Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-30
THE NEW WORLD.

The local-option feature of the Connect
cut License law has been declared constitu-
tional by the Supreme Court of that State.
Pomeroy, the boy murderer of Massa-
chusetts, has retracted his confession and denies
his guilt. He says he accused himself OF the
murder of Katie Curran that his mother and
brother, who had been arrested for the crime' ana
whom he knew to be innocent, might go free.
On the 10th thirteen miners and four
wagons were captured forty-five miles north OF
Fort Laramie, en- route to the Black Hills. Ihey
were released on parole.
The substance of John d. Lees comics
sion in regard to the Mountain Meadows mas
is that the deed was done under orders
from the leader of the Mormon Church, but that
when he took the news to Brigham Young he de-
pored the transaction and said it would bring
disaster upon the Mormon people.
The Mississippi jetties had been run
out 1900 feet on the Goth, and were progressing
at the rate of 200 feet daily. About 400 men were
employed daily.
A petition has been filed in Cincinna-
ii court for the impeachment of Mayor johnson.
He is charged with controlling the labors of the
police while candidate for reelection.
On the 10Th the Postmaster-General
coniscated to the use of the Government three
certified checks, aggregating $,639, deposited ac-
cOrding to law by Matthew Draper, failing con-
tractor. This has never before been done. The
Postmaster-Gener has also commenced suits
against the bondsmen of forty failing mail con-
tractors.
A Cabinet meeting was held in Wash
ington on the 21st, at which it was almost
unanimously voted that Fisher, the District At
torney, be removed. Washington dispatch of
the same date says that the President had con-
cluded not to intervene further. The appearance
of the President at Washington and the call for
the meeting were unexpected.
A Boston special of the 21st says that
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy-fend, had made cum
ming and desperate attempt to escape from
Charles Street Jail ON that day. He had been at
work since the 18th, and had he not been discov-
cred would have got away on the evening of the
21st.
The Connecticut House of Representa-
tives, on the 21st, by vote of 102 to 81, indefi
nitely postponed the bill giving to women the
right to vote for President and Vice President.
The Ohio Democratic campaign was
opened at Gallipolis on the 21st. Hon Geo. FL.
Pendleton and Gov. Allen were the principal
speakers.
The Nebraska Republican State Con-
venton will meet on the 18th of September
AT the Bankers Convention lately held
at Saratoga resolutions were adopted
immediate specie resumption; calling for the re-
peal of the war tax on banks; urging the issue OF
coupon bonds for registered bonds; demanding
the adjustment of the two-cent stamp tax on
checks; favoring permanent organization Of
national bankers; opposing the Usury laws.
A rumor prevailed in Washington on
the 22d that at the Cabinet meeting of the day
before the charges against Secretary Delanc
were fully discussed the President stating in the
strongest terms his confidence in that official:
capacity and integrity, and declaring that the
charges against Delano did not injure him in hii
opinion until his dishonesty was fully proven.
The confession of John d. Lee, in re
specJ to the Mountain Meadows massacre not be
ing satisfactory to the Prosecuting Attorney, LIE,