Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-10-22
On the 18th at Salt Lake, Judge Bore

On the 18th, at Salt Lake, Judge Bore
man. of the United States Circuit Court, delivered
| a strong charge to the Grand Jury in opposition
| to polygn my or bigamy, and demanded of the
| jury the indictment of all persons known to be
| guilty of the offense.
Unofficial returns received at Columbus
on the 18th, from all the counties in Ohio, gave
Hayes majority of 4 .53 over Allen. There was
| Republican majority of seventeen in the House
and three in the Senate. 1t was thought the en-
tire Republican State ticket was elected. Cary,
for Lieutenant Governor, ran about 10, 1000 behind
Allen in the State.
The Texas Constitutional Convention
has adopted provision making the Governors
term four years, and providing that no person
shall be eligible for more than term in eight
years.
On the 18th DR.. Saunders, of Clinton,
La, was poisoned by arsenic administered by
one Catherine Matthews, colored woman. When
arrested she confessed the deed, and charged
John Gair, her brother-in-law, and Robert Ray
| with having instigated the crime. Gair was ar
rested on the 18th at Baton Rouge and started
for Clinton in charge of the Sheriff and his posse
| About dark they were met by party of fifty men,
| who disarmed the officers, took possession of
| Gair and shot him to death. The woman was
subsequently taken from the jail and hung by the
| same or q similar band,
A Jackson (Miss) dispatch of the 18th
says Gov. Ames had suspended all military opera
tions, upon the of leading citizens that
there should be peace and fair and free cleo
ton.
The people of Alabama will vote on the
new Constitution, just completed by the conven-
ton, on the 10th of November.
A large number of business failures
were reported in New York city on the 18th, the
heaviest being that of Herman g. Co.
A run upon the Home Savings Bank in
Boston was in progress on the 18th. The officers
stated that the bank was in a perfectly safe con-
dition and was paying all the demands without
requiring the regular notice.
The Postmaster of Bridgeport, Conn.,,
has been suspended by the President for having
sold appointments.
The President reached Washington ON
the 18th. A Cabinet meeting Immediately
held and considerable amount of routine bust
ness was transacted.
The Grand Jury of Winnebago County,
ILL.,, have indicted Messrs. Foster and Edwards,
of st. Louis, the participants in the late duel
Mr.. Postgate, a repol ter connected with the Chi
cago Tribune. The same body also found in
dictments against ex-Sherif Flynn and F. B.
Wilkie, of the Chicago, Times for conspiracy
and subornation of perjury in obtaining
aflidayits to damage the character
Miss Early, of Rockford, who not long ago OBJ
tanned heavy verdict against the Times for def
amation of character, and which verdict had
been appealed from by the defendant Both
parties were arrested and gave bail in the sum of
81 800 each to answer
Dr. Arthur Davis and wife, of Toronto,
Canada, were, on the 10th, sentenced to be hung
in December next for the murder of Miss Gill
man by malpractice.
A Encouragement of the fastmail service
between New York, st. Louis and the Southwest
is to be shortly made, which contemplates that
all mail matter naturally belonging to the Penn
sylvania Railroad shall be sent by that line in
stead of the New York Central route.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
the President had expressed himself greatly
pleased that the troubles in Mississippi had been
amicably adjusted. He also stated that there
would be removals in that State for mere parti-
san reasons.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th says
that information had been received that Russia
would be represented at the Centennial.
The Dioceses of Albany, New York, Ne
braska Missouri, Minnesota and Wisconsin have
voted to favor the conservation of DR.. McLaren as
Bishop of Illinois.
Counterfeit five-dollar notes on the First
National Bank of Aurora, Ill., are in circulation
in some sections. The plate is the same as that
from which the counterfeit fives on the Traders
Bank of Chicago were printed.