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The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-01

A TENNESSEE vESDErrA-At Brown.
vile, Tenn, John Higgins and Joseph Smell,
both coloied men, had a desperate fight,
growing out of an old ieui. They were ar.
rested by the Marshal and carried on. Soon
afterwards Smells vile entered Higgins
house, armed with an iron poker, and beat
Higgins vile to death, literally smashing
hei skull like on crg shell. Higgins aud
Smell being soon released resumed the fight,
and but for the interference oil citizens, "a.
tal results would have enSued. Smell and
wife weTo arrested and lodged In Jail
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-01

Elizabeth Anger, q West Plttsaeld,
Mass, QuakereSs, uged seyenty-one, com
mitted suicide byidfowning,
The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-07-01
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
January IS, 1872,

aea. Gov. Washburn has vetoed
the first bill presented to him. the bill
is l, S., entitled
Gan act to enable committee of in
vestigaton to prosecute and conclude
their labors speedily"
The Cows. Arguments appear sound.
The following is part Of his objection
to this act becoming law.
IF the Legislature can constitute
such a committee, with majority of
its members private citizens, it may
90 step further and make up a com
mittee without single member from
either house. know Of 10 precedent
of this kind anywhere, and [ am not
willing to aid in the establishment Of
one that comedies the right Of the
Legislature to clothe an irresponsible
inquisitorial body with power to en-
quire into the motives that governed
co ordinate branch Of the Govern
ment in the discharge of its official
duties.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
MINING DEPARTMENT T.

By placing on a map those ochery
cut groupings referred to in my last,
and other surface indications simil ar
TO tn Sc noticed in the lead district, |
succeeded satisfactorily in making out
line Of physical distur bance resem
bling very much the other mineral
belts further south
By ochery out groupings, [ mean
those places along the surface that
may be distinguished from others by
reddish or a reddish brown clay,
that is almost always found over pro-
ductive mineral ranges in the lead dis
trict. Nor is this peculiar to the lead
district. or the mineral strata of Wis.
consin. but is often found in other
mining regions. This peculiar fea-
ture Of the clay is the result, no doubt
of the decomposition of the iron, or
iron pyrnites found in the assures of
the rock decompose to form the sur
face clay.
A belt of land strongly marked
with these and other features peculiar
to the surface indications Of the belts
of land in the lead district, from four
to six miles wide, and about fifty five
miles in length, I found extending
through town seven from the township
Of Hickory Grove, in Grant county,
to the township Of Cross Plains, in
Dane county. Following this belt
west, close to the line of the fourth
principal meridian, we notice the mines
of Highland and Centerville on an
arm of the principal elevation running
from Blue Mounds to Prairie du Chen,
an arm extending northwest direc-
ton, and forming a dividing ridge be-
tween the streams running into Blue
river, on the west, aid those flowing
into Otter Creek on the east.
But so far as we can judge from sur
face appearances, the mineral wealth
of this belt will consist mainly in the
large and rich deposits of the oxide of
iron that seems to contain throughout
its entire length.
Where these deposits appear at the
surface we find the ore existing in diff
erent states or conditions. In places
we find the out groupings of what
seems to be large beds of very impure
agril!aceous or slaty iron ore, afording
however specimen of purer varieties.
which to me, looks like indications of
purer beds beneath these out coppings.
This slaty variety decomposes red
lily into reddish brown clay, in which
we find beds of ocher varying from
a few inches to several feet. In these
beds of ocher we meet with separate
and distinct colors of brown reddish
brown, bright yellow, yellowish brown, !
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
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it also contains stories, poeas, brilliant essays, be-
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
The Watertown Bond Case.

BLOW we give our readers the decision
of Judge Drummond in regard to the r..
r. bond Suit Of the city of Watertown.-
They, like Iowa county, have been fight
ing for long time, and the cases are very
similar. The result Of both will undoubt-
eddy be the same. II the city of Water
town can force the bon 4holders into com
promise, Iowa county has the same power.
1t was suit in Equity to compel the
payment OF a Judgment against US Tor SILL
1869. The biI AYERS that all legal rem
dies have been exhausted to collect. with
out success. and that the Marshal may,
be ordered to seize aud sell property here
sufficient to satisfy it.
10 this we flied general Demurrer.
We derled the power of the Court, under
any circumstances, to do what was asked.
Our city charter. eXemp,S all private
property from seizure, or sale Oh execution
FROM any quarter.
The mann argument of Mr. Reeses' coun-
Sci was that the Court could not levy a
tax 20 make payment; that this would he
to execute State laws and perform the du,
ties oil State officers; that it must take
and sell any mans property if Judgement
was % he enforced.
This Judge Drummond most emphafiraly
rejected He sad if collected at all the
amount due must be distributed alike
pro rata, upon all the property of the city
After hearing the argument and announc
ing the decision lie said They overruled
thedec:urrer for theirason that it were true,
AZ alleged. that Mr.. Reese had exhaust d
all legal remedies, ami failed to collect his
judgement, H. thought he might go into
"a Court "l Equity and obtain clirf: other
wise it would Seem as if we did not have
a country governed 10y law. He also
sand they overYuled it for another reason,
viz: that we might answer and set up the
same defence, and all our defences, and
when all the facts were before them, they
finally disposed of the case. That they
settled nothing now. That there were
questions involved which he had not been
able to determine in his own mind.
He further stated that he had great
experience in matters OF this kind and that
where there was United sentiment in
any community against the payment of
snch judgements, their collection was i'm
possible and there was power in IN
animous public opinion in this country
beyond the authority of any court to over
come that il was obvious that the city of
Wate-town could not pay its deot in full
and ii was for the interests of all parties
10 compromise it. He also said that there
was perhaps M law authority OF precedent
for their decision n'ing the dem
mnier hut if there was no law against it
" hen al. legal remides failed 1t was his
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
The Railroad.

We publish to-day synopsis OF the &C.
cision ,oftJud e Drummond IN the wafer
town bond suit. This case is very similar
TO ours. The city of Waterfowl, Ike
Iowa county, has been fighting the bond
holders for long period of time. The two
cases arc so nearly alike that the same de-
cisions will affect both parties about the
same.
The Judge in his argument says what
we have always said viz: that the bonds
can never be collected if the people are
unanimous in :heir resistance. We have
held to this opinion against fearful odds,
advising the people never to pay dollar
until the bondholders would compromise.
And now it appears that point is reached,
and we understand from good authority
that most Of the bondhodcrs are willing
to take so cents on the dollar, and have
whatever they realize out of the bonds APP
piled as stock in a railroad running
Though our county. This much we have
gained by fighting the bondholders. Now
what shall we do Shall we do what our
County Board has been authorized to do,
viz settle with the holders of these bonds
whenever they would take 80 cents on the
dollar, or shall we continue to fight the
matter?
The Judge in his argument clearly ad-
vises compromise, and perhaps it would
he the better part of wisdom to effect a
compromise Of 80 cents on the dollar and
have that money expended in railroad
running through the county.
This aspect Of things looks brighter for
Iowa county, and it is hoped we eau get
out of this miserable scrape. Never be
fore have the bondaolders condesccnded to
offer compromise. The question before
the people Of this county is, or soon will
be, Shall we compromise if we can get the
railroad by the means Of it thereby get
ting rid of one Of the blacklist stains a
have the railroad anyhow, whether the
bonds are paid OF not? These questions
the people Of Iowa county will be called
upon to answer before long.
Iowa county needs road running north
and south. It is absolutely necessary for
the future welfare Of this county that the
Mineral Point r lilro I'd should be extend
cd from that city, and it is highly import
ant that proper steps be taken to secure
that end In saying this, we nave no ref
.rence to the bonds whatever. As Mr. J.
Bennett said. eve want the road. bonds
or no bonds,' and the time has come for
the people of this county to take hold Of
the matter, but whatever we do let US be
as united as possible.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

aud sometimes layers of pure white
clay that looks like chalk. 1t is certainly
very difficult to accoant for this variety
of form and color, unless it be by a
process of segregation and aggrega
ton, set up by strong chemical action
These agrsillaceous or slate beds are
found either at OF very near where the
Potsdam sand stone below, and the St.
Peters sand stone above unite with
the lower magnetism limestone.
In the sandstone, both the St. Peters
end Potsdam, where it is free from
foreign matter, Chat is lime, clay and
the like this ore assums other forms.
Where there is good exposure of
/ this rock, and especially where it has
been exposed to atmospheric agencies
TO great length of time, it assums
banded structure. These bands are
not like seams of iron ore, that we
sometimes spread out be ween beds of
sand, as though it was the result of
deposition from water, but they re-
semble more the banded structure of
wood shown in a TRANSFERS section of
tree. These bands are Sometimes
very much contorted, as though they
were bent by heavey pressure while
the sandstone remains perfectly tin
disturbed.
! In the iron reagions of Lake Super
Tor similar banded structure in the
Potsdam sandstone was noticed by Eos
ter and Whitney, and in their report
of this peculiar feature Of iron ore in
sandstone there, they say, 1--WE know
Of no theory which affords so probable
an explanat on of this structure as that
by which the action of seggregating
forces is brausht into play" In this
form has a crystalline structure, and
ear be separated from the sandstone
only by fusion. j. NJ.
Mazomanie, Jan. 10 1872.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
The Governors Message.

The Governors Message was read to
the two houses in joint session, in the
Wisconsin Legislature, at 2 p. m
Thursday, and was very favorably re-
ceived. The State Journal makes the
following synopsis
1t opens with an expression of sin
cere gratitude to the people of the
State, for the confidence reposed in
him, in placing him in the Executive
Chair, and pledges his best efforts to
their services, in the discharge of the
duties of the Office. He then pays a
fitting compliment to his immediate
predecessor.
The general condition of the State
for the past year, is referred to as hav-
ing been very prosperous; free from
pe4tilence and famine; blessed with "a
bundaut returns Of agriculture ; man
ufacturing industries steadily on the
increase the laws have been faithful
" executed education has been con-
stantIy progressing; and the institu-
tons Of public charities have brought
relief to many who have been deprived
of reason or faculties of hearing or
sight.
The financial condition of the State
is then given in detail, from which we
learn that the receipts of the last year
into the general fund, have been ST.
O29.576,S1 the disbursements, $685.
81, 40; leaving balance on hand at
the end of the fiscal year, September
30, 1871, of S45. 1876. SO, after deduct
ing the amount of Sl9,063,71, which
was overdrawn from this fund at the
commencement of the previous year
Of this amount S669, 295,S7, was paid
out for the support of State institu-
lions. interest on State debt, and spec
ial appropriations, leaving 6,00l ,45
as the amount of the ordinary expens-
es of the State for the year. The in
debtedness is 1922, 057, the particu,
lars of which lre have heretofore given
in the summary of the report OF the
Secretary of State, and need not repeat
them here.
The State tax for 1871, was S629,-
1910, which was assessed upon val
nation of S455, 900,900.
The recent great CONGREGATIONS are
referred to in appropriate terms, and
measures to afford relief are suggested.
A thorough geological survey of the
State is recommended.
Reference is made to the Board of
State Charities, and their report is COM
mended to favorable attention.
The condition of all the State Insti-
tutions-the State Prison, the Reform
School. the Institution for the Educa-
tian of tho Blind, the Deaf and Dumb,
the Hospital for the Insane, and the
Soldiers Orphans Home,-is fully set
forth and each is commended to the
special attention of the Legislature.
The State Capitol is noticed, and at
tention is called to the condition OF
the grounds, fence, &c.
TIE State Historical Society, now
numbering over so, 600 volumes. IS re-
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

Opinion that complainant aught to hive
eQpiiabc redress The Court gave ample
time to answer, and the case will probably
stand for trial at the next June te M, to be
held at Madison. Until then | do not
understand that anything is settled for or
against us.
have endeavored to give the exact
pos ilion taken ty the Court. To give
from recollection the recise ansuaee.wo, Id
be impossible, as Judge Druumond spoke
at considerable length upon the question
to which he paid great deal o f attention.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
a RMINISTRAroR,s SALE.

In the matter of the Estate Of James Morrison de-
ceased.
AToTICE is hereby given that by virtue and in
IN pursuance of au oroer of license made in said
matter, the 18th day of September. 1871, by the
county court of said county the undersigned admin
i>trat1r of said estate, will, on Thursday. the Sth
day of February 1872, at l2"cl"ck, NJ at the court
house in the village OF Dudgevlle, in Iowa county
offer FIR sale at public Nendue all the interest of the
said estate in the following described lands iowit
The SEX section 81. tcwn 6. range east.
The NE14 of section %, town s. range east.
The VIZ of NWL of section SO, town q, range
The VIZ ii sE1l Sell Of sEI sec. 81, T. s, r. lie
Inc Wa Of NEH section 81 town 5, range l east.
Terms OF sale cash.
Dated December goth. 1871.
". w. DEAN,
Surviving Administrator of Estate
Io-4w of said deceased
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19


The passage of law is recomineFdei
prohibiting any town, county or city,
from voting aid to railroads. or other pub
lie improvements in access of live per cent
of its assessed valuation of property.
The governor thinks that justice to the
people Of the Northwestern part OF the
state requires that C"ngress should renew
tn: st. Croix Land Grant.
The latter portion of the message is de-
voted to national matters in which he dis
| cusses the tariff, the poSta! telegraph, and
the necessity for return to specie pay
mentS, &c. lie favors low tariff on
| manufactured goods, but thinks that raw
material should be admitted free, or at
very low rate of duty.
Civil service reform, general amnesty
and government control of the telegraph
| are favored. the latter subject being dis
cussed at considerable length, as is also
the necessity for resumption OF specie
| payments.
| COMMITTEES.
Senator Little is chairman Of the com
mittee on Privileges and Elections, and OF
| the joint committee on Local Legislation.
| Senator Magoon, of lafayette, is at the
head of the committee on Federal Rela-
tons, and second on the Judiciary. The
| Assembly committees have not been an
! nounced.
| MADISON
| Looks well this winter. 1t has greatly I'M
proved since 1886, especially during the
last three years The u S. Court House,
Park Hotel, and many imposing business
blocks, will compare favorably with the
business buildings in any city.
On Thursday evening Miss Linda Gil
bert lectured Oh Prison Reform" at the
! City Hall. The attendance was not large.
The lecture was good. Her ideas on cap
ital punishment were embodied in two
questions: Would you send man I'M
r, pantent before his God? And if he re-
p N, you'd you hang Christian !"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

IN .nUF the hnest residences In the vii
~&5 ~ ~ ~ lageef Duigevlle. 1t is situa-
ted within i've minutes walk of he Court Honse ON
one of the best streets in the village 1t is large
two story house, with cellar, we'll and every conve
nience large barn and other t-hvuSes with three
large lols The property will rent for SIS to $40 Ter
month, aud is splendid investment either for a
home ar as a speculation. warranty deed will be
given for the whole property for 81 500. A few
hundred dollars must be paid down, and the balance
can stand for number of years on interest at only
seven per cent. For full particulars apply 10
EFT. &W. J. WRIGGLESWoRTH
18vx bod geville.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

Marriage Certificates
Marriage Registers.
CT. Court Summons.
agreement for Deeds,
Teachers Contracts.
Satisfaction Of Hort.
Summons for Relief,
Mortgage Deeds.
Special School Mtg
Vernires,
Summons,
Road Ogerseer Bond
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

From our Special Correspondent.

From our Special Correspondents
presiding officer in the Senate, and c. g..
Williams as President, pro tenn and with
Daniel Hall as Speaker Of the Assembly.
The Legislature of 1872 opens well.
Those who desire to know somewhat OF
the biography of the 1873 gentlemen who
comprise the legislative branch, will be
interestedin the following, condensed from
the Legislative Manual, now being pre-
pared by Jack Turner
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19

.lChatteL Mortgages,
Warrantg Deeds,
Mineral Leases.
Powsr Of attorney,
| Quit Claim Deeds,
Sheriff Rep.cf Sale,
Criminal Warrants,
agreement for Deed,
Promisorg Notes,
.Su5p@nas,
WarrGnt,
Execution.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-19
CT Q00 WILL BUY ONE OF

Surviving Administrator of Estate
1S-4w of said deceased
Connecticut western news., 1872-03-15
Free Masonry.
Its secrets and their importance


 If the secrets of masonry are rcplete with such advantages to mankind, it may be asked, why are they not divulged for the general good To this it may be answered were the privileges of masonry to be indiscriminately dispensed, the purposes of the institution would not only be subver- ted. but our secrets, being familiar, like other important matters, would loose their value. and sink into disregard. Did the essence of masonry consist in the knowl- edge of particular secrets, or peculiar forms, it might, indeed, be alleged that our pur- suits were trifling and superficial. But this is not the case they are only the keys to our treasure, and having their use, are preserved; while from the recollection of the lessons which they inculcate, the well informed mason derives instruction; he draws them to a near inspection. Find ing them replete with useful information, he prizes them as sacred and being con- vinced of their propriety, estimates their value by their utility.
 OUR BEE HIvE.
 Masonry has gone on conquering and to conquer for SO many years, it has attained a position impregnahle to the assaults of those who know not its tenets, but are op posed to it's organization and objects. Free-masonry is the pioneer of truth in dark places; the light of civilization in barbaric lands. Her watcliward is charity, and her hope is in God. She vaunteth not herself, but humbly attempts to remove our earthly vices by precept and example. She sheds halo of glory around her chil. dren, and she points out to them the true paths of science and virtue. c.