Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-20

tlon Will be lndulged in toward any class. lie
refers with pride to the new Constitution, and
urges many reforms. He says the State has
no idea of repudiating any of her just debts,
and recommends some provision looking to-
ward a funding of the outstanding indebted
ness.
ACCORDING to an Omaha dispatch of the
18th Gen. Ord had been notified that the
United States supplies were barely sufficient
for the subsistence of the army, therefore no
rations could be issued to the sufferers from
the grasshoppers in Nebraska.
A SALT LAKE dispatch of the 18th reports
the prevalence of furious snow-storms in the
mining districts.
THE trial of ex-senator Pomeroy, of Kansas,
for bribery has been postponed until next
April.
Hon. JOHN w. HEAD, Member of Congress
elect from the Fourth Tennessee District,
died on the 9th.
PHILIP WADswoRTH has been appointed
Collector of Internal Revenue for the First
District of Illinois, the previous appointment
of j. j. Hoyt having been withdrawn.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th says
the Secretary of the Interior had decided to
consider the account of the State of Nebraska
for per cent. of the value of public lands
lying within her limits and reserved from set
tlement in consequence of treaties with the
Indians This decision will control the pend
ing claims from other States.
THE Democrats of New Hampshire will
hold State Convention to nominate Gov
ernor and other State officers on the 5th of
January next.
DANIEL O'MARA and Patrick Irving were
hanged for the murder of O'Mara's mother
and sister at Montrose, Pa, ON the 18th. VIM.
E. Udderzook was hanged at Westchester, Pa,
on the same day.
A NEW YORK dispatch of the 18th says that
at least 10000 men and women in New York
city are out of employment, and that whole
families are without the necessaries of life.
THE latest returns from Minnesota indicate
that the Republicans have a majority'of three
on joint ballot
Gov. GARLAND and the other new State Of
ficers of Arkansas were inaugurated on the
18th.
On the 9th fight occurred on Mcclellan
Creek between a company of cavalry and a
band of Cheyennes, resulting in the defeat of
the latter with loss of fifteen killed. The
troops lost one killed and four wounded.
Gov. KELLOGG on the 18th requested the
Election Returning Board of Louisiana to al
low the Opposition representation on the
Board. The Democratic Conservative State
Committee had appointed committee of
three to be present during the sittings of the
Board and witness the canvass and compile
ton of the returns.
On the evening of the 13tn an express train
on the Great Western Railway was boarded
by five masked men at Port Credit, who un-
fastened the bell-cord, bound and gagged the
baggage master and the xpress-messenger,
and robbed the money safe of between 10000
and $4,000.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th says
that Postmaster Gen. Jewell emphatcally dis
claims the reported intention of recommend
ing an increase in postal rates.
THE report that Spain had paid her indem-
nifty to England growing out of the Virginius
affair is confirmed by information recently
received at the State Department.
THE trial of the Beecher-T -Tilton civil suit
Ill
December.
THE latest returns from Wisconsin, re-
ceived on the morning of the 18th, indicate
the election of McDill in the Eighth District
by small majority.
HON. G. B. FARwELL has received the
certificate of election as Member of Congress
from the Third Illinois District, his official
majority being placed at 1856.
ACCORDING to a Little Rock dispatch of the
18th, V. V. Smith, elected Lieutenant-G Gov
ernor on the ticket with Baxter in 1872, had is
sued proclamation declaring himself Gov
ernor of Arkansas, Baxter having abdicated
in favor of Garland. He claims that the Con-
stitution was not legally adopted. He also
says he does not intend to employ force, but
will quietly await the Presidents decision. On
the 14th Gov. Garland caused a warrant to
issue for the arrest of Smith and his Secretary
of State upon the charge of treason. They had
not been arrested up to one o'clock a. m. of the
10th.
ACCORDING to the appendix to Gen. Spin
ner's report, published on the 14th the re-
ceipts of the Government for the last fiscal
year were $761, ,799, ,530SS, and the expendi-
lures $742, ,247, 1885. The balance in the
Treasury at the close of the year was $780,
731 ,533.63. The receipts of the Postoffice De-
partment were $11, ,990, ,S16.3S, and the expend-
itures $11 ,560,216 The amount in the Treas
ury arising from the proceeds of the sale of
cotton and other captured and abandoned
property was $10,414,0 900.
AT the recent election in New York the
constitutional amendments were adopted by
large majorities.
WILBUR F. STOREY, editor of the Chicago
Times, was recently indicted by Chicago
Grand Jury for a libel upon n. X. Fairbank,
whom it charged in recent issue with ab-
stracting money from the relief fund.-
A DELEGATION of mine-owners recently
called upon Gov. Beveridge, of Illinois, and
informed him that general strike was immi-
nent among the miners in the southern por-
tien of the State, and that attempts had been
made in some sections where strikes were al
ready in progress to fire the mines.
LATE advices from Texas say that the thirty
days of fine weather in the last month had
added 10000 bales to the cotton crop of the
State, valued at So, 100000.
THE remains of August Schilling, of Cincin-
nati were recently discovered in the furnace
of tannery. A day or two after the son of
Andreas Egner confessed that his father, one
Rufer and himself murdered the poor man by
pounding him on the head with an oaken
stick and punching him with pitchforks. To
hide the evidence they threw the body into
the engine furnace. All were arrested, and
the boy and Rufer confessed their share in
the deed. On the 14th Mrs. Rufer became
insane and tried to murder her little child
Egner the elder sturdily denies his com
plicity, and says both the others are crazy.