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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31

days in the region north and northwest of
that city. Near Shiocton over 500 acres OF
cranberry marsh had been burned over.
BIDS aggregating S76, 100000 were received
at the Treasury Department on the 23d for the
new bonds.
THE Secretary of War, on the 22d, revoked
his order of the day previous, sending two
companies of regulars to Vicksburg to repress
anticipated election riots.
DURING the prevalence of a heavy fog on
the 24th the iron steamer Merchant ran upon
a ledge of rocks off Racine, Wis, and sunk in
eleven feet of water
A EUREKA (Nev.) dispatch gives the partic-
ulars of terrible storm which occurred there
on the oath. 1t had been raining with great
violence all the morning until about
noon, when the cloud burst on lofty
range of mountains to the east,
and q vast volume of water rushed
down the canon where the town is located.
The eastern part of the town was flooded in
ten minutes by the fearful rush of water,
which was constantly increasing in its vio-
lence, depth and impetuosity. The people
Every moment houses were torn from their
foundations and swept away, with their oc-
cupants. Ropes were procured, line was
formed, and brave men, thus protected,
dashed into the torrent and saved many lives.
The part of the town devoted to dance
houses and other places of amusement was
destroyed. The flood lasted only half an
hour. Dispatches of the 26th announce the
finding of about twenty bodies, and several
were missing who were supposed to have
been drowned.
THE indianapolis High School building was
struck by lightning on the afternoon OF the
Goth, during the prevalence of a thunder
storm.
THE Indiana Prohibitionsts hold their
State Convention on the Sd Of September, at
indianapolis.
The Lincoln monument at Springfield, Ill,
will be dedicated on the 18th of October next,
the day on which the Army of the Tennessee
holds its reunion.
ADvICEs have been received from Gen. Gus
ter, dated Bismarck, July "A. The command
was movings steadily forward for the Black
Hills, and was in excellent health and condi-
ton. Hostile savageS were lowering about
the column.
On the 9th President Grant issued a proc
lamation ratifying the extradition treaty with
Peru; also treaty of friendship, commerce
and navigation.
ACCORDING to a Washington dispatch of
the 9th an agent of the War Department
sent to Vicksburg, Miss, to investigate
and report on the election troubles there
had returned a report that it was not a case
warranting the interference of the Govern
ment.
A DISPATCH from Oshkosh Wis, of the
9th says the storm of the night of the Goth
had caused great devastation and the loss of
several lives near Stevensville and Horton
vile, north of that point. The crops had
been Frustrated over large extent of ter
ritory.
A HEAVY storm passed over Pittsburgh and
Allegheny City, Pa, on the night of the Goth,
causing the loss of 200 lives, the destruction
of $50 buildings and property to the amount
of from 81 1,OOOOOO to $3,000,000.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
THE MARKETS.

JULY 20. 1Oi4
NEW YoRK.-C -Cotton-17@171.c. F1our-Good
to choice, $5.95@6.3o; white wheat extra, 5000
$50. Wheat-No. 2 Chicago, 81. .290131; Iowa
spring, $1.3001.32; No. 2 Milwaukee spring,
$1.sa91.34. Rye-Western, $1.1O@1;12 BGrtey
ern, 67t@7Oc. Pork-New mess, $2l75@asO 90.
Lardn11%@12c WooDomestic fleece a 49 q
09.00. Sheep-Live, $4.50@6.50.
CHloAao.-Beeues-Choic s5.6o@6.oo; good,
stock, $3.50@4.5O; stock cattle, $3.oo@4.25.
choice, s4;s5@475 ButtsgIG6oice e. YSsll9gw, YSg
S2so' Ness new ss2: :T5@s5oo Iaard$i1 7o@1l Is
Flour-White winter extra, S5.75S@a:75; spring Yag
extra o S@15 Ss G5r0Np WAEssPfIn 6spsac OATS SG
No. 2, 43 @44c. Rye-No. 2, 69@9Oc Barley
No. 2, 81 .03Q1O4. Wool-Tub-washe 45@52c
fleece, washed, 40@44c; fleece, unwashed, 30@33c !;
$500; second clear, $47.O0049.00; Common
Boards, $1O50@12OO; Fencing, $10.50@12.0O;
Az Shingles, $3.25@3,5o; Lath, $2.25G92.37h.
C1No1NNATI-Flour-s .s5@565. Whea-$1: :o4
Q1.O5. Corn-66@6Sc. Rye-gl@95c OGtso57D ntso{ n9
60c. Bartey-.... P0fE-S23 .Oo.
Lard-111a@13c.
ST., LOUIS Cattle-Fair to choice, 81 5o@6 500 90,
Hogs-Live S5.5O06.75. Ftour-XX Fall, 5000
5a5. WheatmNo Red Fall 81 tda5 19@515. c9r,-
S4Qs5s. Barley 81 00@1.02. Pork Mess,
S23 5O02400. -11A@124c.
MnwAUKEE.- Fyour-Spring Xxx, -$57005.90.
Wheat--spring, No. /, $11s@l1Sh; No. z $113
50@51c. Rye-No. /, 9o@91c. Bartey-No. 2,
$1.02GD1.05
CLEvELAND.-Whedt- 1 Red, $1.14@1.15
No. Red, $1.10@1.12. Corn-72073c. oats
No. 1, 64@65c.
DETROIT JVhedt-Extra, 81 .40Q1.41. Corn
69QD70c 0atS-63064c.
-Wbeat-Amber Mich, S1.1401.141a
No. red, $1.1401.15. COrn-Mixed, 6706Sc.
0dts-60D62c.-
BuFFALo.-Beeues- s4750625. Hogs = Live,
S6.2507.25. Sheep-Live, $4.25Q5.OO.
EAST LIBERTY-CGtHe = Best S6.25Q650;
medium, $50006.G0. HogS-Yorkers, $6.50GB670
Philadelphia, S7.0O(1725. Sheep-Best, 5000
5.25; good, S3.50Q450.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
THE NEW WORLD.

On the 23d the Spanish steamer Minerva
exploded her boiler in the harbor of Havana,
killing two persons and severely wounding
sixteen.
THE Commissioner of Indian Affairs has
declined to remove Special Agent Miles at the
demand of the Friends, who insisted that he
should be decaptated because he had called
upon the military for aid in protecting the
agency The Commissioner says the demand,
if persisted in, would work great injustice to
the Indian policy Of the Government
A DISPATCH from Havana of the 21st says
the death sentence of Dockery had been COM
muted to ten years Imprisonment
RETURNS to the Department of Agriculture,
published on the 21st, show an increase in the
corn area of fully 100000 acres-6 per cent
above the breadth of last year. The percent
age Of increase is largest in HE South. The
increase in acres is largest in the West The
condition of corn is generally good in the
West, but elsewhere variable. Only Massa-
chusetts of the Eastern States reports an aver
age condition. Only Pennsylvania of the Mid
die States and Maryland, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida and Texas of the Southern
States report the same. Minnesota is an ex-
Ception in the Western States, reporting
ninety-four. California and Oregon fail to
give full average. The percentages of
condition above average are as follows:
South Carolina, 101; Massachusetts, Florida
Michigan and Kansas, 102; Maryland and
Iowa, 1O4; Illinois, 1O5; Texas, LOG; Indiana
and Nebraska, 100. The States averaging
100 are Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and
Missouri.
A DESTRUCTIVE fire broke out on the morn
ing of the 22d in the extensive jewelry store
of Giles Bros, Nos. 121 and 123 State street
Chicago. Loss estimated at $S75, 900.
The workingmen of Tennessee held State
Convention on the 23d at Nashville, and NOM
mated B. F. c. Brooks for Governor.
The Democrats of the Eighth Indiana Dis
trict held their convention on the 23d and
nominated DR.. III. j. Rice for Congress. Hon.
j. L. Evans is the Republican candidate for
Congress in the Eleventh District.
WHILE tank of crude oil was being re-
moved from the cars on the morning OF the
%5d, at Cleveland, to the oil warehouse, it
caught fire from lantern, and an explosion
followed. The reservoir was shattered and
the three attendants blown into the air a long
distance, enveloped in burning OIL The oil
in the ears and adjoining tanks exploded in
quick succession.
ACCORDING to Green Bay dispatch of the
23d forest fires had been raging for several
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
THE OLD WORLD.

IN the Assembly, on the 23d, Periere's Con-
stitutonal bill was rejected by 1888 ayes to 374
noes, as was also a motion to dissolve the
Assembly.
ACCORDING to Madrid dispatches of the 22d
eight battalions had been sent into the province
of Cucnca to reinforce the Republicans. At
Alva the Carists were in strong force. AT
Salyanetc detachment of Carlsts had been
defeated and 700 of the prisoners captured at
Cucnca released. The Carlists had executed
100 Republicans at Olaf. The Government
had ordered contributions to be levied upon
the partisans of Don Carlos. 1t was reported
that the Carlists had shot every tenth man of
the volunteers captured at Cuenca. Accord
ing to a Madrid telegram of the 9th Gen.
Morioncs had defeated large Carlist force in
Navarro and taken 1900 prisoners. Accord
ing to a Madrid dispatch of the 26th terri
BILE landslide had occurred at Alara,
i'm the province of Navarro The vii
lage had been fallen upon and utterly de-
stroyed by the overhanging rocks. The dis
aster was so sudden that few if any of the in
habtants escaped Over 200 corpses had
already been recovered. According to Mad
rid dispatches of the 9th forty Carlists, many
of them ecclesastics or members of the no.
blity, had been arrested at Barcelona by way
Of rcprisal against the conduct of the Carlists
1t was also reported that the Carlists had re-
Gently been defeated with great loss by the
Republicans. The locality was not given.
ACCORDING to adviccs from India there were
fears that the cholera had broken out among
the $4,000 pilgrims who were assembled III
Poore to attend the Juggernaut festival.
On the 23d the British Parliament adopted
resolution granting $75,O0O year to Prince
Leopold.
LONDON dispatches of the oath say that the
smallpox had broken out in Newmarket,
England, and was spreading viciously.
DIsRAELI announced on the oath that the
British Parliament would be prorogued on
the Sth of August.
THE steamship City of Guatemala was re-
Gently wrecked on one of the Bahama Islands.
Vessel and cargo were lost, but the passen-
gers and crew escaped. Loss, S300,O00.
ACCORDING to a Vienna dispatch of the 9th
a violent storm had occurred in the town of
Agall, Moravia, which had destroyed many
houses and vineyards and caused the loss of
a large number of lives.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
A Sailors Opinion of a Comet.

We were told by celebrated naval
officer the following anecdote: On one
of his cruises the sailors saw a comet
and were somewhat surprised and
alarmed at its appearance. The hands
met and appointed committee to wait
upon the commander and ask his opinion
of it. They approached HIM and said;
We want to ask your opinion, your
honor"
"WeI, my boys, what is it about?"
1--WE want to inquire about that thing
up there?"
"Now, before / answer you, let me
know what you think of it?
aWell, your honor, we have talked it
all over and we think it is star sprung
q leak. ."--L0nd0n Letter.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31

Mr.. Beeeher's course toward Mr.. Tilton
and family has at last resulted in open
destruction of Mr.. Tilton's household and
home, and the ,desolation of his heart and
life. THEODORE TILToN.
Sworn to before me this Goth day of
July, 1874:
THEo. BuRGMYER, Notary Public.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31

the kind ever. occurred, nor any SEM
blanee of any such thing. They are now
brought to my notice for the first time.
70 every staten ent which connects NE
dishonorably with Mrs Elizabeth r. Til
ton, or which in anywise would impugn
the honor and purity of this beloved
Christian woman, / give the most ex-
plicit, comprehensive and solemn denial.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Rrnoklvn .InIv % 1874
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31

A YOUNG lady engaged to be married
but getting sick of her bargain, applied to
friend to help her unite the knot before
it was too late. "Oh, certainly" he re
piled, {" it's very easy to unite it now,
while it is only a bow-knot."
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-31
VOLUME XII.
LATEST NEWS.

Prominent Carlists Arrested by
the Spanish Government.
AIara, in Navarro, Destroyed
by a Landslide.
Pittsburgh and Allegheny City Dew
astated by Terrible Flood.
Over lat Buildings Washed Away and
200 Lives Lost.
A Water-SpOut Wipes Out Mining
Town in Nevada.
Theodore TiIton's Statement" and Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher's Reply.
An Indignant Denial by Mrs. Tuton
of Her Husbands Charges.
Interesting Personal and General
Intelligence.
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STATEMENEO OF. MRS. TILTON.

Brooklyn, July as, 1874. So
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16

or squill (Scisa nanrttimN grows in great
abundance on the sea-coast in the
neighborhood of Potassium, whose inhab-
itants are said by Lucian to have es-
pecially worshiped the onion. But it
is evident that the Israelites in the desert
did not long for this acid bulb. The
onion was well known to the Greeks and
Romans 1t is said that Pythagoras, the
great philosopher and traveller, who
lived in the sixth century B. c., wrote a
treatise ON the onion. Theophrastus,
who died in his 10th year, complaining
of the shortness of life, wrote on the same
subject 200 years before the Christian
era. Pliny mentions all the countries
from whence the Greeks and Romans
procured the different varieties of onion,
but states that he could not discover that
they ever grew wild. The different kinds
were named from the places which pro-
duced them, and among these the Cnidian
onion was considered the mildest, and
those from Cyprus drew the most tears
Perhaps from Italy it may have been
distributed throughout Europe, in almost
every country of which it has been cul-
tivated from time immemorial. We have
no record when the onion was introduced
into this country; it may have been
brought by the Romans or introduced at
later period from the Continent by the
monks.-Hardtrick' Science Gossip.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
Raise Your Own Grass Seed.

By adopting the injudicious practice
of purchasing grass-seed and clover-seed
the country has become one vast bed of
weeds. If farmers would raise their
own seed and take pains to have it clean,
their best field need not be overrun with
such an extensive variety of weeds.
Most of the grass-seed used is raised to
sell. 1t is sold by the producers for a
very small price compared with what
farmers pay for it, and the producers
perhaps cannot go through their seed
fields and pull out the weeds before
harvesting. Some of them doubtless
have no inclination to do it as long as a
pound of weed-seed sells for as much as
much as pound of grass-seed. AT any
rate none Of them do it, and weeds and
grass are cut and threshed together.
When once the seed is mixed there is no
practicable way to separate it, and, what
is worse yet, there is no way in which
the farmer with the means at his CON-
mand can detect pure from foul seed.
Weight, measure and eyesight alike are
useless. There are no trade marks which
amount to anything used upon grass
seed, no mans reputation suffers from
selling mustard-seed as herd's-grass, and
no mans credit is helped by raising only
q pure seed. A powerful microscope
might aid in detecting authorizations, but
this the farmer has not got and the
dealer does not gcare to have. So the
man who has land to seed down takes
what is set before him." lives through
the year in the hope that 1t win prove
al right, and is made cross and ugly BY
discovering at last that he has paid ten
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
Pure Water for Mich Cows.

ALTHOUGH water added to milk may be
obnoxious, propretors of mich COWS
cannot expect that the udders will be
extended with the delicious liquid unless
the animals can have access to a gener-
Gus supply of clear water During the
sultry days of summer pure water for
cows is as important as grass. When a
COW is thirsty she must be supplied with
water or the process of connecting milk
will be more or less arrested Hence
the quantity of milk will continue to
diminish. Soon after cow has filled
herself with feed of any sort there will
be a demand for water. But if the ami
NAL cannot obtain a supply the partially
masticated feed in the rumen will soon
begin to heat and ferment, causing de-
rangement of the entire system.
1t is bad policy to require mich cows
to drink at ponds of standing water
which is a prevailing practice in many
sections of country. When animals are
allowed to go into the water and to
stand in it, unless there is running
stream, the water will soon be fouled
and unfit to drink. In such instances it
will cost only trif1e to dig shallow
well, provide large trough and draw a
generous supply every day either with a
cheap pump or bucket. A pail of water
is as refreshing to thirsty cow or horse
as goblet of ice-water to thirsty
laborer.-Neac York Herald.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16

aYou may rub the outside as much as
Won choose, but nothing will come off for
your trouble. The vinaigre stains the
skin lovely, bright, healthy hue, rather
too healthy for American girls, and viii
stay for weeks without renewal" Is it
not injurious?" l inquired. "Well, it
must be used carefully, and it is well
not to experiment on yourself, but leave
the injection to the skill Of the expe-
rienced. Sometimes, if the blood is out
Of order, it causes the face or body to
break out, but then it is not dangerous,
only unpleasant in such a case"
l walked away, feeling that | had
learned something new, if not elevating,
about some Of my fellow-travelers. !
thought Of the women of Bible times,
against whose follies of mincing gaits,
darkening under the eyes, and other alb
surdities Of fashion the prophet uttered
such anathemas, and wondered why, in
endeavoring to be beautiful, the most
hideous means were used to bring about
such result. think the banged hair,
turning pretty woman into biped
Skye terrier, the bleached and dyed
tresses, the painting and enameling, and
general distortions Of the period, ugly,
objectionable, ungraceful, and unlova.
BILE, and if was man l wouldn't marry
a girl Of such mons'rous bad taste.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16

these dogs are living illustration Of the
falsity Of that statement. One day
when q beef bone had been given to Mig
he laid it down behind the garden fence
and ran of up the street, presently re-
turning with Tige. They both examined
the dainty morsel, tasted and smelt Of
it; when Mig lay down beside it,
while Tige ran home and came back i'm
mediately with large pork-bone, with
which Mig expressed his satisfaction by
commencing to gnaw, while Tige took
the beef-bone and trotted complacently
homeward. They not only trade, but
frequently make each other presents Of
food, and they sometimes gnaw the same
bone, first one and then the other regal
ing himself.
Pinto is proud little English coach
dog who lives up the street, and, being
rather smaller, the two cronies seldom
condescend to notice him The other
day, however, Tige and Pinto walked out
together around some of Pinto's favorite
haunts, and, wishing to show off, l sup
pose, he dug up bone which he had
laid by for rainy day, looked at his
companion boastfully, as much as to say,
Don't you wish it was yours:" and ran
off to hide it in a new place. Tige ele-
waited his nose as if such puppish actions
were entirely beneath his dignity, and
went prospecting for woodchucks in the
bank near by. Pinto hid his bone, and
giving his companion the slip, ran for
home across the orchard. Tige watched
him out Of sight, very coolly unearthed
the prize and trotted proudly home with
it, where have no doubt he shared it
with his friend Mig.
know of a Newfoundland dog who
rocks the cradle, and is thus of great as
sistance to his mistress; and of St Ber-
nard dog who takes the baby out to ride
drawing the carriage back and forth a
beaten path as carefully as child. Sew
eral years ago there was a black and-tan,
called Ned, who lived on Emery street
in Springfield. His master worked for
Wason, and Ned always went to the cor
ncf OF the street 10 meet MN at noon ana
night. He would lie and sleep quietly
not regarding the whistles of the numer-
Gus locomotives and manufactures in
the least until Wason's car-shop whistle
sounded. Then Ned would spring for the
door, and when let out would run to the
corner and wait till his master came,
never venturing on Main street alone
N " In6enen1ent
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
Rouge and Preparation.

A LADY correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, writing from Washington during
the recent warm spell, says:
Rouge and perspiration have long
been declared enemies. Think of the
modification of raising delicate cambria
mouchoir to absorb the moisture, and,
upon removal, finding it the mouchoir)
covered with the bushes supposed to be
virgin to the damask cheek! l stepped
into ladies fancy store" the other day.
and while awaiting my turn to be served
busted myself in looking about Some
curiously ornamental articles in pretty
glass cases arrested my attention, and,
when opportunity offered, asked what
they were for.
The girl gazed at me incredulously for
moment, as did Charlie when, watching
the maneuvers of Oliver Twist, he said,
"Oh, my eye, how green!" but perceiv-
ing that | was really an ignoramus in the
matter opened one end of the long,
slender, dainty-looking box, and dis
closed therein nesting tiny ball of such
exquisite pink that my eyes glistened
instinctively in gazing upon it. At the
opposite end was a corresponding ball of
white, ana in the central compartment
dark material for penciling the eyebrows
and giving that languishing expression
to the eyes by touching the lower eye
lashes, and in another part still was
crimson dye for robust lips"
Do many people purchase these
thingss" said innocent I.
Again looking how green" she said:
Scores Of people you know and meet
every day of your life are constant
consumers, and it's funny enough
to listen to their various excuses. One
lady said her country friends had written
in for supply of toilet articles. They
didn't have such things in the country,
but she did wish they wouldn't ask her
to execute such delicate commissions for
them! All the time l could see the
rouge on her face. Then a young lady
said she had broken some rare ornament
(rouge-colored, of course), and could find
nothing else suitable wherewith to
mend it.
why, Admiral Blanks daughter
rouges, although the girls declare she
cant, for they have seen her wash her
face and rub it hard, and the color re-
manned. But will tell you the kind she
uses" said the girl, now becoming talka.
i've; and lifting tiny gold-trimmed vial
nlied with luminous liquid she con-
unued, This is rouge vinaigre. It Il
inserted under the skin in the form Of 4
nypodermic injection, and the slight
wound concealed for the time being BY .
small piece Of c0urt-plaster.
The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1874-07-16
A Sailors Opinion Of a Comet.

WE were told by celebrated naval
officer the following anecdote: On one
of his cruises the sailors saw comet
and were somewhat surprised and
alarmed at its appearance. The hands
met and appointed committee to wait
upon the commander and ask his opinion
Of it. They approached him and said:
I'VE want to ask your opinion, your
honor
Well, my boys, what is it about?"
I'VE want to inquire about that thing
up there?"
Now, before l answer you, let me
know what you think of it,"
well, your honor, we have talked it
all over and we mink it is a star sprung
leak. London Letter.