Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-03

The official election returns received
ON thirty counties in Texas, up to the
23d, give Gov Coke DEM A., 381 majority. Fol
the Constitution the majority was 1883.
The Connecticut Democratic State Con:
vention, held on the 23d, renominated Gov. In
gersoll and the rest of the present State officers
One of the resolutions adopted declaren that the
only currency known to the Constitution is gold
and silver; that coin forms the only stable basis
for the commercial necessities of the world, and
that it is the duty of Congress to adopt such
measures as shall lead to an early resumption Of
specie payments
\ The Maryland Republican State Con
vention will meet at Frederick City on the 4th o.
May. mr.
. The Maine Legislature has passed and
the Governor has signed q bill abolishing capital
punishment in that State.
( Announcement was made on the 23d
of the failure of Elijah Shaw, OF Wales, Mass.
owner of five wooden mills in which 275 hands
were employed. Estimated liabilities. 100000
A sleeping-car on the Harlem Railroad
extension was thrown from the track by broken
rail- near Walingford, VT, on the night of the
23d, rolled down an embankment, caught fire and
gers on the car, two of whom-Mr G. H. Bissell
proprietor of the Sherman House, Chicago, and
his son--were burned to death.
The Ohio State Prohibition Convention
met in Columbus on the 23d, and placed in nom
ination the following ticket: Secretary of State,
E. s. Chapman, of Montgomery; Judge of the
Supreme Court, D. w. Gage, Cleveland; Mem
Der of the Board of Public Works, Ferdinand
hmm ool,or ofA off no
ur,, j. c. Murdoch, Morgan County; School
Commissioner, George K. Jenkins, of Jefferson
County. The resolutions adopted demand,
among other things, that the question of prohiOi-
ton shall be submitted to all adult citizens OF
Ohio, Independent ofse A resolution was also
adopted calling on the General Assembly to
take steps to gather statistics showing the crime,
disease and death incident to the manufacture
and use of alcoholic beverages.
The Indiana State Democratic Central
Committee has issued call for State Conven-
ton to be held on the 10Th of April.
A Yankton ID. IT, dispatch of the Gath
says the excitement in relation to the Black
Hills was increasing, and daily line of stages
would begin running on the 1stof March.
The Georgia Legislature has adjourned
sine die. The bill for State Constitutional Con-
vention was defeated
The jury in the case of Gen. BabcOck,
on trial at st. Louis, on the charge of being con-
cerned in the whisky conspiracy, returned a YER
dict of Not guilty. the afternoon of the 24th
The verdict was received with demonstrations of
rejoicing on the part of the friends of the &C
cused.
A lengthy report was made by the
Ames Investigating Committee of the Mississippi
House of Representatives, on the oath, in which
the recommendation was made that Gov. Ames
be impeached and removed from office for official
misconduct, on eleven separate and distinct
charges, embracing, among others, the following:
Failing TO remove certain officers, and removing
others without cause; causing bloodshed at
Vicksburg in Crosby's case; calling for United
States troops to eject Flanagan, Sheriff of War
rem County; attempting to incite war of races;
arming the coored militia, etc., etc. A minority
report was also made, signed by Frederick Par
sons. The resolution for the impeachment Of the
Governor was adopted on the 25th, by vote Of 81
to Id
The lower house of the Iowa Legisla-
ture adopted resolution on the gath, by vote
of 81 to 90, providing for woman suffrage
amendment to the Constitution.
A Washington dispatch of the Oath
says prominent member of the Cabinet had
authorized the assertion that all the published
reports of serious disagreement between the Pres
ident and any mem Der of his Cabinet were abso-
lutely devoid of foundation in fact. 1t was also
stated that Cabinet officers had said the result OF
the Babcock trial could have no effect whatever
in disturbing the harmony Of the Cabinet
On the 22d of February, Gov. Bagley,
of Michigan, issued proclamation urging upon
every citizen Of the State who owns piece OF
ground to plant tree on Saturday, April 49, to
be known and called "a Centennial tree
The great four mile horse-race Which
came off in San Francisco few days ago, for a
stake of $30,OO0 was won by Foster, who took the
two first heats, Rutherford coming in second All
the other horses were distanced. The time of
the winner was 7:53 and 1884. -Ass w
The Postoffice Department has recently
rendered decision to the effect that, when letters
addressed to persons who may have changed
their location have been delivered to persons au-
thorized to receive them, they cannot be for
warded through the mails to the new office of the
persons addressed without the payment of addi-
tional postage r.~
At the business meeting of Plymouth
Church (Brooklyn) on the evening of the 25th,
the Examining Committee made report Iecit-
ing Mr.. Whites grievances against Mr.. Bowen,
and stating that the latter, when appearing be-
fore the committee on the evening of the 23d, had
only read what was nearly altogether vindica-
ton of his own conduct and had refused
to answer the questions of the commit
tee, and had prec1pitately left the room. The
committee, in conclusion, recommended That Mr..
Bowen he called before the church at the bust
tha IF RI an.
swer oraly questions as to his accusations and in
situations against the pastor in his letters of
Feb. and Feb. %. The recommendation was
adopted.
The Vance Railway bill, recently passed
by the Wisconsin Legislature, has been signed by
the Governor and is now a law.
Rev. E. G. Langley, while preaching
in the Mission Church, corner of Nassau and Oak
land streets, Brooklyn, N. Y, on the 27th, fell
dead in his pulpit, of heart disease.
On the Goth, at St. Louis, a motion for
a new trial was entered in the case of Mr.. Mckee,
convicted of completely in the st. Louis whisky
frauds. The application for rehearing was
based upon the allegation that one of the jurors
gave expression, before the trial, to his belief in
the guilt of the accused The court reserved its
decision until the Goth of March.
The special committee of the Louisi-
ana House of Representatives, appointed to in
vestigate the official conduct of Gov. Kellogg, re-
ported on the 26th, that they had found the Gov
ernor had violated, in his official capacity, the
Constitution and laws of the State, and submit
ted resolution demanding his impeachment
The minority report declared there had been no
investigation on the part of the committee; thai
the demand that the Governor should be heard
had been refused, and that the whole proceed
ings, in their Judgment was a revolutionary at
tempt to subvert the Government.
The steamer Mary Belle, the largest
steamer on the Mississippi River, was burned to
the waters edge, at VicKsburg, on the 27th. A
large quantity of merchandise. together with all
the passengers baggage, was destroyed. Nc