Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-06-20
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ECDODGEVILLE WISCONSIN, FRIDAY. JUNE 20 1S73.s

ng the power of the Courts of this State to punish
for contempt of Court.
Also, resolutions favoring temperance, the
public schools and the encouragement of agri-
culture and the mechanic arts, and condemning
the salary grab and the new Postal law.
The cholera was thought to be abating at
Memphis on the 18TH There were nineteen in
terments, against twenty-four the day before.
The Agricultural Department at Washing
ton has received accounts from enough of the
wheat-growing States to show that the crop of
this year will, in all probability, be less than
half what it was last year. In western New
York, and in fact along the entire lake region
of the country, winter wheat is, as might have
been expected from the unusual severity of
the past season, almost total failure. Other
crops have also, been severely injured
by the late spring. The crops in Iowa
were suffering greatly from the long continued
wet weather. There was every reason to be-
lieYe that, with the exception of the fruit
crops, all others will be very short, the de7
ficiency being especially heavy in cereals. In
fact, says the dispatch, 1878 will probably be
the worst year we have had since the begin
ming of the war. a-f ss~s. -5ss
The Civil-Service Advisory Board have re-
commended that the country be divided into
four or more districts, each to have chief
examiner, and he to have associated with him
certain officials; and that these boards hold
their examinations of applicants for positions
at convenient points, thereby relieving them
from the expense of travelling to Washington.
The Massachusetts, Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
The Chicago Journal of the 18th says: cat
tempts have been made from time to time by
the various railroads in this State to effect
some arrangement looking to the establish
ment of uniform freight tariff, but always
without success. Yesterday afternoon another
meeting of general freight agents was held in
this city for this purpose, but after consid-
erable discussion of the matter it was agreed
that no joint action could be taken, and that
each road must be a law unto itself in the mat
ter No further attempt in this direction will
probably be made"
At its meeting in Circleville on the 18th,
the Ohio Valley Editorial Convention
elected the following officers for the en-
suing year: President, VIM. M. Milliken,
Washington; Vice-President, E. R. Hol-
dermain, Marietta; Secretary, H. c. Drinkle,
Lancaster. Resolutions were adopted deter
mining not to abate the price of postage
from the subscription price of newspapers,
and asking Congress to amend the postal law
so as to provide a sliding scale of postage for
newspapers published in and out of counties
and States, and providing that all newspapers
carried by express companies shall pay postage
rates.
Joe Duncan, colored, was hanged at Paris,
Ky., on the 18th, for the murder of John
Hawkins, colored, in April, 1872.
The annual decoration of the graves of Con-
federate dead at Charleston, S. c., took place
on the 18th. There was a general suspension
of business during the afternoon.
There were seventeen interments at Memphis
on the 13th-two less than the day before.
Speaking of the disease in that city, the Mem
phis Ledger says: "There is no such thing
possible as stemming the popular impression
outside of Memphis that we have cholera here
to an alarming extent, and all we can do is to
90 along quietly as we did last winter when
smallpox reports were so incredibly multi
piled, until the impression dies out of the pub
lie mind. Considerable sickness prevails, as
everybody knows, but there is very little chol-
era, ana even less CuOlcIa-u1OlUlAS, ANU ~ 10
surprising how few deaths occur"
The Secretary of the Navy does not hesitate
to say, in advance of his official report, that the
testimony elected shows that Captain Hall
died a natural death, and that the separation
of those on the ice-foe from the Polaris was
accidental He is desirous, however, of hear
ing the story of Captain Buddington and his
party, that both sides may be fully known.
A vessel is to be sent by the Navy Depart
ment to Greenland, in quest of information
concerning the missing Polaris and the Bud
dington party. Should it's officers fail to learn
anything of their whereabouts from the Danes
or the Esquimaux of the island, vessel thor
oughly equipped for an Arctic voyage will be
dispatched in search of them.
A New York dispatch of the 18th states that
General Sherman, in conversation with re-
porter, concerning General Davis indictment
Of Captain Jack, and the preparations for
hanging him and some of his associates, said:
eff the statement is correct there is no doubt
that General Davis must have exceeded his
duty, and he will be held responsible for his
acts. 4. He should be guided by military rules
and the law. We all know they are murder
ers. The President himself says they are MUIR
derers, and had General Davis shot them while
they were being pursued, l do not think that
he would have exceeded his duty. He did not
do this, and could not afterward hang them in
cold blood"
Much indignation is expressed by the New
York press over the result of the Stokes appll-
cation for a new trial.
The remains of the late Hon. James L. Orr,
former Minister to Russia, have been buried
at New York with every mark of respect.
President Grant was in attendance.
Accounts have been received of a destruc-
tive freshet in Blackwood Valley, Nebraska.
Without moments warning the Blackwood
River became a 1ood and submerged the whole
valley, which is forty-fve miles long and mile
or mile and half wide, under seven feet of
water. A camp of United States soldiers was
swept away, and those of the soldiers who
escaped saved their lives by clinging to the
branches of trees into which they were carried.
The settlers in the valley lost horses, cattle,
and all their accumulations Six of the sol !
diers and twenty-six horses were drowned.
A Peoria Qll.) woman named Largent, and |
Chicago woman named Minnie Doblingher
are among the recent victims of the mania for
starting fire by the use of kerosene.
The Executive Committee of the Illinois |
State Farmers Association have issued the
call for a Farmers Fourth of |
July" $50 s41G
Equal and exact justice to all men.-Jeferson.
In accordance with the advice and request of
persons in various parts of the State, the under
signed, Executive Committee of the Illinois State
Farmers Association, would respectfully recon-
mend to the farmers of Illinois that they meet in 1
ing Fourth of July for the purpose not only of du-
y celebrating the anniversary Of our National In