Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-20


road' would soon be built across the continent,
which would be managed in the interests of
the people. After the work shall be fairly be-
gun it will be completed in three years.
The Connecticut Republican State Conven
| ton met at Hartford ON the 11th and nominat-
ed Henry B. Harrison for Governor; John 7.
| Waite for Lieutenant Governor; John @. A.
Stone, editor of the Wirsd1tons County Trans
cript, for Secretary of State; Hon. David P.
| Nichols, for Treasurer; Colonel E. ?. Packer
| for Comptroller. Resolutions were adopted
declaring that States should be left to regu-
late their own internals affairs; indorsing the
course of the National Administration in
reference to the recent election in Texas; op-
posing any further increase of paper curren-
cy; favofing early resumption of specie pay
ments and equal taxation; denouncing
land grants to monopolies; demanding
prompt punishment of dishonest Off
cials, and strict economy in National and
State Governments; favoring the formation of
bureau for the purpose of obtaining statis-
| tics and information relative to the condition
| or the Iaborlng classes, upon which to base
proper legislation, and submitting the ques-
tion of revision of the State Constitution to
the people.
Several so-styled Doctors in Chicago have
been arrested and held to bail in the sum of
S., 900 each on the charge of publishing and
circulating obscene literature.
letter from Fort Laramie, received in
Omaha on the 11th, says that Lieutenant Rob-
inson and Corporal Coleman, in charge of
lumber train, were killed by Indians on the
9th, twelve miles east of Laramie Peak, on the
Cottonwood Thei, bodies were recovered on
the 10th, riddled with bullets and scalped. A
dispatch from Cheyenne, of the 18th, says it
was thought that the Indians had agreed upon
general uprising along the Platte. The
! agent at Red Cloud reported to General Ord
on the 18th that Miniconia Indians on the Sth
had shot and killed his chief clerk, Frank
Appleton. Agent Howard, from the Spotted
Tail agency, has written that several large war
parties had left, it was feared to go upon the
war-path.
The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry on the 18th adopted platform of
principles in which they declare the purposes
and objects of the Order. A memorial to the
Patrons of Husbandry in the Cotton States
was also adopted, declaring in favor of mixed
husbandry in the South instead of expending
the energies of the people in raising single
crop.
A Springfield Qll.) dispatch of the 18th says
about eleven railway companies were running
under the schedule of the State Board of Rail-
way and Warehouse Commissioners. Not all
of these had formally notified the Board of
their acceptance, but had quietly altered their
10 e,
Western had signified its intention to reduce
its passenger rate to three cents per mile, the
Board rate, being nearly two cents less than it
wanted to charge.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars Of
Michigan has chosen Jackson as the place for
! the next session, and elected G. P. Russell,
John Evans and D. P. Sagendorf delegates to
the Grand Lodge at Boston in May next. A
report adverse to any change in the State
Constitution on the question of prohibition
was adopted unanimously. Officers for the
year ensuing were elected as follows: G. T.,
D. P. Sagendorf, of Charlotte; Chief, Thomas
Carney, Jr., of Bay City; V. T., Ellen j.
Christian, of Pontiac; Secretary, John Evans
of Bellevue; Treasurer, N. S. Sharp, of North
Adams.
The praying temperance movement in Ohio
was progressing notably on the 18th. Strong
demonstrations were made in Xenia and Co.
lumbus. In the latter city the ladies were
preparing for a determined onslaught upon
the Legislature. A Cincinnati dispatch says
the reports for Southern Ohio and Indiana
showed no abatement of enthusiasm in this
woman's temperance crusade. Everywhere
there was an abundance of faith in its ulti-
mate triumph. In Shelbyville, Ind, lively
antagonism had developed. The saloon
keepers served written notice on the
ladies that they would hold them responsible
for loss of business, and the next day an
immense meeting was held and an incorporated
company organized, with $500, 1000 capital, to
fight the liquor traffic legally, if other means
fail. The ladies then prepared reply to the
paper of the saloon-keepers, charging them
with destroying the business of the COM
munity, exhausting resources, adding to taxes,
and increasing crime, and defending their
right to pray for the removal of such an evil.
According to late South American reports
the yellow fever ragged unabated at Rio
Janeiro, and the cholera in Buenos Ayres and
Montevideo. Thousands of the inhabitants of
those cities have fed.
The War Department in Washington on the
10Th received official advices confirming the
accounts of the murder of Lieutenant Robin
son and Corporal Coleman by the Indians. A
dispatch was received by the Commissioner of
Indian Affairs from E. A. Howard, Of the
MILESTONE Agency, dated January 9, stating
that in view of late Indian outrages he was
compelled to ask for military protection. The
Commissioner replied that every protection
would be afforded, and application was made
to the War Department for this purpose.
According to the January circular of the
National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry,
there has been an increase since the middle of
December of 1866 Oranges, and the whole
number is now over IL, ZOO. The largest in
crease took place in the former slave States,
where 565 new Oranges were formed, against
459 in the Western States. The national mem
bership of the Oranges now numbers 7S0,0OO.
The Rev. Charles Kingsley, the author, and
one of the ehaplains-in-ordinary to her Maj
esty Queen Victoria, has arrived at New York,
on a visit to the United States.
The anniversary of the late President Lin
coins birthday was celebrated in Buffalo on
the 18th by exercises in the various public
schools, and appropriate exercises by citizens
at st. James Hall in the evening.
The Illinois General Assembly adjourned on
the 18th out of respect for the memory of the
late President Lincoln, that being the ami
versary of his birth.
In the National Grange on the 18th, Mrs.
Taylor, of South Carolina, was elected as
Pomona, in place of Mrs. Kelley, resigned, and
Mrs. Moore, of Florida, as Flora, in place of
Mrs. Abbott. A resolution was adopted
"That it is the sense OF the National Grange