Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-04-02

Tracy's connection with the case, and to the
| settlement of the difficulty between Mr.. Ill
| ton and Mr.. Bowen.
TIE Grand Jury of the District of Colum-
| bia have indicted Whitelaw Reid, of the
New York Tribune, for libeling ex.Gov. Shep-
| herd.
| THE United States Supreme Court has re-
Gently decided that dividends and profits
earned in the last half of the year 1870 are
subject to the income tax of IN per cent
In his charge to the Memphis Grand Jury on
| the 22d Judge Emmons, of the United States
! Circuit Court, instructed them to the effect
| that the Fourteenth Amendment to the United
States Constitution applies to States only,
| and that the denial to negro of the full and
equal enjoyment of the accommodations and
privileges of theaters and inns is matter
| that the State Government alone controls, and
can only be reached by civil action
pr,1.-----rr-------.,s sir,poocII says CnaC Cne
| late John Mitchell was in fact citizen of the
| United States, as appears from the records in
| the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court
| of the District of Columbia.
| JAMES BROWN was hanged at Pottsville,
| Pa, on the 24th for the murder, more than
| three years ago, of Daniel S. Kreamer his
wife, her mother and Annette Kreamer.
A SPECIAL committee report was made in
| the Rhode Island Legislature on the 24th, re-
lating to the late conflict of authority between
| the United States Marshal and the
State Constables over the wholesale stock
of liquors attached by the Marshal and after
ward seized by the State Constables because
sales were made from the stock in VIOLA
tion of the State law. The committee CEN
sure the Providence Chief of Police for aid
| ing the United States Marshal, and recon-
mended the adoption of resolution request
| ing the Governor to transmit to the President
| of the United States statement of the facts
relating to the interference of the United
States Marshal for the District of Rhode
Island with the State Constables in the dis
charge of their duty.
Gov. KELLOGG has issued call for an extra
| session of the Louisiana Legislature; to meet
| on the 18th of April, to carry out the adjust
ment of political difficulties and for other
purposes.
In answer to a telegram from one of the
miners who lately came from the Black Hills
as to whether he would be permitted to re-
turn with reinforcements and provisions,
| Gen. Ord is reported as saying: :" Troops
! from Fort Laramie and hostile Indians have
| both gone for the miners. For their sakes L
| hope the troops will reach them first, as the
military orders are simply to bring in the
party, confne the leaders, burn their wagons
and destroy their outfits"
| A NATIONAL Conference of Representative
| Workingmen will be held at Cincinnati on
the 7th of September.
AN opinion has been given by the Attorney
General to the effect that the vacant Judge
ship in Louisiana caused by the resignation
of Judge Durell cannot be filled until the next
session of Congress- A New Orleans dis
patch of the Goth says Judge Woods had de-
cided that the power to select Dlstrlct
Judge in his circuit to fill the Durell vacancy
| rested in him.
THE Republican State Convention of Rhode
Island has nominated: For Governor, Henry
Lippett of Providence; Lieutenant Governor,
| Henry T. Sissen, of Little Compton; Secretary
of State, j. w. Addeman; Attorney General,
Willard Sayles; General Treasurer, Samuel
| Cork.
| GEN. AUGUR reached New Orleans ON the
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States troops stationed there.
THE Prohibitionists of Michigan have with
drawn the State ticket nominated at Lansing
in January last. The reasons which have led
to this decision are stated by the Chairman
of the State Central Committee as follows:
Fjyst-The denomination of Judge Graves to
the Supreme Court by Democrats and Re
publicans; Second-The non-political nature
of the offices of Justices of the Supreme
Court and Regents of the University; Third
The resignation of three of the candidates
nominated at the Prohibition State Con-
| vention.
A BODY of armed Mexicans attacked sew
| eral ranches near Corpus Christi, Tex, on
the evening of the Goth, and robbed one store,
taking several Americans prisoners.
AFTER the 1st of May mutilated currency
will be redeemed according to the proportion
remaining of the bill.
The Senatorial excursion party left Wash
ington on the Doth for Mexico. 1t is COM
posed of the following persons: Senators
Cameron, Patterson, Dennis, Anthony, Nor
ton, ex-senator Chandler. Tom Scott and
wife, Wayne McVeigh and wife, Ben Perley
Poore, of the Boston Journal, and Miss Poore,
Mrs. Senator Morton and ex-Gov. Brown, OF
Georgia, and wife. The State Department
has officially assured the Mexican Minister
that it has no political significance whatever.
ACCORDING to Washington dispatch of
the 2Sth instructions had been issued through
the War Department to the General COM
manding in Texas to deal summarily with
Mexican raiders.
/ THE Rhode Island Democratic State Con-
vention met at Providence on the 9th and
nominated Col r. Cutler, of Warren, for
fGIor~-~nr; John B. Pierce for Lieutenant
uoVernofi eNerles E. German for Attorney
General, and Philip n.aer for General Treas.
urer.
A MATERIAL reduction of passens~~ ratas
to the East over the Michigan Central, Micn
igan Southern and Pittsburgh 81 Fort Wayne
Roads was announced in the Chicago papers
of the 29th, to go into effect April L or, al
soon as the necessary tickets could be printed
The reduction is as follows To New York
from $22 to SIS; to Philadelphia, from SO tc
$12; to Baltimore and Washington, from 81!
to SO; to Boston, from S27 to $1S.S5-tht
tickets to be used within forty eight hours o
tn cir issue. Freight rates were unchanged
f THE proprietors of the Chicago st. Elmo
restaurant were recently before United State:
Commissioner Hoyne on charge of having
| violated the Civil Rights law, and we're dis
} charged on the ground that restaurant il
not an inn, and hence does not come under
the provisions of the law.
In the case of Mrs. Minor of Missouri
who claimed the right to vote under the
Fourteenth Amendment, the Supreme Cour
has decided thai the Hopstitnfion of tht