Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-11-19

signs of those on board had been found, and all
hope that any had survived the disaster was
abandoned. A New York telegram of the 13th
says she had on board 300 cases of petroleum
and that her owners were to be prosecuted for
violating the law in that respect.
The Paymaster- General of the Army
shows that during the year there had been dis
bursed to the army S12 272 102 IS, and to the Mil
itary Academy 500, 236.04. The number of desc r
tions was 221 against 4606 for the year previous.
The re-enlistments were 1885, against 500 for the
year before.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
in his annual report says the people of Great
Britain during the year ending March 81, 1875,
laid under their exci-e laws taxes in gold
amounting to S1S3, 962 756, against $110.545 154
paid in currency by the neoDlG. of this cnnrtr"
The Commissioner of the General Land
Office, in his report, recommends that all the
| timber lands owned by the Government be
opened to purchasers at a minimum valuation.
He also advises the adoption of the plan of pub
lie sales heretofore practiced but now abandoned.
He recommends the repeal of the Pre-
emption laws, and advises that the homestead
system be made the only method of
acquiring title to agricultural lands. The
number of acres sold during the year was 7,07O,
271 being 2,460601 less than the year previ-
Gus. OF this amount 1856, 057 acres were home
stead entries and 3,107,643 were certified to rail-
roads; 1901 acres were sold for cash. The cash
receipts during the year were $1,7S4,001.
A singular accident occurred at the
Detroit Pullman car works on the afternoon OF
the 10th. large air-tube, six feet square, ex-
tends from the basement to the roof to carry up
the dust of the planing-machine to the cupola.
While twelve or fifteen men were sweeping dust
from the cupola down the tube to be carried
away, the fine particles took fire from smolder-
ing embers near the foot of the flue and exploded
with burst of flame, which burned several of
the men fearfully, some of them dangerously
The news of the total loss of the
steamship Pacific, running between Port
land Ore, and San Francisco, by foun-
dering at sea, was received at San Francisco
on the 9Th. OF the $50 persons on board only
one was known to have escaped. The survivor,
Henry d. Jelly, was picked up by the American
ship Messenger after having foated on the pilot
house for fifty hours. He states that several
boas were launched, but all were swamped.
Col. Joyce, eX-Sup ervisor of Internal
Revenue at st. Louis, recently convicted of con-
spiracy to defraud the Government asked leave
d
trial, and demanded that sentence be passed in
his case. c. j. Moeller, a Milwaukee Gauger, was
found guilty on the 18th of making false returns
TO the Government.
The body of Capt. Wolfe, of the steam
er City of Waco, has been rccoveres near where
the steamer sank.
The Amoskeag Mills. at Manchester, n {.
H.. announce reduction of Is per cent. on the
wages of operatives, to take effect Dec. 1.
According to New York dispatch of
the 18th Judge Moore, of Brooklyn, had decided
to grant an order for a commission to take the
testimony of Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Richards in
the Loader perjury case. The counsel intimated
that he intended to apply for orders to take test
mony in other States and that the trial of Loader
would call forth the evidence of nearly all parties
not previously examined who are said to have
knowledge bearing upon the issue between Mr..
Beecher and Mr.. Tilton.
Mr.. Nicholas Thorn as, of Chicago, has
perfected a new motor, similar in general way to
the so-called Keely invention, but differing in ap
plication and effect.
The total vote of Maryland at the recent
election was 1885, 1917. Carroll, the Democratic
candidate for Governor, had majority of 1881.
Senate and thirty in the House.
The annual report of the Commission
er of Education shows that there has been an in
crease of 1874, 900 school children in the country
during the last fiscal year. There are enrolled in
the public schools 100000 pupils, with daily
average attendance of 4,5)0, 600; estimated popu-
lation between six and sixteen years Of age, 10,
536 674 number of teachers, PAL &c., total public
school income, $S2 158, 905; total expenditures,
STA 974, 9SS; value of school buildings, S16575S,
4H.
Hiram Leffingwell has been appointed
United States Marshal for the District of Column
bia, and T. c. Woodward, of Iowa, Examiner-in-
Chief of the Patent Office.
On the 18th, at Jefferson City, Mo-, Col.
Joyce was sentenced to Imprisonment in the
Penitentiary for term of three and one-half
years and to pay fine of $500. He addressed the
court in his own behalf before sentence was
passed, and declared he was the vic
tim of self-convicted perjurers and thieves.
1t is thought that his motive in de-
handing sentence was to avoid being called
upon to answer to a number of additional indict-
ments pending in St. Louis, and to avoid giving
testimony in other cases pending in the latter
city.
Mrs. Moulton has asked Plymouth
Church to join her in call for Council of
Churches to inquire into and decide upon the
question at issue between herself and said church
relating to her refusal to attend the services of
the church and the latter's dropping her name
from its list of membership. In case her request
is not complied with she threatens TO herself ask
for such council