Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-06


great powers of Europe. 1t seems fitting that the
Tooth anniversary of our independence should
be marked by an event that will display
| to the world the growth and progress OF
| nation devoted to freedom, and to the
| pursuit of fame, fortune and honor by the low
est citizen as well as the highest failure in this
assured by arousing public opinion to the impor-
| tance of the occasion. To secure this end, in my
judgment, Congressional legislation is necessary
to make the Exposition both national and interna-
tional The benefits 10 be derived from a sue
cessful international exposition are manifold. 1t
| will necessarily be accompanied by expenses be-
| yOnd the receipts from the Exposition ITSELF but
| they will be compensated many fold by. the
| commingling of people from all sections of our
own country, by bringing together people OF dlIer-
! ent nationalities, and by bringing in iux-
Imposition for ready examination our own and for
eign skill and progress in manufactures, agricul-
| ture, art, science and civilization. The selection
Of the site for the Exposition seems to me appro-
pirate, from the fact that one hundred years be-
| fore the date liked for the Exposition the Decla-
ration Of Independence which launched us into the
ned from the spo 6ags
varied climate soil, mineral products and skill of
which advantage can be taken by other nationali-
ties to their profit In return they will bring to
our shores works of their skill, and famiarze our
people with them, TO the mutual advantage OF all
Centennial Exposition suppress itin its infancy,
| acknowledging our inability to give 1t the inter
national character to which our self-esteem aspires.
| u. S. GRANT.
| Executive Mansion, Feb. 25 1874.
| The Boston School Committee on the even
ing of the Oath again discussed the question of
permitting women to occupy seats, and, not
withstanding the decision of the Supreme
Court, they voted by a to 40 not to reconsider
their former action.
The Maine House of Representatives has
refused to pass the bill abolishing the death
penalty, the vote being 81 to 70.
AT a meeting of the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, held at Cleveland on the
25th, Grand Chief Engineer Wilson was invited
to resign, and complied with the request.
Seven hundred people applied for food in one
day at one of the four soup houses recently
opened in New York city by the munifcence
of Mr.. James Gordon Bennett. Most of the
applicants were women and children who, but
for this timely relief, might have been reduced
to extreme want.
The Iowa State Anti Monopoly Convention
met at Des Moines on the 25th with sixty -four
counties represented. Thomas Mitchell was
elected President and J. M. Weart Secretary
Resolutions were adopted favoring the faithful
administration of law; demanding honesty,
economy and purity in official life favoring a
true system of civil-service reform opposing
protective tariff; declaring that all corpora
tions are subject to legislative control favor
ing modification of the banking system !;
opposing grants of public lands to railways !;
declaring that the pretended repeal of the
back salary law is gross fraud upon the peo-
pie, and demanding its unqualified repeal de-
manding that all public work, including print
ing, be let to the lowest responsible bidder,
inv oil ar6l of Of
ical views, to unite with them in
remedying the evils from which the peo-
pie so generally suffer. The following State
Central Committee was chosen: j. Harten-
bower, O'Brien County; Frank Brown, Wash
ington; j. Weaver, Cedar; j. M. Weart,
Buchanan; j. o. Crosby, Blackhawk; L. b.
Nelson, Tama; E. n Gates, Jasper; G. F.
Parker, Warren; j. F. Bishop, Union; I'll.
Jackson, Greene.
The Ohio Prohibition State Convention met
at Mount Vernon on the Goth, and placed in
nomination the following State ticket for next
| fall: For Secretary of State, John R. Buchel,
of Summit County; Clerk of the Supreme
Court, B. Foster, of Logan; School Commis
sioner, B. M. Weddel, of Montgomery; Mem
ber of the Board of Public Works, E. G. Col
Inns, of Hooking; Supreme Judge, G. j.
Stewart.
The Executive Committee of the Northern
Wisconsin Agricultural Association have de-
cided to hold the next fair on the 2Sth of Sep
tember, the location to be decided by COM
mittee appointed for that purpose.
A Detroit dispatch of the Goth says it had
been ascertained that all the men afloat on the
lee in Saginaw Bay had escaped to the land.
News was received in New York ON the
morning of the 2Sth giving information of a
| terrible confagration at Panama on the 18th
ult., whereby the largest portion of the busi-
ness part of the city was destroyed. The
losses are estimated at over million of dol
lars, mostly insured in London companies.
Control of the fire was lost from the first, and
the flames had everything their own way, and
only stopped from want of material to feed
upon.
Customs receipts for week ending February
q were: New York, 50, 755, ,555; Boston,
$412, ,7oS; Philadelphia, $lSS,63S; Baltimore,
! SOL, ,904.
The nomination of Wm a. Simmons to be
Collector of Customs at Boston was confirmed
by the Senate on the 27th. His confirmation
was opposed by both Senators from Massa-
chusetts, and is regarded as a triumph of
Representative Ben Butler The vote stood
q for to II against confirmation.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th says that
Mrs. Myra Clarke Gaines, of New Orleans, had
been before the subcommittee in the case OF
Judge Durell, and that her testimony was re-
| garded of such character as to require the
prompt presentation of the articles of impeach-
ment. According to her evidence Durell had
agreed, for certain considerations, to sit in her
case and decide in her favor.
The official report of the Secretary of the
Wisconsin State Grange announces 39S Oranges
in the State up to February 20. The State
Agent of the Indiana Oranges has reports up
to the 9th ult. of the organization of l,45O
Oranges in the State, an average of sixteen to
each county.
The Colorado State Grange has voted to es'
tablish a cooperative association in the Terri
tory for the benefit of the farmers.
The daily papers of Chicago, on the 10th
and 9th, contained notices that the Woman's
Praying Temperance movement was about to
be inaugurated in that city, and even indicated
certain saloons where the initial exercises
would be held. The effect of these notices
was to call out huge crowds of men, womer
and children, all anxious to familiarize them
selves with the process of converting rumsell
ers. 1t transpired afterward that the notices
were hoax and were devised by some FRIEND
of the saloon-keepers to induce crowd an6
thus advertise their establishments. 1t was
thought on the 2Sth that the movement would
be inaugurated in Chicago on the 5th o
March.
Christopher Rafferty,, thrice convicted ant