Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-05

McCreery was elected Senator from Ken
lucky, to succeed Garrett Davis.....The Vir-
ginia Senate on Wednesday unanimously
passed resolution petitioning Congress to
pass a general amnesty bill......In the South
Carolina Legislature on Thursday the Cover
nor's friends tried to, force a vote on i'm
parchment, but were defeated. This is re-
garded as victory for the impeachers.
q ATGRENADA, Miss, specia1 says Frank
Mays, colored, was hung there On Friday
for the murder of his wife withe1at 2oson
last April. He had been respited twice by
Governor Aeon. LII FIAL a
A MEMPHIS dispatch says: "The latest
from Chicotg states that the negroes have
disbanded, and all but so have returned to
their homes. The so mentioned have placed
themselves under the Sheriff. No fears are
entertained as to retaliation by the whites
......At Florence, KY, on Sunday night, the
negro population had a Christmas tree at
their church Among the visitors was a
white man, II nry Snyder, who, being in
toxicated, was disorderly. Peter Aylor, one
of the negroes, demonstrated with him,
when Snyder drew a pistol and shot him in
the head, inficting a wound which. will
probably prove fatal. He then shot three
others, two of whom are seriously wounded.
......Rev. W. G. Wallace was shot and killed
at Atlanta, Ark, on the Goth, by man
named Shelman.....A man named Bicham,
while resisting the Sheriff, was shot and
killed In Lafayette county, Ark, on the
18th Thos. Hawkins shot and killed Port
Jelton at a festive party on Christmas night
near Cowan, KY. The Christmas festivi-
ties at Nashville, Tenn, included two per-
sons dangerously stabbed and two danger
ously shot; FIVE accidentally shot; nine
boys severely injured by gunpowder explo-
sions, two dangerously; and one suicide. The
police made 1872 arrests.,....A fire at Macon,
Ca, on Christmas eve, destroyed four stores.
Loss about $60, 000.....Jesse r. Grant, father
Of President Grant, does not improve He
fails to recognize his friends, and his recov-
| cry is doubtful.
DISPATCHES from Galveston, Texas, state
| that the ship Orion, having one thous-
| and bales of cotton on board, was burned on
| Sunday, outside of the bar, and sunk in four
| fathoms of water The death of ex-Gov-
| ernor John A. Winston, of Alabama, is an
aounced at Mobile.....Mrs. Sturdevant, wife
of the Superintendent of the Institute for
| the Blind, at Nashville, Tenn, lost her life
Tuesday night by the explosion of a coal-oil
lamp......The steamship Florida, from New
| Orleans for Apalachicola, sprung leak and
| sunk in the Gulf of Mexico on December %.
The officers and crew took to the boats, and
| landed 20 miles east of Mobile Point. John
Reid, colored, was drowned by the swapping
of boat in the surf Value OF the vessel,
| 1000; no insurance.
eJl'' Washington. ~ ~
| LATE advices from officers in charge of the
Apache Indians state that ,one-half of these
Indians have come into the different camps
and are now. at peace..:... Society gossip has
it that the obese and jolly Secretary of the
Navy is to marry the dashing widow Aulick
| relict of the late Commodore.
On Saturday evening, at Louisville, KY,
Mrs. Charles Wisert brutality murdered her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Lorner, an old lady of
IS, literally cutting her to pieces with
Ratchet. No cause is known for the deed.
THE pressure for appointment to positions
in the Government service has been much
greater stree the adoption by the President
of the rules prepared by the Civil Service
Commission than at any time within the
memory Of men now living. Nearly every
member of Congress has a candidate on
hand for some office...... There is due this
Government by that of Columbia $107 600,
being the balance of the awards under the
conventions of 1857 and 1854. No payment
has been made since 1868. The Columbian
Minister wants an extension of time Jour
years, as his Government is bankrupt......
john L. Glen, the drummer boy of Shiloh,
has been appointed to Second Lieutenantcy
in the Oath infantry.
GEN SWEET, of Illinois, has entered upon
his duties as First Deputy Commissioner Of
Internal Revenue. The Secretary of the
Treasury on Wednesday commenced the
n wifi 011tr hot of mt 111oI
the LIST of January on United States bonds.
Foreign.
IT was the British ship Windsor Castle
which ran down the French bark Costa
RIGA. Her officers deny that they heard
cries of distress from the Costa RIGA.
1.-THE steamer Delaware, which sailed this
week from Liverpool for Calcutta, was
totally lost on Wednesday off Scilly Islands.
All on board are supposed to have persisted.
..... Count Won Beust presented his creden-
tails as English Ambassador from Austria at
Windsor Castle on Thursday ..... Ex- Empress
Eugene has arrived at Southampton from
Spain..... The Messenger, official organ of the
Russian Government, announces the removal
of Minister Catacazy from Washington,
owing, it says, to personal difficulties which
might prejudice the good relations existing
between Russia and the United States .....An
the Russian language in the schools in Po-
land...... Bismarck has sent dispatch to
Baron Won Arnim, German representative at
Paris, setting forth the feeling of exaspera-
ton caused in Germany by the outrages
perpetrated on her soldiers in France. He
threatens to seize hostages in the occupied
provinces unless the assassins in future who
escape into neighboring provinces are de-
livered up to the German officers by the
French authorities, and declares unless
these horrible outrages cease, the army of
occupation shall be increased, and the ex-
penses and burden of its support, which is
paid by France, doubled. ..... Letters from
South America state that an earthquake oc
Cured at the town of Oran, lasting nine
hours, with forty different shocks. The
streets were split open and every house tum-
bled into ruins. The inhabitants all fed to
camps outside the town.
THE Prince Of. Wales was again reported
worse on Friday 1.-THE Imperial Commit
tee of the French Assembly has rejected
proposition for the return to Paris. The
Roman Catholic Bishops of the Netherlands
have united in a memorial to the King pray
ing him not to discontinue the Dutch lega-
ton at the Vatican.....Th statement is
made on credible authority that the forth
coming Austrian budget will show a surplus
of 81 100000 forms receipts over the expendi-
lures for the year, instead of a deficit as an
ticipated.. The recent dispatch from Bis
marck to Baron Won Armin excites the
French to renewed bitterness AGAINST Ger
many. The tone of the journals generally is
one of indignation.
THEIRS delivered a powerful speech in the
French National Assembly on Tuesday in
opposition to levying an income tax.....The
Germans have seized prominent citizen of
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