Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-01

current expenses. The sinking fund revenues
are more than sufficient to meet current inter-
est and retire an annual proportion of the
outstanding bonds. The amount authorized
by the last Legislative Assembly will not in
crease the debt beyond the amount as limited
by act of Congress. smlg~,,av-
A recent New York dispatch says the state
ment that there is to be no Investigation by
the deacons and trustees of Plymouth Church
relative to the Bowen -Tilton scandal is untrue.
The trial has only been postponed on account
Of the absence of Mr.. Beecher anil number
of the committee. In the fall charges will
be filed against Bowen and Titon, and be
fully investigated The sessions will proba-
bly, be held with closed doors.
The American Cheap Transportation Asso-
citation of New York City, perfected its organ
ization on the evening of the 21st, and adopted
resolutions setting forth that the unjust and
extortionate rates charged BY ne various rail-
roads of the country are detrimental to the
industries and interests of the nation, and con-
demning the action of the railroad companies
in bribing Legislatures, and defying Judges
and Executives. ee
A st. Louis dispatch of the 22d
says the cholera had abated at
Louisiana, Mo-, but. some fifty per-
sons altogether had died of it since it first
broke out, including some of the most promi
nent citizens. In Prairieville and Troy the
scourge ragged fearfully, the towns being
almost depopulated either by disease or the
people fleeing from their homes. Out of one
family of nine persons in the former place, all
of whom were well on the 18th, only two re-
manned. The disease also prevailed at other
towns near by. Business was almost suspend
ed, and most of those who were able were fee
ing from the infected places. A reporter of the
Evansville Qnd.) Journal of the 22d says there
were then only about 1900 people in Mount
Vernon, and that the surrounding towns were
full of Mount Vernon citizens, who had fed
from the city. The Board of Health had re-
quested all persons not to visit the place for
the present.
The value of the booty secured by the rob-
bers of the express train near Casey, Iowa, on
the 21st, did not exceed $4,000. The valuable
express matter usually sent by this train on
Mondays was forwarded the night before.
At their session at Springfield on the 22d,
the Illinois Board of Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioners received number of COM
plants of extortion by railroads. These COM
plants were against the Illinois Central,
Peoria, Pekin & Jacksonville, and the Toledo,
Wabash & Western Railroads 1t was not i'm
probable that the members of the Board would
visit some of the points where the most fla
grant extortions are charged to be made, to in
tioratn ho fr11f md
a remedy for them.
DR.. Mary Walker was arrested in Baltimore
on the 22d, for appearing in mems clothing,
but was soon released.
At a meeting of the committee of colored
men in New Orleans on the 22d, it was agreed
to call convention of colored men some time
in November, to meet in that city.
The Hon. John p. Hale fell and broke his
hip bone at Dover on the 22d, and his case was
considered critical on the 23d.
An italian named Gilone was recently exam
ined at New Haven, on a charge of keeping
italian boys in condition of servitude, to
profit by their earnings. He was held in bonds
of 81, 900 for trial in October, and was COM
mitted to Jail for want of ball.
The Manitoban Court, before which Messrs.
Bentley, Hoy and Keegon, citizens
of Minneapolis have been undergoing an ex
on a charge of attempting to kid
nap the bogus Lord Gordon, rendered its de-
cision ON the 23d, committing the prisoners
for trial.
The Chicago Tribune of the oath says the
Chicago & Alton Railroad had decided not to
prosecute the suits which it instituted some
Lean and Livingston Counties, who delayed
the business of the road by refusing to pay
more than the legal fare, and also by declining
to be elected from the train. In a conference
held at Springfield on the 23d, between the
of the Road and the Railroad
Commissioners, the former stated that its tar
iff would be rearranged within the ensuing
four weeks SO as to remove all cause for the
of extortion evoked ~ the present
rates.
Governor Carpenter of Iowa has offered
reward of $500 each for the apprehension and
delivery of the Rock Island train robbers. A
st. Joseph (Mo.) telegram of the 23d says it
was known there that the robbers had been
raced into Nodaway County, Missouri. 1t
was confidently believed they could not escape.
The whole country was aroused, and the offic-
ers in every town and village were on the
.lert.
1t was announced on the 23d that the
cholera panic had subsidized at Mount Vernon,
Indiana. One death was reported in Cincin-
lati on the 23d, and two at Carmi, Ill. Within
he previous week ten persons had died of
cholera in the village of Grafton, Illinois. A
cholera case was reported in Wheeling CIV.
Va.) on the 23d, and Lagrange, KY, had
eighteen deaths from that dis ease within three
lays. =
A delegation of prominent South Carolnians
lad an interview with Attorney-General Will
Jams on the oath, and urged that the further
prosecution of Ku-Klux offenders in the South
,e discontinued, as that organization was
'roken up, and a cessation of prosecutions
would have a conciliatory effect upon all
lasses of that section. They also urged
hat those convicted and serving out
erms of sentence be pardoned. The At
orney-G General, in reply, said that instruc-
ions had already been issued to stop the pros
cutions against the Ku-Klux offenders, ex-
ept in very aggravated cases, and some of those
convicted had already been pardoned. 1t was
he policy of the President to pardon them all,
,eeping the most aggravated cases, however,
Until the last.
Governor Grover, of Oregon, has ordered an
lection on Monday, October 13, to fill the va
ancy in Congress caused by the recent death
# Hon. Joseph G. Wilson.
The Farmers Union estimates that the
wheat crop of Minnesota this year will yield
urplus of 100000 bushels for export. The
Union advises the farmers to market all their
wheat as soon as possible for fear of still
over prices.
A State Temperance Convention metsat JEFF
ersnn City Missouri on the 9th DR. w s