Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-31

A report prevailed in Havana on the
23d that Tweed had arrived there on schooner
and had been seen by several New Workers.
1t was thought in Boston on the 23d
| that the number of lives lost by the recent gas
explosion would be reduced to five, as several
persons reported missing had appeared all safe.
One or two of the wounded would probably die.
| Under instructions from the Judge OF
the Circuit Court the Chief of Police of st. Louis
| on the 23d notified the managers OF the Missouri
State Lottery that no further selling Of tickets or
| drawings would be permitted after that day.
On the 23d dispatches received at San
Francisco from San Diego reported that revo-
| luton had broken out in Northern Mexico. The
| Yaguin Indians had risen and Gov. Pesquiera
| had levied a special tax to carry on the war.
One dispatch is to the feet that the revolution
| lists had attacked San Rafael the capital OF
Lower California, killed Gov. Villagrana and
twenty nine other persons and, at this date, held
possession of the town. 1t was also reported
that portion of Pesquiera's forces had entered
Arizona.
The Iowa State Horticultural Society
has been called to meet Des Moines on the 18th,
| 10th and Goth of January.
| The Executive Committee of the Michi-
gan Agricultural Society, sitting at Detroit has
decided to hold the State Fair In September next
| and continue it for five days, beginning on the
| 18TH The location had not been decided on up
| to the 23d.
Patrick Kanen, recently convicted at
Cleveland, Ohio, of starving an idiot son to
death, has been sentenced to the Penitentiary for
ten years.
The late threatened bread riots at Mon
| treal were averted by the employment of between
| 1900 and 1900 aborers on city improvements at
the rate of seven cents per hour.
The jury in the recent trial of the suit
| for libel brought by Bowen against the Brooklyn
Eagle found for the plaintiff and fixed his dam.
ages at $1,000. The other cases are to be tried
| next term.
A Philadelphia dispatch of the Gath
| says the Pope had agreed to contribute for exhi-
| bition at the Centennial works OF art from the
galleries of the Vatican. The letters from His
| Holiness are written in the warmest terms OF
friendship for the United States.
A few days ago eight lawyers of Franklin,
La, handed to Judge Mentz, of the ST. Mary's Par
ish Court, document requesting him to resign
because of his incompetency and the interested
| motives which in most cases influenced his judi
| cial decisions The Judge replied that he had
tried to perform his duty faithfully and impair.
| tia ly, and that he did not propose to
resign at the instance of those who were political
| ly opposed to him. When those who voted for
him called upon him to resign 1t would then be
| time to consider the question. The members OF
| the bar talked of appealing to the next Legisla-
ture to secure Judge Mentz' impeachment.
A report prevailed in San Fran
| cisco ON the 25th that United States troops
| had been ordered to the Sonora frontier to pro-
| tect American soil from Mexican invasion.
The jury in the trial of Embry, al
Leavenworth, Kan, for the shooting of Col
| Anthony returned verdict of not guilty after
| being out five minutes.
| A few nights ago, at Cincinnati, Mrs.
| Lawrence dropped coal-oil lamp. The fire
caught in the carpet and in her clothes, and in a
moment she was fearfully and fatally burned
Her hus band and daughter were themselves bad
| ly burned in their efforts to save her.
W. G. Whitson, Associated Judge of the
Supreme Court of Idaho, died at Omaha, Neb
on the 25th, Of paralysis. He was thirty-eigh'
years old.
According to Washington dispatch Oh
| the 26th the Mexican Minister had stated, in re
ply to request Of the Government to allow
| United States troops TO IOlloW raloers aCross
the border, that the Mexican Executive hat
no authority grant such request without the con
sent of Congress. Minister Foster said the &C
acknowledgement of the Mexican Government tina
it was unable to restrain the lawlessness OF it
own citizens was the strongest possible argu
ment for the acquisition of Mexican territory b,
the United States. He further said that the citi
zens of Texas must be protected, and that if thu
Mexican Government did not protect them from
raiders that of the United States would.
The President has signed the bill further
extending the term of the Court of Commissioner
on the Alabama Claims until the 22d of Jul,
next
At Memphis, on the 25th, the thermom
eter rose 20 eighty degrees above Zero
On the 26th the Moody and Sankey
religious services at Philadelphia were largely
attended. Mr.. Moody said in the morning tina
the meeting was the most encouraging one he
had held in this country. The inquiry-roomi
were crowded both afternoon and evening.
| CONGRESSIONAL.
| SENATE.-On the 20tE Mr.. Bayard pre-
| n aI