Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-26
Summary OF THE WEEK.
General Intelligence.

A case of trichina is reported at Dewitt,
Iowa, and quantity of diseased pork dis
covered.
Never since the first of the war has there
been so much activity mar tested at the diff
ferent navy yards as at the present time.
The heirs of the Revolutionary General
Kosciusko have lost suit of 600 acres of
land situated near White Sulphur Springs,
Ohio.
The Washington people were excited
over report that gold-bearing quartz had
been found On the Potomac, IA miles from
the city.
Two hundred and forty Sioux Indians who
have been two years in confinement at Dav-
enpor., have started for their new reserva-
ton on the Niobrorah river.
The Montreal Gazette of the 18th inst,
Gays: ''We learn by telegram from Quebec
that Ole Bull, the celebrated voilinist, died
in that city yesterday morning.
There is no official evidence that Louis
Napoleon is Withdrawing his French troops
and that Macmillan is substituting French,
Austrian, and Belgian recruits.
The United States Treasurer lately re-
ceived from an unsophisticated individual a
counterfeit fifty certificate note with re-
guest to send genuine 9sf in exchange.
The death of Senator Foot, the Pater
.Se,1atus, leaves the honor of oldest member
to be divided between Senators Wade and
Sumner, who have each been there sixteen
years.
The Lawrence Tribune says that it is COM
puted at low estimate, that the number Of
people now coming into Kansas to settle is
not less than one thousand per week, or two
hundred families.
The Postmaster General will soon issue
postage stamp of the denomination of fifteen
cents 1t bears the likeness of Abraham
Lincoln, and will be convenient in paying
foreign postage.
A mule rinderpest prevails in Upper
Louisiana and Mississippi. Buffalo gnats
are killing off mules and horses. On one
plantation SO were killed in one night; ON
another 25; On another, 20.
The strike of the New York car drivers
is ended by a compromise allowing them
$500 per day for ten hours work. Prior
to the strike they received only this amount
for twelve and fourteen hours labor.
The American Consul at Aspinwall in
forms the State Department, under date of
April l, that a disease similar to the rinder-
pest has broken out along the Panama rail-
road, quite number of cattle dying daily.
Ihe notorious murderers, Terrell and
Wilters, were rescued from the Spencer
county, KY, Jail on the 18th, by party of
seven disguised and armed men, who
threatened the life of the jailor on refusal
TO unlock the cell.
Mrs. JEFF Davis left New York on the
18th, en- route for Canada, where her two
elder children, mother and sister are tenn
porarily residing. She has not been to
Washington, nor has she been able to obtain
permission to see her husband.
The steamer Virginia arrived at New
York on the 18th, from Liverpool, with
l,043 passengers. During the trip there
were SO deaths on board,-the disease being
similar to that on the steamer England.
There was death from cholera at Portland,
Me-, ON the 18th.
The lists of dead Union soldiers are COM
pleted, numbering two hundred and eighty
thousand seven hundred and thirty-nine.
Ninety -one thousand men and five thousand
officers were killed in action or died from
wounds. and one hundred and eighty-fve
thousand died from disease.
Judge Balloon of the New York Supreme
Court, sitting at Binghamton, has decided
that the law relative to the State Inebriate |
Asylum is unconstitutional and void. All |
parties committed to its walls by order of /
the Supreme Court are entitled to be re-
leased.
The steamship England, which put into
Halifax some two weeks since with the |
cholera on board, has arrived in New York |
lower bay. She has on board crew of
122 men, sixteen cabin passengers, and POP |
steerage passengers. The number who have |
died from the cholera is 200. All are now |
doing well.
Edward W. Green, the murderer If young |
Converse, at the Maiden Bank, about two
years ago, was executed on the 18th, in the |
Jail yard at East Cambridge, Mass Be- |
tween two and three hundred persons were |
present within the walls and an equal num-
Der outside Green behaved with compare |
tive calmness, and died with hardly stray
gle.
w. NJ Jackson, United States Consul at
Halifax, writes that the physicians, after
further developments of the disease on board
England, and fuller consultation, concur in
pronouncing it Asiatic cholera. The pas |
sengers are detained at the quarantine
ground, and other precautionary measures
have been adopted to prevent the disease
from spreading.
The coroner's jury in the case of the muir
dered Deering family, in Philadelphia, have
returned a verdict that, in their opinion, the
chole eight came to their death at the hands
Of Anthony Probst. The man arrested at
London, Canada West, on suspicion of being
concerned in this eight-fOld murder proves
TO have been in Madison, Wis, all winter,
and of course entirely guiltless.
DR.. W. A. Spence, who was surgeon OF
the post hospital at Richmond during the
rebellion, states, in reply TO an inquiry
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