Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-24

| Memphis dispatches of the 18th say that there
was sensible decrease of yellow fever on
| that day The deaths numbered thirty. The
weather was thought to be more favorable.
Rev. Fathers Sherry and Leo, Catholic priests,
| had died. Five priests and five sisters of
charity had died since the fever began its
| ravages.
a Keokuk Qowa) dispatch of the nth says
that the Convention of the Executive Com
mittee of the State Oranges of the Patron of
Husbandry, representing the States of
the Missippi Valley, which had been in session
in that city for several days preceding, had adj
iourned sine die. The following were among
the resolutions adopted: ft'
| WHEREAS We regard complete and accurate
agricultural statistics the foundation Of our con-
troll of the business of agriculture by which we may
| obtain suitable and just reward for our labors,
and allow the law of supply and demand TO operate
freely in the regulation of prices to the benefit OF
| both producer and consumer therefore
ReSotUed, That we use our best efforts to estab-
lish, causet to be established, in each and every
State in our Union system of eorirultural statis-
| tics by which can get exact Information of the
acreage of the principal crops, the amonnt OF i've
stock in the country, the quantity OF produce, ana
| the number of animals of each kind for market.
A prlze-fght occurred on the morning of
| October Is, at Robertsdale, near the Indiana
| State line, about thirteen miles from Chicago,
| between William Madden and James Taylor.
Fifty-five rounds had been fought with little
damage on either side, when the cry was
raised, ''The cops are on us" and a hundred
| policemen from Chicago broke through the
| bushes and captured the entire party includ-
ing the two principals.
The Democratic and Republican Central
| Committees of Chicago, on the 18th, coalesced
and nominated full ticket to be supported at
the ensuing municipal election. 1t was
| thought there would be several other tickets
placed in the field.
Specials from Mexico of late date say that
| a revolution had broken out in Sonora. The
revolutionists had taken Alamos and the dis
| trict south of it. They had force OF $50
| men well armed. All communications with
the capital by land had been cut off.
| A Washington dispatch of the 18th says the
the State Department had received no official
| advices ofsthe threatened monarchical revolu-
ton in France All the information at hand
there had been CLEANED from the newspapers
and private letters. t#
| A Washington special of the 18th says that
Senator Carpenter, of Wisconsin, had reached
Washington, and was about to make what
VI
Long Branch scandal in which his name had
been so prominent
| DISPATCHES from Memphis and Shreveport
of the 18th say that the yellow fever continues
| to rage in those cities. In the former city the
deaths from the disease on that day numbered
thirty. The disease has also appeared in Pine
Bluff, Ark, Montgomery, Ala, and other
Southern cities.
A dispatch from Memphis, of the 18th, says
the steamer Mary E. Poe, from st. Louis to
New Orleans, had been totally consumed by
fire, about ten miles from Osceola, Ark, on
the preceding day. Six or eight lives had been
lost.
The St. Louis Dispatch, of the 10Th says that
Gratz Brown, of that State had, taken the field
as a Democratic candidate for the United
| States Senate, in place of Senator SchurZ,
whose term will soon expire.
A Columbus, Ohio, dispatch of the 10Th
says that both parties had conceded the cleo
ton of Allen in Ohio by from 600 to 700 ma
jority. The remainder of the Republican
State ticket had been elected.
Advices from the French settlement of st.
Pierre of late date say that Mouseigneur de
We're, the first Bishop of that diocese, had
been assassinated while praying in the sacristy
of the chapel of st. Jean de Dieu.
The presence of cold weather and frost at
Memphis, on the 10Th, had the effect to dining
ish the ravages of the yellow fever The NOR
tuary report on that day showed seventeen
deaths.
New York dispatches of the Goth say that
charges had been preferred before the Police
Commissioners of New York against certain
detectives for keeping money seized from Nc
Donnell, the Bank of England forger. The
amount thus surreptitiously obtained was said
to be $4,000. Eleven hundred immigrants
had arrived at the port of New York on the
goth.
A Washington dispatch of the 10th says
the Supreme Court of the United States had
decided on that day, in case that came from
New York, where drover travelling on
pass had been injured and sued to recover for
such injuries, that contract made by the de-
fendant and pass issued to him were no i'm
pediments in the way of recovering, II ne was
not guilty of neglect of ordinary care ana
prudence which contributed to his injury, and
that there was no such negligence on his part
in leaving the car and proceeding to look after
his cattle in manner stated as would debar re-
covery. 'tt t'fa
AT Salt Lake, Utah, on the Goth, the horse
Granger trotted ten miles in thirty minutes
and four and quarter seconds, being the best
time on half mile track ever made in Amer
lea. Fr f.rfL
A New York telegram of the goth says that
tow of thirty-fve canal boals ON the Hudson
River had broken loose at Stoney Point on the
morning of that day, and that six had been
lost with all on board. The pecuniary loss was
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