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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
Execu tiOn of Capt. Jack and His AS
sOciaIeS.

AN Associated Press dispatch of Octo-
ber thus describes the incidents attend
ing the execution of Captain Jack and
his associates:
AT precisely 8 40 a. m., the interpreters,
Capt. 0. G. Applegate and David Hill, ex-
planned to the culprits the nature of the
order to be read to them by the Adjutant,
and at 10 a. m. Adiutant Kingsbury read
the orders promulgating the sentence of
the Commission and the Presidents order
therein, with the orders of the Secretary
of War and the Department Commander
in the premises.
General Davis order had directed that
they be executed the day after their cap
ture, but it's execution was prevented by
instructions from Washington to hold the
prisoners until further orders. The friends
of the peace policy in Washington raised
the question whether the Modocs could be
legally tried by military commission.
The point was made that General Candy
was not acting as commander Of the mil
itary forces, but as Peace Commissioner,
and therefore, a military commission
could legally take cognizance of the
crime; that the killing of Captain Thomas
and the other officers and soldiers should
be viewed as an act of war, being per-
formed while the parties were engaged in
hostilties. These objections, however,
were overruled by the President, and a
military commission tried the murderers,
and condemned them to be hanged.
The two reprieved prisoners, Barncho
and Slotuck, yet stood on the ground in
front of the scafold, shackled and under
guard. During the reading the pinioned
victims were seated on the platform OF the
scaffold, which consisted of uprights about
seven feet high, surmounted by cross
beam thirty feet in length. The platform
was seto pine poles, eight feet below the
beam, solid at the back, and, with hing
ed drop on which all were seated, with
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
Miscellaneous Keadilge
LETTING GO OF HANDS.
BY MARGARET J. PRESTON.

BY MARGARET }. FRESTON.
o THE chill, clinging crush of the fingers,
Each pressure more faint than the last;
The slow-loOs ming hold that still lingers
Though the wrench Of the spirit be pasti
What heart in its hopelessness breaking
To feel them can stifle the cry
The human within us is making
"God help, or we diei''
We wiring with passion of sorrow,
We cover with kisses of pain
The palm that some fairer tomorrow
Well fold in old fondness again,
We drop the pale fingers, whose colding
impressiveness startles our own,
Forever-we knoW-frOm our holding;
Yet weep not nor groan.
How can we? The spirit is deadened
To numbness because of the blow.
We know that the sunshine has leadened
To blacki1ess; It's all that we know
So shrouded we marvel that, letting
Hands go thus, we keep, as we may
AS we must, life within us, forgetting
That grief does not slay.
All did it, how oft in our lonely
Despairs would we hail it instead,
OF friends the most friendly, if only
1t let us lie down by our dead.
But with deeper refinement of anguish,
Through rackings and tortures and tears,
1t nerves us to bear as we lapguish
Along the gray years.
And kind ones, in soothingest fashion
(Not always ev'n love understands),
Speak low in their tender compassion
OF the beautiful folding of hands
Nouchsafed- Beloveds-of grasping
For which the long parted so pine;
What comfort to me the keen claspings
When the clasp is not mine!
D hands that lie crossing so sanity
The bosoms ON which have leant;
Could press them, though ever so fainl
just once, would wait with content
For the time that SO loiters, SO fingers,
When with rapture undreamed of before
l catch to my lips the dear fingers,
And osethem no morel
~ Y I11deDende1t
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
Three Paragraphs of Gold.

A GOOD advertisement in q widely cir
culated newspaper is the best of all posi-
BILE statesmen. 1t is salesman who never
sleeps, and is never weary; who goes after
business early and late; who accosts the
merchant in his shop, the scholar in his
study, the lawyer in his Office, the lady at
her tea table; who can be in q thousand
places at once, and speak to million
people every day, saying to each one the
best thing in the best manner.
A good advertisement in a newspaper
pays no fares on railroads; costs nothing
for hotel bills; gives away no boxes OF
cigars to customers, or merino dresses to
customers wives; drinks no whisky un-
der the head of travelling expenses; but
goes at once and all the time about its
business free of expense.
A good advertisement insures business
connection of the most permanent and in
dependent basis, and is in certain sense
a guarantee to the customer of fair and
moderate prices. Experience has shown
that the dealer whose wares have obtained
a public celebrity is not only enabled to
sell, but is forced to. sell, at reasonable
rates, and to furnish good article.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

their feet on the drop, listening anxiously
/ but, of course, not understanding a word
of it. The reading occupied ten min
utes, then the adjutant read the order OF
| commutation in the case of Barncho and
| Slotuck, which was issued on the ground
| that they were merely acting under Capt
| Jacks orders in what they did. The
! poor fellows were taken back to the stock
! ade, evidently happy at not accompany
ing the others to the happy hunting
| grounds.
| The cof1ns, six in number had been
placed directly in the rear of the gallows
two of them destined to be unoccupied,
as the order committing the sentences OF
Barncho and Slotuck only arrived at 10 &c
last evening, and preparations had been
made for them likewise.
The chaplain then offered an earnest
and fervent prayer for the souls of the
culprits, which was listened to attentive
ly. At 1915 the fatal nooses were placed
around their necks, under direction of
Capt. Hoge. 1t was necessary to cut off a
little Of Jacks long hair, which was in
the way of the rope.
Capt Hoge then bid farewell to the
prisoners, and the black caps were placed
over the heads of all the culprits. It must
have been an awfal moment
At 1920 they stood Oh the drop. The
rope was cut by the assistant at signal
made by Captain Hoge's handkerchief.
The bodies swung round and round, Jack
and Jim apparently dying easily, but
Boston and Schonchin suffering terrible
convulsions. Boston and Schonchin re-
peatedly drew up their legs, but the two
others seemed to die almost instantly
AT 10: :2S their pulses were felt by Cap
tain Hoge, and as [ write they are swing
ing lifeless in the air.
AS the drop fell with a terrible deadly
thug four poor wretched human beings
fell into eternity, and halfsmothered
cry of horror went up from the crowd of
over 500 klamath Indians who witnessed
the awful spectacle. Walls of deep and
bitter anguish went up from the stockade
where the wives and children of the poor
fellows had fair view of the shocking
scene.
An application was made this morning
by the sheriff Of jackson County for the
custody Of the Indians indicted by the
grand jury, to General Wheaton, but it
was refused.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
THE NEW WORLD.

NC w StVESADs
A dispatch from Marshall, Texas, of the
Both says that the yellow fever had made its
appearance in that place.
New York kilograms of the 30th say that the
day had passed more satisfactorily than the
most sanguine had dared to hope. The Stock
Board had opened and business was moving
along swimmingly. There had been no default
ing in the matter of settlements, and there
appeared not ripple of excitement in any di-
rection Greenbacks had appeared on the
street in largely increased quantities, and
the premium upon them wiped out.
A sharp advance in foreign ex-
change had been effected, crops were once
more in motion, and the banks were all work
ing along without trouble. Gold closed at
111%. Henry j. Brooks, leather merchant,
had suspended.
A Washington dispatch of the Both says
that it is the expectation Of the Treasury De-
partment that the importation of sovereigns
from England will reach $40,0O0,000. A large
depositor with Jay Cooke & Co. had COM
menced proceedings in bankruptcy against the
Washington branch Of that concern.
The official statement shows that the total
amount of United States currency outstanding
on the 30th was S402, ,923, ,039.
In Chicago, on the 30th, matters had very
nearly resumed their normal condition, so far
as the banks were concerned. The effect of
the late panic was just beginning to be felt by
merchants and traders. Trade was unmistak-
ably dull and collections difficult to be made.
A telegram from Boston of the goth an
nsunces the death of Admiral Winslow, of the
United States Navy.
According to Eastern dispatches of the 1st,
business in all financial centers had fallen
into its old channels. The supply of currency
had become nearly equal to the demand; there
was a demand for stocks, principally in small
lots for investment; foreign exchange had
still further advanced, and the feeling was
generally one of safety and security. The
dry goods house of Patton & Co., of
New York, had suspended. Currency
in New York commanded premium of from
211S to 311s per cent over certified checks.
A Madison (Wis.) dispatch of the 1st an
nounces that the Bank of Madison had failed.
A dispatch from Jersey City, n. j., says
that the Cummings Car Co., of that city, had
suspended.
The New York State Democratic Convention
met at Utica on the 1st. Horatio Seymour was
elected President. Nh. seymour delivered an adj
dress urging the nomination of men of the
highest character and undoubted capacity, and
advising the Democrats and Liberal Republi-
cans to unite in the coming election. The
Committee on Credentials gave seats to dele
gates from the Tammany organization, where
upoa the Apollo Hall delegation, after with
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
How to Hang Gates.

A correspondent of the Cincinnati Ga
zette writes "In the spring of 1867 / hung
four large gates. The posts were six by
eight inches square, and were put in the
ground two and one-half feet The post
that hung the gate to was put down first
and the gate then hung. | then set the
other post so as to let the gate shut inside
the post, against two pins driven in the
post, one foot from the top and bottom of
the gate. Then | put a one inch pin
through the head of the gate, putting the
pin through the gate the same way the
gate shuts, and extending through four
inches, with the point of the pin elevated
one inch. This pin was thus arranged so
as to slip over the top pin in the post, with
sufficient bearing to take out the spring
of gate. In this way, when shut, the gate
is supported by both posts. The gate is
made of lumber, bars one inch thick, four
or five inches wide, and eleven feet long.
take for the two heel pieces lumber one
inch thick, four inches wide, and four
feet ten inches long. / also take TWO
pieces two inches wide for the head OF
the gate, that are set back three feet from
the head of the gate then put brace
on both sides, running from the top OF the
center unright Stats to the bottom OF the
heel nieces. all being firmly bolted to-
oether The latch or bolt three and one
half feet long), is placed on the top OF the
third or fourth bar. A mortise is cut IN
the post for the bolt or latch to slide IN
The above four. gates were hung IN the
spring of 1867. They stand as firm today
as they did the day hung them.
Mrs. SERA WILBUR, of Greeley, COL,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

Phoebe, CAL, jury-room scene: First
iuror-You say you are satisfied this man
committed murder, and yet you object to
finding him guilty. Give US your reason.
Second juror-Well, see here, old feiler,
we've all killed our man, and s'pose we
kill another one, how would we feel if a
set of id mean cusses should convict
US? Jury in chorus-That's SO; we never
thought of that. None of us will be safe
if we establish such precedent. The
prisoner was honorably acquitted.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

drawing, met, adopted vigorous protest and
then separated. The Democratic Convention
then adjourned until the following day.
Adispatch from Springfield, ILL.,, of the LIST,
says the Leland House of that city had been
damaged by fire to the extent of $4,000
Washington dispatches of the 1st say the
Attorney General had no official information
regarding complications in Mississippi, but an
ticipated a repetition of the contest in Louis
lana. While taking no partin the controversy
between the Ames and Alcorn party, he was
assured that the result must be either the es-
tablishment of two factions, each claiming to
be the State Government, between which Con-
gress and the General Government would be
obliged to decide,'i he continuance of aState
Government beyor he time for which it is
elected, and such continuance involves the
election of members of Congress and other
similar questions, upon which the Govern
ment would finally be obliged to pass.
The public debt statement for October is as
follows: E.}.ata 4At
Six per cent. bonds. S., ,235, ,000, 200
Five per cent. bonds. .............. 4SS, 800
Total coin bonds. s............... s., ,723, ,567, 500
Lawful money debt. S14,67s 600
Matured debt. Observation-Disclosures. 1876 130
Legal tender notes. es................. 356, 742
Certificates of deposit. 1880 600
Fractional currency. y.................. 46,229,391
Coin certificates Observation-Disclosures. 1888, ,545
Total without interest. ...........S Al, ,534
Total debt. bt.......................$2 2201 1885, 164
Total interest ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 81, 523
Coin. ................ $50. .246, ,757
Currency Observation-Disclosures. 3,2S9, ,032
Special deposits held for redemption
of certificates of deposit as pro-
vided by law. Observation-Disclosures. 11,25O,O 600
Total in Treasury .............$ 94,7S5, ,7S9
Debt less cash in Treasury So 13S, ,793 S9S
Decrease during month. .............S 1,90l,46
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad Com st. s1,
panies, interest payable in lawful .
money, principal outstanding. 49,. ID, 623,5l2
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 969,352
Interest paid by United States. 1900. 20,447,986
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc. c.........................., 44SS,llI
Balance of interest paid by United
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

Mrs. SERA WILBUR, of Greeley, COL,
once Michigan schoolmarm, has plowed
and sowed thirteen acres of wheat this
season Women have rights there.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

-Eighty-six women have entered the
Michigan University this term.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10

AN UNPLEASANT RATIoN-Botheration.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

In England, great crops of wheat ore
raised by turning over clover sod and
drilling in the wheat as fast as the land
is plowed. We could do the same thing
here provided our land was i'm as high
condition and the season was wet
enough to insure the termination of
the seed and the growth of the young
plants.
AS one of the effects of the cheese
and butter factory system, the Bing-
hampton Democrat notes that the bar
ley crop of Jefferson county, N. Y, has
fallen off IRON 600, 900 bushels to 100,-
600, and all in five years, the farmers
finding more profit in keeping COWS.
THE Farmers Association OF Cham
paign county, ILL.,, have obtained a
State license TO act III a corporate
capacity, and are going to erect a ware
house and corn shelter of their own.
Last week they sent TO Chicago on
their own account, nineteen carloads
of corn, on which they saved $500.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17
How Co necp Eggs.

For storing eggs very good plan is
10 have a large board pierced with
holes m regular rows. Many breeders
keep them IN bran and this latter
method is, perhaps. best for those
meant only to be eaten, but foR setting
hens the pierced board has many obyi-
GUS conyeniences They should always
be kept with the large end downward.
This direction being exactly contrary
to that usually given, the writer should
state that ms attention was first called
specially to the subject by a most
intelligent lady, who advocated this
plan, alleging as the probable reason
of It's superiority, excepting eggs ON the
small end appears to me To cause the
AIR bubble to spread, detaching il from
the shell, or rather from It's membrane
Gus lining, aud after being kept so for
a fortnight, the air bubble will be found
TO be much spread, and the eggs 10
have lost much vitality, though still
very good for eating She then de-
acribed her success the other way,
adding lowing To this method OF
storing, such a thing as stale egg has
never been known IN my house and as
regards success in Matching, for several
seasons, when | was able to attend 10
my poultry myself, OF many breeds set
every egg produced a chick" We were
10y no means hasty in adopting or
recommending this plan; but after
observations and comparison for two
seasons, have proved undisputably that
both, for eating and setting, eggs do
keep much better the large end down.
There is after week, a marked differ
elce in eggs kept IN the two positions
as regards the spreading of the air
bubble-which is well known Go affect
both the freshness for eating aud vital.
ity for setting of stored eggs and after
three weeks the difference can he dis.
cerned even 10y the taste alone.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17
An Imnromnin Wedding.

A Missouri paper gives a detailed
account OF howa betrothed couple were
persuaded to anticipate the day set for
their wedding, and TO have the ceremo-
ny abruptly performed at birthday
party, at which they Glanced to be
guests. IL says /" Recorder Theis was
also present, and as soon as he saw the
young couple come in, with an eye TO
business he suggested that if anybody
was present who wished to be married.
he was at their service. The young
couple at once took the hint. The man
was willing, but the maiden was buck
ward and would not consent. Adam
concluded TO use little diplomacy, so
he says: I" will make pres.
ent OF $35 cooking.stoye to
any couple that | shall marry
tonight. This proposition so enlight-
ed the company that others commenced
Offering presents. +. q. Mueller said,
| will give nice bureau +. G..
Mueller said, And | spring mat.
tress Fischer, the halter, Call on
me Tor rocking chair Miller, the
gunsmith, I'll give a set OF cushion
bottom chairs Mr.. Volk, And here's
an extension table, Mrs. Anna Niete.
book, I'll give a $50 bedstead : Mr..
Gaiz, Put me down for a fine looking
glass Mrs. Mitchell, Here's break
fast set Miss Fritz Notebook, IN
give II clock and so they went on
until the presents in the aggregate
amounted to about 500, the young
couple meanwhile blushing and hard.
~ knowing what to say rdo. Several
friends of the young lady got around
her, and told her she would not again
have such favorable opportunity to
make a start in the world , and Just
as the party was breaking-up, about IL
o'clock, Mr.. Hunstock, who seemed to
be working up Adams interest and
urging on the match, came around to
the Recorder, and whispered in his ear:
Stop little, dots all rightly
chinks, we got a wedding anyhow
poody soonl' Adam called halt, the
company stood still in hats and bon,
nets, while the Recorder proceeded and
said, pronounce you man and wife,
aud may God bless you, and Miss
Sterin was Mrs. Green, TO the intense
delight of all present.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

Let me give You my recipe for a
most effectual insecticide: One wine
bottle, thirty ounces; old soldiers
tclgar stumps) any quantum aqua
pura or Tainum TO cover tue stumps.
Put the stumps IN the bottle and the
water on the stumps. OF course this
will not exterminate green house full
OF insects, but for the window gardens,
and Undergraduates, etc, it is Just the
thing. Put IN more stumps and more
water caily, so as TO keep your bottle
full. The longer the solution stands
the worse 1t is for the health of the in
sect. Apply with brush, little toy
waterlng-pot, or spoon if you choose.
There is a double satisfaction in the
use OF this preparation-viz., the utili-
cation OF Adolphus Henry's cigar
stumps, and the opportunity of wit
Messing how insects will die before they
will get accustomed to the use Of to
bacco.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

THE WEEKLY sun is too widely known require
which
which Will we hope gveit many thousands briefly follows
first All the the day will in
de when npant at full length when of moment and always presented
clear ineligible, and
aemiy full Of
nothing that offend the delicate
carefully selected and lcgiby printed pages.
agricultural regularly appear this
II 10
cattle markets. which particular
club
sun this dollar will paper
THE
discounts
"A large
NewY orkC
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17

Farmers, one and all, do not have a
viscious, barking dog around your
steers. A case has been under the
writer's notice, all this year, of man
who prIded himself on his ability to
manage his swine aud stock with two
ours that were not worth the powder to
shoot them with. What was the conse-
quencel The sows had all dead pigs.
The COWS ia some instances, aborted
their calves, or became SO unmanage-
able as TO be obliged to have their legs
tied at milking time If ever horse
gets loose, it remains SO until tied
down, the whole thing making every
one on the farm crow cross aud sour
tempered the men swearing aud the
women poutiug. Remember, the COW
and horse are quiet, cOnfding animals,
but get shy and vicious il any NANCY
mongrel is allowed to dog them home.
and dog them away and here and there.
Show an intelligent man another
mans cows and he will very soon show
you the mans temper.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17
WOOL Prospects.

The outlook as regards wool 10 Ger
tainiy at present in favor of a firmer
market A large purchase has been
made IN New York within the past two
or three weeks by buyer from Bel
GUM, at fully the current quotations
in Europe, either with the hope of
depressing the Antwerp market or be-
cause the quality OF the wool on this
side is superior to that attainable there.
American buyers have again gone to
Australia, movement which will not
be unlikely to strengthen prices in that
market. Some holders in eastern
cities are now asking So cents for Xxx
Ohio, an advance which is of doubtful
continuance, in the opinion of our con,
temporary but with present appear
ances of foreign advices, we confess we
cannot see why it should not be sus
tanned.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1873-10-17
The Latest Feminine Twist.

A correspondent writes that the
latest "kink in carriage" is as follows /:
/" The arms are carried a In tailor.
elbows well out behind, and circular
motion of the hips ia cultivated But
the head Is the principal thing. The
head must be worn loosely, poised rs
far back as possible The new fall hat
Is heavily trimmed, and perehed as much
in the rear as the tenacity of hairpns
and scalp will admit. The weight pro
duces the head effect in some eases,
but there are stiff necked women who
will require 10 be shotted behind to be
in the fashion. Take a glrl of the period
at present. Her nose is beneath the
level OF her chin, and her forehead a
stratum lower The ruff, which of
necessity eucircles her neck, sets out
like tluted salad-howl all around her.
and no top-knot ever was paraded IN
such a position since the head of John
the Baptist was served on a charger.