Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-27

The jury in the case of the Grant Parish
prisoners, at New Orleans, brought in q YER
dict on the 18th of not guilty as to Alfred c..
Leavis. The jury announcing that there was
no possibility of an agreement as to the
others, they were discharged by Judge Wood,
and the prisoners were remanded, on the mo-
ton of the District Attorney, who announced
that there were other indictments against
them. @'@~ ae@ @a@s~
st. Patrieks Day was celebrated throughout
the country with great enthusiasm by the
Irish-Americans No disorders are reported
anywhere.
Raleigh IN. CO. dispatch of the 18th states
that rumbling noises were heard on the surface
| of Bald Mountain, in the western part of the
State, and that volcanic eruption was feared
The people living on and near the mountain
were seeking safety in flight.
Prince Kalakena has been elected King of
the Sandwich Islands, to succeed the late
Lunalilo. When his election was made known
| there was serious riot by a mob of Queen
| Emma's adherents, which was only quelled by
| the intervention of United States and British
marines. One of the members of the Assem-
| bly, was killed and several were badly injured.
of the 23d of February, Gen. Nitro had been
elected President of the Argentine Republic.
It was thought that rupture between the
Republic and Chilli was imminent.
"The City of Pekin," the largest steamer
ever built in the United States, was launched
at Chester, Pa, on the 18th. The launch was
witnessed by an immense concourse of specta-
tors, among whom were many Senators and
Representatives in Congress. The steamer
belongs to the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany.
The Massachusetts Senate, on the 18th,
| passed the Ten-Hour law by vote of 10 to Is.
The vote of New Hampshire, March 10, is
as follows James A. Weston, Democrat, for
| Governor, 35,573 Luther McCutchins, Repub-
lcan, "a, ,131; ; John Blackner, Temperance,
| 2, 1876. The Legislature is composed as fol-
lows Senate-Democrats, 8; Republicans, 4.
House-Democrats III Republicans, 167.
The Hon. o. B. Hart, Governor of Florida,
died at his residence in Jacksonville on the
evening of the 18th.
| Cairo, ILL.,, was visited by heavy wind and
rain storm on the,1Sth. Stores were unroofed,
small buildings blown down, and in one in
stance house was blown into the water, but
no lives were lost. Wharf boat proprietors
and those in charge of the steamers in port
acted On a hint from the United States Signal
Office in that city that the local observations
indicated storm, and took the precaution to
make everything extra secure. 1t is probably
owing to this fact that no damage was done
to shipping.
| A Havana dispatch of the 10Th says that the
| Commission investigating the affairs of the
Bank of Havana had ascertained that there
had been an illegal issue of bills amounting
| to $44,000,00O.
Miss Ada G. Sweet has been nominated by
the President and confirmed by the Senate as
Pension-Agent at Chicago, vice Blakely, re-
signed. She is the daughter of the late Gen.
B. j. Sweet, First Deputy Commissioner of
Internal Revenue. Speaking of this appoint
ment Washington telegram says: The
President has heretofore declined to appoint
ladies to responsible disbursing positions, but
the ability of Miss Sweet in the administration
of the Chicago office while her father was
Pension-Agent induced the President to make
an exception in her favor. The Senate con-
firmed the nomination without the usual ref
erence to committee"
A counterfeit of the new fifty-ce note has
been received at the Treasury Department in
Washington. 1t is poor imitation.
A recent dispatch from Indianapolis an
nounces that Mrs. Glenn, four times convicted
of the murder of Jacob Young and his wife,
| and whose fifth trial was set for March 81, was
| likely to be released from confinement, as the
| county authorities declined to appropriate any
| more money to prosecute her. "
The Legislature of Iowa adjourned sine die
on the 10Th.
George Russ, boy about seventeen years of
age, has been arrested at Davenport, Iowa, on
suspicion of setting several fires which have
occurred there of late. The evidence against
him is said to be strong.
The praying women visited the saloons of
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 10Th. The only result
of the proceeding was to finish an exciting
episode in the experience of the corner loafers.
The ladies were not discouraged, and pro-
posed to repeat the dose until every saloon in
the capital surrendered. In Cleveland, Ohio
sixty women marched through the city and
visited several saloons, but were so rudely
| treated that they were compelled to suspend
| operations. Two of the ladies were seriously
| injured by the surrounding mob.
A Kingston paper of recent date says an
inquiry will shortly be held in respect to the
| British subjects captured on board the steamer
Yirginius and shot by order of Gen. Burriel.
At a meeting of the New York State Grange
on the Goth resolutions were adopted indors-
ing the declarations of the National Grange at
St. Louis, and demanding legislation which
will open and improve the avenues OF traffic,
and produce and cheaper transportation.
The Oregon Democratic State Convention
| at Portland, on the 18th, renominated La
fayette Grover for Governor, and s. f. Chad
wick for Secretary of State. G. A. Ladow
was nominated for Congress. A plat
form was adopted in favor of the free
navigation of the Columbia River, the con-
struction of breakwater at Port Oxford,
and the construction of the Portland, Dallas
& Salt Lake Railroad to the southern bound
airy Of the State; sympathy was declared in
favor of the Patrons of Husbandry, and in
favor of an economical administration of
State affairs.
President Colder, of the State Grange of
Illinois, calls upon the farmers of the State
to send seed to their suffering brethren in
Northwestern Iowa. Seed wheat and oats are
particularly called for, and if sent to the
Spencer Relief Committee, Storm Lake, Iowa,
their proper distribution is vouched for by
Mr.. Colder.
Joseph w. Whicher, one of Pinkerton's de-
tectives, was recently killed in Saline County,
Mo-, by one of the James brothers, whom
| he was striving to arrest for being concerned
| in the Gad's Hill outrage. ~