Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-31
NUMBER 21.

Tombs. When Foster received the news he
secluded himself in his cell, refusing to see
any one.
The Nevada Legislature has elected John
P. Jones, Republican, to succeed James w.
Nye in the United States Senate. The vote
stood: Jones, 5S; Mccoy, AZ; DeLong, /;
McBeth, 1.
A st. Paul (Minn.) telegram of the 21st
says the reported loss of life by the great
storm proves to have been greatly exagger-
ated. A good many lives had been lost, and
a number of persons had been more or less
crippled, but nothing like the terrible disas-
ter first reported.
The Georgia Legislature, on the 22d elect
ed General Gordon United States Senator.
Gordon received 112 votes, stephens &c,
Ackerman IA.
Secretary Boutwell, has sold the remaining
$500, 600, 900 of the per cent. bonds to q
Syndicate of America and foreign bankers
on substantially the same terms as to the
preceding Syndicate.
A Washington dispatch Of the Esd says the
Spanish Minister had learned direct from
Madrid that no dispatches had been COM
municated to his Government by Minister
Sicklcs wherein the United States insist on
the fulfllment of the Spanish promise for
the emancipation of all the slaves in Cuba.
Foster, the car.hook murderer, has been
sentenced to be hanged March z.
The Greeley National Statue Committee,
which met in New York faw days ago, re-
port that $4,000 had been subscribed for the
statue to Mr.. Greeley's memory. They
needed SAC, 900, and would take no action
until that sum is raised Contributions OF
any amount are solicited.
The Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven-
tien has decided that the State elections be
held on the Tuesday following the first Mon.
day in November, and city and township
elections on the third Tuesday in February.
At noon on the Esd General John L. Bever-
idge took the oath of Office as Governor of
Illinois, and formally took possession of the
Executive office, Governor Oglesby's resig-
nation taking effect at that hour. The new
Governors first official act was to sign the
credentials of Senator Oglesby.
The Chicago Journal of the oath learns
''from fruit-growers and others in the st.
Joseph Fl uit region, in Michigan, that care
and pear orchards thereabout shows that
neither the trees nor the buds have been
killed by the recent cold spells Similar
reports reach us from Southern Illinois"
A bill passed the Kentucky Senate on the
Oath prohibiting the sale of liz uor on Sun
day.
A Washington dispatch of the 25tb says
Senator Sumner was still quite feeble, and it
was doubtful if he would appear in his seat
in the Senate again this session. His attend
ing physician visits him twice daily, his last
call being at ten O'Clock in the evening,
when he injects morphine into the Senator's
arm to enable him to sleep. -a
The Secretary of t. Treasury has informed
inquirers shat the terms with the Syndicate
are the same as heretofore, with the addition
that the financial parties have agreed to in
sure the Department, against loss in ex-
change. The arrangement will 60 into
effect on the 26th Of February.
Indictments were found by the Grand
Jury of the United States District Court in
session in Albany, N. Y, on the 25th,
against Susan B. Anthony and fifteen other
ladies, charging them with voting illegally
in Rochester. They are to appear before
the Court in that city in May next. Indict-
ments were also found against the three In
spectors who received their votes.
A dispatch from Jefferson City, Mo-, on
the Goth, says the Senatorial Bribery Com
mittee would report on the Goth, and would
exonerate all the Senatorial aspirants except
General Doris, and would state further that
no member of the General Assembly received
any money for votes.
The Iowa House of Representatives has
passed resolution-63 to 23-directiDg the
Governor to telegraph to the President of
the United States the earnest desire of the
General Assembly that he would interpose
his veto to the bill, recently passed by the
United States House Of Representatives,
making or confirming additional grants of
land to railroads in Iowa.
The Governor of Arkansas has given the
certificate of election to w. J. Hynes, the
Reform candidate for Congress. .at-Large.
Recent Mexican advices say that the fes-
tivities attending the opening of the Vera
Cruz g. Mexico Railroad lasted week, and
were participated in by all the distinguished
officials.
The epizootic was recently prevailing ex-
tensively in parts of Utah and Nevada. The
streets of Salt Lake City were almost desert
ed, and every furnace in the Eureka mining
district, and every mine but two, had sus-
pended operations on account of the distem-
per among the horses.
Laura d. Fair lectured at Sacramento the
other night, in lager beer saloon, having
been unable to obtain any public hall. Her
subject was evolves in the Fold" Find
ing no one paid to enter the cellar, she
ordered the door thrown open for free
lecture. "-
Several Illinois citizens in different sec
tions of the State have recently, while travel
ing on the railroads, rendered the rates OF
fare established by law, which were refused
by the companies, the passengers in many
cases being carried free. In few instances
men have been elected from the cars on re-
fusing to pay the fare demanded by the COM
panies. It is thought test cases will be
brought before the courts.
Letters recently sent to the Internal Rev
enue office in Washington from North Caro-
lima show that some parties in that State are
engaged in the business of falsely represent
ing themselves to be in authority as revenue
officials, even to the extent of issring
bogus commissions and letters of irstruc-
tions to people unwary enough to be their
dupes.
The Legislature of Georgia has made the
birthday of Robert e. Lee alegal holiday.
General Carrington's Polytechnic In
stitute, attached to the Female College
at Wabash, Ind, has received donation
of complete set of all the mechanical,
scientific and mining works published py
the British Government; also complete