Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-10
THE NEW WORLD.

Mardi GraS festivities were the order OF
the day in several Southern cities on the Goth
alt. The celebration at Memphis was very elab
crate, and the streets of the city were crowded
that it was almost impossible to clear them for
the street pageant.
The United States Supreme Court has
recently decided that the EASTERN terminus of the
Union Pacific Railroad is on the Iowa shore of
the Missouri River, at Council Bluffs and that the
Omaha bridge is part of the road, and must be
operated in connection with the whole line.
The wholesale grocery house of Allen,
Keith & Co., of Chicago, has suspended. The
liabilities are stated to be $1750O0. The Tribune
of the Goth ut. say there was good reason to be-
leve the house would be enabled to continue
business, or that in any event, all debts would be
paid In full.
The Connecticut Republican State Con-
vention was held at Hartford on the Goth ut.,
and the following State ticket was placed in
nomination: For Governor, Henry G. Robinson !;
Lieutenant Governor, Frederick j. Kingsland ;
Secretary of State, Francis A. Walker; Treasur-
er jeremiah Onley; Comptroller, Eli Curtis.
The platform declares that the Republican party
is pledged to make greenbacks good as gold to
the holders; approves of the Resumption act as a
new expression of such pledge and determine
and says that the declaration of the President
upon that subject entities him to our admira-
ton and gratitude"
The Redpath sugar refinery at Montreal,
Canada, has recently supended, and 300 hands
have been thrown out of employment.
A Minneapolis (Minn.) dispatches of
the goth ult. says advices had Just been received
from the Black Hills, dated Feb. 10, which say
hat had baa tod xybi oh
paid from seven to eighteen cents per pan. None
of the creeks had been prospected to the bed
rock, on account of high water. Several promi-
sing quartz leads had been discovered.
Washington dispatches OF the 1st con-
tain a letter from Gen. Sheridan to the Military
Committee of the House, recommending the i'm
mediate establishment of two military posts on
the Yellowstone, for the protection and develop
ment of the gold regions OF the Black Hills and
farther west. The two posts could be established
he thinks for $2o0,0Oo He says the Black Hills
country will probably be covered with towns
and villages during the next five or six
years. He expresses the belief that the largest
deposits of gold are further west than
where the miners now working, and adds:
"The head-waters of the Wind River are gold
bearing; the Owl Creek Mountains are godbear-
ing; the Big Horn Valley is gOld-bearlng Powder
River is gold-bearing; also Clark's Fork of the
Yellowstone. Besides this, the Black Hills have
abundance of good timber for the treeless conn
try south of them and west of the Missouri River.
r'rOuvep ta-.-4--A a4s a,aa-a +ha
establishment of the two posts named Military
operations have now been commenced against the
hostile bands of Sioux by request of the Interior
Department, and 1 consider the appropriation so
necessary that 1 especially request immediate ac-
tion on it."
A ola Of ho I'm rl,o flfD
adelphia, named Newcomer, who was prosecuted
by Rev. Mr.. Cook (colored) of Virginia, fol-. a
violation of the Civil Rights bill, has been found
guilty.
q The Rhode Island Republican State
g Convention will be held on the s3d inst, and
that of New Jersey on the nth of May.
The public debt statement published
March shows the following; Total coin bonds
outstanding, ST 6S2 1884, 400 Enon-interest bearing
debt, $549,686 0S2 total debt So 232 $40 4S2 cash
in the Treasury, S117,610,176; debt less cash in
the Treasury, $2.l14, 96O,3o6; decrease during
February, $3,272,733; decrease since June 80,
1875, as, 419.
Mr.. HI. G. Bowen appeared before the
adjourned business meeting of Plymouth Church
on the evening of the list, and stated, in reply to
demands that he give the facts which led him to
believe in the guilt of Mr. Beecher, that he would
not give names and dates except to a select COM
mittee of three pledged to secrecy as to the
names he would give. Mr.. Beecher objected to
secrecy, saying that he (Beecher) had no occasion
Tor 1t. motion prevailed that the parties be
Sd PreseRt' with counsel and friends, as did
also monon that Mr.. Bowen be allowed
one or more attorneys Before the Committee,
Mr.. Bowen Directing. report of the Examin-
ing Committee charging Mr.. Bowen with SANDER,
etc, was adopted, and committee of three was
authorized to summon Mr.. Bowen before them
and report. Mr.. Bowen was then requested 10
retire with the committee of three, and declined
The Examining Committee then reported a