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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
DoDGEvIILE, WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2l 1873.

the hands of men who encouraged the practice
of carrying elections by money "A reso-
luton was reported fsvorably to rescind
the Twenty-second Joint rule, which pre-
scribes .he method of determining disputes arising
during the counting of the Electoral votes for Pres
ident and Vice-President Inc house bill was
reported. without amendment, declaring it to have
been the true intent and meaning of the act of
June s. 1872, amendatory OF the bankrupt law,
that the exemptions allowed bankrupt by the
said amendatory act should be the. amount allowed
by the Constitution and laws OF each State re-
spectively, as existing in the year 1871;
and that such exemptions be valid against
debts contracted before the. adoption and
passage of such State Constitution and laws. as
well as afterwards; and against mems by decree OF
any State Court, notwithstanding any decisions
sraptng sgId the State of Nevada 1,OOoOOo acres
of public lands for common school pur-
poses. to be selected by the State,
and disposed of to actual settlers in lieu of the
sixteenth and thirty second sections heretofore
authorized TO be selected for the same purposes
IA bill was passed to authorize pre-emptors
or settlers upon homesteads to ALLEVIATE
their pre-emptions OF homesteads
for certain public purposes. H9hse-Among the
bills introduced were-to enable the people of the
Territories to elect Governors and all other Terri
toral officers; relating to the height of railroad
bridges across the Mississippi. Bills were passed
to reimburse the College of William and Mary,
Virginia, $65,000, for the destruction OF
property during the war--1i1 70 rs; to en-
courage and promote telegraphic commu-
nication between America and Asia; for the sup
for every $500 of annual income accruing to any
college there shall be one free scnolarehip and
that when the annual income shall reach S5O,UOO q
wear all tuitions of that college shall be free.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
Foul Air and Heart Disease.

To keep the body in perfect health it
must be duly oxygenated. There must
be free and ample interchange between
the blood in the lungs and the air enter
ing the pulmonary cells. The life-stream
must be purified by it's elimination of car
bonic acid; it must be vivified by the
absorption Of oxygen. The fulfillment of
these conditions demands full, free and
constant admission of pure air into the
lungs. This full, free and constant ad-
mission of pure air cannot be obtained in
badly-ventilated houses, crowded build
ings, chool.houses las at present COR
structed), theaters, manufactures, pits,
underground railways, and the like.
When the body has reached the age at
which natural decay or degeneration has
begun, the absence of pure air bastens
and increases the degenerative tendency.
Where the heart is more prone than
other organs to disease, the want of pure
air falls with powerful effect upon the
tissues of the right heart. Their nutrition
is defective by reason of the impurity of
the blood with which they are fed,
their vital force is lowered, their muscular
fibre loses its tenacity, degeneration and
debility take the place of active nutrition
and power. If, in this condition, any stress
is thrown upon the heart, by hurried
walking, by lifting, climbing, violent
defamation, p assional expression, sing
ing, laughing, or by any unusual exercise
of the voice, the tricuspid valve gives
way, it henceforth fails to close it's aper-
ture, and the results of back-fooding of
blood upon the venous system of the body
begin to follow If none of these exciting
causes occur, the continued breathing of
impure air is followed by constantly pro-
crossing degeneration of the tissues of
the valves and muscular structure of the
right heart they become soft and feeble;
their atoms shrink; the segments of the
tricuspid are at length unable to meet in
their attempt to close the aperture; a
small chink or a slit is left between
them; through this the blood finds its
way into the auricle above at every con-
traction of the heart; and soon regurgita-
tion is followed by the secondary conse-
quences produced in the general system
congestion of the liver, stomach, spleen,
kidneys, bowels-by hemorrhoids, gener-
al dropsy, and occasionally cerebral mis-.
chief.-Dr. Black, in Popular Science
M0nthlU ~ ...#
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
The Credit Mobllier Investigation

Oakes Ames appeared before the Poland
Committee on the 18th, and produced a
memorandum amounting in effect to what
had already been testified to by him before
the Committee, and also claiming to show
an additional payment to Mr.. Colfax of
$60.75 on account of Credit -Mobilier divi-
dends. Witness had not yet been able to
End any receipt signed by Mr.. Colfax, al
though he had searched carefully; he did no
remember of having got any receipt from
ColfaX and never said so to any person; he
remembered he gave to Colfax check for
81, 200. Witness further stated that Mr.. Col
fax never notified him that he would give up
the stock. At first witness wanted to get all
these men off as easy as possible, and
rather stated their view of the case, not rely
ing on his own memory.
Sidney Dillon, clerk in the Office of the
Sergeant-at- Arms, was recalled, and testified
that it was his impression that he paid a
81, 200 check marked IS. c." to Oakes Ames.
He thought he paid him in two $500 bills. In
talking with Ames during the last thirty
hours witness had asked him if he did not
pay the check to him, and Ames said he
thought it was very likely. The witness
could not swear he paid the check to Ames
Mr.. ColfaX read letter from Mr.. Barclay,
Journal Clerk of the House of Representa-
tives, saying: 81 have examined all your
rulings as Speaker on every proposition
made during the entire session by Hon. E.
B. Washburne and Hon. G. G. Washburne in
relation to the Union Pacific Railroad, and
find no ruling made by you that was not, in
my judgment, commanded and justified by
parliamentary law"
Mr.. Colfax then proceeded to give a de-
tailed statement of his private financial af-
fairs, and again denied receiving 81 200, and
also denied receiving the $6075 interest on
certificates which was entered on Ames'
book as paid to him. He then gave an ex-
planation of the 81, 200 bank note deposit;
5000 came from his step-father, Mr..
Matthews, as part of debt due
for piano purchased; $1,000 of
it was in note of that denomi-
nation received by mail from man named
Nesblt in New York, who wrote to congratu-
late him on the nomination to the Vice
Presidency and rendered him the money as a
compliment. He could not remember the
exact date, as the letter had not been pre-
served and Mr.. Nesbit was dead and his
executors had not been able to find
any record of the sum sent.
Mr. Matthews was sworn, and recollected
the 81, 600 bill being received in the mail and
exhibited at the breakfast table. No date
could be fixed other than approximately.
Mrs. Caroline Hollister, half sister of Mr..
Colfax, was sworn. She remembered that
Mr.. Colfax received S., 900 bill while at the
breakfast table in June, 1868; it was enclos-
ed in a letter congratulating him on his
nomination; the letter came from Mr., Mes
hit
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
The Sinking of the NOrthfieet in the
English Channel.
NEW YORK FehrnarY

New YORK, February
The details of the terrible disaster to
the ship Northfeet are published, from
which it appears that at half-past ten at
night, the Captain and others were alarm
ed by cry from the officer of the watch,
"a steamer is right into u.s." The Cap
tain and pilot rushed on deck, but before
they got there the steamer had run into
the vessel, striking her amidships and
cutting her below water-mark. The car
penter quickly reported her nearly half
full of water The pumps were started
promptly, and the crew worked hard at
them for some minutes, but when II was
found that the water was rapidly gaining,
a panic seemed to seize both the crew and
passengers, and afterwards it was impos-
sible to keep the latter in check. A
crowd of men and women had rushed up
from their berths, many only half clothed.
The passengers had mostly retired, but
few were undressing. The noise Of the
collision is likened by one of them to
peal of thunder, and, such was the
violence of the shock, that those
standing were knocked down. 1t appears
the steamer rebounded and came second
time in collision with the Northfeet.
Water began to pour in, and in very
short time the passengers quarters were
swamped. The women were slower to
rush on deck than the men, and many
were not in a condition to go till the
water rose threateningly around them.
No one on board the steamer was heard
to speak, although the loud and eager
shouts from the Northfleet must have
made her crew aware of the terrible dan
ger that existed. She backed for two or
three minutes, and then steaming rapidly
away, was soon out of sight For half an
hour the scene on the deck of the
Northfeet was appalling. Women
shrieked, men cursed and swore, and
fought their way toward the boats, whilst
the captain and first mate roared out COM
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
"I LOVE, YOU LOVE-"

OLD JONES, the village pedagogue,
The grammar lesson called one day,
Young Bess. maid Of sweet sixteen,
Began the well-known words to say:
"FIrst person, / love- first she said,
Sly Tom, beside her, whispered, 'MeY"
"Spcond person, you love-" Bees went on.
SAY, that do I" said Tom-"loVe hee"
Third person, he loves" still said Bess,
Tom whispers, "Who the is her"
~'Oh, Toni" said Bessie, pleading low,
"Do hold your peace, and let me Der'
mo whisperingl' calls the master loud,
And frowned upon the forward youth.
'First person, aUe love" Bessie said.
'By George!'' Tom whispered, that's the truth ~
The lesson DER at last, poor Bess,
With cheeks all crimson, took her seat,
While Tom, sly fellow, tried in vain
The maidens soft blue eyes to meet.
But when the recess hour was come,
Tom begged walk with coaxing tone,
And meath the trees Bess said again
The lesson o'er-f0r him alone.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21
Miscellaneous Heading.
4 DIRGB FOR. KAMEHAMEKA.* x

BY W. A. cRoFFUT.
AND so our royal relative is dead;
And so he rests from gustatOry labors;
he white mau was his chOice-but 1t is SAID
He sometimes would ''run down" his colored
neghbers --. ~
He worehiped as he growled his fee-fo-fum,
The goddess of the epigastrlum
And missionaries graced his festive board,
Solemn and succulent, in twos and dozens,
And smoked before their hOspitable lord -
Welcome as if they'd been his second cousins;
When cold he warmed them, as he would his
kin,
They came as strangers, and he took them
He had hundred wives. To makes things pleas
They found it quite judicious to adore him;
And when he dmed the nymphs were always
present,
Sometimes beside him, and sometimes before
himi
When he was tired of one he called her
sweet"
And told her she was ''good enough to eat''
He had good taste Although no wars were rife
He fatted yOung men for his navy,
And when be cat them off in midst of life,
He furnished, not exactly grave-but gravy.
lie had bed, but camped out, on his shalOt
While other people occupied his palate
But the deceased could never hold a candle
To those prm, pale faced people of propriety
Who gloat o'er gossip and get fat on scandal
The Cannibals of civilized society
.IheY drink the blood OF sisters with the
rations.
And crunch the bones of living regulations
They kill the soul; he only claimed the dwelling
They take the sharpened scalpe of surmises,
And cleave he snews where the heart is swelling,
And slaughter fame and honor for their prizes;
They make the spirit in the body quiver;
They quench thelights; he only took the liver!
I've known some hardened customers, I wot
"A few tough fellOWs--Pagans beyond question
wish had got into his dinner-pOt,
Although I'm certain they d defy digestion,
And break his jaws, and ruin his 9sOphagus,
Were he the chief of beings anthropophag-
GUS.
How fond he was of children! to his breast
The tenderest nursngs gained free admission;
Rank he despised-nor, if they came well dressed,
Cared he if they were plebeian patrican.
Shade of Leigh IInntl Oh, guide my laggard
pen,
And write OF one who loved his fellow men,
slate King of the"Cannibal Islands,"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

Rev. j. NJ Jamison, formerly of
Ohio, writes that he organized the first
Methodist Church in Idaho. There is a
Methodist missionary at Boise City, the
capital of the Territory, but he breaches
in the United States Court room, as there
is no church edifice.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

The question concerning the manner
in which foreign representatives shall en-
ter the presence of the Emperor of China
has been settled by the Chinese officials
yielding to the demands of the foreign
ers.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

A short time before the environment
of Paris, says the Liberte, several large
chests were seized by the custom house
officers at Calais, and sent back to the
capital. 1t has been ascertained since
that one of the chests came from the
Tuileries. 1t contained the personal cor
respondence of Napoleon III with the
sovereigns of Russia, Austria, Saxony,
Bavaria and Wurtemberg. The late dip
lomatic revelations called out by M.
Theirs statements before the SEPTEMBER
Commission are said to have been Daseo
on this correspondence: Stlll more sVart-
limo disclosures are looked for soon.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

The report of Hon. Newton Bate
man, State Superintendent of Education
of Illinois, shows that the State has II, 600
olhouses, and employs 81 600
teachers, at an annual cost OF 81, 48o,-
upon the daily attendance is 1883. The
whole number of schoolable persons in
the State is s82, 693, showing an increase
of 2O,O69 since 1870. In 1870 The aver
age daily attendance was 339, $40; in 1871,
4 S 65o @ 10 10H ana 4 tor oeg sa S7T ThpTe
have been expended for school buildings
during the year, $761 ,622 80.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

The boot and shoemakers OF LONDON
and Paris are arranging Tor trial ot
skill.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-21

Paris has granted her theaters sub
sidy of 1881, 900.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
Yak; Il; M office
DSc. CUTC1HHH EuuBU
No. OF. A :. f.. NJ

I HEREBY notify the nx-pa Vers of Fair
L ;.feld County that hall bo et my oiiic
from 6 O'CLOCK a. M, ta 2.To' clock p. ~,
from tho LIST Of July to August 2Oth, 1873,
to reeelye returns from eaoh and all person
liableto % tax. on Real Estate and personal
properly for Taxation Of 1873. Also nll
;sxable polls are required to make return
nndc9 The amended act Of the General AS.
seiablSs approved Goth February, 1878.
to enforce the payment Of tho poll tax. and
in default Of the payment Of this tax sbSll
be subject to penalty of double Ftho
amount Of their pcll tax and required to
work upon the highway or ron is.n The ac.
of the General Assembly provides fot tho
reaaaessncnt Of Real Estate, and to Ncor-
rect Tho Records Of tho AUDITORS ofIio& OF
errors. if any exist, and 10 furnish O oare.
full and correct return Of all taxable prop
trty in Fairfield County.
The law .al1o requires tho County Audi
tor 10 assess all parties who fail to mako
a return Of ihoir roal or personal property
within, the time above noted. with a penal.
ty Of 50p per cont. on both. The law in this
particular will'be rigidly enforced, and all
returns will DO received and asscssm eni a
made in accordance with law at the Audi
tors oiIioe in Winnsboro, s. G.. ..
JOEL COPEs,
july l-t6x6 A. &c.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
Tribute Of Respect.

FEAsTEnvlLLE 9. G., July 9th, 1873.
NHEREAs de.th has entered our family
and removed from cur midst Past Master
Robert -W> .Golcman, be il
ResolreG That in the death Of our brothor,
Past Master Roburt W. Coleman, coleman
Lodge has lost one Of its most useful and
intelligent members, and that wo feel our
loss to be irreparable.
'RtsolUea. Thai &e::hcld4hip in the high
est estimation M n Brother 'Mnster Mnson
and that The sovcring OF the tic of brother.
Iy love is painfully felt throughout tho
whole membership Of Colcmn Lodge.
Rc'o'r'd, That iu him was centred that
true charity, to relieve the distrossod, to
help tho widow and tho orphan. to make
Light tlhf burden of misery to whoh man,
kind is subject. - l.,
Rc;olpea, That in mourning our loss hy
his deathW We are chccred with the hope
| that he has been gathered into the Great
! Grand Lodge above-that house not made
with hands eternal in the Heavens.
! .ReSolpHM That to..his tendcr and hcrcav-
| cd family wo offer tho tcar Of sympathy
rnd TO their mourning, we tdd our grief,
+ and the qopdolcnoe of own love for him,
| whom they loved 30 much.
Resolpsd,, That the members Of Coleman
Lodge wear the usual bndga of Mourning g
for thirt days, and that blank pogo in
the minutes Of the Lodge, be dedicated 10
the momory Of our deceased brother. u.
Rt$ol'sd, That n COPY Of these resolu-
tons be furnished tho family Of our do
| ceased brother, end that thoy be publish
ed in the FAIRFIELD HERALD,
/ J. F.v. LEGO,
Sec. Coleman Lodge
| No OF Is. NJ =.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16

Fraudulent Claims.
The citizens of tho old North State
arc aroused on tho subject matter of
tue issue Of fraudulent bonds. They
repudiate the same, and no doubt
justly, too, for North Carolina has
never refu:ed to pay any honest debt
contrac' ed in good faith. At the same
time our own State is in the same
dilemma but we fear has not the moral
courage tocIy out in despite Of !s"li-
calism, fiat just'tta r.i c'e. IA. We
will pay our honest dc bts, tut We Mish
t:ie wu: Id to know we oarnot, and Will
not cout, ibuto to tho payment Of
bonds aal stocks that have been is
s"ed in fraud, against our people
to fosttr or promote tho p,cuniary
status ot such men ~ Scott, Muses.,
MeaGhc, purkcT and sush like, Morton,
Blis S Co., viii Kimpton not cx-
oe;,tcd. On this matter of State in.
dcbtcdnc*t, our. motto is "milliuns
FOR 3c!en.e against villiany) but not
II cent for tribule."
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
B:ailIards' Musical Monthly.

The July number of this favoritc
Musical Monthly is at hand and con-
tains an unusually fine selection of
beautiful now music and interesting
reading nnttcr. The Musical World
has attained an enormous circuInti5;,
Throughout the eouptrys and certainly
deserves ita success Tho masiq CON
talned in. eacli,numibor i,'aione worth
a.yaar''s subscription. IL is edited by
Karl Mors, orte of,thc ablpst writer's
on musical nat!sro in the country,
and is Invaluable to any" musician OF
lover of music. Tho subscription ia
only ono dot!ar year. Specimen
copies oan bo obtained by addressing
the publishers, S. BRAlNARDs' Sons,
Cleveland, o. 50
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
What We Want.

What We Want.
The following which We. clip from
the local column of an old Norfolk
Day Book suits our "wants" 80 we'll
that we publish it under our local
head and invite our readers to pcruso
1t woll. We want alive need all !:
'"1ndividually We want thousand
things, and Mrs. Local wants ten
times as many; but it is of tho wants
OF the community that we speak.
We want our streets REPAIRED, and
the name Of each painted on the corn.
ers for'.the convenience of strangers
and citiacns.
We want improved water supplies
to guard our city against tho great
danger of destructive couhagrations.
We want marches filed UP. ii
will add vastly to the appearance of
the city and the value Of real estate.
We want to stop here more of the
produce which passes through the city
en- route to Northern markets and as
ono step towards this
We want factories. a. -
We want the idle boys who throhg
our streets to so to work, and for this
reason
We want factories.
We want 'our' population to in.
| crease, and for this reason
We want factories.
We want to see scores Of new hous.
cs springing UP, and to find occupants
for them
We want facto, les.
We want our people to realize that
they have ono of the prettiest, most
attractive, most ad1antageously looa.
ted cities in America, and
We want our people to act upo,
The ldea, and 60 to work with will tc
make other people think so.
We. want our. people to know thdi
a good way to make other people think
so is for each man to improve and
beautify his residence. -
Wo' want space to complete OH,
list OF wants to-day, and will finish
the chapter ct another time.'
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
HerpotoloGio

HerpotoloGioal. ..:r
People generally have little faith
in snake stories,, and only person of
the most undoubtcd veracity. can toll
one with impuuity. A friend has
brought to this Office for tho inspec-
ton Of the incrcdulous, a cast away
snake skin found recently near RooA y
Mount. 1t measures seven feet five
inches, and when first shod was two
inches longer. 1t is perfectly pre-.
served, even TO the film covering the
eye. Ills snakcship has not yet been
found. A gentleman several years
ago in the samo neighborhood killed
u black runner, and when he held it
up as high as he could reach by stick
in the middle of the body, both ends
touched the ground.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
Crops.

drops.
From a gentleman at Rocky Mount
we have received the following report
of crops in that section "Crops in
this neis ishborhood not good bad stands
ofcotton, corn also looks badly, have
had grass, muchly. Have needed rain
until Saturday evening, when we got
y good season, accompanied with a
heavy wind, which has blown the corn
down so much as to prevent it being
ploughod again.
There has been drought Of four
weeks duration in the Bethel neigh
borhood. Rain is needed at Ridge.
way. WinnSboro has been visited
with refreshing showers.
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
a Detroit negro prisoner, on his wa

A Detroit negro prisoner, on his way
to tho peiten.iary for laroony, wac
asked what be thought of his trial.
He eaid, "When dat lawyer dat 'tcnl.
cd me made his speech, I made shuah
l was going to take my old hat and
walk right out Of dat cot room: but
when tho other lawyer got up and
comm onced talking, I knew I was dc
biggest rascal on top of de earf"
The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1873-07-16
House Rents in Wayhinglcr.

:. Here are The hod: g, rents Of sor:c o:
the great maEnalca who cannot live
witi:"Gt the addition Of back pay Mr..
Boutwell,, board for sclfand family SllO
per month; Senator S,rgrnt, California,
house rent, $1,000 PER AMMAN. Mr..
AIorrill Of Maine. new house cosi $ll,
o0O, or about $500 Year. Henri
y ''son. Vice President, boarded at Tie
Washington House for many years at
the rate of s40a monlh,. .Diuo Bing-
lam. Mr.. Douglass, Commissioner Of
Internal EevcnAr, pays 81 200 a year
house rent, furnished. John Shr:n,in
boards At the Hamilton House, with vii.
for $3.50 a month" The average Con
Grcs man spends in Washington city
Inring the year about 81, 900, aud near
y "ll NE Eastern and part of the Wrs,
'Hrn mcc,bers save and take home about
$4,000 per a:hnm. Mep like Chandler,
Stockton, Hooper and Stewart spend
proba}y $4,000. TO $4,000 per annum.
bht are exccr'ions.-Co CORRESPONDENTS Ct
Tie Chicago Tribune.