Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-04

J. H. NoRTHoUr, defaulting Postmaster
of Lexington, Miss, was arrested at st.
Paul, Mimi, on Wednesday Carl P.
Beakey and II. S. Soule, two prominent
Young men of Fort Madison, Iowa, were
drowned, on the Goth, at that place, while
bathing $50. Fred. Pfester was crushed to
death while coupling cars at Burlington,
Iowa, on Wednesday. IA freight train on
the Toledo and Wabash railroad collided
with construction train near Edwardsville,
ILL.,, on the 26th inst Six men Qaborers)
were killed outright, and four more fatally
injured. The accident occurred on a short
curve, and both trains were going at full
speed Very destructive fires have oc-
Cured recently at Fredericktown, N. B.
Some IA or Is buildings, nearly all of which
were occupied for the sale of ship stores,
were burned. The loss to the insurance
company is estimated at $4,000. The actual
loss is nearly four times that sum.
The South
MADISON MILLER, a prominent citizen of
Liberty, Mo-, and the oldest Odd-Fellow in
the State, died on Monday ......Joh Combs,
an Englishman, was murdered at Chatta-
nooga, on Saturday night, by Hugh Tallety,
a policeman, who beat him with his mace
and shot him twice. Tallety was arrested.
1.-THE somnambulist Mayor, who walked
out of third story window at Louisville,
on Monday, is dead. The total loss by the
explosion at the Washington arsenal is
$62, 000......O One of the results of the situa-
ton of affairs between the Internal Revenue
Office and the Treasury Department has
been the resignation of Mr.. Chesley, Chief
of the Revenue Law Division. ..... Gen. Dyer,
Chief of the Ordnance Bureau, has Just
ordered that 10000 Remington rifles be
made at once for our army, at the Spring
field armory ...... Supervisor Barker reports
to the Internal Revenue Office that in the
First Wisconsin District every tax assessed
upon the annual list for 1871, amounting in
the aggregate to $4,000, has been collected.
This, the Supervisor reports, is the first in
stance to his knowledge where every dollar
assessed upon the annual list had been col
lected and paid into the Treasury before the
middle of July 1.-The decision of Solicitor
Banfeld, announced ON Saturday, and &C
cepted by Secretary Boutwell,, does not, as
published, exempt all cases included in
Pleasonton's original order, as revised by
the Attorney General The Secretary limits
it to the question referred, viz: the tax on
interest on coupons. The collection of tax
on dividends Of gains will be enforced, as
well as on incomes.
A BOLD express robbery took place in st.
Louis on Tuesday. An express delivery
wagon was robbed of $4,000 in money,
$685. 900 in railroad bonds. The robbery is
supposed to have heen "put up job" be-
tween the driver of the wagon, messenger
and the robbers. violent storm passed
over portion of Pike county, Mo-, abor a
week ago, and completely destroyed all The
corn and tobacco crops in it's path."...A big
row, resulting in the death of two Indians
and one colored man, took place few days
ago at Smith Paul's place, two miles west of
Arbuckle, Ark. There was camp
meeting going on Of colored people and In
dams, when several bad characters made
their appearance with whisky. Several In
dams and colored men getting drunks fight
ensued, with the above result.....R. F.
Hebitts, prominent merchant of Louis
vile, suddenly dropped dead on the Goth.
...... From official returns made to the Bu-
reau of Statistics, it appears that during
the quarter ending June 80, 1871, there ar
rived at the port of Boston from foreign
countries, 40 passengers, of whom
1O,442 were mmigrants-6,OS2 males and
4,4l0 females.
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue
has offered a reward of $4,000 for the detec-
Clinton Gilbert in the recent raid on the
Brooklyn Illicit distilleries ...... Land grant
bonds of the Kansas Pacific Railway Com
pany, with the coupons of July L, 1871, at
tached, Nos. sol to $50, inclusive, $500 each;
Nos. $50 to 268, inclusive, $500 each; Nos.
30l to 400, inclusive, $3.50 each; Nos. 451 to
to 500, inclusive, $3.50 each, were stolen from
the United States Express Company at st.
Louis on July 25, 1871. The public are eau
toned against negotiating for the same......
Ned Myers and Lewis Coppedge, negroes,
were hanged at Wadesboro, Arson county,
N. c., last Friday, for the murder of James
W. Redfers, white......Quite large number
of counterfeit notes are daily received at the
redemption division of the Treasury Depart
ment. The counterfeits are of legal-tender
and fractional currency, and from $500 to
$500 of spurious stuff is daily branded in
the division and returned.
Foreign.
DEPuTAT1oN of German, Dutch, and Aus
trian bankers has sailed from Europe for the
United States for the purpose of making an
examination of the condition of the work
and financial prospects of the Northern
Pacific railroad......In the course of M.
Theirs address before the National Assem-
bly, at Versailles, on the 22d inst, the Presi-
dent, speaking of Italy, said it was impossi-
BILE to adopt a course which would lead to
war. The true policy of France was peace
and reorganization. No steps must or should
be taken which will even tend to ALLEVIATE
Italy......Le Monde proposes that the Island
of Corsica be rendered to the Pope as an in
violable residence, by which means it claims
that the supremacy of France as the de-
fender of the Catholic faith will be main
tanned. Prince Napoleon, who has been
staying for three days at Havre, has been
ordered to leave France....A new Spanish
Ministry has been arranged, as follows:
President of the Council and Minister of
War, Marshal Serrano; Minister of Foreign
Affairs, Admiral Topete; Minister of the In
terror, Senior Sagasta; Minister of Justice,
Senior Ulloa Minister of Finance, Senior
Aerostegui; Minister of Public Works, Senior
Candan; Minister of Marine, Admiral NAL
campo; Minister of Colonies, Senior Ayala.
1.-THE Portuguese Cortes was opened on
the ed inst. by the King in person. In his
speech from the throne, King Louis ex-
pressed his gratitude for the reception given
to his august relatives, the Emperor and
Empress of Brazil. His speech was other
wise devoted entirely to the affairs of the
kingdom finances, which he said were still
embarrassed.
THE reiterated reports that the departure
of the Pope from Rome is near at hand are
still denied......It is reported that Favre per-
sists in his resignation because the petition
of the bishops urging the Government to
support the temporal power of the Pope has
been referred to the Ministry of Foreign AT
fairs 800. French journals are discouraged at
the apathy shown by citizens in the cleo
tions, the abstentions from voting on Sun
day having reached an unprecedented
figure. The LouUreain Rationale warns the
people that the nation which takes no inter
est in its own affairs is condemned to ruin.
The elections resulted in the choice of six