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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-05-22

gress to speak longer than one hour on any ques
tion. any agreement of consent to the contrary
Notwithstanding, and after debate was laid on the
table Several private bills were passed ..Ad-
journed. EN
No session of the Senate on the 10Th
~. In the House bills were passed-extending
from the 30th Of January 1874 to the 30th of JAN
uary 1875, the time for filing claims for additional
bounty; extending the time for payment for lands
purchased by actual settlers In Kansas. belonging
to the Miami and other bands; to legalize the en-
tries of public lands under the Homestead law in
certain cases The Consular and Diplomatic APP
preparation bill was reported from committee OF
the Whole and passed. The PostOffice Appro-
priation bill ($35 653, ,391) was taken up in Commit
tee of the Whole. adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 18th, resolution
was submitted and ordered printed providing for
sine die adjournment on the 22d of june. "A
bill was passed TO relieve ships and vessels from
Legislative Appropriation bill was taken up and
several amendments were disposed off,. .Ad-
iourned.
In the House, on the 18th, among the
bills introduced were the following: For the
Improvement of the mouth of the Mississippi; to
provide for minority representation in boards of
directors of stock companies; for the creation of
a court for the adjudication and disposition of the
Geneva award; to secure an anti-monopoly ocean
cable communication between Europe America
and Asia; for the establishment of ocean mail
steamship service in American built iron vessels
between the United States and England
Bills Bills were passed authorizing tn the
to the starving and destitute people on
the Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama Rivers
allowing the stamping of documents and papers
heretofore unsigned and issued and subjectrto
stamp duty. The House Currency bill, with the
Senate substitute therefor, was taken from the
Speakers table and referred to the Committee on
Banking and Currency, with leave to report at any
time. Adjourned.
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and easily as one would tear paper, and the
floor gaped wide beneath them with the fierce
strain. They saw the great brick mill
trembe and collapse like a childs house of
blocks, and the chapel rise and sail like boat
around the point just below, there strike and
fall to pieces. They saw neighbor floating
past on roof, extended their hands from a
window, and aided him to escape to their
refuge. What emotions they felt in that
hour of waiting they can never very clearly
tell, except that they thought the next mo-
ment they too would go. They did not talk
very much, nor did they sing, and their
prayers were not uttered aloud; it was sea-
resignation as stunned and deadened ac-
ceptance of fate The fate, however, passed
them by; the wave that so lightly tore away
the heavier main portion of the house and
dashed into splinters their great barns with all
the contents spared their slighter structure
and left them safe. When, shortly after, they
were at work In the mud heaped confusion of
their house the girls were almost bystericaly
gay with the reaction from the fearful strain
upon their nerves. Mr.. Quigley, from the
bank, few rods of, watched the destruction
OF his home and property and the environ
ment OF his family in an agony of anxiety
impossible for those who read this to appre-
ciate.
The death of the entire Birmingham family,
consisting of Henry Birmingham, his wife
and three daughters-M Mary, aged eighteen,
Lille fourteen, and Carrie eight-will create
wide gap in the social life of Williamsburg.
The circumstances connected with their case
are painful in the extreme. Mary was a
teacher in one of the Northampton schools,
and, as was her custom, had come home to
spend Saturday and Sunday. When the alarm
of the approaching flood was sound
ed she was at work assisting her
mother in her household duties. Her
sister Lille had but just got up, while Carrie,
the pet of the household, was still asleep in
her bed. Mr.. Birmingham, who was Super
intendent of the James woolen mill, had gone
to his work. and did not discover the approach
ing wave until it had neared his residence,
situated but a short distance above the fac
tory. Had he remained in the building his
life would have been saved, but, with the
fierce determination characteristic of the man,
he made dash for his house, intent on saw
ing his family if possible, but as he neared the
doorway the torrent was upon him, swooping
away the house with its inmates.
George Roberts, a bright lad of fifteen, the
only surviving member of the family of
Alexander Roberts, engineer on the New
Haven & Northampton Railroad, was carried
some distance with the rest of the family in
their house. and when that broke clung to
some debris and was carried with the torrent
nearly mile, when he was rescued by James
Forsythe. The facts connected with his escape
which he can clearly recall are that he floated
very near to the embankment, but before he
could make a landing he was carried into the
current. When finally taken from the water
he was stupefed by exhaustion, but soon re-
covered, and is now in his usual health.
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Agricultural Congress.

The Agricultural Congress, in its ses
sion at Atlanta on the 18th, unanimously
adopted the following resolutions:
While recognizing the value of railroads and the
necessity for their further extension, deem the
cost of transportation by rail of crude products
of fields, forests and mines go disproportion-
ate TO the cost of water carriage as to rem
der it the duty of the United States to
improve the rivers in the interior and con-
meet them with The ocean by artificial water
ways. giving the Mississippi Valley continuous
wafer transit to the seaboard, aud enter at once
upon the work of constructing artificial wafer Hys
adequate to the present and prospective demands
of inland transportation and continue it by annual
installments of aid until unrestricted channels of
trade are opened, not only through the Mississippi
Valley but connecting the Mississippi River with
the Atlantic Ocean UiG the lakes, the Ohio, Kan
awha and James Rivers and Atlantic s. Great
Western routes.
That the Agricultural Congress believes it is
within the people to reform the corporate e trans
ated them, viz: State legislation controlled by
public opinion; and that we oppose any legisla-
tion under the plea of regulating commerce be-
tween the States which interferes with the au-
thority heretofore exercised by the State over
railroads entirely within or passing out of its
borders
Reports were adopted, recommending
that the Government appropriate one-half
of the net proceeds of the sale of public
lands to agricultural colleges organized
under the act of 1862, and that the Gov
ernment reduce the tax on tobacco to
uniform rate of twelve cents per pound,
and that articles used in the manufacture
of tobacco come duty free. Gen. Jackson
was reelected President and G.. w.
Greene Secretary; J. S. Grinnell was
elected Vice-President. G. w. Greene,
Secretary, resigned, and George E. Nor
row, editor Of the Wisconsin, Farmer, was
elected in his place. The next meeting
of the Congress will be held at Cincin-
natl on the second Wednesday in Sep
tember 1875
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Mysterious Demonstration.

A RATHER tough story, and one to be
taken with many grains OF allowance
comes from Oakland, Cal. A few
nights ago the residence of Mr.. Clark, the
paying teller of the Bank of California,
was the scene Of an extraordinary ghostly
demonstration. The family, consisting of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clark and three young
gentlemen boarders, retired about IL
O'Clock. For time everything was quiet
about the house, and its inmates had all
fallen asleep. Suddenly from the lower
part of the house came long, loud wall
of anguish, as of some one in terror or
pain. Louder and louder grew the noise,
until the internal clatter had awakened
every one in the house. A desire for
companionship seized the boarders, and
they all gathered together in one room,
and were soon joined by Mr.. and Mrs.
Clark. The noises still continued, but
changed in character very frequently.
An exploration was at length decided on,
and, leaving Mrs. Clark in charge.of one
of the boarders, the party carefully de-
scended the stairs. Each had a revolver
in one hand, and with the other nervously
clutched the bannister. The hall was
dark as Erebus, though when their
eyes became accustomed to the dim light
they could perceive any object that might
be in the rooms below The noise con-
tinued, and now and then note would be
struck on the piano. Just as they reached
the foot of the stairs chair came glid-
ing out of the parlor and took up its po-
sition in the doorway, bowing and pod
ding as if to reassure their fears. Rush
ing past the chair cne of the party en-
tered the parlor and lit the gas. Here
they saw strange sight. Every article
of furniture in the room was in motion.
The chairs and tables moved about like
animate things, and appeared to take no
notice whatever of the intruders. Grad
ually the noises ceased and the furniture
became stationary. After waiting a while
the party returned to their respective
rooms. In short time the noises began
again, and again the boarders descended
the stairs. To their inexpressible surprise
they found the parlor door taken from its
hinges and deposited on the floor. After
that there was no sleep in the house. In
the morning the furniture was found to
be disarranged and much strained. The
outside bars and bolts were perfectly Sc
cure and there was no trace to show that
any one had entered the house. An ex-
planation of the phenomena is awaited
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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BAYoNNE dispatches of the 18th deny that the
Carlists under Don Alfonzo had recently suf-
fered defeat. The sentence of Punishment
imposed by Don Carlos upon the Cure of
Santa Cruz had been revoked and that official
had been invited to return to Spain. The
Spanish Government, on the 10th, called into
active service rty battalions of the reserves.
AN extensive conhagration occurred in
Paris on the night Of the 18th, in that section
known as the Bastie quarter. A number of
lives were lost and more than 200 families had
their habitatons destroyed.
GEN. BURR1EL published a card in French
paper on the 14th, justifying the killing OF
the Virginius prisoners. He says: :" If the
laws of Spain are too severe in the judgment
of foreigners they are at liberty not to tread
its SOIL"
A GOVERNMENTAL crisis occurred in France
on the 18th, ON the proposition to create an
upper chamber advocated by the Ministry.
The project created intense excitement, and
the prospect was that the Ministry would be
defeated and forced to resign. On the 10th
the proposition was defeated, and the Minis
,ry resigned The President on the 18th
intrusted the formation of a new Cabinet to
NJ Goulard, of the Right Center. A Paris
dispatch of the evening of the 18th says the
prolongation of the crisis caused great excite
ment in all circles NJ Goulard had failed to
form Cabinet, in consequence of the deter
mination that existed to exclude the Bona
partists from all share in the Government.
A BERLIN special of the 18th says that it
oE rArte
nephews, who was recently arrested in ST..
Petersburg, and not the Grand Duke Nicho-
las, as first reported. The offense charged
against the young man was the giving of
some of his mothers diamonds to French
actress. The Emperor had ordered his arrest
and punishment.
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ing cooperation, union, and the obliteration
of sectional antipathies.
THE members of the Masonic lodge at Ha-
bana Grande were recently arrested by the
authorities of Porto Rico.
THE Massachusetts, Senate on the 14th re-
fused to order to third reading, by Ia yeas
to 10 nays, resolution providing for con-
stitutional amendment securing to women the
elective franchise and the right to hold office.
THE Grand Army of the Republic of the
Department of New York has lately adopted
resolution agreeing to make no distinction,
on Decoration day, between the graves of the
Confederate and Union dead.
THE sixth annual session of the National
Woman's Suffrage Association began in New
York on the 14th. Susan B. Anthony pre-
4 a-
/ Inc wisconsin Railroad Commissioners, on
the 14th, issued schedule Classifying the
railroads and fixing passenger and freight
rates.
SENATOR CARPENTER on the 18th published
letter in the Madison State Journal, in which
he says that Messrs Curtis and Evarts evaded
the real point at issue in their recently-pub
lished opinions. He declares that the State
Legislature has the right to alter, amend or
repeal the charter of any railway corporation,
to give it new privileges or restrict those it
now has. Any other view of the question he
contends would give to corporations the power
to override the Constitution of the State, and
ture.
THE Ohio Constitutional Convention ad-
journed sine die On the 18th. ~----.e-
WILLIAMSBURG, Leeds, Haydenville and
Florence, in Hampshire County, Mass, were
devastated, on the morning of the 10th, in con-
sequence of the giving away of a reservoir
erected for supplying water in dry seasons.
Over $50 lives were lost, and property valued
at 81, 100000 destroyed. Up to the night of
the 18th 110 bodies of the victims of the
great disaster in Massachusetts had been re-
covered.
A SUIT has been commenced in the Supreme
Court of Wisconsin for the forfeiture of the
charters of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul and the Chicago & Northwestern Rail-
way Companies, on the charge of having def
antly and habitually violated the law of the
State regulating their franchises.
THE headquarters of the army are to be re-
moved from Washington to st. Louis in Octo-
Der next.
A CAUCUS of the Republican Senators was
held in Washington on the 18th, and resolu-
tion adopted favoring the sine die adjournment
of Congress on the 22d of June.
ACCORDING to Washington special of the
18th, the President has requested of Judge
Richardson his resignation as Secretary of the
Treasury.
GARDENERS dam, on the upper Wolf River,
in Northern Wisconsin, gave way few nights
ago while nine persons were trying to raise
the gate to relieve the pressure in the bulk
head Four men were killed, and the Others
received many bruises.
THE Illinois State Prohibition Convention
will meet in Bloomington on the S0th of
June.
q AN enthusiastic mass meeting of working
men was held in Chicago on the evening of
the 18th, and resolutions were adopted re-
questing Congress not to repeal the Eight
Hour law.
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the chairs after his spotted pups, which
he caught, and, replacing them in his
basket, started Off "Hold on, jack"
yelled the banker, laughing heartily,
"you go over and sell these pups to Sam
Butterworth, and I'll pay you all he does
for 'em." "Sam But,erworthi Do you
s'pose Sam Butterworth don't know a
painted pup the minute he sees one?
tried him about half an hour ago, and he
sent me round to YOU"
In another instant the man had vanished,
taking the painted dogs with him.
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INCIDENTS.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May is.

RORTHAAfIoNi NidSs., may 10.
The sweeping away of four generations in
one family was among the uncommon incl
dents of the flood at Leeds, as follows: Mrs.
Dunlea, woman nearly eighty years of age
her daughter, Mrs. Robert Fitzgerald, aged
forty-fve years; Mrs. Fitzgerald's son, a
youth of twenty-one, and four young children
of the same woman, and, finally, the two lit
tie children of John Clancy, grandchildren of
Mrs. Fitzgerald and great-grandchildren of
Mrs. Dunlea Mrs. Clancy, by the way, died
year ago of consumption, SO that Clancy is
now bereft of his whole family.
AS marvellous an experience as any vaunted
was that of the women of Selectman Quigley' 8
family, who were cleaning up their breakfast
table when the water burst in at the cellar
door. Mrs. Quigley, her two handsome.
sprightly daughters and schoolma'am visit
ing them rushed upstairs to the second story
of the L part in which they were, and thence
watched the tremendous spectacle. They had
hardly reached their harborsge when the front
part of the house was wrenched of as swiftly
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scarcely one brick being left upon another, the
money in the vault sharing the same fate.
The smaller village Of Leeds, between one
and two miles distant, was the next place to
suffer. and the scenes at williamsburg and
Haydenville were here repeated
A short distance below Leeds were two
bridges, one of IRON and one of stone, both
nearly fifty feet above the bed Of the stream.
They were both swept away, the former being
carried bodily and considerable distance
down the stream. Here the greatest destruc-
ton appears to have stopped, although along
the river, until it emptied into the Counectf-
cut, q short distance below Northampton, the
banks are covered with all manner of debris
timber, trees, pianos, tables, chairs and other
furniture.
1t is estimated that nearly one hundred
buildings were destroyed, and the total loss is
from one million to a million and half of
dollars, although, of course. it is impossible
to accurately estimate the damage.
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VIRGINIA boasts of blue horse, the
only one ever heard Of
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LATEST NEWS.
teaar y - a. fltfG'A4 u
Exciting Governmental Crisis in
France. ii .as .'
Recognition of Baxter as Governor
.ss. of Arkansas.
Heavy Rains Extingush the Michigan
Forest Fires.

TerrIDIc- o--A---.stv In western Mass
sachusetts. -1 3D. - -
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THE OLD WORLD.

Et0., Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1874-07-18
SAN FRANCISCO.

SAN FRANCISCO. July 15.-Last
nights report of the Chicago fire
closed with a statement that the
flames were under control, which
unfortunately proves to have been
premature. The. fire ragged furi
Ously during the night and the
result is only less appalling than
fhatoft the terrible conf1agration OF
1871.
SAN FRANCISCO July 16.-Gold
in New York, 1O95.
Greenbacks in San Francisco, 81
@9l3.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 16.-The
steamer Ancon, sailed today for
Panama, stopping at San Diego.
Gold in New York, 1891.
Greenbacks in San Francisco,
91@91a.
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NOTICE.

Any person Or persons having
any claim or. Unsettled account
for or against the Arizona Bee
Contract, are thereby requested
to forward or present The same al
once to James, NJ. Barney, Yuma
or Ehrenberg.#: 80
Any accounts 0fclsims against
said Beef Contract, ifn5t submit.
ted previous TO June 18th, 1874.
VIII not be allowed. as all matters
pertaining thereto. wilt9Be closed
July lst, 1874 1.-The time of expira.
ton of contract. -
Any Power.of- Attorney. or any
other authority to act as agents to
sanysperson or persons heretofore
given, is hereby annulled. except
to those having written authority
70 acf, shearihg date after this May
18th, 1874.
- >ssJAS. NJ. BARNEY,
YUMA Arizona, May Is, 1874.
my 23.tf.
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TNTERIOR SHIPMENTS :

VIM. B. Hooper & Co. have
shipped during the week by
wagon trains of Bryan, Amabisca
and Cavaness $500 TBS. Citizen
freight. to Tucson merchants, and
suttlers, at Camps Grant and
Mcdowell.
Also $1,000 TBS. Government
freight to Camps Mcdowell, Grant
and Lowell. Also 10 100 TBS. In.
dian supplies, for Verde. Chiri-
cahua and San Carlos reserva-
tiOnss !. -e's-,t
David Neahr has shipped dur.
ing the week $4,000 TBS. citizen
freight, 1000 TBS. to Phoenix and
the balapceito Tucson.
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CAPT. NAGLE came down from
the Castle Dome Mines last Mon
day. He reports everything pros.
porous in the District. The min.
ers are still taking out large guam
titles Of rich ore. The mines, ss
they sink upon them, give evil
dence of permanency, and all are
confident that the district is one
Of the richest in the world. The
Captain is a practical miner OF
great experience. 4. He has been
working the mines owned by
himself and some San Francisco
capitalists, for months past, put
ing in the hard Iicks in person.
and he knows what he has got,
and Is fully satisfied. His testi-
mony Is worth more than all the
office miners in the world.
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was taken out of the beds OF the
creeks the remainder out Of
quartz rock by arrastra process.
PREscoTT, July 15-The Albu-
querque, N. M. Revie0 has the
following: A box of bullion was
lost from the mail coach on Thurs
day at some point south of this
place. 1t was said to contain over
500, 900 worth of the precious me.
tai. Juan Jose Torres. a jealous
husband of San MateO, shot Felix
Trujillo of the same. place. Tru-
|jillo, when shot was in the act of
talking with Torres wife in her
house, when Torres fred through
a window killing him instantly.
The Miner yesterday publish
ed a private telegram from Hon.
r. C. Mccormick, in Washing.
ton, stating that the Postmaster
General has ordered mail service
between Santa Fe, New Mexico,
to Prescott, once a week, to begin
Immediately.
PRESCOTT, July 16.-Word from
the San Carlos Reserve says the
Apaches on that reservation are
behaving exeIlently and are do
ing we'll under military manage.
ment and are, now harvesting
their grain crop which is very
heavy.
Weather cloudy, with OCCASION
al storms of rain, accompanied
by heavy wind, thunder and
lightning.
Mr.. J. T. Clifford, for the past
six months, U. S. Military Tele-
graph operator at Stanwix Sta
ton has. resigned and leaves for
his home in a few days.
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afternoon this fated city, was
visited by another fire which
destroyed the twenty-fOur houses
on, Milwaukee Avenue, near Nor
gan. st. Most of them were poor
houses. The loss. estimated at
100000. There were three at.
tempts; at incendiarism which
were discovered and frustrated.
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SAN DIEGO.

SAN DIEGO July IS TIL q EXAM
ination of W. J. Mccormick, Port
Collector, accused ofrobbing him.
self was commenced yesterday
before D. B. Hoffman. U. 8 Com.
missioner Nothing of Importance
elected in the examination. Court
adjourned at p. m. till 10 a. m.
to-day. 1t well probably take
several days. Mccormick is de.
Tended by Messrs Chase & Leach.
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PRESCOTT.

PRESCOTT. July 15.-The. Indi'
ans belonging to Eskelsetee's
band of Tontos, who absented
themselves from muster at the
Verde Reserve last week did moi
go any farther than the Black
Hills, and are now back at the
Agency.
The Miner this evening, says :
Mr.. J. s. Giles showed US about
$3.50 In native gold which he had
iUst purchased from miners of
Lynx and Hassayampa Creeks,
near Prescott. Some of this gold
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SARATOGA.

SARATOGA, July 16.-The an
nuai, boat race was won by the
Princeton crew; time-18 min
utes. The Yale crew were second
and Brown thirf. The Prince
ton crew run into the judges
stake boat and created quite an
excitement. Saratoga was never
so crowded with visitors. The
excitement over the race was Inn.
mense.