Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-11-11

ment as published on the lst:
Total outstanding debt. o. 422 191 ,932. "a
Total principal and interest, in 90
Guiding interest due and unpaid. 2,4il l73U,Sl2.96
Coin. ................. =. 10s, 1s1 ,O7s AS
Cnrrency. 25,8l5, 1885,. so
Debt less amount in Treasury 49, 2,34t, ,7'4, ,355. &
Decrease during the month. ...... 5,l29, ,296 %
Decrease since March I, 1S7a...... 93,544.12l. .62
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in
lawful money 4 .es.,t sft teg-
Amount outstanding. .............. 64,61S, e52 .00
Interest accrued and not paid. 1,299 9,SI6.t
of of mails, maj Sc. c...:................. s,41a,6s 1a
Balance Of interest paid by the
United states, es,.,.....,e......... o4U2, 2,oos.5'
Snow fell throughout the Territory of
Montana October 24.and 25 to the depth
of six or eight inches on the mountains,
and from one to three inches on the table
lands.
Governor Morrill,, of Iowa, has appointed
Thanksgiving Day on November "a.
On the afternoon of the 1st two maga-
zines containing 10000 pounds of nitro
glycerine exploded at Fairport, near
Painesville, Ohio. -Four persons were
blown to atoms Their names were Pat
Scribner two Malones, father and son, and
Ed Duncan. This is the second explosion
of the kind at Faiport within two
months
Recorder Hackett, of New York city, has
recently decided, in a case where burglar
was killed by trap-gun, that any citizen
has the right to protect his property from
burglars as he chooses.
Grave fears were entertained in New
York city, on the I'd, that the steamship
Varuna, which left that city for Galveston,
Texas, on the 10Th of October, with pas
sengers and valuable cargo, was lost with
all on board, during the late gales in the
Gulf of Mexico.
The expenditures of the government for
October were: Civil and miscellaneous,
$5,O1S,23 war, $4,993,541.5S; navy
81, ,904, ,826.33; incidental expenses, $751;
423.53. Total, $13 1884, 02713.
PERSONAL.
The annual meeting of the Northwestern
Woman Suffrage Association will be held
in the city of Detroit, on Tuesday and
Wednesday, the Goth and Both of Novem-
ber This will not be an exclusively dele
gated convention, but all Woman Suffrage
Associations in the Northwest are invited,
and earnestly requested, to send delegates,
A game of basel ball in New York city
on the 2Sth, between the Mutuals, of that
city, and the Athletics, of Philadelphia,
resulted in favor of the former-6 to 4.
Delano's commission as Secretary of the
Interior was signed on the 30th, and Sec
retary Cox retired from the Department.
The President stated to friends on the
Both that he had not yet selected Minis
ter TO England. 4
President Grant gave state dinner on
the 31st ult. All the Cabinet, except Robe
son. who was absent from the city, were
present.
The Supreme Court met at Washington
on the 31st ult. All the Justices were
present except Chase and Nelson, Justice
Bradford presiding.
Gov Shaffer, of Utah, died at Salt Lake
on the morning of the 31st ult.
General G. w. Lee, second son of r. E..
Lee, and professor in the Military Institute,
has been elected to succeed his father as
President of the Washington College. Pro-
fessor Pratt, of South Carolina, was elected
Professor of Applied Chemistry. The name
of the college has been changed to the
Washington-Lee University. fAi4
The President has appointed Vincent
Vaughan, of Alabama, Governor of Utah,
and George S. Black, of Utah, Secretary of
that Territory.
The annual convention of the National
Woman Suffrage Association will be held
in Cleveland on the 22d and 23d of No
vember.
Captain Harrison, Commander of the
North Atlantic Squadron, died at Key
West, on the 1st, of pneumonia.
The following appointments were made
by the President on the I'd: Chas. F.
Rodel, of New York, Indian Agent at
New Mexico; Levi Wenich, Postmaster at
Tiffin, Ohio.
Ex-Secretary Cox arrived at his home in
Cincinnati on the I'd.
In game of baseball at Chicago, on
the 1st, between the Chicago White
Stockings and the Mutuals, of New York
city, the former club was declared vic
torious on the eighth ipning-7 to 5. A
difficulty occurred on the ninth inning,
and the Mutuals refused to finish the
game. T ~ .
The prosecution in the Vanderpool
murder trial at Kalamazoo, Mich, closed
on the I'd. co
In the United States Circuit Court al
New York city, on the 3D., judgment was
rendered in the case of Terence Quinn fol-
fraudulent registration. He was sentenced
to two years in the Albany Penitentiary
and to pay the costs of the prosecution.
A Washington dispatch of the Sd say
an order had been sent to the commanding
officer at New York, to use the forces, i
necessary, to carry out the election laws
| At Cincinnati, on the I'd, in game o
eight innings, the Red Stockings defeatet
the Mutuals, Of New York-2S to Z.
POLITICAL.
Thomas Hoyne has declined the Deme
cratic nomination for Congress in the Firs
Illinois District. John Wentworth is