Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26

Inc lines WHICH 10TH buc SudQiuS dTOuuu
the eagles head in the vignette arc coarse
and scratchy compared with the genuine.
Judge Fithian, of New York, has just
decided that when man and woman live
together sixteen years as man and wife,
without the consummation of the marriage
ceremony, they are legally married, and
both are estopped as against each other
and all the world from denying the rela-
tionship.
PERSONAL.
II. Clausenius has been recognized by
the President as Consul of Baden at Chi
cago.
The jury in the case of the Rev. I. B.
Smith, recently on trial at Geneva, Kane
Co., ILL.,, upon an Indictment for the
murder of his wife, who was drowned in
the Fox river near Elgin last spring, re-
turned verdict on the 18th, acquitting
the prisoner.
General Wool's funeral at Troy was
observed with appropriate honor on the
18TH 1t is estimated that $4,000 people
were on the streets. The procession was
half an hour in passing given point.
The funeral of the late Robert J.
Walker at Washington on the 18th was
largely attended, most of the Cabinet and
many distinguished persons being present
The President of the Cuban Junta of
New York has requested Commodore
Higgins to notify the officers and men un-
der him that they are honorably dis
charged on account of the detention of the
privateer Cuba at Wilmington, but that
the Junta will be happy to utilize their
services in the future.
Edward B. Ketchum, the forger, has
served out his term of imprisonment at
Sing-Sing, and was discharged ON the
18th.
Nearly $50 colored emigrants, from Tex
as, Tennessee, and North Carolina, who
intend to settle on the st. Paurs river, in
Liberia, sailed from Portsmouth, Va, a
few days ago. Ex-President Roberts ac-
companies them to their new home.
Alexander W. Baldwin, United States
District Judge of Nevada, was among the
killed by the railroad accident near San
Leandro, Cal, on the 18th. Seventeen
dead bodies had been recovered from the
wrecked cars on the 14th.
Up to the 18th sixty-one bodies of the
victims of the Stonewall disaster had been
recovered. None of the officers bodies
had been found.
At the annual meeting of the General
Missionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, held in New York on the
18th, the following officers were elected ::
Bishop Morris, President; Rev. d. Terry,
Recording Secretary; Rev. Thomas Col
ton, Treasurer, and Rev Luke Hitchcock,
Assistant Treasurer The disbursements
for the past year amount to $624,779; cash
on hand $129,7S4.
General Wool left property valued at
| $650,OO which will be divided principally
between his nephews and nieces. Among
his benefactions were $15, 900 to the Rens-
selaer POLYTECHNIC and $4,000, to the Troy
Episcopal Orphan Asylum. He added a
codicil to his will few days before his
death, setting aside $4,000 for monu-
ment to his wife and himself
At Albany, N. Y, on the 18th, in the
Shaker ha6eas corpus case of Sarah Ann
Barbour, against the New Lebanon
Shakers, for alleged illegal restricting of
her child, the court rendered a decision
awarding the child to the custody of its
mother and deciding that the Shakers
illegally held and restrained her, The
right of appeal to the next general term
was granted to defendants.
| Ned O'Baldwin, the Irish giant, has
been sentenced to eighteen months i'm
prisonment in the Boston House of Cor
rection, for participating in the prize fight
at Lynfield some time since.
Mr. Folger entered upon his duties as
Assistant United States Treasurer at New
| York on the 18th.
The following appointments are an
nounced Orrin ]. Rose, of Illinois, to be
Consul at Ancona, Italy; James r.
Wheeler, of Massachusetts, Consul at
Kingston, Jamaica, oice Aaron Gregg, sus-
pended John G. Robeson, of Tennessee,
Consul at Tangier, Morocco, gice F. A.
Matthews, suspended.
The Internal Revenue Commissioner
has decided that Special Agents of the
Post-O Office Department shall be taxed
only on the amount of their salary over
$1,000, and not on extra pay for expenses.
General Spinner, United States Treasur-
! er was unite i'll on the 18th
1t is stated that Jefferson Davis does not
intend to settle in America that he mere
ly proceeded to Mississippi to settle his
private affairs, and will soon join his fami-
ly in London.
General Spinner was better on the 10th.
The Societysof the Army of the Tennes-
see met at Louisville, KY, on the 18th.
General w. 7. Sherman was elected Presi-
dent for the ensuing year.
/ a large number of citizens called on
jeff Davis, in Memphis on the 18th, and
he was also serenaded, bat declined to
speak