Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-08-14

Court. Frank d. Moulton appeared before
the Investigating Committee of Plymouth
Church on the evening of the 10th.
THE following dispatch was sent from st.
Joseph, Mo-, on the 4th: "The grass
hoppers have entirely destroyed the corn
crop of Western Kansas and Nebraska. 1t
is doubtful if 1000 bushels of corn will be
raised in Kansas or Nebraska west of
line passing from the Platte River, in Ne
braska, through the towns of Humboldt,
Seneca and Manhattan to Wichita, on the
Arkansas River. Hundreds of new settlers
in Western Kansas and Nebraska are selling
their cattle and household goods for what
ever they will bring, and preparing to leave
the country. As there is good crop of
wheat and other small grain there will be no
starvation, but great drawback on the
business of the country The shoppers' are
as thick as bees in swarms, devouring every
green thing in their path, and slowly moving
to the south and east. 1t is feared they viii
destroy all the corn west of the Missouri
River"
HON. JOHN A. KAssoN has been renomi-
mated for Congress by the Republicans of the
Seventh Iowa District.
THE Wisconsin State Grange recently is
sued an address to the Oranges of the State,
advising them that vigorous effort would
be made in the next Legislature to repeal the
Railroad law, and urging them to resist the
attempt
THE steamboat Pat Rogers, running on the
Ohio River between Louisville and Cincinnati,
was, on the morning of the 5th, when near
Aurora, Ind, burned to the waters edge. The
fire started in the cotton with which she was
laden, and was caused by the carelessness of
smokers The officers and crew were demor-
allied by fear and left the women and chill
dren to their horrible fate. Fifty persons
were lost and several were seriously burned.
THE Chicago Times of late date says that
at a recent meeting of Western railroad man
ayers in that city it had been determined to
restore the ante-panic rates for the transporta-
tion of grain from the interior to Chicago.
This will raise the rates from 10 to 25 per
cent.
On the 9th Congressional nominations were
made as follows: Republican-ColoradoT Ter
ritory, III. P. III. Bromwell; Sixth Ohio Dis
trict A. M. Pratt, of Williams County; Sixth
Indiana, Milton S. Robinson, of Madison
County; Tenth Indiana, Maj. Calkins, of
Laporte Monopoly Iowa, Hon.
Edward Campbell, of Jefferson County. Dem
ocratic-Fourth Missouri, r. A. Hatcher,
renominated.
AN Independent State Convention was re-
Gently held at Topeka, Kan at which the fol-
lowing nominations were made: For Gov
ernor, j. G. Cusey; Lieutenant Governor,
E. HI. Ewington; Secretary of State,
Nelson Abbott; Treasurer, Charles F.
Rooster; Auditor, G. P. Smith; Super
intendent of Public Instruction, I'll. B.
Norton; Attorney General, j. B. Hallowell;
Assistant-Justice of the Supreme Court, w.
P. Donthitt. The following are the main feat
ures of the platform adopted: Maintaining
the inviolability of the right of the State to
control it's own domestic Institutions; con-
demning the present Administration for its
bold defiance of public sentiment and disre-
gard of the public good; insisting that the
public debt shall be paid in strict compliance
with the law under which it was contracted;
demanding the repeal of the National Banking
law, and the issue of legal tenders interchange
of interest; favoring therepeal of the tariff on
lumber and on the necessities of common life;
demanding such legislation in regard to rail
roads as will secure the industrial interests of
the country against monopoly and extortion;
denouncing the Poland law of the last Con-
gress as an outrage against the liberty of the
press and the individual; protesting against
the Indian policy of the Administration, and
favoring the election of President, Vice-Presi-
dent and Senators by direct vote of the peo-
pie.
The North Carolina election, on the 9th,
passed off quietly. Democratic gains were
everywhere reported and it was considered
certain that the State had gone Democratic
by from 5000 to 10000 majority. Seven of
the eight Congressman elected were Demo
Gratis
THE county elections in Tennessee, on the
9th, generally resulted in favor of the Con-
servatives and Democrats.
THE Michigan State Reform Convention
was held at Lansing on the 9Th A State Cen
trail Committee was chosen, consisting of
Messrs. Cook of Hillsdale, Eugene Pringle of
jackson, James B. Upton of Calhoun, j. w.
Turner of Shiawassee, and George FL. Muir
dock of Berrien County. The committee de-
cided to call State Convention to meet at
jackson on the 9th of September. Resolu-
tions were adopted-favoring the organization
of National Reform party; in favor of cur
rency that shall not be susceptible to such
contraction or initiation as shall result in in
jury to the business interests of the country;"
advocating the maintenance inviolate Of the
rights of the States; in favor OF the one-term
principle for President; declaring that the
State Legislature has the right to regulate
the fares and freight upon railroads so far as
to protect the public against unreasonable
charges, and that it is the duty OF the Legis-
lature at once to so change the rate and
mode of taxing railroads that they shall bear
equal burdens with other property in the
support of Government; that the acceptance
and use of free passes by members Of the
Legislature, State officers and Judges of
courts of record, as a practice, is inimical to
the interests of the laboring and producing
classes, etc.
THE receipts of the Illinois State Treasury
for the month of July were $3.50, 76o.O1 and
the disbursements S254, ,667S7
THE amount of National Bank notes re-
ceived for redemption at the Treasury to the
close of business on the 7th was $12,905, ,427.
The amount of circulation outstanding was
$3.50, AZ, 600.
THE Iowa State Womans Suffrage Conven-
tion will be held at Des Moines on the 9th of
September.
The following Congressional nominations
were made on the 7th: Republican-First
Louisiana District, j. Fl. Sypher, renomi-
mated; Second Louisiana, Henry Dibble;
Third Louisiana, c. B. Darrall, renominated.
Conservative-First Virginia, Beverly r.
Douplass Anti i-Monopoly-Ninth Iowa, G.