Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-01


County, State, and National Administration
i denouncing the present system of railroad
management, and calling for State mass
convention of all who agree with the prin
ciples set forth in the resolutions, said con
yention to be held at Owatonna, on the I'd OF
September next.
/ A letter is published from the Hon. W. s.
Groesbeek, of Cincinnati, in which he EN-.
phatically declares he will not accept nomi.
nation for State Governor. He favors an
abandonment of the old party organization,
and the formation of new party in opposi-
ton to the present party in power, and sug-
gests that the new party be called the Liberal
Democracy.
Bail has been refused in the case of the
/ Gordon captors, and the prisoners will have to
lie in British Jail until their trial in October
next.
| An incendiary fire in Norfolk, Va, on the
| Goth, destroyed or seriously damaged six Oh
| eight buildings loss about $15O,0o0.
/ The Bureau of Agriculture has ordered 4Ou
bushels of wheat from France, and an equal
| quantity from Chill, embracing all varieties of
winter wheat. Cargoes are expected to arrive
about the first of September, and will be dis
tributed in season for fall sowing.
| The July report of the Agricultural Bureau
| represents an Improvement in winter wheat,
| but decline in the prospects of spring wheat
| on account of unreasonable weather in some
| quarters, and insect enemies in others. The
average in corn is increased in West Virginia
and Minnesota, and decreased in all other
States except Florida and Arkansas, where it
remains the same as last year.
| The Attorney General has recommended that
pardons be issued to Felix Dover, Stephen
| Spawn, Evan Murphy and William Scruggs,
convicted in North and South Carolina of
| connection with Ku-Klux outrages.
| The managers of trunk lines to the West
have made the following reductions in freight
charges on first class merchandise, which in
cludes dry goods, boots and shoes, clothing,
etc.: From New York to Chicago, per cwt.,
Is cents; formerly 81. Cleveland, 40 cents;
formerly. 65 cents. Cincinnati, 70 cents;
formerly 90 cents. St. Louis, 81 cents;
formerly $1.2S. Louisville, Sc cents; former
ly $1.23. Memphis, $135; formerly $1.62.
The following are the rates from Lake Erie
ports westward: To Cleveland, Toledo, and
Detroit, 45c To Chicago Milwaukee, and
Green Bay sic.
The Peruvian Government has commenced
suits against several dealers in guano in New
York City, who are said to adulterate the arti-
Gle and sell it as guano.
The complaint and affidavits in the case OF
Ann Eliza Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, were filed on the 2Sth, in the CLERKS
office of the Third District Court of Utah.
The complainant sues for 5000, 1000 damages,
alimony, and pending the suit $l,OoO per
month, and $50, 900 for counsel fees.
The second annual convention of the Cath
olic Total Abstinence Union of Illinois met al
Bloomington ON the 2Sth. About one hum
dred delegates were present
| Two additional deaths from cholera were re-
ported in Indianapolis on the 2Sth. But
deaths in all had so far occurred, five OF which
were the children of one family
| Merriam, the only one of the Minneapolis
| party whom the Manitoban Judge decided
bailable, was released on the 2Sth, two of the
wealthiest and most respected citizens OF Man
itoba becoming his sureties. Attorney Gener'
al Clarke refused to deliver up $4,000 taken
from two of the Americans, although the
Court had ordered him to do so.
oSAAa w. WIZ uCSoI oh e1StAOh w O'o~O'~-
$1,000 paid into the Kansas Legislature by A.
NJ York, dismissed the case on the 2Sth, pay
| ing all the costs. The suit was to recover
money now in the b ,nds of the Kansas State
| Treasurer, on the ground set forth by ex-Sena-
| tor Pomeroy in his defense that the money
was given by Pomeroy to York to be given to
Page, to aid in the establishment of bank at
Independence.
Crop reports from Arkansas on the 2Sth
were very encouraging. Reports from Missis-
sippi were conflicting in regard to cotton, but
the corn crop would not yield more than half
a crop, owing to the drouth, while in the
| neighborhood of Okalona, Kosciusko and
Brandon, both cotton and corn would make
poor yield. In addition to the drouth the
worms had appeared in West Tennessee.
Corn would only yield half a crop, but the
cotton prospect was fair.
I On the 2Sth cholera was prevailing to con-
siderable extent on the plantations below
Little Rock, Arkansas.