Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-25


B. R. CURTIS, of Boston, distinguished
jurist, and formerly one of the Associate JUS
tices of the United States Supreme Court,
died at Newport, R. l., on the 18th.
ACCORDING to New York telegram of the
10th, Edna Dean Proctor, the authoress, had
sued Francis D. Moulton for libel in conse-
quence of the reference made to her in his
recent reply to the statement of Mr.. Beecher.
She demands $10O, ,000damages.
REV. GEORGE f. SEYMOUR, Professor OF
Ecclesiastical History in the New York Gen.
eral Seminary was, on the 10th, elected
Bishop of Illinois, to succeed the late Bishop
Whitehouse, by the Diocesan Convention of
Illinois, assembled at Chicago.
THE Arkansas State Republican Conven-
ton met at Little Rock on the 10th,
and adopted an address to the Repub-
licans of Arkansas, but declined to
make nominations. The resolutions denounce
the Constitution recently framed and declare
that the Constitutional Convention was, con-
spiracy of White League, Ku-Klux and lead
ers of the late rebels to overthrow the recon-
structed Government; that all the troubles IN
the South are but an attempt TO revive the
lost cause Thirty-fve delegates were ap-
pointed to the Chattanooga Convention OF
Southern Republicans which meets on the 18th
of October.
WASHINGTON dispatches of the 18th say
that three war vessels had been sent from
Pensacola to New Orleans, and that troops in
various portions of the country had been Or
dered to hold themselves in readiness for in
slant departure for that point.
On the morning of the 18th five men bound
and gagged the Cashier of the Wellsboro
| (Pa.) Bank and his family, and then forced
| the former to unlock the safe, from which
they took $4,000 and escaped.
| AT the New York Democratic State Conven-
| ton, held at Syracuse on the17th, the follow
| ing ticket was nominated: S. j. Tilden for
| Governor; William Dorsheimerfor Lieutenant
Governor; Adm Thayer for Canal Commits
sioner; Geo. w. Wagner for Inspector OF State
Prisons; Theodore Miller for Judge OF the
Court of Appeals. The resolutions demand;
Gold and silver and no currency inconvertible
with coin; steady steps toward specie pay
| ment; honest payment of the public debt IN
| coin; revenue reform; federal taxation for
revenue only; no Government partnership
with protected monopoles; home rule and no
Capitalization; equal and exact justice to all
men; no gag laws; uniform excise, but no
sumptuary laws; no third term, etc.
A MEMPHIS telegram of the 18th says the
| Grand Jury of Gibson County, Tenn, had
found indictments against forty persons sup
posed to have been engaged in the Trenton
massacre.
THE member of the National Democratic
Committee for Iowa has recently issued an
address to Iowa Democrats, calling upon
them to support the Anti-Monopoly State,
| Congressional and local tickets at the ensuing
election.
THE Republicans of Tennessee met in State
Convention at Chattanooga on the 10th, and
nominated, by acclamation, Horace Maynard
for Governor The resolutions adopted favor
the Civil-Rights bill; recommend State
Constitutional Convention; favor public
schools and the improvement of Southern
| rivers, etc.
| ACCORDING to Washington dispatch Of
the 18th Atty. Gen. Williams had received a
large number of letters from United States
officials in Southern States, representing
bad condition of affairs in Alabama, Tennes-
see, Arkansas and elsewhere in the South.
A telegram of the 18th says the President
| believed that all serious trouble in Lou
siana was ended, and was gratified that
there had been no conflict between
the Federal and State authorities. A tele-
gram had been sent to Gen. Emory approving
of all the acts of the latter except the appoint
ment of Col. Brooke as Military Governor.
The reinstatement of the Kellogg Government
was ordered at all hazards.
THE progress and outcome of the revolution
ary proceedings in Louisiana are fully detailed
| in another column.
On the evening of the 18th, according to a
Little Rock (Ark) dispatch of the 18th, two
stages running between Malvern and Hot
| Springs were overhauled by four men, sup
| posed to be the same who robbed the Hot
Springs stage last spring and the railway
| train at Gad's Hill some months before, and
the passengers robbed, the thieves getting
away with several gold watches and $4,000
| in money. A Sheriff's posse started in pur-
suit and at last accounts was only few
miles behind, with good prospect of overtak-
ing them.
|
sent message to the President protesting G
against the arrest of citizens of that State by
United States Marshals upon the pretense
that they were engaged in the murder of the
Trenton prisoners. He insists that the duty
of Furnishing offenders belongs to the State,
and demands that no more arrests shall be
made, and that the persons already arrested
shall be turned over to the proper State tri-
bunals for trial and punishment. On the 10Th
the President replied to Gov. Brown that he
was gratified to know that the State authorities
were disposed to repress and punish lawless-
ness, but the Constitution made it his duty 70
enforce the acts of Congress, and Congress
had passed laws giving the United States con-
| current jurisdiction in such cases. He also
said he would give a more definite reply when
the report of the United States District-Attor-
ney was received. Senator Brownlow has ad-
dressed the Governor letter of thanks for
the energetic steps taken to suppress disorder
and punish the "assassins who have so out
ragged humanity and disgraced the State of
| Tennessee"
THREE persons who accompanied the Gus
ter Black Hills expedition unite in state
ment, which has been recently telegraphed
from Bismark, D. T., that the allegation of
Prof Winchell that there is no gold in the
Black Hills is unqualifiedly false. They say
they found diggings that would pay ten dol
lars per day per man.
1T has been discovered upon further ex-
animation that the Milwaukee 81 Prairie du
Chien Railroad is not exempted from the
operation of the provisions of the Wisconsin
Railway law.
THE September returns to the Agricultural