Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-04

Its permission, and the same authority deny
any civil effect to sentences of excommunica
tion.
The steamer Great Eastern arrived at Heart:
Content on the 9th, having been entirely sue
cessful in laying the new ocean cable. e
i A Washington dispatch of the 9th says the
Attorney General would, in the course of sew.
eral days, forward to the Secretary of War his
opinion relative to the unsettled balances OF
the Freedmen's Bureau, and there was reason
to believe he would recommend suits against
Generals Howard and Balloch for the recovery
OF money alleged to be due the Government.
The Secretary of the Interior has made an
Important ruling as follows: When home
stead is Cancelled and homestead claimant is
found on the land at the date Of such cancel
lation, together with others, who all design
taking the land under presumption laws, the
i homesteader being legally upon the land, his
settlement right rests instantly on such can
collation., while the claimants having gone on
the land while it was covered by said home
stead, were trespassers, and the homestead
claimant is the preferred party under the pre-
emption laws.
Albert II. Smith was recently executed at
Springfield, Mass, for the murder, in Novem-
Der last, of Charles HI. Sackett, of Westfeld.
A joint resolution, censuring the recent Con-
gress for its action in raising the salaries of its
own members, has been passed by the Lower
House of the New Hampshire Legislature.
/ The jury in the Woodruff Claflin- Blood case,
under the instructions of Judge Blatchford,
returned a verdict on the 27th, of "not guilty"
The Judge decided that newspapers were not
included in "obscene publications" in the act
of 1872, under which the Indictment was
| drawn.
In the Walworth trial. at New York, on the
22rtt7fl, letter was produced in evidence and
read, from the senior Walworth to his wife,
traducing in the strongest terms the memory
of his father, assailing vilely his brother and
sister and wife, and in awful language threat
ening, in case his wife would not see that he
| had something for his entire life, to kill Frank
and Tracy, and wipe out the name of Wal
worth forever. The closing portion of the
letter was characterized in a special manner
by obscenity and blasphemy. Mrs. Wal
worth then testified that, after reading this
letter, Frank fell into fit which lasted for an
hour. She further testified that when Frank
was seven or eight years old he fell ON the
hearth and fractured his skull. On two occa-
sions he received injuries on baseball
ground, and complained Of his head for some
months afterwards. . ...se..,s.-.s.. ...tt
William Richeson, who has been twice tried
at Xenia, Ohio, for the murder of William
Fogwell, the juries rendering a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree in both
trials, has been sentenced to be hung on the
17th of October next He protested his inno-
cence Of the crime, tt. sas,
There were six deaths from cholera reported
in Cincinnati on the 9th. IA, ,f.- hs4e.s gae
Another Chicago servant-girl kindled the
fire with kerosene, the other day. Her arms
and the upper part of her body were badly
burned, but her injuries were not thought to
be fatal. r..,.. sp a
The grain crops in Utah are reported as
promising largely. ~
A noteworthy event in the lumber trade of
Chicago occurred on the 9th. A raft con-
tanning $4,000 feet of rough logs arrived from
Ludington, on the eastern shore of Lake Mich
igan, one hundred and sixty miles distant, hay
ing been successfully towed across the lake,
being sixty-three hours onthe way. This is
thought, in Chicago, to be the opening of
new era in the lumber traffic, as it is claimed
that the logs can be RATED in this manner, and
cut into lumber in that city at considerable
reduction on the price of the manufactured
article.
Senator Matt. H. Carpenter, on the even
ing of the 26th, delivered a lengthy speech at
Janesyille, Wis, in defense of the action of
the late Congress on the increased salary ques-
tion..
A colored man named Carpenter, who was
sentenced to be hanged at Dover, Del, ON the
27th, for an attempted outrage and burglary,
has been respited to December %.
The jury in the case of Cohen and Railey, on
trial for an attempt to shoot Governor Kellogg
of Louisiana, rendered verdict of not guilty. |
The number Of cholera interments in Mem
phs on the 27th was nine, and comparatively
few new cases reported. Twenty-four cases
were reported in Nashville on the 26th and
twenty deaths on the 9th. The disease was
abating.
The Mexican Border Claims Commission !,
have finished the examination of the claims |
for damages submitted to them. Their final
report, which has been sent in to Secretary |
Fish, covers 400 cases, involving claims to the
amount of 81, 100000.
sistant Treasurer at New York to give notice |
that during the month of July he will sell
$1,000,O00 in gold, on the first second, fourth |
and fifth Thursdays each, and $1,000, 600 on
the third Thursday, and that he will purchase
S500,000 of bonds on the third Wednesday of
the month. II
The Brooklj Eagle OF the 2Sth says: "The
Examining dfnmittee of Plymouth Church
had received Nom F. West specific charge of
slander'against Henry CBowen. It's charged
he has circulated 81 bers against Henry Ward
Bess (which ar" false, and his (Bowcn's)
EXPULSION is calle&for. An investigation is TO
be made immediately. Mr. Beecher is desirous
that the investigation should be made at once.
The matter is referred to the following named
Deacons and members of the Examining Com
mittee: Elmer II. Garbut, d. H. Hawkins, H. |
B. White, Lysander w. Manchester, George II. |
Day, Daniel w. Talmage, R. w. Ropes, j. T. |
Howard, C. G. Duncan, NJ. K. Moody, R. D.
Benedict, Samuel E. Belcher, G. II. Morton, |
Thomas j. Tilney, George w. Brush, Fl. w. |
Beecher, s. B. Halliday, ex-oficio. -Four Dea-
conesses are members of this Examining Com
mittee. -
There were fourteen deaths from cholera in |
Cincinnati on the 2Sth, and seven on the 29th. |
A Parsons (Kansas) telegram of the 2Sth |
says the wheat crop had been nearly all har-
vested in that part of Kansas, and was saved
in good order. The Chicago Journal of the |
2Sth says: sour adyices regarding the grow !
ing crops throughout the Northwest are, as
rule, very encouraging. The young corn is
doing finely. The potato is the only doubtful
crop, the ''bugs" being extremely destructive
in many localities.
The books of Duden, Freeres & Co., have