Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-17

| ing as the nnanclal status OF the State: Bal
ance Oh hand at the close of last fiscal year,
$3.50 109.11; receipts the past year, 81 06o,
47720; disbursements, S1,096, 462 96. The
State debt on the 50th of September, 1872,
amounted to 81, 3,252,e57. The assessed value
of property for 1872 was $500, ,45o,S75.
/ The total State debt of Maryland is S10,911,-
67S, and the reduction during the past year
was s., 900, 800.
The message of the Governor of Georgia
was delivered to the Legislature on the 9th.
| 1t shows the receipts for 1872 to be 81, ,i01,-
340.S4; disbursements, 81 1856, ,207. IA; public
debt, IS, 1S6, 500; valuation of State prop.
erty, 334, 492, ,46o. James NJ. Smith was in.
augurated as Governor On the 10th.
At New Orleans, on the 10th, the Fusion
Legislature was fully organized. Senator
Mcmillan, accompanied by Senators jerks,
Noland, Swords, Todd, Werrau and Hun
saker, who had withdrawn from Kellogg
Senate, took their seats in the Fusion Sen
ate, and issued an address giving the
reasons for the course they had taken.
| The investigation into the charge against
| Senator Caldwell, of Kansas, of having OBJ
| tanned his election as Senator by bribery,
was begun before the United States Senate
| Committee on the 10th. 7
A Washington dispatch of the .11th says
the Committee on Elections had dispatched
| a Deputy Sergeant alarms to New Orleans
to subpoena both of the Returning Boards,
known as the Wharton Board and the Bovee
Board, to appear before them in Washington.
An effort win be made by the Committee to
have presented for their investigation all the
! returns of the Electoral vote from the
various parishes of Louisiana.
A full jury for the trial of "Boss" Tweed
| was secured on the 18th.
| Mrs. Lydia Sherman, convicted in Connec-
ticut of having poisoned her husband in
| 1871, has made a confession and acknowl-
| edges to having poisoned three. husbands and
| four children. She has been sentenced to
State Prison for life.
Advices from Arizona to January 4, state
that General Crook on that morning had re-
ceived dispatch from Major Brown, stating
that his command fought the Apaches, kill
ing ffty-seyen and capturing twenty-three.
His only loss was one Lima Indian. The
battle occurred at the National fortifca-
tions, on Salt River, thirty miles above Nc
Buell., and lasted five hours.
Terrible snow storms have recently occur
red in Minnesota, and in some places along
the Winona & st. Peter Railroad the drifts
reached the top of the telegraph poles, and
the snow was packed SO closely that men
could walk on the surface. The storm on
the st. Paul & Pacific Railroad was the Sc
verest ever known. At Kirk Haven, there
| were several farmers in town wnen the
| storm first burst upon them. They left for
| home with their teams, and very few had
been heard from. One wagon was found,
containing Mrs. Soland and boy, who
were frozen to death. Many teams, both
oxen and horses, were found frozen in the
| known. ~ ~,-. ...- tr
On the Iowa Division of the Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad there were recently
eight freight trains showed in between Nc
Gregor and Austin. The snow was packed
so tight that snow-plows had no effect upon
| it, and it would have to be shoyeled out.
! ALI that could be seen of some of the trains
was here and there the top of brake just
protruding above the snow, and nothing but
the top of the smoke-stack of an engine
marked the whereabouts of some.
| The Nebraska Legislature completed its
organization on the 10th. The Governor re-
ports nearly 100000 in the Treasury, the
greater part of which belongs to the School
| Fund. .r
Governor Baker, in his message to the
Indiana Legislature, states the foreign debt
of the State to be $744, $780, 12 and the domes.
tic debt s., ,9O5, ,906.25. The expenses of the
| State for 1878 will be $7S5, 1888, to meet
which he recommends levy of Is cents on
| the $1O0.
Acting Secretary of the Interior Cowan
has replied to the House resolution calling
for information relative to the Teton Sioux
| Indians. Their proper name is Titwans.
They are nomadie people under the care of
the Indian Agents Of the Upper Missouri,
and number 5000 souls.
All the conductors of the Harlem Railroad
recently rendered their designations, in con-
| sequence of an order requiring them to
keep check books of their receipts and give
punched ticket to each passenger paying
| fare. 5e
The Rhode Island General Assembly met
on the 18th. The annual communication of
| the Governor was presented, and showed
the various Interests of the State to be in a
| satisfactory condition. ys7 BE- su
A young lady named Nellie Margernie
died of starvation at st. Paul, Mimi, few
days since. She was twenty-seven years of
age, and was born in Pittsfield, Mass, and
had been engaged in modelling wax flowers.
Governor Hendricks, of Indiana, was
inaugurated on the 18th.
The Democratic caucus of the Missouri
| Legislature on the 18th nominated Colonel
L. v. Bogy, of st. Louis, for senator-Bogy,
| 64 Blair, AZ.
| In the battle of the companies of the
Fifth Cavalry with the Apaches, in Arizona,
December 90. near Salt River, not warrior
| escaped. All the banc were killed, and
twenty-five women and children were cap
| tured.
Recent dispatches from various parts of
Minnesota give further details of the terrible
nature of the recent storms. At Fergus
| Falls eight people are known to be frozen; !;
at Morris four, and scattered through the
| intermediate country seven or eight others.
Two men were found near st. Peter, sitting
up in sleigh, frozen stiff, wrapped in
buffalo robes. At Worthington, two team
sters have been found dead.
Governor Oglesby and the other Illinois
State officers elect were formally installed
| on the 18th.
| The trial of Mrs. Ellen G. Wharton for the
alleged attempt to poison Eugene Van Ness
was begun at Annapolis, Md, on the 18th.
At New Orleans, on the 18th, both
McEnery and Kellogg were inaugurated as
/ Gevernors-the formsr by the Warn ,thites
and the latter by tie Pinchback faction.
Warmoth and Pinchback each delivered a
valedictory address. General Emory tele-