Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-05

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houseless, and great distress prevailed.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has decided that winners are not subject
to the special tax as liquor dealers for sell
ing their own products at the place Of
manufacture.
A Washington telegram of a recent date
says "the prospect of removing the capi
tai out West would appear to have more
strength than Washingtonians believe
The Western members are pretty well
united on the subject, and it is gaining fa-
vor." tI-st st4 f.}}tsts5h &!
Several seizures of distilleries have re-
Gently been made in Pennsylvania and
Virginia, for frauds.
Indian depredations are reported in
Montana, and hopes are expressed that
the Government will take steps necessary
to give the citizens proper protection
against further raids.
At Graniteville, Staten Island, on the
9th, two children of Joseph Williams
while playing with matches, fired the
house, and before they could be rescued
were suffocated to death.
The old Dutch Church in New York
was recently so badly damaged by fire that
it is quite likely the building will be taken
down.. The entire reprint edition of the
late Westminster Reoieso was destroyed by
the same fire.
On the night of the 23d there was riot
at Goldsboro, N. c., between the United
States troops stationed there and some
negroes. About seventy five guns were
fired, and one soldier and one negro
wounded. There were three fights, the
negroes retreating in the last. No ar
rests. D't - -4a} L
Information received at the Department
of Agriculture at Washington, on the
27th, shows falling off of one-third of the
tobacco crop in Virginia and Maryland
and throughout Kentucky and the West
about onetenth. The recent frost in the
West will cause further deficiency.
The collection of the tax on tobacco in
Virginia for the seven months ending
September 30 amounted to $2,194, 1853 49,
and 1t is estimated the yearly returns will
amount to $3,0O0,0OO.
Customs receipts for week ending Octo
Der 90, $3,2s9,6s7.
A preliminary report from the Depart
ment of Agriculture shows that the crops
will prove larger than was anticipated
The lesson of the season inculcates the
necessity of draining and thorough cul
ture, as the loss from drowning and scorch
ing will reach $20O,00O000
The State Treasurer of Illinois reports
the total interest bearing debt Of the State
to be $5,114,22S.17.
( Information from Wilmington, N c., or
the 25th was to the effect that the crew OF
the Cuba (HorneD were to be shipped tC
New York in the steamship Holland, by
their officers, or the agent of the Cuban
authorities in this country.
1t is reported that the smallpox wa!
communicated to the Sioux tribe of In
dians by blanket which was given to al
Indian upon steamboat near Fort Ben
ton, by a,person who had been confined
with the smallpox. At latest accounts
the dreadful disease was making fearful
havoc among the wild tribes
On the evening of the 28th an acciden
occurred on the Union Pacific Railroad
near Evanston Station. The westward
bound passenger train ran off the track a
coal switch, while the off emigrant train
loaded principally with Mormons, ran int
the regular passenger train. Three Nor
mons ware killed and five wounded One
passenger named John Tustin, whose
family was also aboard, was killed in
stantly.
Two ferry boats collided in the Nortl
River on the 2Sth. Five or six persons
were dangerously injured, and it was be
lieved that some were knocked overheard
and drowned.
The steamer Stonewall, from st. Loui
to New Orleans, was burned on the nigh
of the 9th, 1875 miles below st. Louis
The following particulars are given by
one of the survivors, who arrived in st
Louis on the 2Sth:
"The boat caught fire at half-past
o'clock in the evening, from a candle
which the deck passengers had near some
hay while playing cards. The steamer
was run on gravel bar, the pilot sup
posing that the passengers could wade
ashore on the bar. Unfortunately at tn,
end of the bar there was q slough, an(
there it was that the large number wa
drowned The boat was run on thu
bar, but the shallowest part about hel
had five or six feet of water. Th'
boat had so much hay aboard that sh,
burned like tinder, and all efforts to put i
out were unavailing. The Belle Memphis
came up al $50, three hours after the ac
cident, and rendered all the assistance pos
sible. Out of two hundred and fifty-twt
passengers and crew, only thirty arr
known to be saved. The last seen of Cap
tain Scott he was floating down the stream
on log. The people at Neely's saw th,
| light and hastened to assist one man res
cued sixteen persons with skiff Had i
not been for their help all would hav
been lost. A gentleman from Paducah
KY, swan ashore with lady, and at he
entreaty returned to save her child. Ii
swimming ashore he was grasped by
drowning man, and would have been him
self drowned had he not shaken him of
One man was taken from the wreck s.
badly burned that he died as soon as h
reached the shore There We're thirty
nine cabin passengers and sixty of th
crew. Quite number of ladies were o.
board. All are probably lost, except one.
The boat was valued at $45,OO0, partial
ly insured She had on board 800 tons c
freight and number of cattle, horses an
mules. A Cairo telegram of the 2St