Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-16
THE NEW WORLD.

CONGRESSIONAL nominations on the 9TH:
Democratic-First Michigan District, A.
S. Williams; Second Kentucky, John
Young Brown, renominated Fourteenth
Illinois, j. HI. Pickrell. Republican-Fifth
Wisconsin, John Cochrane. Republi-
can and Independent-Tenth Missouri,
Ira B. Hyde Congressional nominations on
the Sth; Republican-John Means, Tenth
Kentucky District Democratic-Edward S.
Esty, Twenty eighth New York.
THERE were rumors of financial troubles in
New York on the 9th, involving several we'll
known firms, and stocks were very generally
lower in consequence.
THERE will be total eclipse of the moon
on the night of the oath inst, visible in this
country. The eclipse will begin little be-
fore midnight and end about three o'clock on
the morning of the 25th-the total occurring
| about one o'clock.
REV T. M. EDDY, D. d. Missionary Secre-
| tary of the NJ. E. Church, and formerly editor
of the Northwestern Christian Advocate, died in
| New York on the 18th, aged fifty-one years.
| The Massachusetts State Republican Con-
vention met at Worcester On the 18th. Gov.
| Talbot was renominated on the first ballot,
receiving 755 of the 1,042 votes cast. Horatio
| G.. Knight was the choice for Lieutenant-Go
ernor, Oliver Warner for Secretary of the
| Commonwealth, Charles r. Train for Attor-
ney-General, Charles Endicott for Auditor,
| and Charles Adams, Jr, for Treasurer. The
resolutions adopted declare in favor of a
sound currency and such legislation by Con-
gress as shall place the currency on a par
with gold; express gratitude to the President
for his promptness in suppressing the New
! Orleans outbreak; declare that the Republi-
can party has proved itself under all circum-
stances the party of progress and reform, etc.
TwENTY-sIx indictments have been found
against Charles McIlrath, late State Auditor
of Minnesota, by St. Paul Grand Jury, for
| alleged malfeasance in Office.
| THE election for members of the Georgia
| State Legislature occurred on the 18th. The
Democratic majority on joint ballot is about
| 2O5.
THE Grand Jury of Salt Lake, Utah, recent
ly indicted one of their own number for polyg-
amy. His own daughter was the principal
witness against him.
| THE Supreme Court Ol Gne united states is
to be requested to take up the railroad case
appealed from the United District Court at
Madison, Wis, on the 10th of December
| PROF. SWING has asked the Chicago
Presbytery to drop his name from the roll.
The request was granted by vote of Is to II,
and resolutions were adopted declaring warm
personal regard for Prof. Swing.
AT their recent State Convention the Con-
servatives of South Carolina resolved to sup
port the candidates nominated by the Inde-
pendent Republican party. They adopted as
their platform a resolution demanding hon.
esty and economy in the administration OF
the State Government
In a reply to the recent address of the
/ Conservative State Committee Gov. Kellogg
asserts his anxiety to secure full registra-
ton aud fair election, and processes his de-
sire to do all in his power to secure that re-
suit.
| G. G.. HAMMOND, of Chicago, has been ap-
pointed member of the Board of Indian
/ Commissioners.
The Postmaster General has determined to
dispense with the services of claim agents in
the transaction of department business, pre-.
ferring to deal directly with the parties inter,
! ested,