Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24

General Prlm Salu tn6 RUVcTuucAs A"u
sought candidate for the throne, but
thus far in vain. He felt confident, how
ever, that within the next three months
one would be found He did not mean
Alfonzo. He did not apprehend any dis
orders.
The London Times, speaking of the
death Of Mr.. Dickens, employs these eulo-
CYSTIC words: "The ordinary expressions
of regret are not cold and conventional
Millions of people feel it is personal
bereavement. Statesmen, savans, and
benefactors of the race, when they die,
can leave no such void. They cannot,
like this great novelist, have been an in
mate of every house."
The remains of Charles Dickens were
deposited in the poets corner at West
minister Abbey, on the 18th. They were
placed at the foot of Handel, and head OF
Sheridan, with Macauley and Cumberland
on either side. The usual flowers were
strewn upon the bier. Dean Stanley read
the burial service, and the coffin was de-
posted in its final resting place. Upon
the coffin-plate were inscribed the words: I:
"Charles Dickens Born February 2,
1912; died June 9, 1870"
An earthquake at Yokohama, Japan,
on the 18th ult., caused slight damage and
much alarm. 1t was the most violent ex-
perienced since 1856. It is reported that
several villages in the neighborhood OF
Vreis were destroyed. The great volca-
no Asami, in the province of Sinchia,
that had been quiet for centuries, broke
out in violent eruption, accompanied by a
shaking of the earth. The people were
terrified several villages in the vicinity
were destroyed.
A Madrid dispatch of the 10th says,
great satisfaction was felt there at the
message of President Grant on the Cuban
question.
A telegram from Rome, June is, states
that former dispatch announcing that
the infallibility dogma had been adopted
was erroneous.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 10th
at 1885.
A resolution sympathising with the
people of the British Provinces who favor
annexation to the United States, passed
the Massachusetts House of Representa-
tives unanimously on the 10th.
Commodore Vanderbilt on the 9th re-
duced his rates on cattle from Buffalo to
Albany and New York 0io the Central
and Hudson River lines, from $120 per
car to $40. a
The st. Paul Press Pembina cores
pondent of the Both ult. says the Indians
were concentrating in the vicinity Of the
Lake of the Woods, with the purpose OF
giving the Canadians brush when they
penetrated the swamps. Reil's picket line
extended from the Lake Of the Woods to
Pembina Mountain.
Red Cloud and party had a final council
with Secretary Cox and Commissioner
Parker, on the 10th. Secretary Cox explain
ed the treaty of 1867 to the Indians, show
ing them on map the boundaries fixed in
such treaty. Red Cloud said this was the
first time he had heard of such 8 treaty,
and did not mean to follow it. He had
been asked to sign the treaty merely to
show that he was peaceable, and not to
grant their lands, and it Fad never been
correctly explained to Mm.
Senator Morrill,, of Maine, Chairman Of
the Committee on Appropriations, and
Delegate Hooper, of Utah, had an inter
view with Red Cloud on the 10th, during
which the, Indians Chief said There
would be no war if the whites waited for
the Sioux to commence it. His people,
having no food, have to hunt, and when
they do that, they were told they were OIL
their reservation, and were shot at. This
made trouble, and the Indians get blame,
for they haveno writers or papers.
At an AntISecret Society Convention
held in Cincinnati CT, the 18th, a resolu-
ton was adopted that membership in
secret societies is deserving of church
discipline in the case of any person who,
after being administered, persists in main
tanning such membership. ~ n
Eleven thousand eight hundred and
ninety-two immigrants arrived at New
York during the week ending June II,
over 5000 of whom went West or to the
interior. aa.45s g4a sii lfsa 7ss'
T. B. Grant, soldier of the war Of 1912
aged "a, was buried in st. Louis on the
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Governor Holden, of North Carolina
in recent proclamation describing q Sc
ries of outrages alleged to have been com
mitted in that State, has offered reward
of $500, each for the apprehension of any
of the guilty parties. s-.e,4 "a. ...s .,as
A terrible tornado passed over a large
portion of Arkansas and Mississippi OF
the 10th, commencing near Council Bend
passing down to Peters Landing, cross
ing the river, and then extending to Boil
var county, leaving ruin and desolation IL
its track. 1t partook of wind, rain ane
hail, the latter being unusually severe
and utterly destroying the corn and cot
ton crops in its track, and stripping The
forests. It's width was two miles. Ths
crops were unusually promising, corn be
ginning to tassel, but all is lost. On th'
following day the storm was repeated
traversing generally the same course. Z
The British Minister at Washington ha
received an official letter from Lore
Clarendon, in which the thanks of th'