Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
THE ME WORLD.

Senator Christiancy, of Michigan, was
married in Washington, on the 18th, to Miss Lille
Lugerbcel, lately clerk in the Treasury Depart
mcnt. The Senator is sixty-four years old and his
bride said to be nineteen.
T. Messrs. Moody and Sankey held their
opening revival meeting in New York City on
the evening of the nth, at Barnum's Hippodrome
building. There were fully 5000 persons present,
every seat in the large hall being occupied.
A Boston dispatch of the 9Th says there
was quite sensation, in Newburyport, over the
recent marriage of James Parton, the author, to
his step-daughter. Such marriage is forbidden
by the laws of that State The bridegroom learned
his status the morning after the wedding, and left
his home i'll charge Of his wife and took rooms for
himself at boarding house. A special act is to
nc carried through the Legislature legalizing the
marriage
On the 9Th a body of masked men APP
pcared at the Jail in Bloomington, Ind, over
powered the sheriff, secured the keys and shot and
killed prisoner named G. a. Marshon. Marshon
was convicted of murder three years ago, and
sentenced to the Pcntentiary, but the Supreme
Court recently granted him new trial.
Perrin III. Sumner was arrested in
Brooklyn, N. Y, on the Sth. charged with com.
hitting forgcres in San Francisco, aggregating
100000.
On the evening of the Sth, in New York
city, very destructive fire occurred. Thirty
buildings in the block bounded by Grand, How
,rd, Broadway and Crosby streets were burned,
involving loss Of about $4,5 5000. Three fire.
killed and four seriously injured by
falling walls. 1t was the most destructive fire
which has occurred in New York during fifteen
years.
The two Grain brothers, on trial at
G,iro, Ill.,. on change of venue from Williamson
County, were, the 9th, convicted and SEN
t"nced TO the State Penitentary for twenty
years each. They were members of the William
son County gang of desperadoes, one of whom
(Marshall Crain) was hanged at Marion a few
weeks ago,
The Michigan State Prohibition Con-
vcntion, to elect delegates to the National Con
yention at Cleveland, has been called to meet at
Detroit on the 22d of March.
HOlbrook, formerly q Special Agent of
the Postofce Department, was before the House
Committee in Washington, on the 9th, and testi
fed that contractors col uded with clerks for the
purpose of procuring fraudulent contracts.
The contest for the Mayoralty in st. Louis,
which had been before the City Council for sew
oral months, was decided on the evening of the
9th in favor of Mr.. Overstolz, the contestant. by
Il vote of sixteen to ten. Mr.. Overstolz was in
stalled at 9:3O, and delivered an address. Mr..
Britton has published card i'll which he takes
exception to the action of the Council and says
he shall continue to perform the functions of his
Office until the matter is decided by proper tri-
bunal
The second trial of Piper, the Boston
beltry murderer, was concluded on the 10th by a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree.
Hon. Reverdy Johnson was found dead
on the evening of the 10th, at Annapolis, Nd, in
the grounds adjacent to the Governors residence.
1t is supposed that he stumbled and fell over
some loose pieces of coal lying on the sidewalk.
His head struck the edge of the projecting base
ofthe wall, producing fracture of the skull. The
medical opinion is that the chief and fatal injury
was a fracture of the frontal bone of the skull,
extending from near the outer angle of the right
orbit upward and backward to the coronal
suture. Mr.. johnson would have been eighty
years old on the 21st of May next.
Mr.. Henry c. Bowen appeared before
the EXamiI ing Committee of Plymouth Church
on the evening of the 10th, and read statement
in which he alluded TO unfairness and irregulari-
ties of procedure, but as he wished to aid the
committee to make the examination thorough
and conclusive, he would propose the selection
of three Congrcgationaists, in whom the world
could lave confidence, before whom only
Mr.. Beeeher and Bowen, with their wit
nesses, should appear, when he (Bowen) would
unreservedly give the evidence which has led him
to believe in the guilt of Mr. Beecher; the parties
hearing the evidence to be pledged to keep it a
profound secret. The committee decided not to
accept Mr. Bowen's proposition on the ground
that it was case between Plymouth Church and
Mr.. Bowen, and not case between Mr. Beechel
and Mr. Bowen, and should not be with
drawn from the Church and taken before strang
ers. A resolution was adopted requesting Mr.
Bowen to state any facts il Ills possession in sup
port OF the allegations he had made against Mr.
Beecher. Mr.. Bowen then said that as the com
mittee had refused to give him the necessary tim,
to prepare reply he must withdraw. He the1
read paper, concluding with the statement tina
ne was now ready, when properly put on trial be
lore any proper tribunal or the &C mmttee but b
must decline on this notice and in this irregula
way 10 answer your questions tonight" HI
again appealed to them while leaving the room t,
give nm time to prepare reply.
Owen Lindsay Yves hanged at Syracuse