Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-10-23

President is as much bound to enforce that
law as any other United States law, and de-
clines to accede to the request.
DEMAs BARNES, of the Brooklyn argus, has
been indicted for ibeling Henry G. Rowen
ACCORDING to a recent decision OF the ILL.,
nois Supreme Court the action of certain
School Trustees in erecting an additional
school-house adjoining the existingsone, and
assigning to it three or four negro children
and teacher to instruct them separately,
there being room for such colored children
in the other school-house, was illegal, and
beyond their authority.
THE election returns received ON the morn
ing of the 18th indicated the following con-
clusions: In Indiana the Democrats have
elected their State ticket by from 10000 to
1900 majority. The Congressional delega-
tion stands eight Democrats to five Republi-
cans, as follows: Republican--Sixth District,
Milton s. Robinson Eighth, M. @. Hunter;
Ninth, T. J. Carson; Eleventh, James /.
Evans; Thirteenth, j. HI. Baker. Democratic
First, B. S. Fuller; Second, j. d. Williams;
Third NJ c. Kerr; Fourth, J. D. New; Fifth, w.
s. Holman; Seventh, Franklin Landers;
Tenth, VIM S. Raymond; Twelfth, Andrew IL
Hamilton. The Democrats elect their State
ticketin Ohio by about $4,000 majority, and
carry thirteen of the twenty Congressional
districts. The Congressman elected are as
follows: Democratic-First District, Milton
Savior; Second, H. B. Banning; Third, J. S.
Savage; Fourth, j. A. Mcmahon; Fifth, A. V.
Rice; Sixth, f. H. Hurd; Seventh, L. 7. Neal;
Ninth, E. F. Poppleton; Eleventh, j.
Vance; Twelfth, A. T. Walling; Thirteenth
NJ l. Southard Fourteenth, j. P Cowan;
Twentieth, H. B. Payne. Republican-Eighth
VIM. Lawrence; Tenth, Charles Foster; Fiji
teenth, N. H. Van Worries; Sixteenth, Lorenzo
DanfCrd Seventeenth, L. d. Woodworth; ;
Eighteenth, James Monroe; Nineteenth, j. A.
Garfield. The Republicans have carried Iowa
Iby about 10000 majority, and elected their
Congressman in all the districts except the
Third. This makes the delegation as follows:
Republican-First District, G. w. McCrary;
second, j. Q. Tufts; Fourth, H. 0. Pratt;
fifth, James Wilson; Sixth, E. S. Sampson;
Seventh, ]. A. Kasson; Eighth, j. W. McDill;
Ninth, Addison Oliver. Anti Monopoly
Third, L. L. Ainsworth. The Republican
majority in Nebraska ranges from 10000 to
10000. Lorenzo Crounse, Republican, is re-
elected to Congress. The three West Virginia
Congressional districts elect the Democratic
candidates, as follows: First, Benjamin Viii
sol; Second, G.. J. Faulkner; Third, f. Here
ford. In Dakota Kidder (Republican) has
about 1000 majority for Delegate to Congress.
The Legislature is Republican in both
branches In Arkansas the new Constitution
ato o1y Of
elected by large majorities.
THE average condition of the corn crop, ac
cording to the October returns to the Depart
ment of Agriculture, is S6per cent, against 81
per cent. in September.
THE Congress of the Association for the
Advancement of Women began its second
annual session at Chicago on the 18th with a
large attendance of delegates.
A NEW freight schedule to the East was
recently adopted, to go into effect on the 10th
of November which increases the rates from
Chicago to New York on fourth-class freight
five cents per hundred pounds. 1t has also
been decided to discontinue return passes
to stockholders; to pay no commissions for
Eastern traffic, and to allow no passenger to
carry more than 100 pounds of baggage.
THE Woman Suffragists of Illinois, at a
mass meeting held in Chicago on the 14th
Legislature to submit the question of woman
suffrage to vote of the people.
THE statue of Lincoln was unveiled at
Springfield, ILL.,, on the 18th in the presence
of about $4,000 people. Hon. Il. j. Ogiesby
pronounced the Grafton and James Judson
Lord delivered poem. A brief address was
also made by President Grant.
THE Army of the Tennessee held reunion
at Springfield, ILL.,, on the 14th. The attend
ance was large and the proceedings spirited.
Gen. Hurlbut delivered the Grafton and Gen.
Tillson the poem.
THE commissioners appointed to report on
the Union Pacific Railway have decided that
the road is completed according to law, and
when the President shall have signified his
approval of the report the land-grant patent
will issue.
THE following is the latest estimate of the
political complexion of the Indiana Legisla-
ture: neutrality-suspicious. "a; Democrats,
23; Independents, 3. House-Republicans
81; Democrats, 81; Independents, 9. These
figures may be slightly altered by the official
returns.
THE United States Marshal at Montgomery
Ala, has made forty-two more arrests of per-
sons guilty of outrages upon Republicans and
of stopping the United States mails.
SEVEN men, en- route to the Black Hills,
were attacked by Indians, at the mouth Of
the Little Platte, on the 18th. desperate
fight ensued, in which one of the party was
killed, one fatally and two slightly wounded
Ten Indians were killed or wounded. The
whites Immediately started back and reached
Yankton on the 18th.
PRESIDENT GRANT and family reached Chi
cago on the 10Th to attend the wedding Of
Col. Fred Grant and Miss Ida Honore.
A GERMAN man -of-war recently entered one
of the harbors of the Navigator Islands and
threatened to take possession Of the group
unless an indemnity of $4,000 were imme-
diately Forthcoming. About $4,000 was paid,
and bond given for the remainder, payable in
six months. The cause of the demand has
not transpired.
THE British authorities at Kingston,
Jamaica, recently dispersed gathering Of
Cubans, met to celebrate the sixth anniver-
sary of Cuban independence.
ACCORDING to resolutions recently passed
by the White Leagues of st. Mary's Parish,
they recognize all the political and civil rights
of celored men, and are willing to divide the
offices with them.
COL WHITTEMoRE, Chairman of the Execu-
tive Committee of the Conservative party of
Sumter County, Ala, was arrested at Livings-
ton on the 18th, on a charge of conspiring to
injure Detective Hester.
THE engine of train on the P, Ft. w. 8 c.