Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-06

100000; surplus fund, $82,21S,0OO; undi
yided profits, nearly $44, 100000; individ
ual deposits, $574, 100000; United States
deposits, $1O,31O,OO0.
A severe shock of earthquake was fell
at Memphis on the morning of the 26th
During the night several meteors fell.
In a baseball match at Cincinnati, on
the 26th, the Forest City Club, of Rock.
ford, ILL.,, beat the Buckeyes, of Cincin-
natl, by a score of 40 to 1.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that the use by Collectors of
fac sinask die to impress their name
upon stamps for distilled spirits cannot be
allowed hereafter.
The landing of the Franco-American
cable was appropriately celebrated at
Kingston, Mass, on the 9th, by grand
banquet.
The receipts from internal revenue,
from July to July 81, amountto ST., $780,
O0O ~
The work of opening goods for the Ex-
position of Textile Fabrics at Cincinnati
was begun on the 9th The display of
cassimeres, tweeds and jeans was very
fine.i
The first passenger car through from
Sacramento arrived in New York at a.
M, on the Oath. 1t was Pullman's palace
sleeping car Wahsatch, which left Sacra-
mento at $50 p. m. on the 17th.
A quantity of wel[executed counter
felt five-dollar greenbacks was seized in
New York city on the 9th, and a Charles
Jacobs, who had the money in his posses
sion, was arrested.
The St. Paul g. Pacific Railroad was
formally opened on the Goth to Darwar
Station, seventy-five miles from st. Paul.
Some of the negro rioters who attempt
/ ed to prevent colored voters from voting
the Conservative ticket at the recent
election in Washington, have been tried
1 and sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment.
On Sunday night, July s5th, the occu-
pants of ten of the tents at the camp-meet-
ing grounds at Cedar Grove, Narragansett
Bay, were drugged with chloroform, and a
large amount of money, watches and
clothing was stolen. ,s.
The trotting match between Lady
| Thorne and Goldsmith Maid, on the
Union Course, L. l., on the 28th, was won
by Lady Thorne in the fastest time made
there this season-2:2124, 2:201a, and
2:914. xr ''''
A fearful accident occurred at 1 o'clock
on the morning of the 28th to the passen-
ger train bound north on the Memphis,
Clarksville & Louisville Railroad, at
| Budd's Greek, eight miles below Clarks-
ville The entire train and its contents,
except a sleeping car, broke through a
| trestle and were burned or totally de-
stroyed. The engineer, fireman and two
passengers were killed, and nine passen-
gers seriously and thirteen slightly
| wounded.
Reports have been received at the Gen
eral Land Office, showing the completion
of the survey of twenty additional town
ships lying between the Saline and Solo,
mon Forks of the Kansas river, embrac
ing an aggregate area of 4e9, 900 acres.
The successful completion of the new
ocean cable was enthusiastically celebrated
in Chicago on the evening of the 28th.
| On the 27th members of the Miners
Union at Traverse City, New, visited the
principal mines in the White Pine dis
trict, and compelled all miners working
for less than $5 per day to stop work.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that American steamboats, which
merely touch at ports on the lakes and on
and clearance fees.
The Commissioner of the General Land
| Office has reports showing the disposal
47,312 acres of public lands, during June,
in the following localities: Fort Dodge,
Iowa, 81 ,241 acres; Oregon City, Oregon,
913 acres; Olympia, Washington Terri
tory, 9,750 acres; Winnebago City, Min
nesota, 1888 acres.
i Commissioner Delano has decided that
where persons purchase old rails, re-roll
them, and sell them to railroad companies,
they are to be classed as manufacturers of
new rails, and as such are liable to the
special tax of So upon such sales in excess
of $1,250 per quarter.
| A bloody riot occurred on the Goth ult.,
between raftsmen and the colored deck
hands on the steamer Dubuque, lying at
Hampton, near Rock Island, Ill. Five of
the deck hands and one raftsman were
killed and their bodies thrown into the
river, and many others were badly wound
ed. Forty two of the rioters were in jail
at Rock Island on the Both.
The town of Detroit, on the Kansas Pa
cifc Road, was entirely destroyed. by a
fierce hail and wind storm on the night OF
the 27th ult. The wind blew down all
the buildings in the town, leaving the in
habitants, in the morning, on the bare
prairie, literally houseless.
An accident occurred on the Hanniba
& st. 10. Railroad, near Cameron, Mo-, OF
the 29th ult The train bound west wa
passing on to the switch, which happened
to be misplaced, and the two rear cars
were thrown from the track down a small
embankment Several persons were in
jured.
The first California fruit car, well load
ed, arrived in Chicago on the 2Sth ult.
direct from San Francisco 1t was onl,
6x,o dow, ~, tho xror md +ho