Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-09

| bombardment. The garrison made a
sortie on the night of the 29th ult, and
drove the Germans several miles.
The rinderpest is reported as spreading
in the south of England. 4d'
The shore end of the West India cable
has been successfully landed at Santiago,
Cuba. .nga af ae-
DOMESTIC. :.
Gold closed in New York on the 1st
at 1161s.
A Washington telegram of the 26th says
the Pension Office is receiving many in
quiries in regard to rules governing the
furnishing of artificial limbs. Where SOL
diers elect to receive Communication, an or
der for the payment of the amount at the
rate of $75 for foot, $50 for an arm, or
other apparatus, will be issued at the
Pension Office, and paid through the
nearest agent. Such soldiers as have not
heretofore been able, from the nature of
their injuries, to wear artificial limbs, are
entitled to the benefit of the act. Pay
ment at the rates named is made in all
cases every five years. Direct correspon-
dence by applicants, with the Pension
Office, will secure the benefits of the act
without employing an agent. -
The United States Express Car on the
Missouri Pacific Railroad was entered by
| two disguised men on the morning of the
Goth, seven miles west of Jefferson City,
the manager was badly beaten, bound and
gagged, and the safe robbed of $10,800 in
money. - =.
The New York Commercial Bulletin of
the Goth produces facts and figures to
prove that our country is receiving no
commercial advantages from the war.
A duel was fought few miles below
Memphis at sunrise on the morning of the
26th, between Major Ed. Freeman, q
young merchant, and Ed. Hamlin, a young
lawyer, both of Memphis, with Derringer
pistols, at fifteen PAGES. Both fired stimuli
taneously, and Hamlin was shot through
the body and died in ten minutes. .ee
| A New York special of the 28th says ::
"The feeling in the produce market is
that breadstuffs will continue to improve.
| The demand from Europe for the French
and German armies promises to be active.
This, if taken in connection with the fall
ing off in the estimated receipts at the
lake ports, would argue better prices.
The breadstuff market will be very mate
rally affected by the length of the war,
and everything now points to a long
war;"
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
| Richardson issued an order on the 28th
for the purchase of bonds and sale Of gold
for September as follows: The purchase
of one million bonds on Thursday, Sep
tember /, and on each alternate Thursday,
and two millions on Thursday, September
8, and each alternate Thursday
millions in all the sale of one million OF
gold on each Wednesday of the month
four millions in all.
The Cincinnati express train ran off the
track at Greenbush, N. Y, on the 9th,
O.. eleven coaches in the train, five were
smashed terribly. A brakeman belong
ing to Rhinebeck, and woman passenger
from Iowa, name unknown, were killed
A boy had an arm broken. Several other
passengers received slight injuries. An
accident occurred on the Camden & Am.
boy Railroad, at Lawrence Station, N. j.
on the 29th by which the rear car of an
express train was thrown from the track
and demolished. One passenger was in
stantly killed, a brakeman fatally injured
three other persons seriously and severa
slightly hurt. Three cars of the train fol
| New York, on the Morris & Essex Rail
road, were thrown from the track neal
Newark, on the 29th, and several passen
gers seriously injured. The cars were
, nearly demolished.
A Washington dispatch of the 3Oth sayl
"the Assistant Attorney General has tele
graphed to the United States District At
torney of West Virginia, TO dismiss al
prosecutions under the act to enforce tht
right Of citizens of the United States t.
vote in the several States, when the offic,
is not within the distinction forbidden In
the second section of the same. In Ken
lucky and West Virginia it seems tina
; parties have brought suit against Regis