Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-28

female inmates. he ndu DoeH iOPi ooohuih
himself at various points as priest and at
other places as Methodist minister. lat
about 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening fire
broke out in Carpenters large factory on
Walnut street, East side. Cincinnati, and the
building. together with nearly all the con-
tents. were DESTROYED. The loss is not
known, but is probably 100000; partially
| insured ..... Theodore Sargent, aged rs years,
and George Sherman, aged IS, old settlers,
died at Pennington, ILL.,, day or two since.
The former came to Peoria in 1919, when it
| was Fort Clark the other in 1856. Intel
ligence was received at Aurora, on the 10th
inst, that Byron Hunter, son of Joseph
Hunter, one of the first settlers of Aurora, a
promising boy of 18 years, was run over by
the cars and cut in two at Dennison, Iowa,
Tuesday night. DIR. Geo. G. Blackman,
Professor of Surgery in the Ohio Medical
College since 1855, died of dropsy, on the
10th inst, after protracted illness.
The South
THE storm on Sunday night did great
| deal of damage on the line of the Louisville
| and Nashville railroad, in the vicinity of
| Mumfordsville, KY, prostrating crops, de-
| stroying fences, etc. A freight train near
Mumfordsville was blown from the switch
| on the main track, causing collision
| with a passenger train, in which several
freight cars were smashed up...... Comman-
| der VIM. Mitchell, who was placed on the
retired list Of the navy four years ago, died
at his residence at Washington, on Sunday.
| ..... VIM. Chorn, boss herder, was muir
| dered by Mexican band 40 miles south OF
| Abeline, Kan, on Wednesday. Chorn gave
| the Mexican some orders which he did not
like, and watching his opportunity he step
| ped up behind Chorn and shot him in the
| back. ..... Curly Walker, notorious cattle
| thief and desperate, was killed by Capt.
| Wemple, of Sand Spring, at Fort Dodge,
some days ago. Walker had stolen some
cattle from Wemple, was pursued and found
at Fort Dodge, where Wemple endeavored
to arrest him. Both drew pistols. and, after
| twelve shots had been fired, Walker was
| killed.
A HEAVY rain, accompanied by destruc-
tive winds, has prevailed at Augusta, Ga,
for several days. The dams of the Langley
| cotton factory, en- Horse creek, six miles
| from Augusta, broke at O'Clock in the
| morning. The volume of water struck the
| South Carolina railroad, and swept away the
embankment and track for half a mile.
About 800 operatives in the mills were
| thrown out of employment......An order was
made on the 18th, extending the mail SER
| vice on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad, from Chetopa, Kan, to Prior
Creek, Indian Territory, Sd miles, from the
| 1st prox There were four fatal cases of
sunstroke in Memphis on the 18th, and six
on, the 18th, inst, among them William
| Dean, well-known grocer......The claims OF
Kentucky for reimbursement for equipping
| volunteers during the war, it is understood,
! was taken up by the Treasury Department
on the 18th, and the final decision is early
expected 1.-The Commissioner of Internal
| Revenue is rapidly reducing the number of
assistant assessors and other subordinate
revenue officials in the different States. Re
auctions have been made in the several
Western districts. .....A telegram says that
on Thursday night, large body of disguised
men went to the Alabema and Chattanooga
railroad yard at Chattanooga, Tenn, and
captured and locked up the Waterman in
| the round-house, then disabled all the en-
gines in the house by removing part of the
machinery, which can only be replaced from
shops in the East. No clue to the perpetra-
tors could be obtained No trains left the
city on that road on Friday. Superinten-
dent Stanton was in this city all the time
endeavoring to make arrangements for funds
to pay employees.
The Court of Appeals at Louisville, KY.
have granted to Matt. shannahon, under
sentence to be hanged for murder at Mont
gomery, sixty days time in which to show
cause why new trial should be granted
Shannahon was to have been hanged on the
| 18th of Septem Der. ..... The most severe storm
| ever witnessed at Memphis, Tenn, took
| place there on the night of the 18th.
| great amount Of damage was done......Ar
accident occurred on the Memphis an6
| Charleston railroad, near Grand Junction
| Tenn, on the 10th inst. Two persons were
killed and seven severely injured...".T The
| number of beer stamps of different denomi-
nations issued during the fiscal year ending
on June 80, 1871, was 22,703, 908, represent
| ing $7,485 1852, being an increase over TIE
previous year of 2,297,653 stamps, and
SE29, 562... The medical fraternity at Wash
| ington now deny that DR.. D. W. Bliss was
expelled from the Medical Association there
because of some Professional prejudices con-
nected with homeopathy, and say that this
| impression is wholly destitute of the truth
...... Gen. Stokes, Supervisor of Internal Rev
i enue for Tennessee, reports that since May
the number of assistant assessors in his de-
| partment has been reduced one-third. 1t is
his intention to cut off all the supernu-
merary officers.
|. A DEPUTATIoN of mem Ders of the Left in
the French Assembly, recently waited upon
| President Theirs, and complained of the
i continuation of arrests and the state of siege
in Paris, and the non-removal of the capital
| from Versailles. Theirs informed them
| that the persons arrested were accused OF
heinous crimes, that the state of siege would
shortly be raised, and that the Assembly
| would meet in Paris after the recess in Octo-
bar Archbishop Guibert, of Tours, has
been appointed successor to Monsigneur
Darboy, as Archbishop of Paris...... The Ma
tional Guards are to be dissolved throughout
France and the army reorganized upon the
principle of compulsory service.....A pro-
position has been made in the Spanish
| Cortes to send $1,000 men to Cuba and crush
the Cuban instruction forthwith...... Dis
| patches from Riga, on the Baltic, dated July
14th, state that terrible fire was then rag
ing at that port. Full thirty barks had been
burned, among which was one American
vessel. Half of them were loaded with
| hemp and 1.-THE Austrian Govern
ment has formally ratified the naturaliza-
| ton treaty with the United States.
THE police of London have dispersed a
meeting in Hyde Park, the object of which
was emigration from the United Kingdom.
This was rendered necessary by the noise
| and confusion incident to the proceeding ...
The Chief of Police of Dublin died on the
| 10th inst, from wounds received few DAYS
since at the hands of a supposed Fenian.
The murderer is under arrest...... Gortchakoff
has addressed to the deputation of the
American Evangelical Alliance the sympa-
thy of the Gear with the object of their
prayers, viz, the advancement of the cause
of religious liberty in Russia. The ship
Nahamon, from Bombay to Penang, has
foundered in the Indian ocean Thirty.
lives were lost lit is officially announced
that the Asiatic cholera has broken out in
several places in Poland.
THE result of the census taken on Sunday,
April 3, 1871, throughout Great Britain, has
| lust been officially announced. The entire