Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-20

Let us give this time -honored day new lease of
| life, by a demonstration that may be hereafter
| commemorated as the dawning of a new era of
independence, not only for us as class, but for
| the whole people of the State and nation.
Leaving to the various committees of arrange
ments to make out such programme for the cele-
bration of the day as may best be suited to each
locality, we would merely suggest, instead of the
| stereotyped Grafton upon the glorious past by
some aspirant for political honors, that we have
the earnest, practical, common-sense talk OF the
farmers themselves upon the duties of the present,
and the reading of the new Declaration of indie
pendence, which may however be altered,
amended, or left out as shall seem best to those
| having the matter in charge }e.sEgs3a aTR
VIC. FLAee, Executive
| + a.~a8a S. M. SMITH. ~ +A 1SSs;ttoo 11-sss
| b. ~rr.e DUNCAN MAcKAY, ~ oOonliiis'ese' uS's'
| AT New Orleans ON the 14th, Judge E. North
cullum in the Fifth District Court, rendered
decision giving $1,000 damages in the case of
Josephine Driver against the owners of the
steamboat Governor Allen for refusing the
plaintiff, colored woman, cabin passage and
such accommodations as were extended to
white ladies. This is the first decision under
the State law relative to common carriers. %
l. There were twenty-one interments at Mem
II phis on the 18th, against twelve the day be-
fore. Physicians said the number of cholera
patients was Increasing, but the disease yield
ed more readily to treatment than before. 9
| The Mexican Border Investigating Com
mittee, who have been engaged since January
last in taking evidence, have returned to Wash
| ington to prepare their report. They inves-
| tigated some four hundred cases, and received,
in addition, thirteen hundred er parte affidavits.
The Comanches are said to be mainly engaged
in the business of stealing and selling the
| children and women of the white settlers,
r
disguised as such) chiefly confne themselves
to cattle stealing. The raids of these people
are so frequent that stock-raising within 200
miles Of the Rio Grande has been well-nigh
abandoned. . t ss ..
Commander Green has been ordered to the
command of the vessel to be dispatched for
the discovery and relief of the Polaris, with
Lieutenant Commander White as Executive
Officer. Efforts are being made to start the
expedition early in July. t..s .re s
| At Calais, Me-, few days ago, five persons
were drowned in pond by the sinking of
boat Five others were rescued. s t.ssee3
Almon Gordon and his wife and child were
found murdered in bed at Thorndike,
eighteen miles from Belfast, Me-, on. the
morning of the 10Th. A brother of Gordon
was arrested on suspicion. A dispute about
piece of property is said to have been the
cause. ........ #-
According to the Boston letter of the Spring
! neld (Mass.) Republican of the 10th, Vice
President Wilson was lying dangerously i'll in
the former city. He was improving, but by no
means out of danger. His incessant labors in
the past election, followed by the strain and
anxiety of last winter, and accompanied by a
4 of -Iz ti-c1ou
are regarded as the immediate occasion of his
illness. Ia
In libel suit brought by one w. H, Whitney
against the GAINESVILLE wis )Gazette in which the
damages claimed were $4,000, the jury gave
the plaintiff 81, 100. The alleged libel consist
ed in an article published designating Whitney
as "a swindler."
Senator Pomeroy's trial for bribery and cor
ruption was to have begun at Topeka on the
10th, but has been postponed until next fall.
Near Dodson, Ohio few evenings ago, two
little girls, aged respectively eight and ten
years, who were out looking for a COW, were
assaulted by young man named George Don
nell, and the younger girl was brutally
outraged Donnell was arrested soon after,
plead guilty. and not procuring bail was semitic
Jail. ta 9tTs
A Cincinnati dispatch of the 10th says the
previous forty-eight hours had developed the
presence there of cases resembling cholera.
Three fatal cases and three not fatal had been
reported. There was little excitement as the
citizens generally did not apprehend the preva-
lence of cholera as an epidemic during this
season. f." atf
At Joliet, ILL.,, on the 10th, an eight-year old
daughter of William Lewis poured kerosene
oil from a lamp into the stove to hurry up the
fire, when an explosion followed, fatally burn
ing the girl and baby eight months old.
Isham Bolton O'Neill was hanged at Allan
ia, Ca, on the 18th, for the murder of James
Little in September, 1871 aGfa ysa#
Attorney General Williams has received an
official telegram from New Orleans, from Gov
ernor Kellogg, in which the latter says: "My
requisition, calling on the President, was fully
justified and the Presidents proclamation has
had a most salutary effect in all respects
Taxes are being paid more rapidly than ever
before in Louisiana. After providing for the
January and February interest, we have over
S45, 900 of State funds tonight in the hands |
of the fiscal agents. We will pay the March,
April, and June coupons early in July The
injunctions only restrain the payment of
the interest on five series of bonds out of
twenty-five. There is money enough to pay
the interest on all the bonds in the hands OF
the fiscal agents."
A few nights ago a party of fifty men in
Rutherford County, Tenn, lynched negro
named Joe Woods, who had outraged and
killed white woman, a widow.
There were fifteen deaths from cholera in
Memphis, on the 10th, and in Nashville there
had been thirty-two since the 18th, almost all I
of them among the negroes. .s" F&
A BALLOON TRIP TO EURoPE.-Profes-
sor John Wise and w. III. Donaldson, two
experienced and well-known aeronauts,
propose to take the balloon voyage of
which so much has been said and so little
done. The Boston Board of Aldermen
have responded to a petition from them
and made an appropriation of $4,000 to
~ 1rIxs.