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


| demanding as the only condition of our suffrage
| honesty, diligence and ability, and we advocate
| this not because of the offices themselves, but
simply as an earnest and proof upon our part
that the union desire is an equal union and rot
an Elusive conjunction brought about for the sole
benefit of one or the other of the parties TO that
union.
The sudden death of woman with symp-
! toms of cholera was reported in Cincinnati
| on the nth.
The capture of three negroes of New Iberia,
La, who murdered two white men, was eff
fected on the 18th, through the States .evi-
dence of an accomplice. They were then
| taken from the officers of justice by mob
of over 1000 white citizens, and hanged.
They confessed taking part in the crime, but
insisted that the one who turned States eyi-
| dence cut the throat of one of the murdered
| men.
The Hon. Joseph Brooks has commenced a
suit in the Circuit Court of Pulaski County,
Arkansas, against Governor Baxter, for the
| Office of Governor.
At Memphis, on the nth, there were fifteen
interments, ten of cholera. On the same day
there were fifty deaths in Nashville, thirty-fve
being from cholera. The disease was evident
| ly spreading. Dispatches from Gallatin,
Lebanon, Granville, and other points show
that the scourge was carrying offa great many
at those places.
The Texas Legislature in view of the Mexi-
| can depredations on the border, has provided
for the employment of volunteer force for
the purpose of protection.
President Grant has ordered the pardon of
Rev. John Ezell, Baptist minister, who was
tried and sentenced eighteen months ago, in
South Carolina, to the Albany Penitentiary as
an alleged Ku-Klux leader.
| The twenty-ninth annual session of the Ma
| tional Division Sons of Temperance commenced
in NewYork City, on the 18th, almost every
State being represented. The delegates included
several colored men. The annual reports
show fourishing condition of the Order.
In the case of Susan B. Anthony, on trial at
Canandaigua, N. Y, the Court directed the
jury to render a verdict of guilty After the
verdict was rendered, the defendants counsel
excepted to the decree and action of the Court,
and insisted that upon the construction given
to the law by the decision, there had been
only violation of State law, and that the
United States Court had no jurisdiction.
The Chicago Times of the 18th announces
that the Chicago & Alton Railroad had estab-
lished schedule of rates under the new rail-
road law The Times says the competing
points will be obliged to pay higher rates than
at present. and the points where there is no
competition will pay perhaps somewhat less.
The other roads had not yet prepared their
schedules; but it was believed that they would
conform in the main to the same basis as that
adopted by the Alton Company.
Hon. Sidney Breese has been elected Chief
Justice of the Illinois Supreme Court, 0ice
Judge Lawn onco, term expired.
During the removal of the Modocs from the
peninsula, Tule Lake, to Fort Klamath, one of
the Indians known as Curly-headed Jack, who
surrendered with the Hot Creek band to Gen.
Davis, at FairchiId's rancho, shot himself. He
has since died.
1t has been decided by Judge Rogers, of the
Circuit Court of Cook County, ILL.,, that the
authority of the Mayor of Chicago to revoke
saloon-keepers' licenses who violate the Sun
day law, is warranted both by the spirit and
the letter of the law.
Two deaths from disease presenting cholera
symptoms were reported in Cincinnati on the
18th. Both were new cases. One was sick
only day.
The Michigan State Editorial Association, at
its recent session, adopted resolutions recon-
mending that all newspapers discourage
unknown advertising agencies, and refuse to
accept orders from them without cash in ad-
vance; that newspapers adhere rigidly to their
prices, as well with advertising agencies as
other parties; that the commission of twenty
five per cent allowed to agencies is larger
than the nature of the business will justify,
and that the Association advises that not over
twenty per cent. be allowed after July l, 1873.
resolution was also adopted urging that
on all legal advertising statute rates be adj
hered to.
Suit has been brought by the AttorneyGen-
eral of Arkansas in the Pulaski Circuit Court
similar to the one brought by Brooks, setting
forth that Baxter was not elected Governor,
and asking Judgment of custer against him.
He brings the suit in the name of the State.
In Memphis, on the 18th, there were fifteen
interments, eleven of whom died of cholera
The weather was clearer, and hopes were en-
tertained that the disease would subside. At
Nashville on the same Cay the cholera deaths
numbered thirty-eight whites and twenty
two colored. Business was almost totally sus-
pended, and there was considerable exodus
of people out of the city.
Mrs. Workman was hanged on the 10Th, in
Sarnia, Canada, for the murder of her hus-
band.
The President arrived in Washington from
Long Branch on the morning of the 10Th.
The Postmaster General, it is stated, has
determined to issue an order directing that
all postal cards which cannot be delivered
to the person addressed shall be Immediately
returned to the writer without charge.
A meeting of prominent business men in
terested in solution of the railroad trans
portation problem was held in New York City
on the 18th, and permanent organization
effected. The organization is designed to be
an auxiliary to the American Cheap Trans
portation Association, organized by the
Produce Convention, held in May. In
their address issued, the promoters
of the organization favor the con-
struction of double-track road, exclusively
for freight, to be owned but not operated by
the Government, by means of which goods
can be laid down in Chicago. Cincinnati or ST.
Louis, from New York, in about three days,
whereas it now takes ten. The address also
saws that it is not intended that this movement
shall be political one any further than the
present monopolies compel it to be.
The Republican State Convention of Maine
met at Bangor on the 10Th, and nominated
Nelson Dingle, Jr, as candidate for Gov
ernor. The resolutions protest against grant
ing the public lands to canals and railroads;
denounce all Credit -Mobilier transactions and
the salary grab, and demand the repeal OF the
law by which the back-pay was obtained.
Late adyices indicate that the health OF vice.
President Wilson was rapidly improving, and
he would no doubt be soon entirely recov-