Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-27
THE NEW WORLD.

Gold closed in New York on the 23d at
1151@11529.
Judge Johnson has been appointed Lieuten-
ant Governor of Nova Scotia
President Grant has appointed, under the
Civil-Service rules, the Board of Examiners for
the Treasury Department, as follows: Stephen
J. W. Tabor, Fourth Auditor; William Ill. Arm
strong, Internal Revenue Bureau; and Charles
Lyon, Secretary's Office.
Colonel Mackenze's report of his recent at
tack upon the Kickapoo and Lipan Indians
has reached the War Department. General
Sheridan, in his Endorsement on the report,
says he does not believe that any boundary ex-
lists when such merciless bandith are being
pursued. He thinks there can be no just cause
for dssension if the lawful forces of either the
United States or Mexico pursue them for
the purpose of capturing them or ending their
deeds of violence.
The total amount of back pay returned to
the United States Treasury up to June IL was
1892, 2,O17. The number of Senators and Rep
resentatives who had declined to receive it was
forty-six.
The New York Daily Graphic has it ''from
the very highest authority that Plymouth
Church will take no steps toward investigating
the charges against Mr.. Beecher, nor toward
calling Mr. Bowen to account for anything he
may have said concerning his pastor. And,
Furthermore, we have the best authority for
saving that neither Mr.. Beecher, Mr.. Bowen,
nor Mr.. Tilton will take any further notice of
the disagreeable scandal that has been set
afioat, and with which their names are more or
less directly associated"
The case of Susan B. Anthony, indicted for
voting in violation of law, at the last Novem-
Der general election, was tried in the United
States Circuit Court at Canandaigua, N. Y,
on the 18th. The testimony was all taken, and
the defendants counsel addressed the court
and jury in a lengthy and exhaustive argu-
ment
Joseph G.. Howard, who had been arrested
for stealing horses in Franklin County, Mo-,
was Iynched by party of some two hundred
men on the night of the 10th. He made con.
fession before he was hung duplicating several
other men in horse-stealing.
The annual meeting of the Michigan Press
Association commenced at Detroit on the 18th.
The officers elected for the ensuing year are:
President, R. L. Warren, Saginaw Enterprise;
Presidents, j. Cross, Adrian Jour7aaJ; j. FL.
Stone, Kalamazoo Telegraph E. B. Pond, Ann
Arbor argus; Secretary, W. S. George, Ian
sing Republican; Treasurer, A. L. Aldrich,
Flint Globe. A resolution was adopted relat-
ing to the late postal law amendment, protest
ing ''against such hasty legislation on the part
of the American Congress as an onerous and
unjust tax on knowledge, alike detrimental to
the cause of a free and enlightened Govern
ment, and the progressive spirit of the nine
teenth century"
The Wisconsin Editorial Association met in
annual convention at La Crosse on the nth.
About 225 members were in attendance. Sam
uel RYAN, of the Appleton Crescent, was chosen
President.
The committee of white and colored citizens
of Louisiana, of which Gen. 6. I. Beaure-
gard is Chairman, held meeting at New
Orleans on the 10th, at which resolutions were
passed, favoring the unifcation of "all men of
whatever race. color or religion who are citi-
zens of Louisiana, and who are willing to work
for her prosperity advocating S'the right of
every citizen of Louisiana, and OF every citizen
of the United States, to frequent at will all
places of public resort, and to travel at viii on
all vehicles of public conveyance upon terms
of perfect equality with any and every other
citizen" and pledging themselves, both by
counsel and example, ''to make this right
both live and practical right The final
resolution is as follows: