Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-01-24

Constitution of the United States, will be
deemed vacation of the Federal Office held
by such person." The exceptions made to
this declaration are Justices of the Peace,
Notaries Public, and Commissioners to take
Acknowledgements of deeds, of bail, or ad-
minister oaths, and s'the appointment OF
Deputy Marshal of the United States may
be conferred upon Sheriffs and Duputy
Sheriffs, and Deputy Postmasters, the emol-
ument of whose Office does not exceed 5000
per annum, who are also excepted from the
operation of this order, and may accept and
hold appointments under State, Territorial,
or Municipal authority; provided the same
be found not to interfere with the discharge
of their duties as Postmaster"
Rev. W. G. Clark has been expelled from
the New York Conference of the Methodist
Church, for carrying on lottery, ostensloly
for the benefit of mission house and free
reading room. He continues to serve church
of his own in Brooklyn, and is apparently
successful.
The First Congressional Church, on the
corner of Ann and Washington streets,
Chicago-one of the finest church edifces in
the city-has been almost totally destroyed
by fire. Loss about $4,000; Insurance,
$11S, 400. It will be Immediately rebuilt.
The farmers of Illinois recently held
State Convention at Bloomington, which
was largely attended. A State Association
was organized for persistent and systematic
work in the interest of the producers, and
resolutions were adopted declaring that the
railroads in the State of Illinois stand in
open defiance of the laws, by charging rates
greatly in excess of what the laws allow,
and by unjust Determinations and extor-
tions," and insisting Upon the enforcement
of the State laws bearing upon this mat
ter. ..a. igL s
Perfect, the Chicago wife-murderer, has
had his second trial, on change of venue,
at Joliet, and is again convicted of murder
in the first degree, with hanging as the
penalty. ~
Hon. Lyman Trumbull was nominated for
United States Senator by the. Democratic
members of the Illinois Legislature, on the
10Th. .r5.-ttE .....y
The Woman's Suffrage Convention, re-
Gently in session in Washington, charged an
admission fee on the night of the 18th, and
the District authorities entered the room and
caused the close of the meeting, on the
ground that the parties had no license. aj
A supplementary treaty has been entered
into for the lease Of Samana Bay to an
American Company. It provides that the
effective capital of the company must be
$8O0,000 in current money OF the United
States, divided into 5000 shares of the value
of 500 each; but said capital and shares
may be increased from time to time by
vote of not less than the two-thiras part OF
the capital existing at the time. A Wash
ington dispatch of the New York Herald OF
the 18th states that Congressman consider
the Samana Bay scheme impracticable, and
the Haytien Minister thinks the American
purchasers will find that they have made a
bad speculation, the bay being fit for moth
ing but naval station. rG5aa.t
A great rise in the Hudson, Mohawk, Al
leghany, Susquehanna, and other Eastern
rivers was reported on the Goth. Damaging
floods had occurred in many sections.
The next Illinois State Fair will be held at
Peoria, to last one week, beginning Septem-
Der Is.
s. w. Dorsey, Republican, has been elect
ed United States Senator by the Arkansas
Legislature, in place of Senator Rice, whose
term will expire on the 4th of March.
News on the Goth was to the effect that
the Captain General of Cuba had been au-
thorized to purchase large quanuty OF
rifles in the United States. The political as
poets of the island were assuming more
threatening attitude. 1t was reported IN
Havana that a large expedition OF the frlends
of the Cuban revolutionists, with arms and
ammunition, had landed safely near Guanta-
namo.
Recent information from San Domingo is
to the effect that most of the valuable fran
chises of the island have passed into the
possession of the new American Company.
Leading Cuban tories in New York, SYM
pathizing with Spain, have forwarded 10
Madrid protest against the intervention OF
Secretary Fish in regard to slavery in CUBA.
In the trial of Tweed, on the goth, Garyey
stated Chat when he went to Europe, he was
worth over million of dollars, acquired be-
tween 1868 and 1871, aud said he always IN
tended to return, but that his friends told
him they would not fight his battles for him
unless he went away. Upon being ques-
toned as to who these friends were, ne SAID
they were Tweed, Sweeney, Connolly and
Hank Smith. Mayor Hall was also included
in the lot. Garvey never, to his recollection,
told the Grand Jury that he received cent
improperly from Tweed.
New York dispatch of the goth says
three thousand cases of smallpox were re-
ported to exist in Boston, and the percentage
of deaths was much larger than by all other
causes combined. Nearly all the burials
were made in the night. The epidemic had
a serious effect upon commercial interests
generally.
General Lees birthday was celebrated at
Savannah, Ca, on the Goth, on which occa-
sion the first parade of military since the war
took place. General Wade Hampton deliv-
cred an address. The day was generally OBJ
served as holiday, and resembled the Fourth
of July before the war.
In the Senate of the Kellogg Legislature,
on the Goth, Messrs. jerks, Swords and Wor-
rail-, who withdrew on the 10th, taking seats
with the Fusionists, were expelled. .f--
The Credit M0bilier Investigation.