Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-04

Wy III GOullHltE lIlICC Id st0estsfsss
.1a The Chicago, Milwaukee Il st. Paul
80 and the Chicago. s. Northwestern Rail-
'sss ways viii grantreduced fare to delegates
attending the Agricultural and Horticult-
ural Conventions during the first and
second weeks in February.
= p, AS APPEARS from~a report presented to
. the Assembly through Gov Ludington,
Gov. Taylor issued pardons during the
year 1876 as follows; From county jails,
Z 15;sfrom milwaukee, House Of Correction,
4 70; from State Prison, 23 to restoreciti.
zenship, 36; from Poor-house, / commu-
N agtation of sentence, Q; total SO. Gals IL !
The wholesale fancy grocery house Of
eKummel d Norris, at Milwaukee, has
suspended payment on account Of tardy
returns from customers in the interior
The firm has offered to settle with Mil,
waukee creditors at sixty cents on the
dollar, which has been accepted ON con-
s@~dition that Eastern creditors agree to the
proposition. ayaf uGa ,as5a5 s*he @-t" /.
THE new wing of the Northern Hos
pital for the Insane is completed, and will
6eoccupied during the early part Of b eb-s
about 200 more patients, making in all
sa&500.HeNew counties have been added to
the district, and the patients in the Madi.
son hospital from those counties will be
removed to Oshkosh.
QuITE a serious accident occurred in the
town of Poygan, near Omro, the other
afiernooon. III. G.. Luce, his son, and
Geo. Whiting were quarrying stones un-
der an embankment, when@it gave way,
completely burying Luce and his son.
Whiting had one hand badly smashed but
succeeded in unearthinga his companions
and giving the alarm. Both were badly
injured.
AN old fellow named misunderstanding
a short distance south Of Oshkosh, went
home on the evening of the 10Th intoxi,
Gated and was found next morning in his
shanty shocking lyeburned. The upper p 3r-g
ton of his body and arms was burned to
crisp, and lie lived but a. few hours. = 1t
is supposed that while fixing the fire IL:
raled out the Goals from the. stove and set
his clothes on fire.
Tile Board of Regents otthe State Unit
versity closed their semi annual meeting
on t. 10TH IT was attended by every
member and a. large amount of detail
business was transacted. J. H. Carpenter
was elected Dean Of the Law Faculty in
place of Judge Spooner, resigned. The
Board voted to request that the Orphans
Home be transferred to the university to
be disposed Of as the Regents thought.
proper.
Mrs. MCCORMICK, of Fort Howard, re
Gently arrested, imprisoned and fined. in
connection with the smallpox case that
was treacherOusly introduced there, has
brought suit against the parties causing
her arrest for damages atoethe extent of
$4,000. The suit rests upon technical
grounds regarding the Jurisdiction OF the
city authorities as to whether officials on one
side of the river have authority to make
arrests on the other side under the ordi.
snances of the former.
REV. ALFRED BRUNsoN publishes in
the Prairie du CHEN Courier a plan for
the Improvement of the Wisconsin River.
He proposes to put locks in the river, and
thus check the current, which has de-
Fsscent of eighteen inches to the mile, to
fall of but three inches to the mile. This
can be done, according to his calculation,
with twenty-four locks of six-feet lift, or
eighteen locks of eightfeet lift. The plan
proposed by the Government en- ineers is
to dig a canal the whole distance Of 118
miles beside the river.
The Green Bay Ad00cate gives an inter-
esting account of the old Presbyterian
Church edifice in that city. 1t was built
in 1888. =, VIM. B. Aston, of New York,
gave $500, VIM. Mitchell was among
several Green Bay residents who gave an
equal amount Washington Iryins's
name appears on the list for $50 Anon g
the furnishings was carpet purchased in
Detroit from Zachariah Chandler, then a
sdTy7geods merchant in ateity Mr.. JAS
tor, in forwarding a deed for the land, di7
.Teeted, his agent toscolleet tromthe society
some sixty cents for its record ing, The
6ben was given by Mr.. Astor in 1882 !, 1t
ill'swings on the same crooked stick
(which Twas.cpt in the woods near by for a
yoke
1slfTHEA West Wisconsin Railway Com
pany has made a sworn statement of the
following facts =. 4, SO T. ..ase = >
Number'of acres of land granted to the
company ................. 1904. 100
Number of acres received. -. 75a 800 GO
Number of acres sold and conveyed ). :. 50567. 20
Average price per acre realiZed..... ho S4 %
Number of acres held by the company
at date of report. col, 2Sa "a
Amount of land sold but not conveyed -
lander contracts i'm force at date of re-
port (acres) ! Ii. !. ! I0s, 14O 81
Amount OF cash principal received for
lands hitherto sold and conveyed " S21S. 500 81
Amount of cash received, principal OH .
outstanding contracts IN force -. .aas %
Sc interest on contracts forfeited 12s n
Amount Of cash received for stumpage
~ treSpaSs. etc ..s..... -. ...... XII 900 70
Receipts from land sold and contracted :
ssuta wbe sold during the year ending
sssJune 90, 1875 4 ..s::;:.... $3.50 i
IA ggregate receipts on account OF lands
hon 81 soirass. Q. s!s tsssllsal i
Of Contracted. 49,. ' ..s.sg..i'S, als;o7 4