Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-07


excitement was created in town this week
By the discovery Of lead ore at Pit Douglas,
near Truax's Ferry. There is no doubt
about the genuine lead ore being there, but
whether in sufficient quantities to be yalu-
able, remains to be seen.
:. Governor Lewis having made re-
quest Of the War Department fer the mus
ter out OF the Both regiment, has received
the reply that the government cannot at
present spare the services Of that regiment.
-. Conrad Hutter was murdered in isa-
cine last Sunday by man named Moriarty.
Hutter was trying to quiet a drunken row,
when Moriarty struck him on the head With
club, smashing his skull.
1.-The Baraboo Republic informs US
that hotel, with stables, boat house, etc,
is about to be built near Devils Lake, for
the accommodation Of tourists.
-. A COW near Prescott G. w, attempt
ed to butt railway train off the track, and
succeeded. The locomotive and all the
cars were thrown off, and some of thea,
with the engine fell down the embankment.
There was plenty Of beef after the collision,
but no cow.
=. Constantinople and Jerusalem are
now connected by line Of telegraph.
-. The trade from the coast of the South
ern States, towards the interior is very great,
and something like former business activity.
THE superintendent of freedmen for
Alabama calls for more troops to protect the
negroes from the cruelty practiced upon
them. The Mississippi superintendent
makes cheerful report of affairs in that
State
Many prominent rebel generals are
taking advantage Of the passport order to
leave their country for their country's good.
-. The Pennsylvania, which arrived on
Tuesday from Liverpool, had on board the
largest number Of elnigrants ever brought
by single steamer. They numbered ,088.
-. A company has been formed, under
authorization of the Spanish government,
to lay a submarine telegraph cable between
Cuba, Porto Rico, and the United States.
....Some paymasters in Virginia, in
connection with national banks at Norfolk
and Richmond have swindled soldiers out
Of large amounts Of money-the men being
paid in 1905 Gnsteai of legal tender, upon
which they had to submit to heavy shave.
The perpetrators are under arrest.
The old grain elevator occupied by
Howe, Robins & Perkins, in Chicago, was
burned On the 9th. The bins contained
upwards Of 5000 bushels Of wheat and 3d.
coo bushels Of corn, and the loss is estimat-
ed at about $40, 900. It was the oldest grain
elevator in Chicago. The building was
owned by Capt. Reed, Of Erie, Pa
The Great Eastern will Immediately
leave to fish up the Atlantic cable Anoth-
er effort to lay if will be made next year.
49, The receipts for customs at New
York were $90,000000 in gold, being o.
100000 more than the amount Of interest
On the public debt that Is payable in coin.
-. Two terrible affairs are reported from
Boston. A stage coach was smashed by
cars, killing and injuring number Of la
dies and gentlemen, and an insane woman
shot her husband and daughter.
THE Brazilians have made heavy
gain and thrashed the Paraguayans sound
ly.
-. The cattle plague was extending and
created general alarm. The cholera was
committing frightful ravages in CONSTANT
nople.
The mortality Of our troops on the
Rio Grande is terrible.
....A man seduced another's wife in
Mobile. The injured husband stabbed the
seducer.
The Imperialists, it is said, are in
ing some important advantages in North
western probably in the Sonora
region. Cortinas claims victory near
Matamoras, over the Imperialists.
1.-The news from Mexico is not cheer
full for Max. His pleasant dreams Of an
empire of his own are nearly ended. The
French organ at Mexico says the empire is
busted and a French protectorate or an
neXation to the United States are the alter
natives.
.....A Chicago dispatch gives an adj
ditional list Of the vessels destroyed by the
Shenandoah. The list was obtained in a
San Francisco dispatch. The depredations
were committed in the neighborhood of
Bhering Straits, and the Shenandoah had
sailed southwark. There will be hanging
job when this vessel is caught, as she is sure
to be. The man-of-war Saranac has gone
in pursuit of her.
80. Wriz has lately written two letters.
One to Judge Advocate Chapman, urging
that Messrs. Schade and Baker be allowed
to re-appear as his counsel, they having
consented to act again in his behalf; the
other, to the secession organ in New York,
asking its aid to obtain means to enable him
to carry on bis defence
In the trial of Captain Wriz, num-
Der Of Union soldiers, who had been prison
ers at Andersonville, testified that, among
the varieties of barbarity practiccd at that
place were shooting, starvation, robbery,
laceration by hounds, and vaccination with
poisonous matter.
by the explosion of the Mobile steam
er Reindeer, on the 30th ult, three persons
were killed and twenty-five injured.
IAN accident occurred on the New
York Central railroad, by the breaking of
an axle. The baggage-man was killed, and
the express messenger and one or two 9th
ers slightly injured.
I'm not quite eight months 1913 rail
road accidents have happened, in which 266
persons have been killed and 1,109 wound
ed.
1.-The potatoe crop of the country viii
be the largest this year ever known, as the
agricultural statistics al Washington show.
-. Barnums new museum was adver-
tlSed TO omen on the 4th inst