Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-17

that all work on the Canada Southern
Railroad, in Northern Indiana, had been
stopped by the Sheriffs of the several counties
through which itruns, taking procession of all
the company's property.
According to the Chicago Journal of the
Sth, the Third National Bank of that city had
opened its doors again.
A st. Louis dispatch of the Sth says that
finances in that city had not worked as salts
factorily as was anticipated. The Union
Bank suspended on that day and had decided
to go into liquidation.
A Washington telegram of the Sth says the
President had appointed commission for the
erection of military prison at Rock Island,
ILL.,, as follows: Colonel Nelson A. Miles, of
the Fifth Infantry; Lieutenant Colonel VIM.
H. French, of the Second Artillery; Major
Thos. F. Barr, Judge Advocate; Rev. E. c.
Wines, of New York, Secretary of the National
Prison Association, and 8. r. Brockway, of
Detroit.
Delos G. Culver, of Jersey City, according
to New York dispatch of the Sth, had just
been declared bankrupt. He was Vice -Presi-
dent of the New York d Oswego Midland Rail-
road Company, and his liabilities aggregated
SS, S,0OO, 900.
New York dispatch of the Sth says that
Stokes was arraigned for the murder of Fisk
on the morning of that day.
Washington dispatch of the 9th says that
Treasurer Spinner had just completed his re-
port of the National finances and the transac-
tions of the National Treasury for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1878. The net receipts
by warrants, exclusive of repayments and
counterwarrants, were $54S, ,669, ,2s1; and the
net expenditures, exclusive of same items,
1924, ,044, ,597. The net receipts were dis
tributed as follows: Loans, $214, ,9S1 ,017; Gus
toms, $lSS, ,522; internal revenue, $113,-
729, ,314; lands, $2,SS2, ,312 miscellaneous, $780,
O37,055. Receipts from customs have decreased
since the report of last year about $2S, $50 900,
and those of internal revenue, $16,900D00. The
increase from miscellaneous sources was about
81 SOC, 900, and that from lands, $500, ,O0O. The
net expenditures on account of the War De-
partment We're $46,000,000, and the Navy
100000, against $36,00O,00O for the War
Department last year, and $21, 900, 900 for the
Navy Department. Expenditures for diplo-
matte service have decreased about $500, 200,
and those for the Judiciary have increased
about the same amount. Expenditures on ac-
count of the public debt were $34S, ,555, ,945,
against $529, 1924, 414 last year, a decrease of
$1S5, 767, ,469. The balance in the Treasury
June 80, 1878, was $13l, lis, 1877, which differs
from the figures of the Secretary and Register
$161. The conscience fund.- during the fiscal
year, independent of the Congressional back
pay, was $25, ,551, making the total receipts
from December, 1868, $154,695 In addition
to this, the sum credited to this fund on ac-
count Of back pay, was $196,513. During the
year there was received from the United States
of Colombia, S114,3O7. The Treasury holds
from National Banks, to secure circulation,
$500, ,410,5 and to secure the Government
deposits of SIS, $780, 0OO-an increase in the first
item of $10,000,000 over last year, and de-
crease in the latter of 100000. The business
of the Treasury, transacted through National
Banks, was $114,000,000.
A special from Shreveport, La, of the 9th,
says the back bone of the pestilence had been
broken. Rev. Father Leasont, Secretary of
the Bishop of Natchitoches had died, making
the fifth priest of the diocese who had been
stricken down by the scourge. The number
of deaths from the fever on the 9th had been
ten. The pestilence in Memphis had shown
very little signs of abatement on the 9th.
Fifty-six nurses had been sent from New Or
leans. Several of the first citizens of that city
had died during the day:
A New York dispatch of the 9th says that
currency had become more plenty, and that
currency payments would soon be resumed by
the various banking associations. The Ma
tonal Trust Company had decided to resume
in full on the 18th. Gold sold as low as 1OS5s
for greenbacks. The firm of Gibson, Cazen-
ova & Co., had failed. John T. Irving, who
acknowledged to San Francisco detective
that he could indicate the murderers of Ma
than, had reached New York.
dispatch from Reading, Pa, of the 9th,
announces that Bushing Bro, of that city
over So, 100000.
A Washington dispatch of the 9th to the
Associated Press says that the Treasury re-
serves had been drawn upon to the extent of
$3,000,000 to meet the current expenses of the
Government.
The only notable event in connection with
New York finances, on the 10th, had been the
decrease in the price of gold, which was sold
as low as 1919 for greenbacks, the lowest
price since the war.
A Montgomery (Ala.) dispatch of the 10th
announces that the yellow fever had appeared
in that city. The deaths in Shreveport, La,
had only reached nine on the 10th.
A dispatch from Northwestern Iowa of the
10th says that great devastation had been caus-
ed on the preceding day by the accidental
sfartipo 0f q Drairip fro paar KocS11th 1act
accounts the destroyer was still sweeping over
Kossuth, Hancock and Winnebago counties,
with little prospect of its ravages being stayed
Immediately. Vast quantities of hay, stock,
farm machinery, and, in some cases, houses
and stables had been burned.
A special Washington dispatch of the 18th
says the absorbing topic of conversation was
the shooting of ex-senator Pomeroy by Martin
F. Conway, ex-Representative of Kans rs, on
one of the streets of that city. The following
are the facts: Pomeroy was walking along
New York avenue this afternoon, and when
near the corner of 14th street he saw Conway
standing, evidently awaiting him. When he
was within four feet of Conway, the latter drew
a revolver and fired three shots in quick sue
cession, and then walked leisurely away, but
was soon brought back by citizen, to whom
he gave the pistol with the remark that "He
(Pomeroy) has ruined my wife and children,
and have right to shoot him." Pomeroy,
who had fallen to the pavement, was assisted
to carriage and driven home, when
physicians were Immediately summoned.
On examination, the ball was found to have
passed through his coat, vest and shirt, but
its force was SO far spent that after penetrat-
ing the skin it was thrown off by striking a
rib. 1t is said that the cause of the shooting