Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-03
TIE NEW WOULD.

Gold closed in New York on the 28th at
112@1127s,
4 recent Washington dispatch says Mr..
Boutwell, will positively leave the Cabinet
in March, and will run for the Senate in
place of Henry Wilson.
In the New York Oyer and Terminer
Court, on the 21st, George Francis Train
pleaded guilty 10 publishing paper called
the Train Ligwe, which, according to the in
dictment, is an obscene publication. He
was remanded to the Tombs prison.
A New York dispatch of the 22d says Mr..
Orton, after considerable negotiation, had
resold to Whitelaw Reid fifty shares out of
the 100 constituting the capital stock of the
Tribune Association. The paper would,
therefore, remain under the chief control of
Mr.. Reid.
The Central Presbyterian Tabernacle,
Brooklyn, of which the Rev. T. Dewitt Tai
mage is pastor, was destroyed by fire on the
morning of the 22d. The tabernacle was
erected in 1870, and, being built of CORFU
gated iron, was regarded as f1re-proof. Esti-
mated loss $95,000; insured for $4,000.
The New York Herald of the 22d says a
number of the present stockholders OF the
Union Pacific Railroad had written to Hor-
ace f, Clark, President Of the road, asking
him to commence suit for the recovery of
S1S, ,OOO, 900, said to have been taken by and
divided among those engaged in the Credit
Mobilier transaction.
The Indiana Legislature adjourned on the
21sr. During the session the Senate intro
duced 1877 bills and passed % of them, and
| 81 House bills. The House introduced 267
bills and passed 60 of them, and % Senate
bills. The Senate passed joint resolution
and the House 4.
Portland, Oregon, had $350,00O fire on
| the 23d.
Recent Washington dispatches contradict
the statement that Postmasters were to be
held accountable for the loss of registered
| letters Postmaster-G General Creswell is now
reported as saying that no such ruling was
ever made by him, and that in no case will
the Post Office or it's officials be responsible
for such losses.
| Barnum's Museum and Menagerie, in New
York City, was burned on the morning OF
| the oath. The large collection OF curlos1tles
and all the animals lover one hundred), ex-
| cept two elephants and one camel, were
burned to death. The building was similar
to Talmage's church, destroyed few days
before 1t was vast framework OF pine
covered with corrugated sheet-iron. The
flames enveloped it's interior in surprising
ly short time. The dying agonies of the
motley congregation of animals are
vividly described by the spectators.
The cages containing the four giraffes
were opened, but the terrified creatures
seemed paralyzed, and would not bulge.
Some of the keepers wept on finding that
they had to abandon their charges. The
immense elephant that played the hand
organ also refused to leave, but got on his
kness and perished, rubbing his head against
the earth and roaring Ia anguish. The fierce
banging of the lions and tigers against their
cages could be heard above all the din. The
Academy of Music, directly opposite, was
saved by the favorable direction of the wind.
Among the animals destroyed were eight
camels and dromedaries, one leopard, one
wax, one eland, one llama, two sea lions,
boa-constrictors, apes, gorillas, ostriches,
etc. The loss by this fire was variously es
timated at from $500, 900 to 81 .00o, 900.
On the afternoon of the 25th, a mail train
on the Buffalo, Cory & Pittsburgh Railroad,
when within about eighty rods of the sta
ton at Prospect, was thrown off the track
at trestle work, and one passenger coach
and baggage car fell off the bridge, dis
tance of twenty feet, turning over and strik
ing the ground bottom side up. A dispatch
of the 25th gives the following particulars
seWhen the cars struck, the trucks crashed
through the bottoms Of them, and as ths
stoves of the passenger cars were directly
under the trucks they were crushed to pieces
and Immediately the woodwork of the carr
took fire. OF forty-six people known to hav'
been in the cars, but one escaped unaided