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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

MUCH amusement has been caused in
Paris by the letter from the Bishop of Or
leans, in which he speaks Of his election
to the Senate as equivalent to his being
placed, like Daniel, in the fiery furnace.
The Unavers reminds the Bishop that he
ought to " search the Scriptures" and he
would see that Daniel never was in the
fiery furnace.
THE Ultramontane organ in Berlin, the
Ge7na0nSG, claims that Russia is the mis-
tress of Europe, and that not a gun can be
fired without her consent Such is the
humiliating state" it says, " to which the
Bismarckian policy has brought Ger
many, that the latter cannot now move a
pin without first taking the orders of the
Imperial magnates at st. Petersburg"
A MAN named Allsopp was arrested in
London few days ago for committing a
petty theft in Leadenhall Market. When
the case was tried it was proved that he
had been i'll for ten months, that his wife
had become insane, and that his six chill
dren were starving. Allsopp's character
having been proved good for the last
eleven years, the Lord Mayor discharged
him with reprimand.
AN Italian journal, favoring the aboli-
ton of capital punishment, remarks that
the severest agony to be inflicted on any
brigand is condemning him to be hung to
death and then kept a whole year in pickle
for the hanging ceremony. Dante him.
self, quite fertile in expedients of torture,
never suggested, it further says, anything
harder for the human frame to bear than
the thoughts which criminal under such
circumstances must find themselves under
the necessity of thinking over.
a SINGULAR case is reported from Shef-
field. A Jew named Coming wrote to a
relative, Fanny Carter, making an offer OF
marriage. The young woman consented,
subject to the verdict of a personal inter
view. Coming sent over money to pay
for his brides travelling expenses, and
went to Hull to meet her. On seeing her
tutatr, however, Miss Fanny did not think
him ''good- looking enough and refused
to marry him. Coming then became
violent and struck her. He was brought
before the magistrate and bound over to
keep the peace.
A SHORT time ago woman, brought
before the magistrate at the Worship Street
Police Court, London, ON charge of
drunkenness, was ordered to pay ten shil-
lings or be locked up for seven days. She
went resignedly to prison, and at the end
of her term she applied to the magistrate
for ten shillings. She argued the point
with all womans perseverance that the
ten shillings was to be paid her as a com
pensation tor being locked up. But the
magistrate was not to be convinced, and
at last the woman had to be forcibly re-
moved, upon which she resumed her argu-
ment before crowd of small boys in the
street.
THE statistics of infanticide in London,
if they could be fairly made out, would be
appalling enough; those of the acct
dental deaths'' of infants are less so. At
an inquest held in London on the body of
a baby smothered in bed by its parents,
of course "by accident" the Deputy Cor
oner has just declared that in the central
district Of Middlesex 6lore, 300 children
Rl7ne yearly meet their death ia this
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
The Prince of Wales at an Indian Pig
Hunt.

ONAo will be remembered by those IA
miliar with the history of 1878. After
slight delay the party (the Prince of
Wales and his suite) mounted dromedaries
and elephants in attendance, and reached
the camp, five miles distant. Here they
breakfasted, and, having been Joined by
several others, mounted horses and pro-
ceeded to beat the coarse, high grass with
line of thirty elephants and cavalry ex-
tended on the flank. The party were di-
vided into fours, placed 300 yards apart
Soon boars and sows broke cover, afford
ing good runs, but on most dangerous
ground, owing to the holes hidden by
grass up to the horses bellies. The pigs,
as Indians will call wild boars, showed
great courage, fighting fercely and
charging savagely. In one run boar
6 kinked,' as it is called, turning sharp
and running right under the horse ridden
by Lord Darlington, which came down
heavily. The boar was pursued and
killed 1t was found that Lord Caring
toms left collar-bone was broken. For
tunately Dr. Fayrer was on an elephant,
surveying operations, and was close at
hand with appliances. The bone was set
at once, the Prince showing great solicit
tude. Other friends dismounted and
stood around the patient, who, having
been bandaged and placed on an elephant,
was carried to shady grove where lunch
was to have been laid out. BY this time
one o'clock-several bears had been
killed, some of which inflicted considera-
BILE injuries on the horses, and made gal
liant onslaughts against their riders
There were many falls, but none of Sc
rious nature; some had two. The Prince,
mounted on fine English hunter, rode
admirably; but the English horse has lit
tie chance with the boar in such a coun-
try, as the latter turns like a hare; and
all His Royal Highness had was some
very hardruns through country which
would rather puzzle fox -hunters--Cor.
London Times.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE Bureau of Statistics in Massachu-
sets reports that the loss in production by
the former strikes in Fall River was more
than 81, $50, 000-the distinct loss to the
operatives involves much greater loss in
production, and a proportionate greater
loss to the workmen themselves. The
strike has now about ended, as in the
principal mills some of the men have re-
sumed work. The potters' strike at Iren-
ton in 1869, lasted over twelve weeks,
and cost the men engaged1p 1t upward OF
10000, and the employers oyer $500, oee.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
CONGRE SSIONAL.

SENATE.-On the 18th, petition was
presented from the New York Board of Trade,
deprecating the attempt to resume specie pay
ments before the country is prepared for it -.
judgments rendered by the Court of Alabama
Claims, was amended and passed. =. The Pinch
back case was taken up, and Messrs. Thurman
favor of his admission. Adjourned.
HoUsE.-Bills were introduced-to Sc
cure homesteads to actual settlers on the public
lands; declaring the birthday of Abraham Lin
Icoln (Feb. 10 national holiday. and directing
the national flag to float at haf-mast on the 18th
of Aprll 10 substitute legal-tender notes for Ma
tonal- Bank notes, and to make the duties on
imports receivable one-half II egal-tendsr notes,
and to fepea ths resumption SGT Of dan. II, 1871
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

manner. The statement is one that might
stagger belief were it made on less trust.
worthy authority. A noteworthy fact
about these horrible casualties is that
very large proportion of them occur on
Sunday mornings.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE amount of business done by the
leading oyster firms in New York is esti-
mated by writer in the New York DIS
patch at from $4,000 to $780, 900 per
month, or from $1,000,000 to 81 200, 900
per annUm.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

The recent strike at coal mines cost the
poor victims of their leaders $500, 900, and
the employers, owners of mines, trans
portors of coal and others, $4,000, 900 If
not more:
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE great English cannonis to be bored
over again. With all their accomplish
ments, the English have not yet learned
the knack of taking hole of just the
right size and pouring brass around it.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18
The Lesson of the Cincinnati Calamity.

THE panic in Robinson's Opera House
in Cincinnati on Saturday, resulting in
the death of nearly dozen persons, was
one of those accidents against which there
is no provision, and one against which ~
is hard to make provision. The scene
may be repeated tomorrow in Chicago or
any other city with even more dreadful
results, and yet it is difficult, If not i'm
possible, to suggest preventive, except
that one effectual -coolness-which
audiences will not, and which it almost
seems they cannot, observe. No better
illustration of the value of presence of
mind could be given them i'll this case
at Cincinnati There was no fire; there
was no danger except that which the
panic-strlcken multitude precipitated up
on themselves An idiot or scoundrel in
the gallery cried fire. A window was
broken, causing a slight crash, and inn
mediately the struggling multitude were
trampling each other to death like herd
of unreasoning beasts. There seems to
have been no thought, no reflection, no
observation, no attempt to see if the alarm
was legitimate; only a rush, blindly,
wildly, for the doors. The main auditor
ium is on the first floor in easy reach OF
the street, though the steps leading to it
were perhaps ill-contrived; but a mo-
ment's reflection would have taught the
crazy mass that, even had fire broken
out, there was plenty of time for every
person to escape. But no. A gather
ing of human beings seems to lose
the power of consideration in such
emergencies. A mob will do deeds from
which each individual member would
shrink with horror if alone. Some subtle
cord of communication seems to consoli-
date the little fears or the just resentments
of thousand personalities into one great
alarm or one murderous outburSt wien
thus aggregated, and the result is panic
in the one case or bloody crime in the
other. We know of no remedy except TO
impress upon people the importance OF
GOODNESS and reflection. Take the actions
of no one for guide in such Crisis.
Remember that hundreds will perhaps
follow your example; at any rate, one cool
person in such a scene is worth his weight
in gold. At the army reunion in Spring
field year or SO ago an alarm was raised
in the audience, and in moment the
throng was on its feet. A panic was i'm
minent, when some one-we believe Gen.
Sherman-or the band to strike up.
They did so, and in one moment the aud
fence settled quietly down, and order was
restored The cause of the alarm was
trifing accident, not atall serious, and yet
could easily have been precipitated into
scene of terror and death. Let this i'm
portant fact be borne in mind by every
person The terrible affair at Cincinnati
should be lesson 10 the public, and teach
people the value of self-possession IN
times of such danger In this lies about
the only safety.-C Chicago Inter-Ocean.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE american Grocer calls attention to
the fact that in New York the size of APP
ple. pear and potato barrels is regulated
by law. The last Legislature passed a
statute prescribing penalty for making Or
using barrels of less capacity than 100quarts
of grain or dry measure. Such barrels are
smaller than those used in other States,
but so long as there is fixed standard,
generally understood, and adhered to I'M
der the penalties of the7aw, itmakes little
difference what the standard is.-1rdde
To9l7.11nL
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE editor of the Flemborg A0ss, Mr..
Johansen, has been condemned to one
months Imprisonment by the Prussian
authorities on account of an article adj
vocating the rights of the Danes in North
Schleswick.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

THE London Globe says: We are in
formed of the equipment of a Spanish ex-
petition for the Sulu Archipelago the OBJ
iect having connection, it is believed,
with some indignities suffered BY Spanish
snhieets,n
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-02-18

A GEORGIA mule wrecked freight
train the other day.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07
The Only Way to Get Reform.

The Hon. CHARLES Francis ADAMS has
used some of the wisest and most states
manlke words which this canvass has
called out. They are not the utternuces of
shallow observer or a selt-seeklng politi-
clan, but OF man long in public LIE, of
varied political service, aud accustomed to
discern the meaning of events and weigh
the professions of parties. Mr.. ADAMS,
however, has said nothing truer or more
pregnant with suggestion than the follow
ing, contained in a letter addressed by him
to the Young Mems Democratic Club OF
this city. These are Mr. ADAMs's words.
1.-THE experience OF the last elsht wears Of
shameful pronigacy in the direction Of public
affairs. beginning with the history OF the C'edit
Moniller and concluding with the exposures
made during the last session OF Congress, points
to but one safe result 10 be arrived at H. the
change OF administration. !, for one, anu lred
OF compromises with cOrruption aud pledges Of
future amendment. while the same fatal hnu-
enees that have brought Us to disgrace cont nus
In tue ascendant. Unless the people speak THIS
year in an unequlvocal manner there Will be no
thorough reform possible hereafter.
We hope.ull young men, to whom Mr..
ADAMS especially addresses the above Ian
guagc and old men, too, Will think upon
these sentiments. 1t is indeed true that
unless the people seize the present oppo--
tunity 10 cleanse the Government by driv-
ing out Of its places the corrupt party now
ntrenched in them, the hopes OF reform N
the future will be few, poor and elusory.
Now is the time to do the WORK. and such u
time may not come again. Put the Repub-
licans again in office, further fortfy them
IN their present places in spite Of their cor
rupt and lawless practices, and -four years
from now it may be impossible to remedy
their mismanagement of the Government
and expose and prevent their longer plum
dering OF the people.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07
Poor Triekery at Washington.

The Government Mt Washington ia run
exclusively in the interest of the party in
power, and rs il the opposition had no
rights that Republicans were bound to
respect. The public records are treated al
partisan property. A more scandalous
abuse of authority was never witnessed
than the refusal of the Commissioner of
Internal Revenue TO furnish Mr.. HEWITT
with the official account of Mr.. TILDEN \
income tax while that officer was at the
same time tampering with it to assail his
personal integrity.
Nothing baser has ever occurred in our
politics, and this prostitution OF place to
the vllost uses of party IL made more con-
spicuous by the fact that while RAUM, the
Commissioner, withheld any answer to this
formal and rightful application Of Mr.
HEWITT, lie was giving out to the press
statements that he had furnished the in
formation desired, both IN regard TO Mr.
TTLDEN's tax, and that of Mr.. HAYES. So
that, besides abusing his trust, he delibe-
rately outraged truth. 1t will he some
satisfaction, at least to have tins fellows
conduct investigated next winter, ana II
brand put upon his brow, that he may be-
Stunned by decent men hereafter.
This ls not an exceptional case, by any
means. 1t Is only an illustration of the
system which prevails at Washington,
and has been put in practice in the des-
porato hope OF carrying tho election for
President by trickery and fraud. VANCE
aud SETTLE are now candidates for Gov
ernor in North Carolina. They were both
Confederates in the rebellion. though
VANCE had been strongly opposed to se-
cession. He was Governor OF tho state
through most OF the war, and in that ca
paoity was undoubtedly efficient for tho
cause which he supported.
His correspondence with the Confederate
authorities at Richmond now forms part
of the records OF the rebellion at Washing
ton. SETTLE was allowed access TO these
papers, and selected such parts OF them rs
might prejudice VANCE in some portions
OF tho State, if notaccompanied with other
papers Copies of the record thus mutt
lated and perverted were made aud certi-
fed to by DoN CAMERON for use in the can
vass.
When VANCE was confronted with these
extracts, he applied to the War Depart
ment for complete copies, in order to meet
his opponent. Tho Secretary Of War, who
by this moral forgery had made tho accu-
sntions, refused, OF course, to he a witness
of his own double dealing, or to give Mr.
NANcE tho beuent of testimony that woul Il
expose tho War Department to public con-
tempt 50 he acted in this case rs the
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07

cost value Of the present banking house
and lot on Canal street is placed at $l25,-
600. II we are correct in our estimate OF
the cost value Of the new banking house
$500,000-the Union Dime Savings lnsttu-
tion Will have on the LIST OF May next sG25,
$50 of its surplus invested in real estate,
a larger sum than any other savings bank
in the city.
Next on the list of costly banking
houses comes the Dry Dock Savings
Bank. With the now building, and the
old building in East Fourth street COM
bined, this bank holds sG2l 253 of real
estate. II could not well have made a
moro injudicious Investment in brick and
mortar. The building is not suited to
practical uses, seems more like a church
than n bank and would, if sold ut public
auction tomorrow, scarcely find u pur-
chaser ut one-nfth of its original cost in
decd, we doubt If it would bring 100000.
n, then, we take from the surplus, as stated
in the January report Mt Ss20,s1 the cost
of tho real estate sG2l 253 we have 1908 .G2j
as the actual available surplus Mt that time.
We think it due to the public, and more
especially to depostors, that these facts
and figures should be plainly stated. Next
In order on tho catalogue of expensive
bank buildings comes the German Savings
Bank, corner of Fourteenth street and
Fourth avenue, reported at S527, 49,
which, deducted from s925,07O, its surplus.
leaves an actual available surplus of
t391,s While the Union Dime Saw
iugs institution and the German Saw
ings Bank have been fully IA extrava-
CANT as the Dry Dock savings Bank, they
have u great deal more TO show for their
money. They have selected choice loca-
tions and put up practical buildings.
II we look ut tho real estate operations
of some Of the smaller savings banks which
have closed their doors, the ratio OF real
estate to deposits ia something startling.
Take the New Amsterdam for instance:
Ranking house, lot, and furniture... .....tl3a1H 10
bu uepu'ltors oueot w
United states bonds are held at their
par value by the following banks in the
amounts here given, rs taken from the
January report of the present yeur:
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07

Commissioner of Internal Revenue did in
Mr.. HEwII-rs case.
This perversion Of the public records and
accounts seems now to be the most press
Ing business Of the Departments. CoNANr,
the Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury,
has deliberately made up false statements
OF the public expenditures by dcducting
items which he chooses to charge to the civil
war; which he circulated all over the coun-
try as tho Official figures OF tho Treasury,
when they are only the personal fraud OF
% subordinate
These are some Of the methods employed
by the Republican managers to keep their
grip on the Treasury, and, Ike tho assaults
on Mr.. TlLDEN, they only show the des-
perato straits to which the party is re-
ducod, when, after fifteen years of ascend
ency, it has no better defence than deoeD-
ton and defamation.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07
To what the Republican Organization
has Descended.

There is n class Of ncws which TIE SrN
carefully avoids because ii is disngreeable,
generally useless and often indecent; but
when the Government of the United States
is involved in matters of this sort, and
when the peoples money is applied by the
order OF the President to purposes of this
description, it may become necessary to
bring the facts to public knowledge. Such
n case is reported in to-day's paper by our
Washington correspondent
1t seems that ALEXANDER r. SHEPHERD
OF Washington, the intimate friend of
President GRANT, had his mistress put upon
the pay roll OF the Bureau of Printing and
Engraving In tho Treasury Department.
She did no work i'll the bureau, never pre-
tended to do any, and never came there
even for her pay, which was regularly
sent to her by messenger from the
bureau. Finally, during the administra-
ton OF Mr.. BRIsrow We presume it was.
the Superintendent OF the bureau refused
to pay her any longer; aud thcreupon
President GRANT issued an order directing
that this woman should be paid the same
as those honest persons were paid who
actually worked in the bureau la issuing
this order the President knew perfectly,
rs our correspondent states. both the wo-
mans relation to SHEPHERD and the fact
that she renders to the nation no service
for the money she receives.
These shameful payments are now con-
tinued under Mr.. Lot NJ. MORRILL, of
Maine, Secretary OF the Treasury, who,
though hitherto regarded rs n respectable
gentleman, does not appear 20 shrink
from acts of this description. OF such is
the party of HAYES, WHEELER, ana GRANT.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07

Judge REILLY Of Detroit, who has re-
Gently returned from Europe, says Of the sentI-
ment there In regard TO the Presidential con-
test:
"You hear very little about Democrats or Repub-
iicans. our countnmen In Europe view the contest
going here Americans IN the broadest sense
Of the term and everywhere you hear them den0uhc ng
Grantism. They look upon that anomalous element IN
Government not only very dangerous, but ~
Illuminating To their pride Of country The same thing
IL almost universal topic of discussion among FOR
eigners, especially Englishmen."
IL is not strange that Americans abroad who
are continually hearing the shame Of their coun-
try talked OF by foreigners, and Grantism quoted
AZ the American standard Of public morality,
are anxious for the election of TILDBs aud the
vindication OF the American name from the III
repute brought upon 1t by the maladminlstra-
tion and corruption Of the past seven years.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07
Gov. Hayes's Ancestry.

TorHE EDITOR OF the SUN-Sir. / SEQ a
communication In the sun Of to-day signed
county Down." regarding the ancestry Of
GOV. Hayes. The writer, who says that he had
tho pleasure Of knowing GOV. Hayes father,
Barney Hayes, in belfast, Ireland, Is mistaken
In the man whom ho wants to palm on for tho
son Of an lrishman. His story is too thin, and
will not lbe believed by the Democracy. OF
Connecticut. In the old Connecticut town Of
Braniord. opposite the Green, stands a three
story brick building. which Is now the Toto.
kett Hotel II was erected In the year l7lO by
Ezekiel hnNeA, who was "A blacksmith
ana the great grandfather OF the pres,
ent Republican candidate for President
was hullt of brick, and was cnlIed
" Hayes Folly" His blacksmith's shop was
about hfty feet below, and IL now small garden
OF the house OF James Lay. For the proof Of
what say, you have only to inquire Of your
correspondenl who visited me there LAST sum.
mer LOT the purpose Of obtaining town statistics
which he obtained from four Of our clergymen
one Of whom was tho Rev. T.. @. Haldwin, 81 tho
CONGREGATIONAL Chuch, who was deputed To
compile tne history OF the town toy an act Of tho
state Legislature Of the year 1873. | can only
say that the good old town IS Democratic To tho
core. ISAAC H. uRO\ys
NEW YORK, Oct o.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-10-07

When negro speaks NJ Democratic
meeting and announces his conviction that the
true Interests OF hs race require them TO vote
for TILDEN, the Republican journals laugh as II
It was most ludicrous joke and they n axe
great sport Of the consideration shown tho
black orator. Yet they spend no end Of breath
in declaring that the Democrats are bitterly hos
tile to the negroes and would again put them in
slavery. Is it not good sign aud an indication
mat his security as freeman and 4 citizen is
secure, when the negrO's vote becomes so valua-
tile to both parties that they vie with ono
another to get III This is what sensible men
will conclude.