Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-23
THE NEW WORLD.


binary Cabinet meeting was held to consider our
relations with Venezuela. The statement was
made that that Government at last had evinced a
disposition to pay the claims of the United
States, but reserved the right to designate the
particular persons to whom the money shall be
paid. The Cabinet rejected this proposition and
decided, unless the matter is speedily adjusted,
to withdraw the United States Minister.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher was serenad-
ed by the residents of Peekskill, N. Y, on the
evening of the 18th. In response Mr.. b. spoke
for nearly an hour. He expressed his intention of
continuing his work as heretofore Speaking OF
the late trial he said the expenses had been to
him over $75,0Oe, and had not Plymouth Church
come to his aid he would have been financially
ruined.
The attachment recently secured against
the property of W. S. King, member of Congress
from the First Minnesota District, by the Pacific
Mail Company to secure the repayment of moneys
alleged to have been improperly paid him to OBJ
tain what is known as the Pacific Mail subsidy
was dissolved, on the 18th, by Judge Young, Of
Minneapolis.
The University boat-race at Saratoga
N. Y, on the 18th, was won by the crew from
Cornell, N. Y, Columbia coming second,
Harvard third, Dartmouth fourth, Wesleyan fifth
and Yale sixth. Thirteen college crews partici-
pated, Bowdoin coming in tenth. Distance three
miles; time IL 1914 minutes This was the sec
ond victory this year for Cornell, it's Freshman
crew having won the race of the previous day.
The Postoffice Department estimates that
125, 10000 postal cards will be consumed during
the present fiscal year.
Two of the Japanese Centennial Com
missioners have arrived in Washington.
Pending the result of the labor of the
Black Hills commission, the President has Or
dered that all parties be prevented from visiting
the reservation, and that those now there be re-
moved. Gen. Sheridan has ordered Gen. Crook
to enforce these orders
A possible candidate FOR the British
throne-a direct descendant of the Plantagenct
family of England-recently married colored
woman of Baltimore.
Nearly 750 Germans en- route for Utah
reached New York on the 14th. Between SEQ and
600 of them were adults, including quite number
of young women.
W. H. Craft, at Schenectady, n. Y.
recently walked 300 miles in ninety eight hours
and fifteen minutes.
According to the July returns to the
shown in all crops in all the States except Texas.
The Committee on Suffrage in the Con-
necticut Legislature on the 18th reported in favor
of allowing women to vote in Presidential cleo
lions.
Joseph Loeder and John j. Price, the
Brooklyn "new witnesses" have been indicted
for perjury by Kings County IN " Grand
Jury.
AT a meeting of the National Division
of the Sons of Temperance at Providence, r. L.,
on the 18th proposition to authorize colored
divisions was rejected.
A Beaver (Utah) dispatch of the 14th
says that John d. Lee had turned States evil
dence and would make full statement of his
knowledge of the Mountain Meadow massacre.
The trial had been set for the19th.
Prof. Donaldson, the aeronaut attached
to Barnum's Hippodrome, made his second as
cension from Chicago on the afternoon of the
18th, accompanied by reporter of the Chicago
EUeRiRg Journal named n. S. Grimwood The
air-ship took nOrtheasterly course, sailing over
the lake in the direction of Muskegon, Mich.
About half past six O'Clock in the evening it was
seen by the Captain of schooner thirty miles
northeast of Chicago, skimming the surface, and
an attempt was made to overtake it and offer the
it was observed to rise suddenly in the air and the
chase was abandoned. About midnight a very
severe gale came on from the northeast, and, as
no tidings had been received up to the morning
of the nth, it was feared that the occupants had
found watery grave. Experts say the balloon
was rotten and leaky and that it could not posi-
bly, have taken the aeronaut to the Michigan
shore even if the severe gale had not occurred.
Thirty indictments against persons con-
nected with the so-caled st. Louis whisky ring
were found on the 18th and 10th by the Grand
Jury of the United States District Court in St.
Louis.
The first sample of new wheat was
shown on Change in New York on the 18th. I.
The Roman Catholic clergy of Law
renee, Mass, have issued card condemninr the
recent riot IN that city, and expressing the hone
that the ringleaders may be suitably punished.
Loeder, the man indicted for perjury in
the Beecher-Tilton case, was arralgned in BROOK.
Ign on the 10th, and pleaded not guilty. Price
his associate, was not arraigned.
The German Government has directed
that, when Catholic clergymcn give in their adhe
sion to the new ecclesiastical laws, the fact shall
be kept secret, to protect them from the persecu
ton of the Ultramontanes.
Lady Franklin, widow of Sir Johr
Franklin, the Arctic explorer, died on the MICH
of the 18th.
Nearly $4,000 persons met in Hydt
Park, London, on the night of the 18th. and adont
ed resolutions protesting against the propose,
grant OF el51000 TO the Prince OF Wales 10 de
ftey the expenses Of bis journey to India.