Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-08

Balance of interest paid by United
States. .........-..............$ 16,222, 132
The Virginia Republican State Convention,
recently in session at Lynchburg, nominated
Colonel r. III. Hughes for Governor; G. III.
Ramsdell for Lieutenant-G Governor; David
Fultz for Attorney-General. Among others
resolutions were adopted-indorsing the Ad-
minisration of President Grant; favoring an
ad valorem system of taxation; advocating in
ternal improvements, not only in Virginia, but
in the whole country, as "a means
of cheap transportation; favering an
impartial administration Of justice to both
races; favoring the election of President and
Vice-President, and all officers of the Govern
ment, by direct vote of the people; demand
| ing that the Federal courts shall be accessible
| to all citizens for redress, and demanding re-
forms in the State laws in order to secure fair
elections by the abolition of partisan super
vision. A resolution denouncing the increased
| salary bill was introduced and afterwards
withdrawn.
The Mclean County Ql.) Changers have
| nominated a full ticket for County officers.
| The candidate for County Treasurer is Colonel
| R. P. Morgan, whose appointment as Railroad
and Warehouse Commissioner was not con-
| firmed by the State Senate.
| A recent Kansas City (Mo.) special says
more bodies have been discovered in the Ben
der graveyard, and that there was clue to the
whereabouts of the Bender family.
The newly-elected officers of the Kansas
State Grange are as follows: Master, T. G. V.
Boiling; Overseer, M. E. Hudson; Lecturer,
John Boyd; Steward, A. D. Smith; Assistant
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ma; Treasurer, HI. I'll. Angell
To hurry up the fire Mrs. William Dowds,
of Lewis, Iowa, poured kerosene oil in the
cook-stove the other day. Lively times en-
sued, the burning oil being thrown aIl over
the room, and ten-months old child was
burned to death.
| ACentral Executive Committee to present the
| question of the formation of a new State in
the most favorable bearing in their respec
tive sections was appointed by the Convention
at Jackson, Tenn, on the Both ut.
Nicholson and Hallahan, were hanged at
Baltimore on the 1st, for the murder of Mrs.
Lampley.
In July there were issued from the stamp
divisions of the Third Assistant Postmaster
Generals Office 107, sos, ,41O stamps from which
revenue is derived, the value of which is $2,-
936, 747-a large increase over the business of
any previous month, which is accepted as the
result of the abolition of the franking priv
ilege.
Senator Ramsey, accompanied by Governor
Austin, of Minnesota, was at the Department
of State in Washington, on the I'd, for the pur
pose of enlisting, if possible, the sympathy of
the authorities there in behalf of the Ameri-
cans who were concerned in the alleged kidnap-
ping of Lord Gordon.
The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Assistant Treasurer to buy $500,000 bonds
on the second Wednesday, and sell 81, 100000
gold ON each Thursday during the month of
August.
Counterfeit half-eagles, coinage of 1872, are
in circulation in New York and Boston, and so
closely initiate the genuine as almost to defy
detection. In weight and color the counter
felt corresponds with the legal coin. Counterfeit
twenty dollar gold pieces are also in circula-
ton.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention on the
list adopted a resolution for an adjournment
of the convention from August S to December
2, to meet in Cincinnati.
Portland, Oregon, has been nearly destroyed
by fire. The confagration began early on the
morning of the I'd, and before it was checked
twenty-three blocks in the city were in ruins.
Among the losses are two engine houses, two
sash factories, three foundries, four mills,
five hotels, one hundred stores and two hun
dred and fifty dwellings. One hundred and
fifty families were rendered homeless. The
estimated loss was s1,5OO,0OO. The churches
in the city were converted into dwelling
houses. The Common Council was issuing
food tickets to the destitute many. Calls are
made for aid for the sufferers from other
cities.
recent Des Moines Qowa) telegram says
there was no longer any prospect of capturing
the railway bandits as they had succeeded in
reaching Texas and Mexico.
ST. Louis dispatch of the Sd says the
Texas cattle fever, which had been prevailing
In Dekalb, Davis, Nodaway, and other coun-
ties in Northwestern Missouri for two weeks
had carried of several thousapd head, ana was