Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-13
SUMMARY OF THE WEEK..
The East.

The East.
A dispatch from Poughkeepsie states
that one of the officers of the First Nation
al Bank of Kingston has failed for $500,
900, and the bank loses $4,000.
The Great Sculling Match on the Hud-
son between Brown and Hamill took
place at Newburgh early on the morning
of the 9th. Hamill got ahead, but while
turning the stake boat, Browns boat struck
his, nearly cutting it in two. The judges
ruled it foul, and awarded the champion
ship to Hamill. 800
Judge Barnard, of New York, has de-
MED the motion for injunction and the ap-
po1ntment of receiver to wind up the al
fairs of the Merchants Union Express
Company The Court finds that the Mer-
chants Union Express Company is sol
vent, owing no debts, and several thousand
dollars in the treasury. 49,.
The Maine election Shows light vote
as compared with last year, and reduced
Republican majority. Chamberlain, the
Republican candidate for Governor, will
have about $4,000 majority over Pillsbury.
The Democrats gain representatives in
some to ans, but not enough to give them
much power in the Legislature
Y At Burlington, Vermont, on the 9th, a
frightful accident occurred during the
races at the Chittendon County Fair
Grounds. The seats, arranged in the form
of an amphitheatre, while density crowded
with spectators, fell to the ground with
fearful crash, bringing down with them
over 5000 people, over fifty of whom were
injured, some it is supposed fatally, and
many with broken limbs The structure
was over thirty feet high, That more were
not injured is miraculous.
On the night of the 5th, a passenger
train on the Naugatuck Railroad, broke
through the bridge across the Branch riv-
er, about two miles from Thomaston, CT.
The couplings of the tender of the engine
broke, and the baggage car went into the
river. Sixteen persons in the car were
swept into the Nangatuck, and carried
over the dam at Thomaston The car
floated three miles from the scene of the
accident, and was at last secured and five
men clinging to it, Ten persons are sup
posed to be drowned Six bodies have
been recovered.
1t is just two years since the debt reached
the maximum The following year, end
ing August, 1866, the debt was reduced
one hundred and twenty four millions, and
for the year ending the present August,
has been further reduced one hundred and
twenty-five millions. The total receipts
for the fiscal year commencing July list to
date, are $44,000,000, against $65,0O0,OO0
the same time last year-a decrease of
$21, 100000 for two months, caused by the
fact that the income tax this year fell due
in May and June, while last year it
was collected chiefly in August and Sep
TENDER
: The dam of the West Hartford reservoir,
six miles from the city, which supplied
Hartford, Ct, with water, washed away on
the 9th, sweeping with tremendous force
over corn fields and pasture lands, bearing
huge limbs, fences and every thing with it
for two miles; the waters flooded the val
leys and flats below the stream with sand,
rocks and other debris. The damage to
private property is considerable, and the
loss to the city will be 100000. The dam
carried away was fifty five feet high, from
the bed OF the brook, and two hundred feet
wide. 1t contained some $4,000 yards of
earth, and was built one year ago at cost
of $4,000. 1t has not been considered safe,
was never properly built, and was failure
from the start, always leaky and weak.
The reservoir that was thirty two acres in
extent, is now drained dry. II held two
hundred millions of gallons. The upper
reservoir, two miles above, with partly
finished dam, seven feet high, was also
swept away. This reservoir covers seven
ty acres The city has been supplied since
January with water from the West Hart
ford reservoir, but can be fed by pumps
from the Connecticut River, in the old
way, SO there will be no interruption of the
supply. ,s ok Ill W. .ses. ssas
use The West.