Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-11

ce;ved VIM. III. johnson and Richard
Green were hanged in Prince George coun-
| tv Va. on the 2Sth inst.....The New Or
| leans Custom House officials assert that the
| receipts during the last month are greater
than during any preceding June for ten
wears, while the expenses are nearly per
cent. less.
VERY serious shooting ARRAY occurred in
Benton county, Ark, on the goth inst, be-
tween two families named Reese and Pierce.
One of each family was killed outright, two
or three injured. IA young man from Ken
lucky, named G.. w. Defevere, was murdered
on Tuesday, at Cabadie, Franklin county,
Mo. Cause-woman......So days ago,
while three men were charging blast on
the Arkansas branch of the Iron Mountain
railroad, the powder prematurely exploded,
and Thomas Hughes was instantly killed.
| Two others were severely injured. 1.-The
health of Mrs. E. G. Wharton, now confined
poisoning Geo. Ketchum, has undergone
such marked change within the past few
DAYS that her family physician and the ply
stefan to the jail, have addressed joint
| communication to the board of visitors of
the jail, representing that her physical con-
diton is such as absolutely to require her
removal to another apartment.....A negro
,
10Th ult. Five thousand of them arrived
there that day for the purpose of taking
part in the coming election, and getting
full of whisky, became boisterous, and
attacked the police. One negro was
killed, two wounded, and three whites
wounded.
| JOHN KLEINs was killed by falling en-
banknent in St. Louis on Monday ......R B.
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Tenn, formerly President of the Branch
State Bank, was recently arrested, charged
with passing counterfeit money. Twelve
hundred dollars of the same was found in
his possession. He scaled the wall of the
Jail and escaped the same evening he was
incarcerated, and is now at large.
J. J. WoRsHAM, formerly proprietor of the
Worsham House, Memphis, Tenn, 33d de-
gree Mason, died at Duvall's Bluff, Ark,
recently, of typhoid fever.
Washington.
THE Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has made the very important decision that
borrowed capital or deposits, employed by
| bankers in the transaction of ordinary bust
ness, is exempt from taxation. 1t is esti-
mated that this will decrease the revenue
|
Treasury in suits amounting to So, 900 600 or
$40 900 ,000..... The Secretary of the Treasury
has notified the Assistant Treasurer at New
York to purchase 100000 worth of bonds
on each Wednesday in August, or $4,000, 900
in all, and to sell $1,000,000 in gold on the
first, third, and fifth Thursday, and $4,000
900 on the second and fourth Thursdays of
1 August, or 81 100000 in ALL. The Commits
soner of Internal Revenue is having re-
funded the cotton tax collected on rope and
| bagging known as the " tare, (which amounts
| to from Is to 20 pounds on each bale. The
amount of cotton tax collected by the Gov
eminent is about $50, 100000 and of this
amount about $3,000,0 600 is rope and bagging,
or I" tare," the tax on which is now being re-
funded under the 44th section of the act of
June 80, 1854. Felix Brunot, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, has been rendered the appoint
ment of Commissioner of Indian Affairs, but
it is thought he will not accept the position.
| Geo. V. Hall, the General Secretary of
the Young Mems Christian Association, has
sent to the Treasurer of the United States
81 300 forwarded through him for credit
to the conscience fund, by young man
greatly benefited by his present religious
| experience.
The President will visit Chicago in Sep
TENDER. The amount of national bank
circulation issued during July last, under
the act of July IL, 1870, was ST, ISL, 800. A
like amount of 3 per cent. certificates will
be withdrawn from the market and retired
.....At the Cabinet meeting, on the LIST inst,
Boutwell, showed that Pleasonton had re-
duced the revenue $S,OO0,OOO a year by his
decisions. Pleasonton, it is indicated, will
soon be removed. Felix Brunot, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, has accepted the office of Com
missioner of Indian Affairs.
SRCRET\R AIRY BUUTwELL, ON Wednesday,
rendered his decision in the Kentucky State
claim. 1t is adverse to the payment for
troops, and thus over-rules the decision of
Gen. Sherman, Secretary Belknap, and the
accounting officer of the teeasury....T The
Minister to Turkey has resigned and re-
turned home......The Secretary of the In
terror has given an opinion in the celebrated
McGarrahan claim which throws out it and
its oppinent, the New Idra Quicksilver Min
ing Co. He maintains that the lands in
question belong to Uncle Sam.
Foreign.
JOHN SLIDELL, formerly Confederate Min
lister to France, is dead......lt is announced
that the resignation of Sir Rutherford AL
cock British Ambassador to China, has been
received and accepted by the Government,
and that he is succeeded by Mr.. T. F. Wade,
First Secretary of Legation......A Paris spe-
cial says the Government has given quail
fed assent to the Posten scheme for the emil
grafton of Communist prisoners to Arizona.
1t divides the prisoners into three classes:
| First, violent prisoners and those guilty of
! crime, who are sentenced to hard labor for
! life; second, dangerous persons, who are to
be sent to the penal colony, and to the third
| a general amnesty is granted on condition of
| their voluntary emigration. The last are
| tod 70 To Ari1o tho ~
| giving them transportation, agricultural and
| mining tents, arms, and subsistence for six
months. ..... Americans visiting Europe must
take passports, especially naturalized citi-
zens, as the latter cannot get them without
showing these papers. ...Juarez' prospects
for gaining the election as President of
Mexico, are decidedly the best, but Difficult
ties are expected on the assembling of Con-
gress, which may declare Daz President
Foul play is reported to have been practced
in the elections everywhere, by all parties
Juares will certainly oppose Lerdo by force,
| but not Diaz.
| HENRY LoNGUEvILLE MANsEL, D. D., Dean
of St. Paul's Church, in London, died on the
51st ult The Persian Minister denies the
stories OF a great famine in Persia. He says
they are all manufactured by commercial
agents ..... The bill granting an annuity of
| 100000 per annum to Prince Arthur has
passed the House of Commons. The ac-
ceptance of Favre's resignation as Minister
of Foreign Affairs has been confirmed.
There are 80 600 French Communists await
ing trial in Paris...... Theirs contemplates
increasing the French army The journey
man masons of Berlin are on a strike.
A DISPATCH dated Rome, July Is, says
=" There is great excitement here over the
vote in the French Assembly on the position
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