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

| New York State Senate.
In reference to the Presidents action ii
| the case of O'Brien, a recent Washington
dispatch says all the facts about the mur
| der of Cunningham show that it was moi
premeditated, and that there were cireum
stances about it which the President could
consider, but which the jury could not. A
case of murder with malice aforethought
will fird no mercy with the President.
President Grant will hereafter, while Con
gress is not in session, receive callers or
other than official business on Mondays
Wednesdays and Thursdays, from eleven to
one o'clock.
The Pennsylvania Legislature has passed,
and the Governor has signed, bill appro
priating 81, 100000 for the celebration OF the
National Centennial, July 4, 1876, at Phna-
delphia.
The Hon. w. P. Sprague, member of Con-
gress from the Fifteenth District of Ohio,
has published card saying that he voted
against the Increase-of-Salary bill, and will
either return the money to the United States
Treasury, or use it for the relief of the tax
payers of his district.
The Hon. James Dixon, formerly United
States Senator from Connecticut, died of
heart disease, at his residence, in Hartford,
on the 27th, aged So.
The Democratic and Liberal Republican
Convention of Michigan met at Jackson on
the 9th and nominated: For Judge of the
Supreme Court, j. P. Christian, present in
cumbent; for Regent of the State University,
Duane Doty, of Detroit.
The Massachusetts Senate on the 9th
rejected all amendments, and accepted, by
a vote of twenty-seven to four, the adverse
report of the Committee on the petition of
John G. Whittier and others, for annulling
or resembling the Sumner resolutions passed
last session. The House had already taken
the same action.
Governor Austin, of Minnesota, has ac-
cepted the resignation of State Treasurer
Seeger, who was under impeachment by the
Legislature for alleged financial irregulari-
ties.
Out of the three hundred Postmasters
whose terms of Office expired on March l,
1878, all but twelve have been renominated
by the President. These will be reappoint-
ed by the President, and acted upon by the
Senate next winter.
Cakes Ames has written to the Attorney
General that the Credit-Mobilier Company
does not intend to give up Its books to the
United States, but will offer them for in
spection. He questions Kelley's right to
give away stock he did not own, and he has
asked his lawyers whether Kelley's dis
claimer does not entitle him (Ames) to hold
it for the Credit-Mobilier Company.
John Thompson Mason, Secretary of State
of Maryland, died suddenly at Elkton, Md,
on the 28th.
Judge Brady, of New York, on the 2S5h
decided to admit George Francis Train IN
81, 900 bail, but the prisoner declined to fur
nish it, and he was thereupon remanded to
the Tombs.
Near Detroit, Mich, recently, while Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Peters were absent from
home over night, their house was burned
to the ground with all its contents, and
three of their children perished in the
flames. Their eldest girl barely escaped with
her life.
Mrs. James Gordon Bennett died on the
3lst at Koenigstein, in Saxony.
An accident occurred on the Rensselaer, q
Saratoga Railroad near Shusham Station, VT,
on the night of the 3Oth, caused by passenger
train running off an embankment, by which
Fred. Downs, conductor, and Patrick Mona
han, fireman, were instantly killed. The
cars were badly wrecked and nearly all the
passengers were more or less injured,
though, it was thought, none fatally. The
baggage car took fire, and the through mails
were about half burned up.
On the morning of the 30th, train on the
Great Western Railway was thrown from
the track, by broken rail, about thirty-fve
miles from Detroit, Mich. The sleeping car
was turned over, and two ladies were thrown
against the stove and severely burned. Two
children were also badly burned, and one
was likely to die. The car took fire and was
destroyed. The other cars were thrown
fromsthe track, and all the passengers more
Or less bruised.
A comparison of the receipts OF internal
revenue for six months ending January 81,
1872, and January 81, 1878, shows an increase
in the latter on spirits of $2,617 ,9O2; ferment-
ed liquors, $500, ,234; penalties, SOS, ,5l2.
A New York dispatch of the 31st says the
Postmaster General considered the recent
postal car difficulties settled until the next
Congress, the Railroad Companies having
announced an intention to continue for the
present the running of such cars on their
roads.
Announcement was made in New York
ON the 3lst that George William Curtis had
resigned from the Advisory Civil Service
Board, and his resignation had been &C
cepted. ..E
George Bryan, negro, was hanged by a
mob at Chillicothe, o., few nights ago, Tor
an attempted outrage on highly respecta-
BILE white lady living about twenty miles
from that place.
By the falling of platform in the interior
of the new Singer building, on the corner OF
Washington and State streets, Chicago, on
the 3lst, Philip Minsen and William Bross
were precipitated to the ground, distance
of one hundred and ten feet, and were
fatally injured. Two others, man and
boy, were seriously hurt.
Meetings of farmers are still being held IN
different portions of Illinois protesting
against the alleged ezorbitant charges and
unjust determinations of the railroads.
Judge Anthony Thornton, of the Supreme
Court of Illinois, has resigned. His resigna
ton is accepted, and the election to fill the
vacancy has been ordered for June 2.
Gen. Candy telegrapbed to Gen. Sherman
on the 31st that the Commission TO the Mo
docs worked well. He was of the opinion
that the Modocs were more subdued ano
more amenable to reasoning than at the pre-
! vious interview.
Sarah Bell was burned to death at Nash
vile, Tenn, few evenings ago, by the ex
plosion of lighted lamp, into which shs
was attempting to pour oil.
Cerebro-suinal meningitis is prevailing te