Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11
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was being held.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed In New York on the Sd
at 115.
A Police Judge at San Francisco ha
been sentenced to six months imprison-s
ment for abusing Cinnamon.
A fearful accident occurred to the reg
ular mail train ON the Mississippi Cen
trail Railroad, near Oxford, MISS, on
the 25th ult. The train ran OIL the track
on trestle over a raVine, and the Dag
gage, express and four passenger cars
were smashed up, and seventeen persons
were killed and large number wounded.
Judge McAllister, of Chicago, recently
committed two attorneys and an accom-
plice husband to Jail for fraud and collu-
sion III procuring divorce.
| Counterfeit twenties on the Market Ma
tional Bank of New York were put in
circulation in that city on the 26th ult.
The boiler of heating furnace at the
railroad iron rolling mill of the Lacka-
wana Iron and Coal Company, Scranton,
Pa, exploded on the 2Sth ult. A portion
of the roof, with all its heavy timbers,
shafting, etc, rs feet by 95 feet, was blown
| into the air, and fell with a tremendous
crash. The noise of the explosion shook
half the city. Twenty or thirty men.
were buried in the ruins, several OF them
being killed.
The Postmaster General, in reply to a
Senate resolution, says the number of
blank petitions for the abolition of the
franking privilege sent out was $4,000,
and the number of accompanying circu-
lars $4,000; total cost, $49966 Returns
from 454 postofices, for January, show
the number of free letters sent therefrom,
666,901 postage thereon at the regular
rates, $117,39973; weight of free printed
matter sent,- 346,194 pounds; postage
thereon at regular rates, $42,33436. To
tai cost of free matter sent from 454 post
offices, $159, ,73409 He estimates that,
if full returns had been received from all
the Offices for January, the aggregate
amount would have exceeded 100000, or
at the rate of $2,400,000 per annum.
A general order from headquarters of
the army states that the Fourth Military
District has ceased to exist, and, by direc-
ton of the President, the State of Missis-
sppi is attached to the Department of the
Cumberland, Brevet Major General Cooke
commanding.
The United States Court at Louisville,
KY, on the 28th ult., fined two illicit dis
tillers 81, 900 each, and sentenced them to
SIX months imprisonment.
About fifty persons left New York city
on the 1st, for Kansas, under the auspices
of the Excelsior Colony.
The Supreme Court of Ohio has
granted the application for writ of er-
ror in the Cincinnati Bible in schools
case, but set The case for hearing on
the second Tuesday in December.
The following is the public debt state
ment for March L:
Debt bearing coin interest. SAILOR 939 $50 90
Debt bearing currency Interest,". 59555,W000
Debt on which interest has ceased 1913. 1864
Debt bearing no interest 440442, ,oo75o
Total. ,9lU, ,S04 ~
Interest .......... .......... 80, ,941. .21
Total 81, ,651, ,66s, ,795 43
Amount in Treasury:
Coin. Sles. 400, ,739 81
Currency ....,............. 10,280 285 6S
Sinking fund bonds and interest 27,s76629 90
Special fund bonds and interest,". 7z,7S2, 763.6l
Total. $213,34031s.26
Debt less cash in Treasury. ,48, ,32S 477I7
Decrease in the month 6,4S4Sll75
Decrease since March l, 1862. ..... of,iSS 1S2S4
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad
Companies interest payable in
lawful money, amount outstand-
Interest accrued and not vet paid 637 7541. 20
Interest paid by United States..... 6,8Sl o64.96
mails s...................... 1,94O7461
Balance of interest paid by the
United States. Observation-Disclosures. 4,oS7,590.35
A terrific explosion of nitro-glycerine
occurred on the I'd, at the Fleetwood
Race Course, now being constructed in
Morrisania, N. Y. John Sullivan, a work
man, was killed, and nine others severely
| wounded.
The dye works at Neponset, Mass,
were destroyed by fire on the morning of
the I'd, and eight women were burned to
death. The women were in the attic,
picking over cotton, the only entrance to
| which was small scuttle.
The steamship Golden Gate was
wrecked on the Pacific Coast on the 22d
| ult. The vessel is total loss, but all her
crew, baggage and freight were saved.
The Commissioners of Emigration at
| New York report the arrival of 1858 i'm
| migrants during the week ending the
Cd inst. The aggregate number of arri-
walls since January was 9,512.
! The total expenditures of the Treasury
Department for the month of February,
exclusive of expenditures on account of
the principal and interest of the public
debt, were $16,298,4S6.
| Customs receipts for week ending
February 26, $4,S79,767.
PERSONAL.
| The following nominations were sent
| to the Senate on the 25th: Geo. b. Good
win, to be Assessor of Internal Revenue
of the First District of Wisconsin. Post
masters-Theodore c. Phillips, Bay City,
Michigan; Geo. f. Clark, Los Angeles,
California
Ex-Secretary Seward arrived in New
| York city on the evening of the 25th.
/ Dr. LiVingstone's brother at Fernando