Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-07-25

named Mary Fleschman, died recently of rat
bite inflicted three days before.
A "unification" mass meeting was held at
New Orleans few days ago. in which fifteen
hundred people participated. The resolutions
recently adopted by the committee of one hun
dred were indorsed, and it was further resolved
that as soon as the opposition to the equal
civil rights of all citizens had been over
come, the participants would enter upon the
work of reforming the administration of State
affairs.
Late reports from all sections of Virginia
represent the oats crop the finest in the State
for many years. Wheat is harvested and will
hardly yield an average. The corn crop was
very promising.
The State Auditor of Louisiana, on the 18th
sold about $4,000 belonging to the general
fund, to the highest bidder, in sums ranging
from $500 to $1,000, for State warrants, the
money bringing from S1.40 to SLAP in State
warrants. The Treasurer applied for an in
junction restraining the Auditor from further
action in this direction, and declared that he
would not receive the warrants from the Au-
ditor or make any entry regarding them.
The Reform State Central Committee of Ar
kansas has issued an address, calling on the
people to hold meetings and pass resolutions
demanding the Constitutional Convention.
Jacob Thompson has recently written a let
ter, in reference to the story of deficit of
$S21, 900 in his accounts as Secretary of the
Interior. He states that the defalcation was
the crime of clerk in the Department, and
that q committee, consisting exclusively of
political opponents, declared the Secretary,
twelve years ago, to be guiltless in the matter,
and that their report was unanimously ap-
proved by Congress.
DIR. Mary E. Walker has been appointed to
a Government clerkship in Washington, the
salary of which is $500 per annum.
A recent Washington dispatch says: sowing
to the rapid growth of the Order of the
Patrons of Husbandry, the headquarters of
the National Grange will soon be removed
from Georgetown to Washington, where the
Secretary's Office will hereafter be located.
Since the LIST inst. about 355 subordinate
Oranges have been organized, making the
total number of Oranges in operation to date
over 4,700, with an aggregate membership
of about $4,000. The order seems to be
growing most rapidly in the States of Iowa
which now has 1,750 Granges-Missouri, Indi-
ana, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and Wiscon-
sin. In response to the requests from different
States, several additional General Deputies
have recently been sent out by the National
Grange to organize subordinate Oranges.
There are at present State Oranges in Arkan-
sas, California, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kan
sas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missou-
ri, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, South Car
olina, Tennessee and Wisconsin"
The property of the late Oakes Ames, in
Guiding both his real and personal estate, in
ventories at $5,754 1854, exclusive of his in
terest in the works at North Easton.
The argument in the case of Charles A.
Dana, of the New York San, accused of libel
against Alexander R. Shepherd, of Washing
ton, on motion for warrant for his removal
to that city for trial, came up before Judge
Blatchford, in the United States District
Court, New York City, ON the 10th. Judge
Blatchford decided that the Constitution rem
dered the jurisdiction of the Washington Po-
lice Court utterly void, and refused to grant the
motion. Objection being taken to this ruling,
the Judge remarked further that the Consti-
tuition of the United States expressly declares
that all offenders shall be tried by jury, and
there was no getting over that.
The Minnesota Republican State Conven-
ton, which met at st. Paul on the 10th. nomi-
mated Cushman X. Davis, of St. Paul, for
Governor. The vote stood, on the fourth
ballot: Davis, 155; w. d. Washburn, 15O
Resolutions were adopted favoring cheap
according to the capital in
vested in railroads; the right of reasonable
but opposing unjust discrimi-
nations and all arbitrary and improper use of
the growing power of railroads and other cor
porations; declaring that no rights should be
vested in railroad corporations beyond the con-
troll of future Legislatures; demanding pure
official conduct and the punishment of un-
faithful public men; condemning the salary
and back-pay grab, and demanding the prompt
repeal of the law authorizing it.
The last two of Capt. Jacks Modoc band
surrendered on the 10Th, and were taken into
camp.
A dispatch from Cairo, ILL.,, ON the 10th, says
the cholera was reported to be very bad in the
northern part of that (Alexander) county, and
about forty-fve miles from that city it was
said that from the 10th to the 18th inst. there
had been thirty cases, twenty proving fatal.
The neighborhood was said to be almost with
out an inhabitant, every one having gone to
the hills. The crops had been left to take care
of themselves. In Cairo there was not a case
of cholera and the health generally was re-
good.
The decision of the Court of Inquiry into
the loss of the steamer City of Washington is
to the effect that on the I'd and Sd of July,
might have been obtained and by
that means fresh departure taken, but, un
happily, the presumption that they were too
far to the southwark for soundings prevailed,
and led the Master to neglect this necessary
precaution. To this omission, together with
the discrepancy in the deviation of the COM
passes, may be attributed the loss of this fine
ship. The Masters certificate of service, held
by William Robert Phillips, Master, is
for the space of one year from the
date of the loss of the steamship.
1t is said the Postmaster General is very
confident that the abolition of the franking
privilege will result in very material increase
in the revenues of the postal-service. He is
of the opinion that the increase will be so
great that the Department will become entire
ly self-sustaining.
In their verdict in the Goodrich case, the
Coronor's jury declared their conviction that
the Coronor's jury, as an institution for the
discovery of crime or the detection of ind-
viduals, has outlived the period of its neces-
sity or usefulness. They urge that, in cases
where the causes of death are uncertain and
an investigation is necessary, the latter could
be more efficiently conducted by some legally
constituted criminal or health authorities, or
hV both combined than under the nresent sVs- |