Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-11-29

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rg The bronze statue of Lincoin,l by Meade,
has been completed by the Ames, ,Manufac-
turing Company of Massachusetts,. The
Monument Association has been notified
that it is ready to be delivered. The statue
is ten feet and eight inches; high, and is said
to be fine work of art.
Ran & Avery's gextensive printing house
in Boston, near the foot of Washington
street, was destroyed by fire on the Goth.
Their loss is $3.50, 600; other losses about
s10O, 900. I D s
A bill for the abolition of capital punish
ment has failed in the Vermont Legislature.
"A fire in Jersey City, on the Goth, destroyed
Jarvis s. Hemwood's toboceo inspection
warehouse and about 5000 hogsheads of to-
bacco, valued at $500, 900; loss on building
about $4,000.
Governor Palmer. has commuted the sen.
tence of-Gregori Peri, who was to have been
hanged in Chicago in December, for the
murder of O'Brien and Ready, over year
ago, to Imprisonment in the PeniteEtiary for
life. -.tyrfr- ,fesls4 .t-t4. @sf. -5..s.,
The poultry disease is reported IS having
appeared in some sections of the West.
The vote in South Carolina is 95,2l7.
Grants majority, 1885.
The Louisiana election imbroglio has
been partially settled by the Eighth District
Court deciding that Heron is de Jdcto Secre-
tary of State. By this decision the Return
ing Board of the State consists Of II. G.
Warmoth, f. J. Heron, James FLongstreet,
James Hawkins, and John Lynch. The case
will probably go to the Supreme Court. -'
On the Goth Governor Lindsay, of Alabama,
informed the Legislative body, Conservative,
sitting at the Capitol, that he would send in
his message the next day. In reply to a
Committee of the branch, Republican, sit
ting in the United States Court room, he de-
tailed in writing the legal organization of
the Legislature at the Capitol, the lawful
and usual place of meeting, which supreme
and insurmountable necessity can only
change He was ignorant of the existence
of such a necessity, and therefore declined
to recognize the body assembled in the
Courtroom, with whom he would have no
official communication. q
A Washington telegram otEthe 21st an
nounces that the Presidents message would
not be printed in advance Of it's transmits
sion to Congress: TcI s!I8 + 1Af
The President has appointed G. W. Fair-
man Postmaster at Philadelphia, vice Ell. H.
Bin ngham, resigned.
From the official sta tement of shipments of
wool to Boston, and OF sales made there it
is estimated in New York, that not more
than 1900, 600 pounds were lost by the great
fire.
Stanley, DR.. Livingstone's finder, reached
New York on the Goth, from Europe.
3 A New York dispatch of the Goth says the
Health Department officers, after examining
the poultry markets and stores, reported that
they found no diseased fowls, and no evil
dence of the prevalence of the reported mall
ady.
Leading members of Henry Ward Beech
er's church have published an announce
ment that no one connected with that
church has taken any part in the proceed
ings against the notorious women, Wood
hull and Clafiin, and will not do so for the
present. 1t was privately intimated on the
Dist that the affidavits of all the slandered
parties have been made, and would be ready
when wanted. .. . s-
A change of venue has been granted in the
cases of Christopher Rafferty, and Andrew j.
Perfect, the two Chicago murderers. The
new trials will take place in Lake County
for Rafferty,, and Will County for Perfect.
The Chicago papers of the 2lst report the
horse disease as having run its course in the
city, and the horses were nearly all well or
rapidly recovering.
The Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land held it's sixth annual reunion, at Day
ton, o., on the Goth. -~~
Twenty one buildings, constituting large
part of the business section of Galva, ILL.,,
were destroyed by fire onthe morning of the
21st. Thirty-fv business firms were burnt
out, and thirteen families rendered home
less Total loss about 100000; insurance
about $40, 900.
The Democratic members of the Indiana
on the 21st nominated James d.
Williams, State Senator from Knox County,
as candidate for United States Senator.
Stanton, the man with the alleged $3.50,
ruby, arrived at Denver from Arizona on the
Goth, and freely exhibited the gem, which is
very beautiful, though jewellers are in doubt
as to it's being anything more than garnet.
He also shows what he calls ST., 900 dia-
mond.
The total vote in Virginia for President
was 1S4 1855, Grants. majority is 1900. Of
the nine members of Congress elect, four
are Republicans and five Democrats.
President Grant is said to be strongly in
favor of paying the same salaries to women
as to men for similar work in the Depart
ments.
The Hon. William CASTOR, Mayor of
Boston, was dominated by the Democrats on
the 22d for reelection. AsA
Some three hundred negroes have recently
arrived in New York, from Savannah, en-
route for Liberia. They are the first of some
{, 900 who intend to emigrate.
Jay Gould, ex-President of the Erie Rail
way, was arrested in New York on the 22d,
at the suit of P. II. Weston, the present
President of the ompany. The warrant
was based on an affidavit which charges Jay
Gould with wrongfully taking to his own
use, while in control of the Erie Railroad,
50, ,50O, 900 of money belonging to the Erie
Mrs. Laura Fair was announced to lecture
in San Francisco on the evening of the 21st,
but a large gathering of people in front of
her residence and in the vicinity of the hall
where the lecture was to be delivered made
such threatening demonstrations that the
notorious woman was advised by the Chief
of Police of the danger which would attend
her should she attempt to keep her appoint
ment, and she remained in her rooms, in
company with a few friends. The crowd
hooted and yelled, and men tried to force
their way up stairs, but Were driven back.
The people of San Francisco are much in
censed at her proposition to give public lee
lures. ;
The official returns of the vote in Ohio