Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-21
THE NEW WORLD.

On the 18th the supreme Court at
Washington took up the Granger case of the
Chicago, Burlington Il Quincy Railroad Us. The
Attorney General of the State of Iowa et al.
The Iowa Legislature was organized on
the nth by the election of the Republican caucus
nominees in both houses
A Laramie City (Wy.) dispatch of the
nth announces the discovery, about twenty miles
west Of that place, of what is claimed to be the
richest gold mine ever discovered this CONT
nent OnlNthe deep snow i'll the mountains pre-
vented all the people in the surrounding country
rushing in there in search Of the precious metal.
Hon. John Wilson, formerly Commits
of the General Land-Oflicc, and Third
Auditor of the Treasury, died in Washington on
the 18th, aged sixty five years.
AT Santa Fe, New Mexico, on the 10th,
Gen Gordon Granger, U. S. A., died from apo
pleXy. Gen. Granger was fifty years old.
Mrs. Victoria Woodruff made her APP
pcarance before The Hon Committee on Claims
in Washington, on the / eth, to ask reimburse
mcnt from the Government for losses sustained
by the suppression of WoOdbuW d CIGRin'S
Weekly. tu
The New Hampshire Democratic State
Convention met at Concord on the 13th. Daniel
Marcy was nominated for Governor and Thomas
Dinsmorc for Railroad Commissioners. Resou-
tions were adOpted-declaring that it is the duty
of the State to provide for the education of its
children; that every citizen has the right to wor
ship God according to the dictates of his con-
science and that political disability should be
incurred by reason of religious belief; deprecat-
ing all attempts to raise scctarian issues i'll
politics; opposing the third term as dangerous to
the liberty of the citizens and the prosperity of
the country
Twelve Louisiana Senators took part
in the election of j. b. Eustis as United States
Senator on the 18th, who received seventy five
votes, more than enough to elect. Sixty
three Representatives and twelve Senators voted
for him. The Senate by vote of thirteen to
twelve had previously voted against joint bal
lot and adopted resolution declaring that there
was no vacancy.
A meeting of workingmen was held in
New York city on the evening of the 10th, at
which Peter Cooper presided. An address to the
workingmen of the United States was adopted,
suggesting as a remedy for the existing financial
troubles currency which will best facilitate the
sexchange'of the productions of labor a curren-
cY supported by the cred of the country: that
the national debt, converted into bonds payable
in currency and bearing lower rate of interest,
be placed in the hands of the American people as
q far as possible. 81 b ~ ~~r.'a a@s+R
The Wisconsin Legislature organized
on the 18th by the election of Republican officers
in both houses. S. S. Fifeld was chosen Speaker
of the Assembly by a vote of ffty-three to forty
five the Independent members casting theil
votes in his favor.
The State debt of Pennsylvania, after
deducting the assets of the sinking fund, aggre
gates $13,766,564. s.1r.
The next Iowa State Fair is to be hele
Cedar Rapids, beginning on the second Mon
day In September
GOV. Kirkwood, of Iowa, was inaugu
rated on the 18th and delivered a brief Inaugural
address. 7"'
On the 18th, at Washington, the Repub
lican National Committee decided upon Cincin
matt as the place and June IA next as the time fol
holding the Republican National Convention.
Joseph Lapage has been tried at Con
cord, n. H., for the murder at Pembroke of JOSH,
Laugmaid. and was found guilty and sentenced
10 be hanged on the 10Th Of January. 1877. TIL,