Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-05
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK
General Intelligence.

55,OOO.
Spain has recognized the Governments Of
Central America.
There is no truth in the report that Gen
Grant is about to make European tour.
Alexander II. Stephens arrived in Rich:
mond on Saturday night, on his way Il
Washington.
1t is announced that all the colored troops
still in the service have been ordered to be
mustered out.
Senator Trumbuil has introduced bill
to authorize the construction of q bridge
across the Mississippi River at Quincy.
Buchanan, the Indianapolis wife murder
er, has been sentenced to nineteen years in
the Jacksonville State prison.
The New York Eoening Post states hat
the American Schooner Elma, had been
captured in the China sea by their piratical
junks.
The flying squadron which is to be fitted
out for cruise on the British North Ameri-
can coast, viii, it is said, consist of seven
vessels.
Advices from China and Japan report
that piracy is increasing to such an extent
in the China Sea as to seriously endanger
commerce.
The cattle plague is on the decrease so far
as the number of new cases is concerned,
but there is large increase in the number
of animals killed
Sixty persons have been arrested in Hayti,
charged with being implicated in the late
revolution, and it is thought at least twenty
Of them will be executed.
Intelligence from South America is to
the 3D. The defeat of the Argentine van
guard by 1900 Paraguyans is confirmed.
The loss on each side was about 600.
Official proclamation has been made of
the ratification Of the treaty between the
United States and the chiefs of the Mime
congin band of Dakota or Sioux Indians.
The two great oil pipes from Pithole to
Titusville, distance of nine and a quarter
miles, with fall of 81 feet, have com
menced delivery with capacity of 1000
barrels a day.
The Brazilians are very DESTROYS of a
immigration to their country, and are hold
ing meetings to forward the matter. Great
inducements are offered TO American farm
ers to remove thither.
Great excitement has been created at
Victoria, British America, by the report Of
the discovery of ledge Of well-defned
gold-bearing rock of great richness, fifty
feet in width, within ffteer niles of the
town. V 8
Webave reports of two fghtsin Mexico.
In the first instance the Imperiais defeated
the Liberals, but they afterwards attacked
the French, killed one hundred, amsng them
the Baron De Briar, commander of the
Frs1ea.
The Missouri Democrat of the 9th says:
within two weeks from to-day, two thou
sand passengers, principally miners, and
three thousand tons of freight, will have
left this port on steamboats, for the Montana
and Idaho mines.
Ex-Gen. L. G. Baker, convicted Of false
Imprisonment in the case Of Mrs Cobb, the
pardon broker, was sentenced, March %,
by the Criminal Court at Washington, to a
fine of one dollar and costs. The other in
dictments against him were Withdrawn.
At New York the construction Of the i'm
mense iron-cIad ram, Dunderberg, fast pro
crosses toward completion, her engines and
trrrets being now located, and the. lst piece
of heavy iron work, the smoke-stack landed
safely on the upper deck. 1t is expected
that she will make the trial trip in July.
The alleged principal in the robbery o
81, $685. 900 from the office of Mr.. r.. L.
Lord, in New York, has been apprehended,
and there is strong probability of the
stolen property being recovered. The sup
posed thief was captured at Newburyport,
Mass. 1t has not yet transpired whether
the missing bonds have been recovered.
Gov McTavish was in st. Paul q few days
ago, en- route for England. He reports that
large nuggets of gold have been found nea,
Fort Garry, on the lands of the Hudson's
Bay Company. The discovery was kept
secret for some time, but finally became
known, and there was much excitement in
consequence.
In the United States Court, in session
atKeokuk, the suit against lie Grand Boy
ington, of Iowa City, for violation of The
Revenue Law in refusing to fix stamps tt
various deeds and bonds, judgment went by
default - Boyington making no defence
Fines amounting to 1900 and costs, in al
about 81, 700 were assessed against him.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin, March
%, announced its decision in the case Of
Gillespie cs Palmer, which involves the
question whether the State Constitution was
amended at the election of 1917 so as to
allow colored persons TO vote. The order
of the lower Court, deciding negatively,
was reversed, with costs,-the Court being
unanimous.
A Massachusetts Yankee has invented a
cotton picking machine which it is claimed,
will do the work of twenty men, gathering
cotton as clean as the most expert hand
could do it, at distances ranging from six
inches to six feet, and taking it only from
the balls which are ripe and well open, leav-
ing the undeveloped pods uninjured, and
not harning the plant
Early in the week Two young girls Of re-
spectacle Milwaukee families foolishly yield
ed to the romantic idea of borrowing then
. brothers Sunday suits and looking about
town to see how their beaux spend THEN
time. In this guise friendly policeman