Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-10
Total debt, principal and interest. 626 653 $40

Amount in the Treasury
Coin, - %. So Si9l W ttsS25H <ss
S!nr! Currency Ga -. :. &, T., 7: n 9
coin-interest bonds,
and interest collected
and accrued thereon 14,O20S3O w ao ~,
Other u s. cOin-inter-
est bonds purchased,
and accrued interest
thereon. .......... 2o,oII,Ooo w
Amount of public debt less cash inp : T" y y
sinking fund and purchased bonds ~, 80, -.
Amount m rts of bubble debt less cash,
sinking fund and purchased bonds o. ~-,b ,fs,,
in the Treasury on the 1st OF Au- 80
gust. ~'4oi,'oo' 'oo ~
% past month r. @ s5,6o4;sa4 %
Decrease since March 4, 1867. $49,5O0,75S 81
Information received in New York city
on the Sd leaves no doubt that the crop
in Central Georgia has been seriously in
jured by the drought, which has caused
rust. y r. r. e.
The propeller Boscobel, bound for Chi
cago, was totally destroyed by fire, on the
morning of the Sd, three miles below st.
Clair, on the Canada shore. She had ten
passengers, all of whom were saved. The
second engineer, George Ely, jumped over
board and was drowned, hand it is sup
posed that one of the firemen shared the
same fate. '>' t--1 @"'~-
An explosion occurred on vessel at
Norfolk, Va, on the 1st, by which three
men were killed and four or five others
were dangerously wounded
Receipts from customs for week ending
August 81 were $4,510,301.
A Washington special of the I'd says the
Secretary of Interior and Commissioner
Of indian Afairs'h have oo-eperatea with
the Secretary of War, and measures will
be taken to prevent future Indian depre-
dations. Orders have been issued trans
ferring additional troops to Montana.
The sixth annual meeting of the Central
Conference ofssthe GelpiaT Methodist
Episcopal Church convened in Newport,
XIV, on the I'd, Bishop Ames presiding.
The conference embraces West Virginia,
Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana.
PERSONAL.
Choy Chew and Sing Man have returned
TO Sat Frsncisc6. sThey express grstifes-
stiori at their receptions in EassefnSeA
Pliny Jewell, father of Gov. Jewell,
died at Hartford, Conn, August 2Sth,
aged 70.
George Peabody left White Sulphur
Springs, Va, on the morning of the 3Oth
ult. His Cough was ALMOST entirely re
lieved and health much Improved "A
A San Francisco telegram of the Both
ult. says J. Ross Browne denies that he
denounced sheIBurfngame mission, and
disavoIs all participation III -sheLchasge
against Burlingame of fraudulent creden-
tials.
President Grant arrived in Washington
on the 31st ult.
The Cincinnati commercial" excursion
fists, consisting Of thirty one gentlemen and
eighteen ladies, started for San Francisco
on the 31st ult.
C. 2 Drake has been appointed Asses
sor for the Fifth DISTRICT Michigan,
and R. J. G. Wood, Collector for5he Ninth
District ofiIndiana.l ,.es 40 s7as we-
General Sherman was at Bangor, Me.
on the sfst .ht III y II m.
Isaac J Jenkinson, ,Iof Indiana, has been
appointed United States Consul at Gias-
gov, Scotland, eies Major James Haggerty.
fnoH., ,Wdkongtellew paets and family
Ieafriyed at New. York from Europe, on the
nrsAnass Mitchell, sMswsAGee. 6sss. 6ss
been elected Pfessdentz ofs%Ae Ne~thwest.
fern Railroad saoi 81 las sssis IGa "a,
Secretary Rawlihs suffereda relapse on
tie night Of the hd, andiwas insensible
for period of five hours, in consequence
I b" aspllyxia. His / physicians became
alarmed and telegxsphea Gen. Grant and
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