Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-06-30

THE amount of internal revenue collected
thus far during the present fiscal year is al
most SI39 900 900, and the Commissioner
estimates that it will amount to about $146,-
600 600 by the LIST of next month. This is
500, 900 900 more than Delano estimated in
his report last December, and shows an in
crease of about 16 per cent. in the business
of the country from which internal revenue
is derived AS the production of whisky has
greatly fallen off, the increase in other
branches must have been considerably
greater.-William Peterson, the owner and
occupant of the house in which President
Lincoln died, was found, Sunday night, in
the grounds of the Smithsonian Institute,
insensible, and with vial labeled " lauda-
mum" lying near him. When reused from
his stupOr, he said he always took narcotics
when ending a spree. He was removed to
the Station House, where he died during the
| night.-An extraordinary suicide occurred
at St. Louis on Sunday morning. A woman
named Isabella W. Stricklong, the wife of a
| steamboat engineer, who has lately shown
marked evidences of insanity, left her house,
walked to pond near by, and manifested
disposition to throw herself in, but was pre-
vented by man who watched her. Re
turning home, she changed a fine dress for
| calico one, took a we'll filled coal oil lamp
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saturated her clothes with oil and set them
on fire. She was burned so badly that she
| died in a few hours. She was forty-two
years old, and the mother of several chill
dren.
WEST POINT is to have another colored
cadet in the person of John McGee, who has
been nominated from the Selma, Alabama,
Congressional District-Senator Morton and
| President Grant soon start for California. 1t
is rumored that Morton will soon be Secre-
| tary of State, as it is certain Mr.. Fish wishes
to resign.-Tbe amount due from ex-colec-
| tors to the Government is $2,Sl3,l05. 1t is
| thought that the Government will not lose
| any considerable sum, as the bonds, in most
cases,are considered good.-The returns of the
| Department of Agriculture indicate an in
| crease in the acreage of wheat compared
with that of last year Of 4 per cent, nearly
| 900 acres, nearly all of which is west of
the Mississippi. The crop will probab be
| equal to that of last year.-Considerabl ex-
element has been created in Louisville,
| KY, during the past week, by a mysterious
burglar, who enters the houses, cuts off the
hair of sleeping young ladies, throws the
| contents of bureau drawers about the room,
then departs, carrying off nothing.
New ORLEANS was again inundated on the
|
of the city were obliged to remove from their
homes. The levee was cut by half dozen
or more miscreants, who evaded the police
| while doing their outrageous work-Jas.
| Campbell, a railroad agent at Brownsboro,
KY, was shot by an unknown party while
| trying to remove an obstruction from the
track near that place on Wednesday even
| ing. He died of his wounds.-A collision
took place on the Missouri Pacific Railroad
near Washington, Mo-, on the 21st inst,
smashing the locomotives of two trains and
| killing fireman instantly.
| Foreign.
The destruction of property during the
recent reign of terror in Paris was even
greater than was at first reported. The lat
est advices foot up 1,512, 900 francs, or
nearly $500, 900 ,000.-A London dispatch
says the ex-Emperor Napoleon is surround
ed there by his adherents, and " bold move
ments' are announced. A Paris dispatch
says the fusion of the Orleanists and Legiti-
mists of France is now cOmplete.-The
workmen of Paris are almost unanimously
Communists, and are very bitter because OF
| their defeat.-The pres generally, with the
exception of religious journals, ridicules the
efforts of the French Bishops to commit
France to the restoration of the Pope's tenn
poral power. The papers pronounce the
question settled, and declare hat France
cannot interfere.
MINISTER WAsHBURNE has recently OBJ
tanned leave of absence, which he will avail
himself of to spend some time at Carlsbad
for the improvement of his health, impaired
by the arduous duties in Paris.-Republican
journals have united in a manifesto to meet
the ELECTORAL programme put forth by the
monarchial press. They will give their sup
port to the candidates who are pledged to
maintain the statW qmo.-The London Tele-
graph has dispatch from Versailles which
states that the Bonapartist candidates are
making vast efforts and spending a great
deal of money to effect their election to the
Assembly. They really have no chance of
success, for the Assembly is determined upon
upholding the StatU quo-Insurrectionary
placards have been posted in Paris. An
| other branch of the International Society
has issued manifesto, disclaimng any con-
nection with those who accepted the respon-
sibility for the CONGREGATIONS in Paris, and
affirming that they are engaged in a struggle
against cowardice-a war against despotism
| and monopoly. They declare they are I'M
conquered, and that their candidates must
be advanced to office. Republicans Malon,
Fridont Lartigne, Tolaine, Rochart and
| Daler are suggested to the support of mem
bers of the Society as being socialists and
democrats-A gang of men, supposed to be
| Fenians, broke into the military armory at
| MallOy, Ireland, on Saturday night, and
| carried off 100 rifles. Tho sentinel fired
| upon the men as they were leaving, but all
| escaped. Some arms were discovered on the
18th in a neighboring field. Five persons
have been arrested on suspcion.-The jubi-
lee of Pope Plus TX. was celebrated on the
OF thn Vofia Ill
each other in constant succession from
morning till night. Three thousand pilgrims
from all parts of the world were in the city.
| The receptions of the diplomatic body will
be held on the 18th, goth and 21st insts.
A LOAN bill passed the French Assembly
on the goth inst The German war cost
France 3,OOO,OOO,OOO francs, and the Com
munist rebellion 436,OOO,OOO francs.-Gen.
Cluseret has been arrested.-The London
Daily Ne,os of the Goth says that instruc-
| tions have been given from Berlin to stop
the return of German troops from France,
| and to discontinue the surrender of French
prisoners.-Corpses are daily discovered in
the ruined houses of Paris. The exploration
| of the sewers has been completed. Many
| bodies were found in a horribly mutilated
condition, and buried at night in the ceme-
| terry at Montmartre.--It is said that the
| Italian Minister to Brussels has received let
tiers from his Government terminating his
mission to Belgium.-A Paris correspondent
of New York paper writes the following ::
On May 81, when body of Communists
entered Mr.. Washburne's house with the in
tention of committing depredations, the
commander of the Prussian forces to the
| northward of Paris said that if Washburne
was not, in person and property, held in
violable, the city would be bombarded with
in twenty-four hours. This warning had