Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-04-24


the language of the highest officer elected by the
people There is public feeling in this country,
founded on reason, comprehending the best inter
ests of the country, which demands reform in the
civil service and the elevation and purifcation
of the civil service of the Government will be
hailed with approval by the whole people of the
United States.'n
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 18th says
Mayor Kramer, of Little Rock, had telegrahed
Attorneys eneral Williams for aid in pre-
| serving the peace of that city in view of the
extraordinary condition of affairs, and had
| been answered that the officer commanding
| the United States transport Little Rock had
| been instructed to prevent bloodshed. The
Attorney General, in his reply, asks if the
people of Arkansas have not patriotism
enough to allow the question as to who shall
hold the State Office to be settled peaceably
and lawfully, and not bring upon their State
the disgrace and ruin OF civil war.
A NEAT attempt TO sSssndle New York life
insurance company has r recently thwarted'
A DR.. Uling last SUNNI procured policy on
the life of Miss Lou i Germs for SO, 900.
She was lately reportedz as having died, and a
coffin supposed to conts 4 her remains was duly
buried. The suspicious of the officers of the
company were aroused and the coffin was dis
inferred, and found to contain quantity of
bricks. Uling, Miss Germs and the undertaken
who officiated at the burial have been arrested.
The undertaken admits that he had entered
into the conspiracy for the sake of $3.50,
which DIR. Uling prom ised to pay him when
the $4,000 should lie received from the
company. H Est
THE Industrial Congress adjourned its ses-
sion at Rochester, N. T., on the 18th. A res
olution was adopted inviting all the officers of
the'several international and national trades,
labor and industrial unions to use Their inf1u-
ence to organize the Industrial classes under
the Industrial Congress of the United States
Indianapolis was selected as the place in
which the next session of the Congress will be
held.
A TELEGRAM has been sent by the Mayor of
New Orleans to all the large cities of the
United States asking for aid for the poor peo-
pie in New. Orleans drowned out by the Mis-
sissippi overflow.
THE situation in Arkansas on the 18th re-
manned substantially as previously reported.
Brooks had issued another proclama-
tion, in which he admonished Baxter's
troops to go home to their families
The Federal troops had taken up their
position between the opposing forces,
so as to prevent bloodshed. On the 10Th the
commander of the United States troops took
possession of the telegraph office and relieved
Gov. Baxter's guards. Gov. Baxter there
upon telegraphed to the President asking that
the United States troops be removed. To this
dispatch no answer had been received at mid
night of the 10th. The situation was essen
TALLY unchanged.
A HAVANA dispatch Of the Goth says that
terrible fire was rag;sg in that city among the
sugar and molasses Warehouses.
. THE President on the Goth sent the report Of
the Civil-Service Commission to Congress,
with special message inviting particular at
tention thereto. Hesays:
If sustained by Congress have no doubt. the
rules can after experience, be improved and en-
forced as to still more materially benent Inc pup
lie service, and relieve the Executive, members OF
Congress and heads of departments from infu-
ences prejudicial to good administration Inc
rules as they have heretofore been enforced nave
resulted benefcially, as is shown by the opinion
OF members of the Cabinet and their suDord1-
mates in the departments, and in that
opinion concur But the rules applicable to Of
fcers who are to be appointed by and with the ad-
vice and consent of the Senate are IN great
measure impracticable, except in SO far as they
may be sustained by the action of that body.
These must necessarily remain so unless the direct
sanction OF the Senate Is given 10 tne rules; aa u
may be adequate to continue the WORK IN its pres
ent form. and would leave TO the future 10 de-
termine whether the direct sanction OF CONGRESS M
shall be given to the rules that may perhaps be
devised for regulating the method OF the selecuon
Of appointees, or that portion Of them who need to
be By he ne
coming year, but think the public interest would
be promoted by authority IN the s Execuuve ior
performed beyond the usual office hours under the
act of 1871 to called into the service OF the
Government.
A BILL has been introduced in the New
York General Assembly to incorporate an In
cremation Society for burning the dead, with
a capital of $4,000.
The Ohio Legislature adjourned sine die on
the Goth, having been in session 106 days, and
passed 1876 general laws, sixty-fcur local laws
and thirty-eight joint resolutions.
A VERY destructive fire occurred at Ish-
peming, Mich, on the night of the 10Th, by
which thirty families were rendered home
less. Thirty-five stores and dwellings, over
half of the business portion of the place,
were destroyed. Loss estimated at $125,0OO;
insurance not over $4,000. The fire is said
to have been the work of an incendiary. A
fire also occurred about the same time at
Negaunee, two miles from Ishpeming, which
destroyed five stores and a few other
buildings on the main street. Several
fires were set in other portions
of the latter town, but were discovered and
extinguished, and two men who were caught
setting them were arrested. 1t appears as If
there had been preconcerted plan to destroy
both places.
PRIVATE adyices received In Chicago on the
Goth report that great part OF the State OF
Louisiana was overflowed from the crevasses
on the Mississippi and the freshets on the 9TH
er streams. 1t is represented as the worst
flood that region has had since 1S47. Thou
sands of people had been flooded out of house
and home.
An Associated Press dispatch from Little
Rock, Ark, on the Goth represents matters
looking more warlike than at any time for
the preceding week. Baxter had received
reinforcements numbering about 1000 men,
and smaller number had reached Brooks.
The Federal forces were between the two con-
tending parties and two pieces of artillery
were planted at the intersection of Louisiana
and Second streets. Brooks had issued an
order to railway superintendents not to bring
troops to the city for Baxter, but the order
was disregarded Brooks had received several
boxes Of guns from st. Louis. Later in the
evening the Federal forces drove back the SEN
tinels of Baxter on Second street from Main to
Scott, and also prevented the sentinels of the
State House party from coming nearer Bax-
ter's forces than Louisiana street. Business
was entirely suspended and the city was moth