Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-08-06
THE ME wv WORLD.

James Gilfllan, an old employe of the
Treasury Department in Washington, succeeds
Avery as Chief Clerk in that department.
Announcement is made of the death, at
Syracuse, N. Y, on the 9th, of Mrs. Celia Bur-
leigh, the well-known woman-suffrage agitator.
She was forty-eght years DID,
The Centennial Board of Finance an
nounce that S 5000 are still wanting for build
ing purposes alone, and make a further appeal
for aid to the citizens of Philadelphia and the
country at large.
Great excitement was caused in CONNER
cial and financial circles throughout the country
on the 9th by the entirely unlooked-for an
HOuncement of the failure of Duncan, Sherman
& Co, one of the largest and most prominent Of
New York banking houses The liabilities are
said to be between $5,000,000 and $6,0oo,0o0. The
failure was caused by extensive speculations in
cotton.
Five persons were killed and several
wounded on the Northern Pacific Railroad on the
27th by mixed train of twenty-five cars going
through the bridge across the Mississippi River
at Brainard.
State elections will occur this year as
follows: California, Wednesday, Sept 4; Ar
kansas, Monday, Sept. 6; Maine, Monday, Sept.
49, Iowa and Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. II; Virginia,
Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi,
Minnesota, Missouri, New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Tuesday, Nov 2;
Texas, Tuesday, Dec. Z.
According to the N. Y. Euen6ag Post of
the 2Sth, the losses of Duncan, Sherman & Co.
on cotton alone exceeded S1,G00,000.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt in
Connecticut on the morning of the 2Sth.
John Mason & Co., Philadelphia sugar
Dealers failed the 2Sth. Liabilities $2,0o0,0C0.
The Commercial Warehouse Company of New
York and one or two other establishments failed
on the same day.
Ex-Chief Clerk Avery, of the United
States Treasury Department, was arrested on the
2Sth, and held to bail in the sum of $1,000.
The remainder of the bonds issued Feb.
25, 1862, in all about s15,0O0,0Oo have been called
in for redemption.
The Tobacco Exchange Bank, of Louis
vile, KY, closed its doors ON the 18th.
Yellow-fever is reported as prevailing to
an alarming extent at Fort Barrancas Fla.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
venlon met at st. Paul on the 2Sth and placed
the following ticket in nomination: Governor
John S. Pillsbury; Lieutenant Governor, j. B
Wakefield; Secretary Estate, j. S. Irgens; State
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Pfaender; Acknowledgement, Geo. P. Wilson
Clerk of the Supreme Court, S. II. Nichols; Rail
road Commissioner, Chas A. Gilman; Chief
Justice, James Gilillan. The resolutions favo
financial policy looking toward speedy return
to specie payments; revenue tariff; holding
railway and other corporations In subsection t.
the law-m&king power, and approve the late third
term letter of the President, etc. etc.
Prof. Jenney telegraphed to the interior
Department on the 10Th that he had discovered
gold in paying quantities in gravel beds on Sprin.
and Rapid Creeks, northeast of Harney's Peak
The dispatch was dated July II.
The Michigan State Temperance Asso
citation, recently in session at jackson, resolved
that the no-license policy is right in principle
and should not be oyertbrown; that the temper
ance men of the State would support no candi
date for the Legislature of 1877 who does no
favor the enactment Of a prohibitory law; AM
that "thcre Is no practical difference betwee,
the present Liquor-tax law of this State and
license law which would be clearly in violation
of the Constitution"
The evidence for the defense in tn
Mountain Meadows massacre trial was begun o
the 29th The theory of the counsel is that the out
rage was perpetrated by Indians, and that the
were provoked to the attack by the conduct G
the emigrantss themelves; that Lee held no mil
tarv or church Office and that he tried to protee
the enlgrants when their massacre was proposed
The National Bank circulation out
standing on the 18th of July was $3.50, i52,5SS,