Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-04
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THE Missouri State Democratic Convention
adjourned on the 9th. The following is tn
ticket placed in nomination: For Governor
Charles Fl. Hardin; Lieutenant-Goyernor
Norman j. Coleman; Secretary of State, M. K
McGrath; Auditor, Thomas Halliday; Treas
urer, Joseph w. Mercer; Attorney General
John A. Hockaway; Register of Lands, Georg
| Deigle; Superintendent of Public Instruc
tion, r. d. Shannon; Supreme Judges: w
Hough, for the long term, and William Nap
ton to fill vacancy. The platform adopted Gle
clares that the $40 bonds are distinctly, b,
their terms, made payable in legal-tende
notes or greenbacks; and that the act 0
March Is, 1869, whereby Congress solemnl,
pledged the faith of the United States to
coin redemption, was an utterly unjustifiabl'
usurpation of power; fayors repeal of th'
National Banking law and the substitution Q
greenbacks to the extent of the National Banl
currency, if the policy of issuing nationa
paper currency is to be persisted in; that th'
legal-tender notes should be made receivable
for duties on imports; that railroad and al
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| should be rendered subservient to the public
| good by such legislation upon the subject
both State and National, as will effectually
secure the industrial and producing interests
of the country against all forms of corporate
monopoly and taxation
GEN. SHERIDAN, on the 9th, issued an
order forbidding the organization of private
expeditions to the Black Hills, unless prose.
cuted under authority of Congress or the
Secretary of the Interior.
A SALT LAKE dispatch of the Goth says
Brigham Young had recently answered the
bill filed by Ann Eliza, his nineteenth wife
| in which she demanded an attorney fee Of
| $4,000 and alimony at the rate of LOCO q
month during the tendency of her suit fol
| divorce. Brigham admitted the plural mar
| riage, but demurred to the sum demanded
He was willing to give her 500 month
He declared he was worth only about $780,
900, and as his income is but $4,000 month,
and he had to support about sixty persons
wives and children-$1O0 per month would
be the fair proportion for Ann Eliza.
AT council of Michigan Changers held at
Detroit on the 27th the Chairman stated that
there are 500 Oranges in the State with a
membership of 10000.
THE official canvass of votes cast at the re-
cent Ohio election was made on the 2Sth.
The clause permitting the grant of aid to rail
roads is defeated by a majority of 251, 900; the
majority against license is 1886, and against
all other clauses is 147, ,2S4
THE Secretary of the Treasury has directed
oJo OfG bp mo N
of September.
A WASHINGTON telegram of the 30th ult.
says tho alleged trouble between the races in
the South was being vigorously discussed in
that CITY, According to the statement of Sen
ator Patterson, of South Carolina, the condi-
ton of affairs was very threatening, and
the negroes were in need of governmental
protection
A MADISON (Wis.) telegram of the 29th says
the Wisconsin Supreme Court had adjourned
until Sept. 8, thus again postponing the de-
cision in the railway injunction case.
AN extra session of the Kansas Legislature
has been called to consider the propriety of
an appropriation for the relief of the suffer
ers from the grasshopper raid.
ELSEWHERE appears the report of the
Beecher Investigating Committee to Plymouth
Church. In the opinion of the committee
Mr.. Beecher is fully exonerated.
A STATE Convention of the liquor-dealers
of New York will be held at Albany on the
30th Of September.
THE Black Hills expedition returned to
Fort Lincoln on the evening of the Both ult
The losses during the trip were three men by
dysentery, one man killed by a comrade, and
fifteen horses and mules abandoned. Not a
shot was fired at the Indians and but few in
dications of Indians were seen. Previous re-
ports of the fertility of the Black Hills region
and the extraordinary quantity and variety OF
its mineral deposits are fully confirmed.
A SHREVEPORT (La.) dispatch of the Both
ult. says that few days before the white
people Of Coushatta had, at public meeting,
declared the county offices vacant amid a
threatening display of shot-guns and bowie
knives Six of the officials who remained at
their posts were thrown into Jail and six of
their adherents. Subsequently, while being
taken to Shreveport, they were overtaken by
forty or fifty armed men, who took the pris-
oners out of the hands of the guard and
killed three of them ON the spot. Three es-
capped, but they were recaptured and are
thought to have shared the same fate.
In recent proclamation to the people OF
Tennessee in reference to the late troubles
at Trenton, Gov. Brown uses the following
language: "You are now heralded to the
world as jail-breakers and murderers, rioters
and law-breakers. With few bloody and
horrible exceptions you do not deserve it.
But those exceptions are taken by the world
as rule, and the effects upon your reputa-
ton, if not counteracted, will prove as disaS
trous as if the condemnation were deserved"
THE Postoffice Department received infor-
nation on the 3lst ult. that on the 2oth
train on the Alabama & Chattanooga Rail
road was stopped near York Station, Ala, by
means of a false signal, and that upon halt
ing it was taken possession of by band OF
armed men, who shot down the colored mail
agent in cold blood and without provocation.
Official dispatches had been received stating
that, on the Both ult, body of armed white
men surrounded a colored church in Lee
County, Ala, while services were in progress
and fired into the congregation and burned
the church.
THE MARKETS.
SEPT. 1, 1874.
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