Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03

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| A death from Asiatic cholera was re
ported in New York city on the 23d.
A cattle disease has appearedat Shrews
bury. Mass. The bronchial tubes o.
SLAUGHTERED animals are filled with thread
| like worms.
General Ames, Mississippi, has issued an
order to the commanders of military posts
| directing them not to obey in future any
writ of ha5eas corpus issued by the United
States District Court and Circuit Court,
or any order made by such court for the
release of prisoners in their custody, but
should any such writ or order be served
upon them, to report the fact to him by
telegraph.
=; A Philadelphia dispatch ofthe 23d says
not drop of water had fallen there since
August A, the night of the great whisky
fire, nor had any accounts of rain beenre-
ceived from the interior, except of a short
Thunderstorm on the 21st, about thirty
miles up the Scbuyllkill. All reports agreed
as to great damage to corn from drought
in Pennsylvania. The scarcity of water
in the reservoirs in Philadelphia was caus-
ing great Inconvenience. The City Coun-
Gil had appropriated $4,000 for the relief
of the families of destitute canal boatmen
out of employment on account of the
drought
Reports from all sections Of Maryland
on the 23d represent drought as prevail
ing to an alarming extent. No rain had
fallen for weeks in some counties. Farm
ers despair of making even half crop of
corn, and the potato2vines had become
parched and dried up before maturity
The tobacco crop was also suffering Sc
verely. Accounts from the tobacco-grow-
ing regions of Kentucky state that but
half the crop produced last year will be
raised this year, on account of the intense
heat and the parching drought. Corn is
almost shriveled
The first bale of new State hops was in
the New York market on the Gath.
The steamboats, Evening Star and War
Eagle were burned at the st. Louis leyee
on the Gath.
Vincent Collyer telegraphs from San
Francisco that if Governor Mitchell's
proclamation, declaring the Navajoes out
laws, be enforced it will break up the
agency and school at Fort Defiance, as
there are no United States troops nearer
than Fort Wingate, 40 miles distant
Hon. James W. Fitzgerald, Of Cincin-
nati has obtained temporary injunction
restraining the New York holders of the
Fenian fund from any further disposition
thereof. He claims $4,000 of the money,
as contributor.
A convention of colored mechanics is
called to meet in Macon, Ca, In October,
to devise means for emigration to the
Northwestern States and Territories.
A letter was received at the White
House in Washington, on the 25th, from
Paris, written by a Frenchman, asking
permission to establish gambling house
in New York city, to be regularly licensed,
and placed under surveillance of the police,
to contribute a portion Of it's profits to the
Government and be managed in all
respects like the gambling houses of Baden
Baden and Weisbaden.
Preliminary steps for founding COM
mercial college for colored men have been
taken at Washington, and it is proposed
eventually to extend the movement all
over the country.
The Secretary of the Interior has ordered
that hereafter all Indian claims-for boun-
ty, pensions, damages for depredations,
&c.-must be settled through the Indian
Bureau.
A Washington dispatch says the de-
mands on the Treasury for fractional cur
rency are so great and the amounts re-
quired so large that to supply them would
necessitate the issue Of currency at the
rate of 100000 day for year to come.
In the recent suit at Erie, Pa, of the Re-
publican office against the Erie Typograph-
ical Union for conspiracy and libel, the
grand Jury returned "not a true bill !" in
both cases.
The general coal agent of the Delaware
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com
pany announced officially on the Goth that
the striking miners at Scranton would go
to work at once.
Two miles of snow sheds on the Cen
trail Pacific Railroad between Casco and
the Summit, were destroyed by fire on the
night of the Oath, supposed to have been
set by an incediary.
A baseball match at Cincinnati on the
Goth, between the Red Stockings, of thai
| city, and the Haymakers, of Lansingburg
N. Y, ended in quarrel after the fifth
inning, when the score stood II to II. The
President Of the Haymakers took UNI
bragg at decision Of the umpire, and or
dered the club to cease playing. The
game was declared in favor of the Rec
Stockings.
The century plant, of Rochester, N. Y
has been removed to Chicago, and is or
exhibition in the latter city, under The
auspices of the Young Mems Christian AS
1 sociation.
The Washington authorities disbelievt
the news of the rejection of the Burlin
game treaty by the Chinese Government
telegraphed to London from Hong Kong.
Customs receipts for the week ending
August 81, were $4,386,920.
A Washington special of the Goth say
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