Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-01-07


thrown out of employment. The insurance was
ess than 10000. .a
The health of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln
has greatly improved since she was removed from
the insane asylum at Batavia, Ill
Ex-senator Richardson died of paraly-
sis at his residence in Quincy, H., onthe 9th
after ten days Illness He was sixty-four years
old.
The failures of Geo. M Single, of
Wyandottc, KAN and H. Isbell and j. Bennett, of
Kalan azoo, Mich, were reported OH the 9th.
The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass,
employing 500 operatives gave notice on the
27th of a reduction of from 10 TO IS per cent. in
wages, owing to the depression in the price O..
print-cloths.
A Mrs. Holdson, living at Merom, Ind,
| in attempting to set lamp on the mantel the
other evening dropped and broke lit, scattering
the oil over her clothes, which caught fire and
burned her so badly that she died shortly after.
At business meeting of Plymouth
| Church held on the evening of the 9th resolu-
tions were adopted to comply with the demand
of Mrs. Moulton for mutual council to
consider the two questions submitted by her in
her letter of Dec. 25, 1873, to whether the
reasons of the church for dropping her from it's
membership as it did were valid and sufficient,
and whether her reasons for abstaining so long
from the services and sacraments of the church
were valid and sufficient A. committee of five
was appointed to call the mutual council.
The ninety eighth anniversary of the
battle of Trenton, which occurred Dec. 26, 17T,
was celebrated at Trenton on the 9th by mock
engagement between troops representing the two
armies. After the surrender of the Hessans the
victors and the vanqushed were sumptuously
feasted.
On the evening of the 2Sth Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher was served with summons and
| complaint in a suit for malicious prosecution
| brought by F. d Moulton in the Supreme Court
| Kings County, N. Y. Mr.. Moulton claims $780,
| 00) damages.
During 1875 fifteen States have taken a
census and the total increase of population in
those States since the Federal census of 1870 is
shown to be little over 100000, A like average
progress in the remainder of the country would
show total increase of upward of 100000, CIV
ing total population of about 44,0O0,01o.
Theodore nj. Vale, the present Assist
ant Superintendent of the Railway Postal Service,
will succeed Superintendent Bangs in February
| next.
The Legislature of Alabama met on the
| 2Sth. The Governors message devoted
tirely to State affairs
A public meeting was held in Charles
ton, S. c., on the evening of the 28th in response
to call to sustain the Governors action in re-
fusing commissions to Judges Whlpper and Mo
SEES. Resolutions were adopted denouncing the
Legislature for electing them. protesting against
| their elevation to the bench, and declaring an
| oil 10 tn n
Ply the position.
On the Goth Cosgrove, the editor of the
| Natchtochcs Vjndicdt0r, shot at and instantly
| killed f. L. Paterson, Repub lean member of
he Louisiana Legislature. The difficulty grew
out of the abuse of Patterson in Cosgrove's paper.
A New York telegram of the 2Sth says
| that Judge Donohue had forfeited the recogni-
| zances on seven indictments for felony against
| the fugitive Tweed.
Among the failures on the 29th were
| those of j. A. Smith and G. N. & j. A. Smith
wooden manufacturers, operating several estab
lishments in Massachusetts. Liabilities estimated
at from S3U0,oOo to $6O0,00
The number of collection districts
throughout the country has been reduced from
| 2U9 to 1853.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the
| goth ult. ordered The retirement of $6l4550
legal-tenders. The outstanding notes of this
character aggregate $37, 1872 722. The egal-tender
notes deposited by National Banks since Nov /
for the purpose of retiring circulation aggregate
2,9S7, POS.
Father Boehm, the oldest Methodist
preacher in this country, and probably the Oldest
preacher in the world died at the residence of his
granddaughter, near Richmond, Staten Island,
on the goth nit. He was over 100 years old.
A San Francisco dispatch of the goth
ut. says almost the entire Mexican population in
the vicinity of Campo were implicated in the
recent raid News had been received on the
same day from Tuscon reporting fight between
the State and revolut onary forces, twenty-five
miles south Of the line, in which the former were
defeated with ten killed and number wounded
and taken prisoners. At last accounts the revo
lutionists were marching on Hermossillo. The
Americans at SIN Francisco sympathized with
the revolutionists, considering that they repre-
sent the better class in Sonora.
Several whisky distilleries and rectify
ing establishments in Chicago were seized by
Government officials on the Goth nit, the pro
pretors being charged with revenue frauds
AtaLabor Convention at Tyrone, Pa, or
| u. II
seven was appointed to issue call for a conven
ton of representatives of labor and industry from
all parts of the country to meet in Iittsburgh
Pa, in April next
Mrs. Rachel Gordon's residence, ter
miles from Rising Sun, Ind, was burned OF
Christmas night, and Mrs. Gordon and her three
children persisted in the flames. 1t was though
that they were murdered and the house fired t.
conceal the crime.
The Attorney General, in the case o
the S176.oO0 illegally collected as income tax OF
, dividends of Illinois Central Railroad stock hell
by nonresident aliens, has decided that tn
money should be returned to the company ant
no to the stockholders
A cal, has been issued for State Con
e vention of the Independent party of Illinois, t
f meet at Decatur on the 10th of February, to nom
: mate candidates to fill The various State Office
and select forty-two delegates to the Nationa
Independent Convention which meets in Indian
apolis May Il, 1876.
: The Commissioner of Internal Revenu
having been notified that Deputy Collector FED
]. mond, of Mississippi had been impe ed in tn
performance of his duties, and that the Mayor c
Summit Pike County, had ordered him to leave
u as he could not be protected from violence, til
: President on the 29th, directed the Secretary
War to furnish the Deputy the necessary protet
ton yicksburg dis patch the 29th ult says tn
whole trouble arose from the vaporings of severe
l. young men from Amite County with one of whol
: Redmond had personal difficulty, became frigh
y ened and telegraphed for troops. The dispatc
Is says the citizens of Summit were able and viii
u ing to protect Redmond or any other officer in III
y lawful discharge OF his duties.
e In the Alabama State Senate on the 30t
m ult the Spencer Investigating Committee r