Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-15
THE NEW WORLD.


The National Banks have been called
upon for a report of their condition at the close
of business, Oct l:
The Secretary of the Treasury has di-
rected the sale of 100000 in gold during Oc-
tober
John +. Baker was nominated as the
Prohibition candidate for Governor at meeting
held in Boston on the 9Th. No further nomina
tions were made. Il 49, . ".
At the recent election in Connecticut
amendments to the Constitution were adopted
changing the time of the State election from the
spring to the fall of the year, and making the
Governors terra of Office two years instead Of one
as before.
The epizootic of comparatively mild
type prevailed to considerable extent in Gin
cinnati, Chicago, st. Louis and other Western
ctiea en- the 18th, and appeared to be spreading
The Grand Jury of the District OF Co
lumbia have found true bills against B. B, Hal
leck, w. II. C,ttman and T. w. Brown for having
been concerned in stealing the $47,00o from the
United States Treasury.
On the 9th the New York Supreme
Court affirmed the decision of the court below
denying the motion to vacate the order OF arrest
in the &c. 100000 suit against Tweed, and fixing
the bail at 100000.
The Labor Reformers of Massachusetts
met in State Convention at Worcester on the 9th
and placed in nomination the following tick
ct: Governor, Wendell Phillips; Lieutenant
Governor William M. Bartlett; Secretary
of State, Jesse w. Andrews; State Treas
urer, s. B. Coffin; State Auditor, John +.
Fitzgerald; Attorney General, Fl. Mclaughlin.
The platform favo reduction in the hours of
labor; system of factory inspection: condemns
the action Of the Fall River manufacturers and
favors greenbacks and the retirement OF the Ma
tional Bank currency.
d. o. Mills has been elected President
of the reorganized Bank of California.
There were serious disturbances at
Friar's Point, Miss, the 5th and 9th, arising
out of political conventions and complications
1t seems that Senator Acorn had seriously crid-
cised the official conduct of one Brown, the col
ored Sheriff of the county. The next day Brown
replied in severe language, whereupon Alcorn
threatened to shoot him. Brown then gathered
number of colored men for his protection. On the
5th the women and children were removed from
Friar's Point, and IL place was attacked by so
negroes, who were repulsed by whites under
Gen. Chalmers. In the skirmish eight colored
men and one white man were wounded.
The hog-cholera was prevailing in
Franklin County, Ohio, to an alarming extent on
the 18th. A Columbus dispatch of that date says
5000 hogs had died in the county so far this
month"; ~w Irr
The Catholic Total Abstinence Union
of America was in session in Cincinnati on the
9th and 7th Rev. Patrick Byrne, of New Jersey,
was elected President for the ensuing year, and
James w. O'Brien, of New York city, secretary.
President Grant and party were in Den
yer, Col, on the 9TH.
A Friars Point (Miss.) dispatch of the
nth states that Gen. Chalmers was driving the
colored forces under Pease and was determined to
capture him if possible. The skirmlsh on the 5th
resulted in hefatal wounding of one white man,
the killing of three negroes and the fatal wounding
of another Senator Alcorn sent dispatch to
Atty Gen. Pierrepont, on the 9TH, stating that
there7was no political question involved in these
disturbances; that the whites were to man for
defense, and that the negroes who had been
misled were fast being reconciled. His name
had, he stated been most ridculously associated
in the matter.
On the 4th the United States Supreme
Court decided in the cas- of Mrs. Minor, appealed
from the st. Louis Circuit that the new amend
ment to the National Cons titution did not confer
the right of suffrage upon anyone, and that the
Constitutions and avs of the several States
whichcontine the ri hit of suffrage to men alone
are not necessarily void.
Two Canadian propellers, the st. Aud
ley and the Bristol, were burned at Hamilton
Ont, on the night Of the It'll
A Memphis (Tenn.) dispatch of the Sth
says the Friar's Point troubles were considered
at an end ,
A Helena Ark dispatch of the Stll
saws Sheriff Brown, of Frar's Point, was at thai
place and had said he would not return to hi.
home, as the colored people there had threatened
to kill him Chalmers was still seeking to effec
his capture. rt
.Pemberton, the murderer of Mrs. Bing
ham in East Boston last March, was hanged a
Boston on the 9Th. II
According to New York dispatch o.
the 9Th Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begil
tneir revival on the 31st inst. IN B ooklyn. N
T., using the skating-rink, which has capacit,
I0r 90 ing about 5000 people, as the tabernacle
The services viii be on the same general plan al
that followed 10 England