Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-24
THHE NEW WORRED.

The mandatory of the Wheeler & Will
son Sewing Machine Company, at Bridgeport,
Conn.,, was burned on the ever.ing of the 14th.
The property burned covered over two acres, and
was valued at s75O,OOO. One. life was lost
Freeland, Harding, 4 LOOMS, of Bos-
ton, have failed lately, with liabilities estimated
ut ShofOO. On tie 14th the failure Of John
Hopkins leather Lealer, of New York city, was
announced.
In his report, sent to Congress on the
14th, tie Attorney General urges that District
Attorneys he paid by salaries only, to be graded
rccording to place; that the District of Columbia
be no exception to the law; giving the app int
ments of Assistant District Attorneys to the
Attorney General; that uniform mode of select
ing jurors for United States Courts be provided
by law; that o law be passed forbidding
the payment of Deputy Marshals by certificates or
due-bills, and the advance of any money to Mar
shals whose accounts unadjusted at the
Treasury for over six months. He refers to the
case of Brigham Young and asks further legisla-
ton. The labors of the Supreme Court and the
Court of Claims are alluded to- and it is suggested
thatsuch legislation be had as will enable the latter
court aided by the Attorney General, to increase
the safeguards against improper testimony by
devising different modes of taking 1t, and to
force old cases to early trial or require them to
be dismissed without power of restoration TO
these ends he proposes, after consultation with
the court, to draft bill and submit it to the
present Congress.
Rev. John Henry Hobart Brown, Bishop
elect of the Fond du Lac (Wis.) Diocese, was
conscCrated at Cohoes, N Y, on the 18th. A
large number Of Bishops and clergy were present
and the services were uncommonly interesting.
The National Cheap Transportation
Convention met in Chicago on the 18th, large
delegation being present.
An order was received in Chicago on
the 18th dissolving the Court of Inquiry in the
case of Gen. Babcock, This action taken at
the suggestion of the accused on the ground that
he would be afforded a chance to vindicate him.
self in the answer to his Indictment at st.
Louis.
There was an increase of thirty-ive in
the Oranges of Massachusetts last year They
now number 10o with membership of 4,O00
AT the Boston municipal election on the
14th Mayor Cobb the " Clti2ens'" candidate,
was reelected by majority of between 1900 and
5000 over H. j. Boardman. ...,. ..
On the 10Th, at Covington, Ky, four
rectiiers of whisky pleaded guilty of violating
the Revenue laws,
The Democratic caucus of the Virginia
Legislature, on the 18th, nominated John w.
Johnston for reelection to the United States
Senate, and on the 10th he was elected by strict
party vote.
In the United States Court at Indianap-
oils on the 18th, Deputy-Colectof Hill, charged
with conspiracy to defraud the Government out
ofthe tax on whisky, was found guilty.
George S. Bangs, General Superintend-
ent of the Railway Postal Service. rendered his
resignation on the 18Th. -
The following is the negative vote on
the anti-third-term resolutions recently adopted
by the United States House of Representatives
Bradley, Denison, HARRISON, Hoge, Hubbell,
Hyman, Lynch, MacDougall, Nash, Page, Plaist-
ed, Pratt, Smalls, Wallace of South Carolina,
Walls, Wells of Mississippi, White, Whiting The
affirmative vote was 232.
According to the official report of the
Secretary of the Michigan State Grange the
membership of the Order in the State, as near as
could be ascertained from reports received, was
on the SOth of September, 4,275, and the number
of subordinate Oranges Oil.
The steamer U. S. Pike, laden with cot
ton and sugar, was burned while lying at the
wharf in New Orleans on the night of the 10Th
Several persons were badly injured by the fire
and number of deck-hands are supposed to have
jumped overheard and drowned -
The National Cheap Transportation
Convention, recently in session in Chica.o
elected the following officers for the ensuing
year, President; John F. Henry, OF New York; 9
Vlce-President for each State and Territory
treasurer, r. B. Thurber of New York; Score
lary, Frank Gilbert Of Illinois; Assistant Secre
tary, II. A. Stolenworks. of Alabama; Executive
Committee, John F. Henry, F. b. Thurber. James
Utley, Frank Gilbert and H. A Stolenworks.
Henry Hollenschied was hung at Her.