Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-28
cided that the Sunday Liquor Law enacted at the
last session of the Legislature is constitutional.

Senate requesting that body to inquire by wha
right Senator Spencer holds seat in that body
On the night of the 18th the town o
Apollo. on the West Pennsylvania Railroad, was
almost entirely destroyed Forty buildings, in
GLIDING number of stores, were burned. The
loss was between $4,000 and $1,000.
On the night of the 10Th a mob attacked
the office of the Neaos and Press, at Cimarron
New Mexico, and threw the press, type and other
| fixtures into the river. The trouble originated
| from local political feeling
A Washington dispatch of the Goth says
the 'real obstruction to Pinchbacls' s admission
to the Senate at present is the question whether
there is de jure Government in Louisiana
The Moody and Sankey revival meet
ings in Philadelphia have been closed. Mr.
| Moody is reported to have said that he regarded
the revival in that city as the most successful be
had ever been instrumental in conducting. The
numberof meetings and Bible readings held dur
ing the eight weeks was 24S. The total of attend
ance was 100000, and the expenses about $4,000
| At the closing meeting, held on the 19th-the
! twenty first anniversary of the Young Mems
Christian Acknowledgements $4,000 persons
were present and as many more were
turned away for lack of ROOM A col
| completion of the new building belonging to the
organization. One lady whose son had been con.
verted gave as thank-offerng diamond ring
| for which gentleman gave 81 900.
Eight residents of boarding house in
| Columbus Ohio, were taken seriously i'll, on the
| Goth, from eating diseased pork Other persons
| in the city had been similarly affected and from
| similar cause. ~@ <nE
AT a Republican caucus of the Maine
Legislature, held on the evening of the Goth, dele
| gates were chosen to the National Republican
| Convention and a resolution unanimously adopt
| ed instrucing them to use all honorable efforts
to secure the nomination of Hon. j. G. Blaine as
| President of the United States.
1t has been decided that the Plymouth
Church Advisory Council shall be called for
Feb. s.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State
Convention will be held at Lancaster on the 22d
| of March.
The Illinois Farmers Association
| closed its annual session, at Bloomington on the
| 10th. Resolutions were adopted demanding the
| withdrawal of the National Bank circulation and
the issue of greenbacks, to be legal tender for
all debts, except the public debt con-
tracted to be paid in gold, and interchangeable
for registered bonds bearing per cent. interest,
to be paid in gold or legal-tenders said bonds
being redcemahle at the pleasure of the Govern
ment, and declaring that the transportation in
terests of the country should be under the direct
supervision and control of the public authorities
of the nation, State, county, township or city,
according to rs Interstate or local character
The Ohio Republican State Convention
has been called to meet at Columbus on the goth
| of March next.
George II. Jacobs was hung at Joliet,
! on the 21st, for the murder of his wife in May
| last. On the same day Marshall Grain, hired as
sassin of one of the parties to the Williamson
County vendetta, was hanged at Marion, Ill.
AT meeting of the several anthracite
| coal carrying and producing interests, held in
| New York on the 18th, it was agreed that there
should be an entire suspension of all mining of
anthracite coal from Feb. to March II.
The Wisconsin State Republican Con-
vcntion will be held at Madison the 22d of
February to select delegates to the National
Convention and to nominate a State Electoral
ticket.
. On the 21st the President transmitted
to the House of Representatives copies of the
correspondence between Secretary Fish and
Minister Gushing and other foreign Ministers in
regard to Cuba. The correspondence consists
chiefly in a rescr pit of the note to Mr.. Gushing,
| the tone of which is similar to that portion of
the Presidents message relating to the Cuban
| question. Nothing is given of the replies re-
| ceived from the European Governments to the
late advisory circular, and no allusion Is made to
any correspondence with the Spanish Govern
ment since. Nov. 5, 1875.
The latest counterfeit circular shows
that there are in circulation spurious bills of the
First National Bank of Indianapolis, First Ma
tCnal Bank of New Albany, and the First Ma
tional and Richmond National Bank of Rich
mond, all of Indiana.
Jordan, Clark 81 Co., the leading whole
sale clothing firm in Boston, have suspended, in
consequence of the Justification of their books
by their confidential book-keeper Frank Sanford,
who has alb conded.
A freight train on the Cincinnati q
Marietta Railroad broke through an iron bridge
over Spring Grove avenue, in the northern part
of Cincinnati, on the afternoon of the 3d. kill
| ing three men, wounding two, and totally wreck
| ing the bridge, locomotive and eleven freight
| cars.
| Mother Stewart, of Ohio crusade re-
nown, made her appearance in the hall of the
| London National Temperance League on the
evening of the ed. "a r. s.. gag ~ pa
y A Berlin telegram of. the 23d says a
| German squadron of three iron-clads and one
| tender will visit Philadelphia IN July.
A Vienna telegram of the 23d says an
Austrian corps of observation, numbering 10000
men, had been ordered to the Dalmatian frontier.
A Madrid dispatch of the Esd says the
Ministry had secured considerable maj GRITTY in
the new Cortes.
The Russian Imperial Academy has
elected as corresponding members Prof New
comb, of the Naval Observatory, Prof Gould, OF
the Argentine Republic, and Prof. Whitney, of
New Haven.
= The New York Sunday Mercury OF the
Esd says that body of representative Congrega-
tionaists had decided to investigate the Beecher
Fscandal and inquire into the fitness of Mr..
Beecher to remain Congregational minister.
The movers in the matter are said to be Rev.
Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, Rev. DR.. Bart
lett, of the Chicago Congregational Seminary,
and Rev. DR.. Dexter, of Boston. .@.
| Edward Williams and Mrs Melting,
who had been arrested for the murder of the
| latter's husband, were taken from the Jail in
| Barbersville w. Va, on the night of the
ed, and the former hanged by a mob.
He confessed to the crime. Mrs. Melting
was threatened with like fate, but was finally
| spared. She confessed to repeated attempts to
| poison her husband, and accused herself of in
| ducing Williams to commit the murder, but
begged pitifully for her life. *
The wife of Sir Hugh Mackenzie, OF
Canada, recently eloped from Montreal with 8
young Canadian named John HI. Bridges, taking
| with her her four children. They were arrested
| in New York and subsequently discharged. A
| brother of the lady and Canadian officer en-.
deavored to have her return to her home with
/ them but she positively refused. and the eopinp