Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-03-19

of the Christian Union, and Rev. Ed
ward Eggleston were the witnesses in the
Beecher trial on the 18th. Wilkeson testi-
fled that he drew up copy of the tripartite
agreement, and that Mr.. Tilton's complaint
| against Mr.. Beecher at that time was that he
| (Beecher) refused to help him when he was
in need of aid because of his discharge by
Bowen. He said Mr.. Tilton denied the greater
crime charged against Mr.. Beecher, saying all
he accused defendant of was improper pro-
posals. On the cross-examination witness
stated that in April, 1872, he had told Mr.. T.
that Mrs. Stanton had asserted that Mr..
Beecher had committed the crime with which
he is charged, and that Miss Anthony had
told him that Mrs. T. had confessed the same
to her. To this Mr.. Tilton said Miss Anthony's
mind was always dwelling on morbid sub
jects. Mr.. Eggleston's testimony was to the
effect that he had been at Mr.. Tilton's house
on one occasion when the latter's attentions
THE steamer B. B. Hart sunk near New Or.
leans on the night of the 18th, snd ten or
fifteen lives were lost.
ACCORDING to Cheyenne CIV. IT, dispatch
of the 18th four more Black Hills miners
had reached Fort Laramie, who brought
specimens of golddust with them, and
also specimens of silver. They gave glowing
accounts of the Black Hills regions.
NUMEROUS test suits to settle the constitu-
tionality of the Civil-Rights bill have been in
itiated in different sections of the South and
West. Hotels in some of the Southern cities
how hoo oil hu ba wi rlrQ-
ferred to do this rather than submit to the re-
quirements of the Civil Rights bill.
Two THOUSAND colored laborers, together
with few whites, marched in procession to
the Executive Mansion in Washington on the
evening of the 18th, for the purpose of max
ing complaint that certain money appropri-
ated by Congress fer the use of the District
Government had been paid to contractors In
stead of to the laborers employed by them.
The President declined to receive them and
they withdrew.
On the 18th the Secretary of State COM
municated to the Senate the correspondence
between the United States and Spanish
Governments relative to the claim for in
demnity for the execution at Santiago de
Cuba of Americans who were on board the
Virginius. This correspondence shows that
the British claim was originally &50O for
each white and 9300 for each colored man,
being total of e7, 700, which was finally re-
duced to a6,7OO. The original claim of the
United States was $4,000 for each of the crew
slain, regardless of color, and a larger sum
for each officer killed. The claim was strenu-
ously pressed and Spain agreed to pay $4,000
in gold, Internationally, the money to be dis
tributed by the United States.
ON the night of the 18th violent hurri-
cane passed over the town of Rienzi, Miss,
nearly destroying it. Five persons were killed
and several were dangerously and many
slightly wounded.
A Cook COUNTY Ill.) Grand Jury has re-
Gently found four criminal indictments against
the proprietor of the Chicago Times, three OF
thexs for the libel of individuals and one for
the publication of an alleged obscene article.
IT has been recently stated by Gen. Sher-
man that expeditions to the Black Hills coun-
try will be prevented from entering that re-
gion, or If any get in they will be driven out
as soon as the weather will permit. A Wash
ington telegram of the 18th says the Govern
ment would endeavor to extinguish the In
dian title at the earliest practicable moment,
but until that is done all persons would be
prohibited from going there, and those now
there would be required to remove.
TEE anti-lquor crusade began again in CHI
cago on the evening of the 14th, sewral
ladies visiting billiard and liquor saloon and
engaging in singing and prayer. The pro-
prietor was appealed to to abandon the
traffic. The crusaders were treated with re-
spect by the proprietor and the large number
of spectators present.