Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-04
THE NEM WORLD.

11775@117I.
The Legislature of Missouri, on the Oath,
adjourned until the first Wednesday in JAN
uary next.
Lieutenant, Governor Milton H. Petit, of
Wisconsin, died at his residence at Kenosha,
on the night of the 23d, aged forty-eight
years.
In the Senate, on the oath, there was quite
lengthy debate upon the question of re-
considering the confirmation of Mr.. Casey
as Collector at New Orleans. The motion
to reconsider was, after considerable oppo-
sition, finally laid on the table by vote OF
25 to %. The confirmation in the first
instance was by vote Of % to 15.
Senate Caldwell has resigned his seat in
the United States Senate. He placed his
resignation in the hands of Governor Os-
borne (then in Washington), on the Gath,
and sent letter to the Vice-President, an
nouncing what he had done.
The Seer etary of the Treasury has issued
and directed rigid enforcement OF the
regulation which requires the Treasurer and
Assistant Treasurers and depositaries of the
United States to refuse the payment of all
official checks of United States disbursing
officers if pre- sented more than four
months after their issue, and all
treasury drafts and disbursing otfi-
GERS checks presented more than three years
after their issue. All checks, the payment
of which has thus been refused, will have TO
be forwarded to the Secretary Of the Treas
ury, the former for examination and verifi-
latter for statement of new accounts.
Advices from the Modoc country state
that Generals Candy and Gillem have had a
talk with Captain Jack, which amounted to
very little, Jack merely asking an amnesty,
and to be permitted to stay at Lost River.
The troops have gone into camp on the east
of Tule Lake.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn, says
that on the night of the Oath, widow
woman, named Hansden, sixty years old,
living nine miles north of that city, was
taken oat of bed by unknown parties, and
carried to a common ga1lows erected for
dressing hogs, and hung until she was dead.
It is supposed from tracks discovered that
two men committed the deed. The cause
of the outrage is unknown.
William L. Langston, son of the old
lady who, with the little girl, Mary Easter,
who was living with her, was found muir
dered in her bed recently, near Paradise,
Coles County, ILL, has confessed to the kill
ing of both parties, and accuses his wife as
an accessory. Langston is now in Jail await
ing trial.
Three children-a daughter and son OF
Mr.. Shortgen, and son of Mr.. Wodel, the
eldest being eleven years of age-Were
burned to death by prairie fire which oc-
CURED on the farm of Mr.. Shortgen, near
Reeds Landing, Mimi, on the 24tE.
The mill of the American Powder Com
pany, at Acton, Mass, blew up on the oath,
killing two worklnen and injuring three
others.
A Louisville (Ky.) telegram of the Oath
saws the suit of William M. Lent against
Philip Arnold and Robert Slack, for $780,
900, had been dismissed in the United States
Court, by the consent of the parties. The
suit grew out of the notorious California
diamond swindle. The dismissal was the
result of compromise, Arnold paying Lent
$l50,O0O cash, and each party paying his
own costs. The money was paid General
John M. Harlan, Lent's attorney, in green
backs.
Ex-senator Cattell, of New Jersey, has
been appointed Financial Agent OF the
Treasury Department, to visit Europe IN
connection with the new loan.
The Trumbull County (Ohio) Republican
Convention, held at Warren on the 25th,
adopted resolution asking James A. Gar
q. T.; ~, ha nf
resentatives at Washington, declaring that
by voting for the retroactive salary bill b
has forfeited the confidence of his con
stituents.
Several days ago Governor McEnery issued
a circular letter at New Orleans suggesting
the calling in each parish of "a mass-meet-
ing of citizens to perfect q complete and
thorough organization, with a view to the
resistance of the collection of taxes by the
Kellogg Government / will remain at my
post at the Capitol, and exercise, so far as
practicable, the powers and functions OF
my Office, and appeal to the people of the
State to rally to my support and give
me effective aid in my efforts to
hold their rights and liberties.
It is impossible that the Kellogg usurpation
can continue beyond the meeting of Con
gress, in December next, and if our liberties
are worth anything at all, they are worth q
struggle against tyranny and usurpation
from now until Congress shall definitely act
in our case"
At large meeting of prominent eolored
Republicans of New Orleans, on the Goth,
resolutions were adopted indorsing Judge
Durell, Senator Morton and the Kellogg
State Government, and cemplimenting Pres
ident Grant for his devotion to Republican
principles: expressing regret at the
failure to accord Mr.. Piachback his seat il
the United States Senate, and condemnine
the exclusion by the Louisiana Congressiona
delegation of Mr.. Pinchback and Mr.. Johr
Roy, two recognized leaders OF the Republl
can party and noted elements of strength
from consultation in dispensing the Fedora
patronage in Louisiana.
In the great six-million suit brough
in the name of the People of th
State of New York against Tweed
Connolly, Ingersoll and others, t
recover the So 000, 600 taken from New Yorl
County by what are known as the audi
| frauds, Justice Hardin decided on the de
nurrer Of IngersoIl that the people of tn
State have no right of action against Inger
soil. He bssed his objection on the broat
eround. fatal. if sustained, to the Who'll
anti that the County and not the State ar
the real parties 10 interest within the mean
| ing Of TIE Code,
The Tennessee Legislature adiopFas
| slss fl4 on the gAth;