Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-02-27


the 18th. There were present 555 delegates,
all Masters of Oranges. Worthy Master s.
H. Ellis presided One hundred and fifty
| visiting paembers were present The Secretary
reported that 555 of the 600 Oranges in the
State had been organized since last April. A
motion to make the meetings open was voted
down. Motions to ask the railways for half
fare arrangements and to make organs of GER
| tain newspapers were tabled.
| The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Com
mssioners have notified the railroads doing
| business in the State that they must comply
with the law requiring them to provide scales
| to weigh grain which they take for shipment.
| The Chicago Inter- Ocean of a recent date
| says the firm of George B. Hodge & Co.,
proprietors of what has been advertised as
the Union Furnishing Store, are bankrupts,
and their stock was in the hands Of the officers
of the law; that they had been missing for a
week, and that the express companies and
Postoffice authorities were retaining all pack
ages and letters addressed to the Union Fur
nishng Company for ultimate return to the
| senders.
| Evans, the Northwood murderer, was hanged
at Concord, N. H., on the 18th. He made a
confession, admitting the killing of Georgiana
Lowering, his niece, and of young girl in the
fall of 1850.
The insane in Illinois are reported by the
Board of Public Charities to number 5000, of
whom 2,40O are considered incurables. The
State has asylum-room for only l, 800 of these
unfortunates, and, when the Northern and
Southern Insane Asylums are completed, 300
will be left unprovided for. They recommend
the State to furnish additional facilities for
their care.
The first annual session of the State Grange
of Missouri met at Bonneville on the 18th.
| Nearly every county in the State was repre-
sented The State Grange organized last May
with 800 subordinate Oranges, since when
their number has increased to over 700. Mas
ter T. r. Allen delivered a long address, in
which he gave the history of the Order in Mis-
souri,, and made many suggestions looking to
the perfecting of the organization in the State,
and touching the growth and future prosperity
of the Order.
The Ohio State Grange on the 18th unani-
mously passed. a resolution rendering the
sympathy and aid of the Order in Ohio to the
women of the State in putting down the evil
of intemperance. Columbus was chosen as
he place of holding the mex t meeting of the
State Grange. All the amendments proposed
by the National Grange, except items first and
second of number three, concerning life men,
bers, were adopted.
The temperance movement grows apace. At
South Bend, Ind, on the 18th, and in various
parts of the State the foundation for vigor-
do 1oiJ Tha of
indianapolis received postal card announc-
ing that the ladies would visit them on tie
Esd. At Richmond, Ind, about twenty-five
women and two or three praying men had
taken the movementin in hand, and were moving
along the line after the late approved fashion.
The temperance fever began to manifest itself
at Peoria, ILL.,, on the 18th. At Manchester,
Iowa, the women were advancing on the
saloons, and with singing, praying and fervent
| exhortations were imploring the keepers to
close their places. The movement was spread
ing in other portions of the State. At Lin
coin, Nebraska, large number of ladies WIS.,
tied the saloon of Bailey & Andrews, where a
large crowd assembled, completely filling the
| large hall. When the exercises were
at their height the floor gave way,
but fortunately stopped when it had
settled about one foot There was great con-
fusion, and in getting out of the room several
persons were injured. The ladies then went
| to other saloons, but were not admitted. The
Mayor had sworn in extra policemen and had
declared his intention to put stop to what he
calls theiE riotous proceedings. There was
great excitement at that place on the 18th.
The movement continued unabated in various
parts of Ohio on the 18th, and had commenced
in Jersey City, N. J. In the latter city twenty
five ladies proceeded to a billiard saloon, knelt
in prayer, and spent half an hour in exhort-
ing. They were greeted with the jeers of the
men, and left without seeming to have made
the impression they desired.
| The Smith sisters, who refused to pay
their taxes in Connecticut, and had their COWS
seized and sold, have received donation of
$500 from their female sympathizers.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture has
decided to locate the State fair at Columbus
for the next five years.
| The Kansas State Grange commenced its
annual session at Topeka on the 18th. One
thousand Oranges were represented. The re-
ports of the officers show the affairs of the
Order to be in an excellent condition, al
though but small amount remains in the
treasury The financial interests are shown
to have been economically managed, aud the
State Business Agency is on satisfactory
basis. On the 10Th resolutions were adopted
requesting the State Legislature to pass pro-
hibtory liquor law, ,and declaring that no person
who retails liquor shall be admitted to the
Order; also declaring that the greatest good
and the highest happiness of an enlightened,
virtuous and prosperous people are the legiti-
mate results of thorough and practical educa-
| tion diffused among the masses. Hon. M. E.
Hudson was elected Master of the State
Grange.
The State Grange of Tennessee assembled al
Gallatin on the 18th in its first annual session
Nearly 500 subordinate Oranges were repre-,
sented, there being between 500 and 600 repre-
sentatives present, and many ladies being del
egates
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says the
Senate Committee ON the Public Lands had
agreed to recommend the passage Of bill ex.
tending until December 1, 1876, the time fol
the completion of the Wisconsin Central
Railway. The existing law requires its
completion by next May, under penalty of the
forfeiture of the large land grant. The com.
mittee also took action on the House bill
amendatory of the act to encourage the growth
\ of timber on the Western prairies, and would
report amendments limiting the amount OF
! land that may be thus acquired by the home
stead settlers, in addition to 100 acres OF
homestead, to forty acres planted with trees
contiguous to said homestead st@4A