Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-25

a man named Terrance CASSIDY, VINO
had threatened President Grant with as
sassination, using abusive language while
the latter was walking on Pennsylvania
avenue with his son, has been pronounced
insane by the police surgeons and sent tc
the Government Insane Asylum. The
man had repeatedly been refused admis-
sion to the Executive Mansion on account
of his singular conduct.
General Butler has appointed Charles
Sumner Wilson, of Salem, Mass, colored
boy to cadetship at West Point This
is the first colored boy ever appointed to
a cadetship.
The jury, composed partly of women,
engaged in trying the Cowle murder case
| at Laramie City, Wyoming Territory, were
out nearly the whole of five nights, un-
| able to agree. They finally brought in a
verdict of guilty of murder in the first de-
gree. The ladies of the jury were much
fatigued.
E. M. Yerger escaped from jail ON the
morning of the 18th. A dispatch from
jackson, Miss, says: He was yesterday
brought before the Court to argue an ap-
plication for ha6eas corpus. The case was
postponed to the second Monday in April
A bill was yesterday introduced in the
Legislature restricting the powers in ap-
plications for writs, and the bill will prob
ably pass before the time set for Yerger's
trial. Hence Yerger's escape. The Sheriff
hso hox for
all day, without success"
The men, fourteen in number, who
were sent out to Cuba with Greenwaldt,
arrived in New York on the 18th. The
party says, after the execution of the muir
derer of Greenwaldt, the Spanish authori-
ties were as kind to them as circumstances
would allow.
Gen. Isaac F. Shepard, late of the ST..
Louis Democrat, has been appointed Adju-
tant- General of Missouri, oice Col. Child
ress, resigned.
The editors of the N Y Sunday Courier
have been sued by Henry Bergh for libel.
George Wilkes, editor of Spirit Of the
Times, was cowhided on the afternoon of
the 18th, on Broadway, N. Y, by Major
William W. Leland, formerly of the ST..
Julian Hotel. A large crowd witnessed
the assault. Wilkes was much cut. Le-
land was taken into custody, but Wilkes
declined to prosecute.
The Senators and Representatives-elect
from Texas, accompanied by Senator Will
son, of Massachusetts,, paid their respects
to President Grant, on the 18th.
The resignation of Colonel Daniel But
terfield, Brevet Major General, has been
accepted by the President.
The Senate on the 18th confirmed Dan
iel E. Sickles as Minister to Spain. The
vote was Yeas, As; nays, 13.
On the 10Th, the President sent to the
Senate the following nominations Post
masters-Charles E. Braw, Chillicothe,
o.; James A. B. Stoul, Kalamazoo, Mich. !;
A. Doolittle, Calumet, Mich
Henry Ellison, Of the Richmond (Va)
Dispatch, has been elected by the Council
Mayor of the city, In Petersburgsthe
Council elected Gen. Newberry Mayor.
Among Councilmen appointed for Peters
burg by Gov. Walker are two colored
men.
Sam Lynch, ringleader of the steamer
Dubuque rioters, has been captured in
Arkansas.
The following is the resolution adopted
by the United States House of Representa-
tives in the case of Mr.. Butler, Of Ten
nessee:
ResolUed, That the House declares its condemna-
tion Of the action of Hon. X. r. Butler, Repre-
sentative from the First District Of Tennessee, in
nominating Aug. G. Tyler, who was not an actual
resident of his district cadet at the Military
Academy at West Point, and receiving money from
the father of said cadet, to be used for political
purposes In Tennessee, unauthorized and
| dangerous practice, and he is hereby censured
| therefor.
At State Centenary gathering of the
Universalists at Hartford, Conn.,, on the
| 18th, addresses were made by Horace
Greeley, Rev. Mrs. Olympia Brown, and
others. Subscriptions to the National
Universalist Centenary and Missionary
Fund were made of $4,000.