Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-26

The French Assembly has passed bill In
ereasing the salary of President MacMahon.
There was great rejoicing in Madrid on the
Goth over a rumor that the United States had
decided that the Yirginius was not entitled to
carry the American flag. The London Times
commenting on the report, says: 'Such
| decision would be consistent with truth an(
| justice" 1t was reported that the Spanisl
Cabinet had decided to make demand upor
the United States for the return of the steam
ship Virginius and her passengers and crew
recently surrendered. 1t was also said that
in accordance with this decision, President
| CASTELAR, had written to Minister Sickles.
| A ferry boat capsized at London, on the
| Thames, on the Goth, and thirteen persons
| were drowned.
A cable dispatch of the 21st says General
Sickles had telegraphed to Washington in
sisting upon the acceptance of his resignation.
THE NEW WORLD.
| The so-called Cuban House of Representa-
tives have formally deposed Cespedes from
the Presidency, with the design, it is said, OF
restoring to power the old Junta of New York.
Poledo Aquilera has taken charge of the Pres
| idency.
Colonel Frederick Dent, the father of Mrs.
President Grant, died at Washington ON the
night of the 10Th, aged Lightweight years.
Returns on the 10th from Pennsylvania indi-
cate the adoption of the new Constitution of
that State by large majority. Out of total
vote of 1862, Philadelphia gives 26,S64 ma
| jority in favor of the Constitution.
The second annual meeting of the Illinois
Farmers State Association was opened in
| Decatur on the 10th. The following inscrip-
| tions were prominently displayed in parts of
the hall: "Boston tea party, December 16,
1774;' "All wealth comes from the soil;"
equal and exact justice to all men," "Where
combination is possible, competition is i'm
possble;" "Put your votes where they will
do the most good" About four hundred
delegates were in attendance. President
Flagg delivered the opening address. The
Secretary states that reports from eighty-four
counties show an aggregate of $50 Clubs,
with membership of 46, ,473, and $40 Oranges
who have reported their organization but not
the membership.
A State Temperance Convention will be
held at Lincoln, Neb., January II.
The Minnesota State Grange of the Patrons
of Husbandry commenced its annual session
at Faribault ON the 10th. The Nebraska State
Grange was in session at Lincoln.
Parties in Nebraska who lost property by
the recent prairie fires, set by passing loco
motives, have commenced suit against the
Midland Pacific Railway for damages.
The transfer of the Virginius occurred at
Bahai Honda. Captain Whiting, of the United
States steamer Worcester, received the vessel.
The failure of two large dry goods jobbing
houses in New York City is nnounced-Aber-
halzer & Keefer, and Edison, Bradley 81 Co.,
the former with liabilities of $500, 900, and the
latter of $450,000.
The Dayton Hotel, at Dayton, New, was
destroyed by fire ON the night of the 10th, and
L. D. Gould, Thomas Younger, John Norton,
H. Nash, and Mr. Clyster were burned to
death.
A party of Mormon converts left Salt Lake
on the 18th, on their return to the old country.
They declare that they were greatly deceived
by the Mormon missionaries. This is the
second company of Saints which have recently
left Utah in disgust, for their old home.
In the Illinois Farmers Association on the
18th resolutions were adopted, demanding
that Congress grant no more of our lands to
railways or any other corporations without
first obtaining permission by popular vote of
three-quarters of all the States in the Union;
that there shall be no building of the Texas
Pacific or the Atlantic Pacific, or the issuing
of Government bonds to them until the farm
ers of the West, the planters of the South, and
the laboring men, manufacturers, merchants,
and consumers of the East have transporta-
ton facilities in the interest of the productive
consumers of those sections. President Flagg
delivered an address on State Railway legisla-
tion.
A Kansas City (Mo) telegram of the 18th
says it was reported there that the Benders
had been tracked to Northern Mexico In
consequence of there being no extradition
treaty between the United States and Mexico,
they cannot be brought back except by
kidnapping, and the present reward of
fered is not sufficient to warrant the
undertaking. An effort, it is said, will be
made to capture them this winter, if the re-
ward is made sufficient to justify an attempt
to kidnap them.
The Alabama State Senate has unseated a
member of that body, because while postmas-
ter he charged one of his clerks with abstract
ing money from the mails and had him i'm
prisoned, but subsequently, when pressed
closely by investigation, confessed that he
himself was the guilty party.
Two-thirds of the business portion of Hud-
sonville, Ill, was destroyed by fire on the night
of the 18th. Loss about $4,000, with little
or no insurance.
The Illinois Farmers Association adjourned
on the 18th, after adopting Constitution and
by-laws and series of resolutions. The res
olutions declare that every American voter
should do all in his power to secure the cleo
ton of honest and competent men to office;
that farmers are absolved from all ale
glance to the old political parties; that the
repeal of the salary grab law should be retro
active; that large salaries are antagonistic to
republican principles; that the civil service
should be reformed; they favor improving
the navigation of lakes and rivers; oppose
protective tariff; deprecate the system of SUBJ
sides; favor 1egal-tender currency issued
directly by the Government and interchangea-
BILE for bonds bearing the lowest possible
rate of interest; demand the revision of
the patent laws; insist upon biennial
sessions Of the Legislature; assert the
right of the State Legislature to legislate for
the control of railroads and oppose any at
tempt of Congress to exercise such control;
condemn the practice of public officials in
receiving free passes from railway managers;
demanding a reduction of taxation; declare
that sssince a large number of pillow manufac-
turers of the West have thrown down the
gauntlet we take it up, and recon-
mend the farmers of this State to
patronize none Of the said manufacturers
until they viii sell to us direct at whole
sale rates. The election of officers resulted