Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-05

So to IS; Atchisona and Leavenworth, Efrom
S1.39 to 81; Kansas City and St. Joseph, from
$1.39 to 81. To Lake Erie ports, which in
clude Cleveland, Toledo and Detroit, steam
rates have been reduced to twenty-four cents,
and to Lake Michigan ports, which include
Chicago, Milwaukee and Green Bay
with steam around the lakes, the tariff for
frst-class goods is twenty-seven cents. A re-
duction had also been made in passenger rates
by several of the outside ticket offices in New
York City. Fare to Cleveland was thus re-
duced from S14.25 to $12.50 to Chicago
from $22 to $3.50; to Cincinnati, from $50
/ to SIS. s1H va @ -a
The National TIE importance Convention met
at Saratoga, N. Y, on the Goth. Judge R. c.
Pitman, of Massachusetts,, was chosen perma-
nent President.
George Smith, the freight engineer con-
cerned in the recent collision on the Marietta
He says that he and the conductor both made
the same mistake in looking at the time-card.
& Cincinnati Railway was under arrest in
Cincinnati on the Goth. He admits that he
and the conductor had some trouble at Love-
land, but denies That he made any threats.
The Supreme Court of Georgia has recently
decided that the law forbidding the validity of
judgments for notes whose consideration was
slaves is unconstitutional, and that unless
bound by the statute of limitation, such judg-
ments can be made operative. The Court was
divided, Judge Mccoy dissenting.
The Treasury Department in Washington
recently received from the Syndicate in London
$5,000,000 in fiye-twenty bonds and cancelled
| coupons. sS4 &~
A townsman and personal friend of the
| Vice-President, who was lately in Washington,
says that Mr.. Wilson fully expects to be pres
ent at the opening of the session in December,
and to attend to his duties as President of the
| Senate.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven-
tion met at Wilkesbarre on the 27th. r. Mel
ton Spear was proposed for permanent Presi-
dent of the Convention, but SO much opposi-
ton was made to him on the ground of his
having, as member of Congress, taking back
pay, that he withdrew.his name, and DR.. An
drew Nebinger was chosen chairman. James
R. Ludlow, of Philadelphia, was nominated
for Judge of the Supreme Court, and T. M.
Hutchinson, of Allegheny, for State Treasurer.
The Ohio Democratic platform was adopted,
except that in the first resolution the words
! insisting ''that our tariff laws should be form
! ed with a view to revenue, and not to tax the
community for the benefit of any particular
industry" are omitted. An additional reso-
luton was adopted declaring that 'wewill no
longer tamely submit to a repetition of the
election frauds by which the will of the peo-
pie, expressed at the ballot-box, has been SUBJ
verted for some years past, and that the Dem
ocratic State Central Committee be directed to
use all their efforts to prevent a repetition of
these outrages on the franchises OF the peo-
ple,'' etc.
+ In the National Temperance Convention at
Saratoga, N. Y, on the 9th, resolutions were
adopted-congratulatin the friends of tenn
perance on the progress made since the meet
ing in 1868; declaring that total abstinence
from all intoxicating drinks, brewed Or dis
titled, is the true basis of the temperance re-
| form; that venders of liquor and owners of
premises be held responsible for damage by
| inebriates; recommending all temperance
societies to advocate the repeal of State
license laws, and to urge the abolition of the
manufacture of liquors in the Territories and
District of Columbia; declaring that the time
had arrived fully to introduce the temperance
issues into State and National politics, and
recommending all friends of temperance to
make it henceforth the paramount issue to CO.
operate with existing party organizations
when they indorse prohibition and nominate
candidates pledged to its support, otherwiseto
organize separate party action in every State
and Congressional and electoral district OF the
United States. A grand National Mass Meet
| ing was ordered to be held in Philadelphia, in
connection with the Centennial celebration.
| The extensive lager-beer brewery of V.
Blatz, at Milwaukee-one of the largest estab-
lishments of the kind in the country-was, in
great part, destroyed by fire few nights ago.
Loss, about $30O,O0O; insurance, $150,00O.
At Indanola, Iowa, the other day, Ida Bar
rick, aged sixteen, was using kerosene to start
fire, when the oil in the can exploded, and
she was so badly burned that death ensued in
short time. A little daughter of Mr.. Bett-
zer, of Dalton, ILL.,, also recently tried the same
experiment, with like result.
| The Wisconsin Republican State Convention
met at Madison on the 27th. Hon. J.. Nazro,
Of Milwaukee, was chosen permanent Chair
man. Governor G. c. Washburn was renom-
mated by acclamation. The balance of the
ticket is as follows: For Lieutenant Governor,
Robert H. Baker, of Racine; for Secretary of
State, E. w. Young, of Sauk; for State Treas
| General, Judge L. s. Frisbie, of Washington;
for State Superintendent of Public Schools,
Robert Graham, of Oshkosh; Emigration Com
missioner, George P. Lincoln The State
| Central Committee is as follows: E. w.
| Keyes, Chairman, Dane County; Frank Le-
land Walworth; j. T. Moak Jefferson; |.
NJ. Bean, Milwaukee; Elihu Colman, Fond du
Lac; Robert McCurdy, Oshkosh; H. B. Cole,
jackson; John T. Kingston, Juneau. The
platform denounces official frauds and cor
rupt legislation; condemns the additional sal
ary law recently passed by Congress, and de-
mands its unconditional repeal; favors an
amendment to the National Constitution pro
hibiting Congress from increasing its own
compensation; advocates the speedy adoption
of proper legislative measures to secure re-
| lief and protection against the greed and op-
preston of grasping monopolies; claims the
right under the Constitution to regulate, and
repeal, if necessary, all railroad charters; dis
approves of public officers accepting free
passes over railways; sympathizes with every
movement to secure for agriculture and labor
| their due influence interests and rights, and
declares that the Republican party will be
/ their ally in every just effort to attain that
end
At the meeting of the Wisconsin State
| Grange at Watertown on the 27th, an address
4 by the Executive Committee to the subordi-
/ nate Oranges was agreed upon, and resolu-
tions were adopted-in favor of the improve
ment of the Fox and Wisconsin Rivers and
Mississippi River, and other water courses
that will tend to cheapen transportation; pro-