Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-24
DOMESTIC.

a DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 18th
at 1908. ~
The Postmaster General has notified
the Congressional Postoffice Committee
that the North German Confederation has
abolished the franking privilege, and re-
commends that Congress do the same. 81,
The Assistant United States Treasurer
at New York sold, on the 14th, 81 200, 600
of gold at 1SS 1900 a 1879 2S-1OO.
Cornelius G. Donoghue, of Titusville,
Pa, has obtained verdict in the Supreme
Court, against the Erie Railroad Compa-
ny, for $4,000, for damages sustained at
the Mast Hope disaster. H.. flo
The State of Iowa has a balance OF
$303, ,464.54 in the Treasury, and will be-
gin the new year with larger fund than
ever in the Treasury, and no debts to pay.
The New York Sun of the 18th says
the Spaniards are enlisting men in New
York to serve against Cuba. Legal evil
dence of the fact had been offered to the
law officers of the United States in that
city, and they declined to receive or in
any way act upon it. ,..5
1t was stated in New York city on the
18th that the amount received by the de-
post of altered New York State bounty
bonds, and supposed stolen registered
Government bonds as collaterals, reaches
$5OOOOO. :
The receipts of customs for the week
ending December II were $2,191 400.
New York dispatches on the 17th an
nounce several failures in that city and In
various parts of the country.
An attempt to destroy the Spanish flo
tilla of gunboats in New York harbor, on
the 18th, with torpedoes, was frustrated
by the sudden removal of the boats to
another anchorage.
At a public meeting of workingmen in
New York city, on the evening of the
18th, resolutions were adopted strongly
protesting against the importation of
Cinnamon into the country, by an Ameri-
can Immigrant Society, to the injury of
the working classes, and calling on Con-
gress to take measures for its prevention.
At large public meeting in Buffalo on
the night of the 18th, great Indignation
was expressed by citizens of all nationali-
ties at McDougal's being permitted by
the United States to congregate British
troops on American soil, to coerce the in
surgents in another country.
Eighteen of the Spanish gunboats left
New York on the 10th in company with
the Spanish man-of-war Pizarro.
The Secretary of the Treasury directed
the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
omit the sale of gold on the 21st and gath
inst. This order would not affect the
sales of gold on the 23d, or the purchase
of bonds as advertised.
A coal mine at Stockton, Pa, caved in
on the morning of the 18th, filling the
shaft and tunnel with enormous masses OF
earth, carrying two large houses down
with it, and choking the entrance to the
mine. There were. Several persons in the
dwelling houses at the time, who were
carried down in the falling mass and in
stantly killed. Ten persons in all lost
their lives The houses fell forty feet, and
were broken to fragments.
A Washington telegram of the 18th
says "The President having declined
the request of the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee to furnish them the letters of rec
ommendation for the appointment o1
Circuit Judges, the Judiciary Committee
called the attention of the Senate to the
fact, and asked that the President be di
rected to furnish the letters in question
1t remains to be seen whether the Presi
dent will comply" 80