Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-12-19

livered the opening address, in which he stated
| that the aggregate membership in the State
/ is nearly 100000. Referring to the suffering
in the northwest part of the State, he said the
Convention should adopt method for the re-
| lief of their brethren.
The United States Supreme Court re-
Gently made very important decision, on
the question as to the right of State
to control the charges of railroads
| The court held that it was competent
for the State of Iowa to regulate railroad
freights, because such a law is within the
power of the State to protect its citizens from
imposition. The Chicago & Northwestern
Railroad was charged with imposing double
rates from Chicago to Marshalltown, Iowa.
The National Colored Convention was organ
lied in Washington on the 10th, by the election
| of Ex-Governor PinchbaCk as President. The
Louisiana delegation called on the President,
| who, in response to an address thanking him
for the care and attention which he had given
to the colored people of Louisiana, said that
colored man all the rights which should ac-
company his enfranchisement.
j. T. Irving, the self-accused Nathan MUIR
derer, was, on the 10th, sentenced to seven
| years and six months confinement in the
| Sing Sing prison on acharge of burglary.
| In his late address before the Illinois State
Grange, the Grand Master stated that the pres
entnumber of sub-Granges in the State is
| about eight hundred, showing remarkable
growth of the Order during the past year.
| The Iowa State Grange on the 10th elected
| the following officers for the ensuing year:
Grand Master, Colonel Smedley, reelected;
| Overseer, J. M. Dixon, of Mahaska; Secretary,
j. G. Little, of Muscatine; Lecturer, j..
Wilkinson, of Tama; Chaplain, William Duane
Wilson, of Des Moines; Steward, d. w.
Prindle, of Fort Dodge; Assistant Steward,
Jonathan Thatcher, of Van Buren; Treasurer,
M. L. Devlin, of Des Moines; Executive Com
mittee, j. W. Whitman, of Dallas; E. r.
Shankland and Clark, of Pottawattomie. Mrs.
| Colonel Smedley; Mrs. Spencer Day, of Mar
shalltown; Mrs. Cole, of Jasper, and Mrs.
| White, of Howard, were elected to the offices
assigned to women.
A Galveston (Texas) telegram of the 10th
says the news so far received from the recent
State election show an increased Democratic
majority.
| Additional Indian outrages are reported in
| Texas. On the 5th Indians attacked three
men seventy-fve miles from San Antonio, and
mortally wounded George Bell. They drove
off seventy-fiv head of horses. In raid on
the Neuces River the Indians killed twenty
four persons, mostly sheep-herders. At one
rancho, where thirteen herders were drying
sheep, they killed seven and hung them to
trees.
A mass meeting of workingmen, under the
auspices of the Internaticnalists, was held in
New York City on the evening of the 18th, and
was largely attended. Several hundred wo-
men were present. Around the platform were
numerous notices, such as:
I'VE demand suspension of rents for three
months.
1.-THE general that commands this army is General
Distress"
when workingmen begin to think, monopoly be-
gins to tremble.'
and others of equally significant character. A
hand-bill was circulated enumerating the high
| salaries paid officials, and demanding no more
| salaries over $4,000. The number of home
| less men and women in the city was given at
| 10000; those in the station-houses every
| week, 7,500 and out of eleven trades unions
| 20, $50 men were idle, and only $3.50 en-
ploy ed. 1t was also stated that there were
10000 skilled workmen idle in the State, and
10000 of all classes idle in the city, and
3S,O 600 women earning only an average of
$3.44 per week. Resolutions were adopted
demanding work, and declaring:
THAT we will in this, our time of need, supply
ourselves and our families with proper shelter and
necessaries of life, and we will send all our bills
for the to the city treasury to be liquidated,
until such time as we shall obtain work, and pay
for our work"
The following is list of the officers elected
by the Illinois State Grange, at its recent ses-
sion: Master, A. Colder; Overseer, John
Downer, of McDonough; Lecturer, B. J. Van
Court, of st. Clair; Steward John Odell, of
Champaign; Assistant Steward, J. A. Gram
mer, of Pike; Chaplain, A. P. Forsyth, of Ed
gar; Treasurer, j. S. Armstrong, of LaSalle;
Secretary, 0. E. Tanning, of Whiteside; Gate
keeper, j. F. Randolph, of Fulton; Ceres, Mrs.
D. w. Dame, of Carroll; Pomona, Mrs. o. E.
Lovett; Flora, Mrs. w. F. Randolph; Lady As
sistant Steward Mrs. p. L. Myers, of Chris
tian; Executive Committee, D. n. Foster, of
Whiteside; Joseph Burdctt, of Peoria; D.
Dunham, of Dupage.
The State Agent of the Iowa Oranges re-
ports saving of $1,000 in the purchases made
during the year, which amounted to 100000
The Michigan State Grange meets on the
18th of January. There are one hundred and
seventy eight Oranges in the State.
Secretary of War Belknap and Mrs. Amanda
T. Bowers were married at Louisville, KY, on
the evening of the 18th.
Alexander HI. Stephens, of Georgia, who
was the Vice President of the Southern Con-
| federacy and is now a member of Congress
| from Georgia, made speech on the floor of
the House ON the 18th, on the Salary bill, and
attracted much attention, and was listened to
with marked interest. He advocated high
| salaries.
Another death from the administration of
mixed chloroform and ether has recently oc-
CURED in Boston, and the Dental Society of
that city has resolved that the use Of chloro-
form in dental operations is not advisable.
The Illinois State Grange adjourned on the
| 18th. Among others resolutions were adopted
| advising their brethren not to deal with the
| combination of plow-makers, embracing some
| twenty firms, which, short time ago, decid
| ed to sell to Changers at nothing less than re-
tail prices; expressing the belief that the
| educational influence of the Grange is its
most valuable feature by inculeating in the
minds of members the rights and duties of
citizenship; condemning the s'salary grab";
requesting the Legislature not to meddle with
the present Temperance law of the State;
affirming the right of Congress to regulate
Interstate commerce, and calling On Congress
| to exercise that right; declaring that the Gen.
eral Government should open all the natural
water channels at its own expense, but that