Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-07
DODGEvnLE WISCONSIN, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER T.

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over the bridge on the I'd.
1t was thought in New York on the 1st that
the house of Clafin & Co. would not be COM
PEELED to suspend. Members of the firm had
positively asserted that the institution was
entirely solvent and, although suffering a
little temporary embarrassment, would come
out all right. A proposition had been made
by the members of all the firms with which
the Spragues are connected to protect their
creditors by trust-deed and thus prevent
proceedings in bankruptcy.
| Official returns to the Bureau of Statistics
show that during the quarter ending Septem-
ber 80, 1878, there arrived at New York 6S, 5SS
emigrants, of whom 3S,613 were males, and
29,970 females. There died during the voyage
40 males and 81 females. The total arrivals
| from England were 1889; Ireland, Is, 100;
Scotland, 2,791; Wales, 257; Germany, 24,3S1;
| Austria, 926; Sweden, 2,139; Norway, 2,024;
| Denmark, 526; France, I, TAO; Switzerland. GAO;
| Spain, 90; Italy, 1929; Holland. S51; Prussia,
1,2OS; Poland, 5S1; Hungary, 313; born at sea,
49,
About 500 Chinese left San Francisco for
their native country on the 1st. Among
them were twenty-seven women recently i'm
| ported
A letter received in New Orleans on the 1st
| from Judge Charles j. Merrill, dated Colfax,
Grant Parish, October 90, gives the details of
| horrible outrages alleged to have been perpe-
trated by the Metropolitan police of New Or
| leans, (sent there by Lieutenant Governor An
tome Dunning in the absence Of Governor Kel-
| logg), or at their instigation. The Judge says
| it was believed there that Dunning had sent
| the Metropolitan forces up there to give the
| negroes chance for revenge, and it was re-
ported that Colonel De Klyne had said at a
| colored ball that now the negroes could do as
they pleased, as they were under the protection
of his soldiers.
The Washington Star of the Sd says
it had been asserted that the house of
Jay Cooke 81 Co., which borrowed from
the First National Bank of that city
nearly $S00,000, had since their failure
withdrawn 5000, 900 in railway bonds and de-
posted them with the Secretary of the Treas
ury as security for 100000 advanced by the
Secretary few days before their failure.
The creditors of the First National and Jay
Cooke & Co.'s Bank are complaining of this,
saying they would like to know why the Gov
ernment should be preferred creditor. They
say if the Cookies have 100000 it belongs to
them and the Government has no right to
deprive them of their pro rata dividend.
The forthcoming annual report of the Di-
rector of the Mint shows the total amount of
gold coined during the fiscal year ending June
30 1878, to have been $35, ,249,337; of silver,
50, 945, IT'S. The total amount of gold in the
country is set down at $135, ZOO, 900; of silver,
$5,000,000 During the month of October
last the gold coinage approximated $14000,0 600,
and since April last the coinage has maintained
a steady increase.
A Mrs. Schultz was burned to death at
Jesup, Iowa, few evenings ago, by the over
turning Of lamp.
An official announcement was made on the
Sd that the Illinois and Michigan Canal would
be closed on the Goth of this month
The case of Rafferty,, twice tried and con-
victed of murder for the shooting of a Chi
cago policeman, has been remanded by the
Supreme Court for another trial, on the
ground that the court below erred in ruling
out the offering of the warrant with which the
two policemen were seeking to arrest, as evil
dence, and all testimony in regard to it, the
Supreme Court holding that if the warrant
or the serving of it were illegal, then the Of
fense was manslaughter and not murder.
Official returns from ninety-two counties of
Iowa give Carpenters majority at 22,236.
Ex-Acting Mayor Cicallo, of Memphis (who
ofdciated during the illness of Mayor Johnson)'
has been accused of drawing supplies contrib
uted for the yellowfever sufferers, on the pre-
tense that they were for widow lady, and
then appropriating them to his own use. A
dispatch of the I'd says he had admitted the
facts charged, but would shield himself in the
law giving power to the Mayor to control the
distribution of the supplies. On learning that
the matter would be made public, Cicallo took
an armful of ill-gotten articles to the lady's
house, and offered them to her, but she re-
fused to take them.
A Selma, Ala, telegram of the Sd announces
that quarantine restrictions against all points
had been removed.