Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-13

On the morning of the 9th the Green Bay
night express train, about twenty miles north
of the Kishawaukee bridge, near Harvard, ILL.,,
| struck broken rail, throwing three passen-
ger coaches, Pullman sleeper, baggage
| car and second-class car into the ditch
twenty feet below. The stove in the baggage
car was overturned and set fire to the car, and,
/ as there was no means of extinguishing the
1 flames, the entire train and contents were con-
sumed. Forty persons were more or less in
jured, but no lives were lost, the passengers
! escaping from the burning cars by means of
| the windows.
i The praying temperance movement was
still being successfully prosecuted in many
| sections of Ohio on the 9th. At Ripley l..
Reinhart gave the ladies an invitation to
come to his saloon, and then shut
them out in the storm, where they
sang and prayed for some time. Reinhart
knocked on and slammed his door angrily, and
displayed revolver, but the ladies continued
| to sing and pray outside. Business houses
| were closed all day for prayer. The saloon
keepers were all willing to be bought out, but
this was positively declined Reinhart subse-
quently came to terms and quit the business.
Over half the saloons in the place had sue
| cumbed before the prayers and tears of a
hundred women.
In the National Grange at st. Louis ON the
9th report was received from Secretary
Coffey, of the State Grange of Missouri,
stating that there are 1,600 subordinate
Oranges in the State. Several amend
| oovfc t0 tho Not NJ pc+;
proposed. Charleston, s. c., was unani-
mously chosen as the next place of meeting.
Several standing committees were ap-
pointed. Mr.. Thompson, representative
from Canada, reported that they had
ten live Oranges in the Dominion,
some numbering over 100 members each; that
they wanted to establish Dominion Grange,
| so as to have under their control a fixed head
| quarters, and their most earnest desire was to
see the organization become international in
| character.
The Board of Visitors to the Military Acad-
emy have been appointed by President Grant,
as follows: General Charles j. Hamilton,
Wisconsin; Commodore c. R. H. Rodgers,
U. s. MI. D. Cameron, Pennsylvania; A. B.
Kindig, Iowa; Francis Wayland, Yale College;
| a. Z. i
Hammond, California.
Three Boston hotel-keepers, arrested for
violation of the Massachusetts, Prohibitory
law, were before the Police Court on the 7th.
The proprietor of the fremont House pleaded
guilty, and escaped with $50 fine and costs.
The two others pleaded not guilty, and were
each sentenced to three months imprison-
ment at hard labor, besides the payment Of a
fine of $75. They appealed, and will carry the
case through the courts.
The Territorial Legislature Of Montana has
passed bill to remove the capital from Vir-
ginia City to Deer Lodge.
The National Crop Reporter Jacksonville,
Ill., publishes estimates of the percentage of
the last crops of barley and rye in the hands
of the producers on January Is, in the States
of Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Ohio and Wis
consin. The percentage of barley on hand at
the date named in the fiwe States, which pro-
duced in 1878 some 9,5OO, 900 bushels, is placed
at 80 $40 per cent. The rate of consumption,
by which is meant both shipments and
home consumption, is the highest in
Kansas and the lowest in wisconsin, ,sbeing
respectively 76 and 66 per cent. The percen-
tage of rye on hand averages 26 6-10 per cent,
tri1e less than l, ,143, 600 bushels. The con-
sumption is the heaviest in Kansas, being
eighty per cent, and the lightest in Wisconsin,
being seventy per cent Returns relative to
the condition of the growing grain indicate
slightly increased prospects for February l,
as compared with the indications on JAN
uary Is.
A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch of the Sth says
the success of the women's temperance move
ments at other points had caused the disciples
of temperance in that city to organize, and ar
rangements were being made for grand
attack at that point. Dio Lewis had been
called on, and would be there to start the
movement.
Jefferson Davis has sailed from New Orleans
to Liverpool, his physician having recon-
mended sea voyage.
Jovellar, Captain General of Cuba, by re-
cent proclamations, has declared the entire
island in a state of siege, and ordered the
mobilization for active service of four volun-
teers out of every ten, this mobilization to
begin Immediately and continue six months.
All persons between the ages of twenty and
forty five, not volunteers on the 1st of Feb
ruary, are to be enrolled in the militia.
Both houses of the Illinois Legislature have
passed the bill permitting a suit against rail-
road to be brought in any county through
which the road runs, and thereby relieving the
public from the necessity imposed by the old
law of going to the courts in the county where
the central offices are situated.
On the 9th communication from the men,
bers of the Boston Grange was presented to a
committee of the National Grange appointed
to consider the important question whether
the membership of the Grange entitled it to
recognition. The memorial recites that its
members were the only persons in Boston who
took any Interest in the movement or did any,
thing to assist National Deputy Abbott in his
work in Massachusetts,. They plead that the
Grange was organized by Mr.. Abbott, as the
representative of the National Grange, and
was accepted by the State Grange, and plead
that they are interested" in agriculture in
way to bring them fully within the scope Of
the organization.
The Chicago Evening Journal of recent
date, speaking of the praying temperance
movement, says: The praying women Of
Ohio are carrying the strongholds of King
Alcohol without much opposition. Occasional
ly, however, they find an obstinate subject, but
they keep on praying, singing and exhorting
inside or in front of his place until, in spite
of himself, the trafficker in firewater is finally
forced to strike his eolors and surrender at
discretion. There is something heroic in the
fearless zeal of these women, and the prospect
is that this will sc on become one of the most
powerful and effective temperance move
| meuts ever inaugurated in this country.n