Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-07

were dloO ulSUuTS0Q lEOu bUS 4TcdsuTN QuI-
| ing January, in addition to the ordinary ex-
penses, $1,240000 to the Board of Public
Works In Washington, and 81 ,O00, 900 on ac-
count of deficiencies in the postal revenue,
making the total amount of extraor dinary
expenditures during January S4, ,066, ,274.
| A san Francisco dispatch of the I'd says
little prospect existed of a peaceable adjust
ment of the Modoc difficulties.
At New jefferson, Iowa, few nights ago,
| the house of Alex. Cairns was destroyed by
fire. The bodies of Alex. Cairns, Henry
| Cairns, and two little children were found
burned to crisp. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by an incendiary.
Mrs. Louisa A, Boyce, recently on trial in
Chicago for causing the death of Calvert H.
johnson, a Cleveland grain-dealer, at her
house, in Chicago, over year ago, has been
found guilty of ''involuntary manslaughter,"
and her term of Imprisonment was fixed at
| FIVE years. aa s-.a .H..
A Topeka dispatch of the 31st ult. says
Senator Pomeroy's friends claim that the
charge of bribery against him is put-up
job to defeat his reelection, and that his in
nocence will yet be plainly established.
It was reported on the 1st that there was
not bushel of coal for sale at Memphis, and
many families were burning oil-cake as a
substitute. E.t.a =-l. -+....s .
A few days ago a destructive fire, sup
posed incendiary, occurred at Jackson,
Tenn, destroying property to the amount of
800, 900. +'." goa
The Court House in Quebec, Canada, was
completely burned few days ago, entailing
LOSE of all the records of the Province
since its foundation, together with titles,
deeds, and other important legal docu-
ments. -.-...
The Secretary of the Treasury has autho-
rized the Assistant Treasurer at New York
to purchase $10O0,000 bonds each Wednes-
day, and sell 81, ,500,00 coin each Thursday
during the month of February. ss
On the Sd Commissioner Davenport de-
cided to hold Woodruff, Clafin and Blood
to await the action of the Grand Jury, on
the charge of sending obscene matter
through the mails. asH ts...- ..3.-.
At the opening of the Greeley will case, on
the Sd, Judge Hart stated that he had received
note from Miss Ida Greeley, which had
been approved by her sister, in which they
begged to withdraw from the contest, which
their opponents were determined to wage
over their fathers grave. The contestants
then proceeded to prove the will made by
Mr.. Greeley in 1871, without further opposi-
ton. 1t was stated that Mr.. Greeley left
property estimated to be worth $206,000,
which, with the estate of Mrs. Greeley,
would amount to 1926, ,000 t'. '.st
Four boilers in the American Iron Works
at Pittsburgh, Pa, exploded on the Sd, kill
ing seven persons and wounding several
others. The explosion was so tremendous
that three sections of the building, Of some
fifteen feet each, were completely shattered,
the roof being carried entirely away and
scattered in all directions.
Two murderers were lynched at Bozaman,
Montana, on the night of the 1st, one, an
old man named Triplet, for murder COM
mitted three months before; another, a
young man called Steamboat Bill, for mur-
dering Chinese woman two days before.
Senator s. G. Pomeroy was in Chicago on
the 1st, en- route for Washington. In an in
terview, he told a reporter of the Inter- Ocean
that he was the victim of villainous con-
spiracy, and only asked suspension of
Judgment till the whole matter is made pub
lie through the courts.
The jury in the second Wharton murder
trial, at Annapolis, Md, were unable to
agree, and have been discharged. They
stood eight for verdict of guilty, and four
for not guilty. .....-.. ...- ..s
Vice President Colfax delivered an address
on temperance at Baltimore, on the night of
the I'd. The audience was large and enthusi-
astic and on coming on the platform Mr..
Colfax was greeted with hearty cheers. In
the course of his remarks he said that the
greeting which he had received was gratify-
ing, because it showed that they believed
that during his public life, that would ciobe
next month, he had sought to stand right
in the sight of God, whether the world
judged him wrongfully or not.
AN exceedingly eccentric man re-
Gently died at Hinesburg, VT, in the per-
son of Augustus McEwen, aged eighty.
four. He had his grave dug twenty