the 7th, reviewing, in afeeling manner
the life and services OF the late Genera
Meade, and directing General Mcdowell, al
New York, to make all arrangements for the
funeral, and directing that at all ,military
posts, on that day, flags be displayed at half
mast and t'Aat minute guns be fred, and that
officers we ar the usual badge of mourning
The members of the Diplomatic Corps
called in a body upon the President, on the
9th, to tender their congratulations upon his
reelection .r~ RI .v..a r -xs-s
| A passenger train was thrown from the
track near Scranton, Pa, on the 9TH, and one
car went down an embankment, killing Mrs.
Evans, of Springbrook, and dangerously in.
jurfng Miss Griffitn, of Miners, and James
Kelley, of Plymouth. Twentyseven Others
were hurt. A construction train was thrown
down an embAnkment 1875 feet, near Hamp
ton Crossing, on the same day. john Clark
John McNally, Michael Kelly, James Hughes
John Hughes, James Garraghan and Thomas
Philbi.n were instantly killed. Sixteen 9th.
ers we're severely injured, four of whom
would probably die.
A horrible outrage and murder has recent.
| ly been perpetrated near Concord, N. H.
Georgiana Lowering, young girl fourteen
years old, was decoyed into the woods by
her great uncle, Franklin B. Evans, aged six
ty years, and brutally outraged and murder
ed. The old man subsequently confessed
the terrible crime
Mccormick & Lynch's stables in Buffalo,
N. Y, were burned on the night of the 9th.
Between 40 and 50horses and mules perished.
A New York dispatch of the Sth says the
horse disease in that city had practically,
hough not entirely, disappeared.
The Supreme Court of Illinois has fired
Mr.. Wilson, proprietor of the Chicago
Evening Journal, One hundred dollars, and
Mr. Shuman, managing editor of the news
paper, two hundred dollars, for an alleged
contempt of court in publishing an article
criticising the action of the court in grant
ing writ of saspeTsedeas in the Rafferty, muir
der case.
A fire occurred at the Maryland Peniten-
tiary on the night of the 7th, doing damage to
the amount of $4,000. . .
The Commissioner of Patents has recently
decided that the one to invent a new and
useful devise is entitled to the protection of
patent, even if its production was acciden-
tai, and not appreciated at the time, and that
mere duplication is not invention.
The horSe disease was abating in Washing
ton on the 9th. The contractors under the
Board of Public Works had put in opera
ton, in the e'absence of horses, traction steam
engines and steam rollers for the purpose OF
hanling dirt, gravel and stones, to be used
ia grading the streets, alleys, etc. One of
these steam rollers hauled six large wagons
loaded with gravel with much ease, without
even leaving an impression OF the rollers on
the wooden and concrete pavement.
The horse disease was generally prevalent
in New Haven, Conn.,, on the 9th. The
disease was rapidly disappearing in Phila-
delphia, and most of the street cars had re-
sumed their regular trips.
The trial of Woodruff, Clafin, and Blood
for libeling Mr. Luther G. Challis, was in
progress in New York City on the 9th, with
the drift of the evidence strongly against
the defendants.
In Cincinnati, on the 9th, there were about
fifty horses affected by the epizootic. The
disease had made it's appearance at Spring
field, ILL.,, and in several other cities in the
State.
An address has been issued by the Man
ager of the Chicago Temperance Bureau
congratulating the Law and Order people
upon the fact that "there is majority of
eight in the Common Council favorable to
L. Hbricf ho
executive authorities have now no excuse
for not enforcing the laws. In the Legisla-
ture, there are four Senators il favor of the
protective laws, to two against them. The
representatives are about evenly divided in
numbers, but in moral weight and influence,
those favorable to temperance are vastly
superior; the country members generally
throughout the State will stand by the law"
A small SOP of Eugene Barns, about eight
years of age, while returning home from
school at Georgetown, KY, on the 8th,
passed through lot of hogs on his fathers
farm, and it is thought was playing with
some small pigs, when some large hogs
rushed on him, and no one being near, killed
and ate him up, except the head and shoul-
ders. s---4 r
The city of Boston has been visited by
terrible confagration, second in extent only
to that of the great Chicago fire of one year
ago. The fire first begun, at 7:30 on the
evening of the 9th, in the rear of large five
story granite building on Summer street,
corner of Kingston. A high wind prevailed
at the time, and the flames spread rapidly,
despite the great exertions made by firemen
and citizens, and an area of about half a
mile square in the solid business portion of
the CITY was laid waste in the space of about
twelve hours. The principal streets tray
ersed by the confagration were Summer,
Chauncey, Franklin, Pearl, Devonshire, Milk,
Congress, State, Commercial and Wash
ington. Each of these streets represented
special department of wholesale business.
Summer, Chauncey and Franklin were
almost exclusively devoted to dry goods,
and contained scores of the largest establish
ments in the city. Pearl street was the
greatest boot and shoe market in the world.
There were no buildings on the street not
occupied bv merchants in this special line of
trade, except restaurant for boot and shoe
dealers, and a newspaper Office devoted to
the interests of the boot and shoe trade. On
Congress- street were clustered all the deal
ers in wool. Devonshire and Milk streets
were devoted to miscellaneous wholesale
business, principally of the great manufac-
tories of Lowell, Lawrence, etc. CONNER
cial street was solidly built with granite
warehouses for the sale of grain, ship
chandlery, fish, and other articles. State
street was the Wall street of Boston, and
contained its banks, insurance offices
and great shipping and commission offices.
Washington street was occupied by whole
sale and retail business, and in this thor
oughfare were located some of the most eIe-