Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-13

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The State Superintendent of Public Instruc-
ton of Illinois announces that an examina-
| ton of teachers desiring State certificates will
be held at Springfield, on Tuesday and We'd
nesday, the 1st and I'd days of July next.
The Commissioner of the Department of
| Agriculture, has furnished the Milwaukee
Chamber of Commerce with an interest
| ing tabular statement. 1t shows the
number of bushels of wheat raised in each
State of the Union in each of the past IL
years. The total estimated production of
wheat in the United States in 1872 was 249,
s97, 900 bushels, showing an increase of 49,
275, 600 bushels compared with the crop of
1871. The largest production in any single
State was in California-25, SOC, 900 bushels.
| Illinois, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, re-
speetively, ranked next to California, rang
ing from 22,000,OO0 to 24,70O,OO0 bushels.
The total production in the Northwestern
States named, in 1872, was 90, 29S, 600 bushels,
an increase of &c, ,23O, 900 bushels over the crop
of 1871 in the same States. Secretary Langston,
| of the Chamber of Commerce of Milwaukee,
is authority for the statement that 43, ,355, 900
bushels of wheat, including flour, had been
received at Milwaukee and Chicago and other
| points, up to May 81 last, from the crop of
| 1872, in the four great wheat-producing States
! of the Northwest-Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota-which, together with the
estimated amounts for food and seed in these
States, leaves an available surplus still to
come forward between the 1st of June and the
| incoming of the next harvest of 16, 722, 900
| bushels in wheat and -four.
| A Washington dispatch says the Advisory
| Board of the Civil-Service met the President
and Cabinet on the 4th, by invitation, and SUBJ
mitted their report, maturely considered, pro-
| posing a modification of some of the present
rules, and adding several new ones. These
| improvements, it is said, are designed to make
the Civil-Service more efficient, being based on
strict adherence to its principles, and will aid
in rcmedying such defects as experience has
shown to exist. One of the notifications will
serve to facilitate the filling of vacancies by
the prompt examination of applicants.
Losses by the late Boston fire are divided as
follows: Foreign companies, $1,000; New
York companies, $291,OOO; Pennsylvania,
$1S00OO; Hartford, Conn, $4,000; Provi-
dence, $4,000; Bangor, $4,000; miscella-
neous, $SS,00O.
The New York Legislature, at its recent ses-
sion, passed, and the Governor has approved, a
bill making liquor-sellers liable to damages
for the benefit of the families of drunkards.
The Pennsylvania Democratic State Conven-
ton is to be held at Wilkes Barre on the 9th
of August next.
The Massachusetts Medical Society has voted
to expel the members convicted of having
practiced homeopathy. There was only one
dissenting vote.
The St. Louis tobacco fair opened on the Sd,
with entries from all parts of Missouri, Kan
sas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and nearly all
of the Southern States. Premiums to the
amount of over $4,000 were awarded.
The man who was arrested at Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, some days since, as being "old man
Bender" turns out to be another individual
named Henry Cephas. He has been liberated.
A Leavenworth dispatch of the 4th says i'm
migration into Kansas during the month of
May was unprecedently large. Reports from
all parts of the State represent the growing
crops to be in excellent condition. An abund-
ant yield of Oh kinds of grain is anticipated.
dispatch of the I'd says Captain Jack and
Schonchin, the murderers of General Candy
and Commissioner Thomas, had been put in
irons together, and were being held to wait the
course of the Government. The cord to Gen
eral Canby's hat was found in Jacks satchel.
dispatch from Memphis on the 4th an
nounces that several cases of cholera had
broken out in that city, some of which had
proved fatal 1t had also made its appear
ance in other towns on the river below Mem
phis.
1t is stated in private dispatch from
Montgomery, Ala, on the 4th, that Governor
Lewis, Republican, had appointed Robert c.
Brickell, Democrat, Chief-Justice of the
Supreme Court of the State, vice Beck, re-
signed.
dispatch has recently been received in
Washington from New Orleans to the effect
that the State of Louisiana had resumed the
payment of the coupon bonds, and that the
taxes were being rapidly paid everywhere, and
there were general indications of order and
prosperity.
The Attorney General of Arkansas conclud-
ed the argument in the quo acarranto case
against the Governor before the Supreme
Court on the 4th. Four of the five Judges de-
cided that the Court had no jurisdiction, the
Chief Justice, Mcclure, dissenting. This re-
Arkansas, and it was thought Governor Baxter
will hereafter be regarded as Governor with
out show of opposition.
Information was received in Washington on
the 5th that Santa Rosa, an American citizen
who had been imprisoned in Cuba, had been
released.
The Polaris survivors arrived in Washington
on the 5th, and were interviewed by the
Secretary of the Navy.
The President, Secretary of the Interior and
General Sherman, in consultation on the 5th,
came to the conclusion that the question as to
what should be done with the Modoc prisoners,
whether they should be tried by military COM
mission or remitted to the civil courts,
would be submitted to the Attorney-General
by the military authorities for his opinion,
which will govern the law in the case.
Governor Straw, of New Hampshire, was
inaugurated at Concord ON the 5th. He recon-
mends the Local Option law as the best
method of restraining intemperance.
1t was reported in New York on the 5th that
Stokes had been denied new trial by the Court
of Appeals.
In the recent election for Judges of the
Supreme and Circuit Courts in Illinois the
candidates supported by the Farmers Conven-
tions were generally successful. In the Fifth
District, where the most bitter feeling seemed
to exist, Judge Alfred NJ. Craig, of Knox
County, was elected to the Supreme bench
by majority of over 1000 over Judge Law
renee, the present incumbent.
Governor Grover, of Oregon, has ordered
General Ross to deliver the Lost River muir
derers (Modoc Indians) in his possession to
the custody of the Sheriff of Jackson County,
and all other captives to the commanding