Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-09

Total interest. est............,.......$ 5 40.056, ,356
o"'At Coin. a1i io' 76.e76. .44O
Currency. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 2,997, 81
Special deposits held for redemption
ed by law ......................... 25,12O,OOO
Total in Treasury. .........S 1O5, ,O94. .311
Debt less cash in Treasury .... 81, ,153, ass, 155
Decrease during the month ......... 2247, ,4o5
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable in law
full money, principal outstanding. 5 646S3,5lS
Interest accrued and not yet paid 12J2, ,4fO
Interest paid by United States. ......$ 1S5O9,2S0
mails etc .....:.................. ~ 4,1s5, ,43s
Balance of interest paid by the United
states. ............... ...'.'..'''' I4'oSo,oto
The Hon. Samuel Shellabarger has signified
to the Secretary of State his acceptance of the
appointment rendered him by the President, as
a member of the Civil-Service Commission.
Several strikes were inaugurated at the East
on the LIST. Several cotton mills in Rhode
Island where the hands had struck for ten
hours, suspended operations temporarily.
A dispatch from Yreka on the 1st says that
no further movements against the Indians had
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the 26th had not been heard of, and it was
supposed their bodies had been burned. All
the settlers at Butte and Bogus Greeks had
left.
A national mass-meeting of Spiritualists is
to meet in Cincinnati on the 23d of May.
The new liquor law of West Virginia went
into effect on the 1st, causing number of
small saloons to close.
Miss Susan Eberhart, an accomplice of
Sham in the murder of his wife, was hung at
Preston, Ca, on the I'd.
It is expected that four cables will be work
ing across the Atlantic, and five across the
Gulf OF st. Lawrence, before the 1st of Sep
tember.
Official returns of the killed and wounded in
the Modoc massacre of the Goth ult. show that
twenty-one privates and officers were wound
ed, sixteen killed, and six are missing. A New
York Herald correspondent attributes the
great loss of life in the fight of the Goth to the
desertion of Company G., Twelfth Infantry,
and some few of the artillery who, when
ordered by Captain Thomas to fall back and
hold bluff in the rear of the troops to cover
the retreat, continued to fall back until they
reached camp. The Modocs in the meantime
secured the position they were to hold. 1t is
said only twenty-three Modocs were engaged,
and that only two were killed and two badly
wounded.
In the town of Pescobamba, Peru, land
slide from a neighboring mountain recently
destroyed forty-four houses and killed thirty
six people, besides damming up the river and
causing destructive inundation.
1t is said that the Indian Department has
for some time been debating the advisability
of taking away the hunting grounds from the
Sioux and confning them to their reservations,
in order to protect the white families scattered
through them.
An excursion train on the New Albany and
Chicago Railway while running backward be-
tween Mount Carmel and Princeton, on the
Sd, ran upon number of COWS which threw
the cars from the track, overturning them
down an embankment some eight feet in
height. Over thirty persons were injured,
some of them, it was thought seriously.
The funeral services over the remains of the
late Hon. James Brooks took place in New
York City on the 4th. Several members of
Congress were among the large numbers in at
tendance.
The late strike of the shoemakers in New
York has ended in the triumph of the strikers.
Another fearful storm is reported from Kan
sas. In Cloud County a number of lives were
lost and much property was destroyed. The
roof of the house of Mr. Snyder was blown off,
and himself, wife, five children and farm la
borer were buried in the snow and frozen to
death. few miles away from Snyder's house,
another family, named Ulricher, shared sim
liar fate, all having been frozen to death.
The Illinois Legislature has adjourned to
January g.
A horrible accident has occurred at Dixon,
Illinois. On Sunday, the 4th, some three hun
dred persons-men, women and children
were assembled on an iron bridge over the
Rock River, to witness baptism, when two
spans of the structure gave way, precipitating
the larger number of those on the bridge into
the stream below. From ninety to one hun
dred lives were lost, either by injuries caused
by the fall or by drowning. Several bodies
were recovered at once, many foated down
stream, and others were supposed to be buried
under the ruins of the bridge. Of course
great excitement was caused by this fearful
accident, which has saddened the entire COM
Several miraculous escapes are re-
ported. Many of the lost were from the
country adjacent to Dixon, but the larger
portion were members of families in that city.
The bridge was of iron, of the Truesdale pat
tern, and had five spans, elevated about twenty
feet above the water, which at that point is
from fifteen to twenty feet deep. Only two
spans-the end ones-fell at the time of the
accident.
President Grant arrived in Chicago on the
morning of the 4th from Galena.
A New York telegram of the Sd says Mr..
Brunot, Chairman of the Indian Commission
ers, had expressed an opinion that the rumors
of threatened general Indian war were ground
less, and that nearly all the late reports OF
Indian outrages were untrue.
The National Agricultural Congress is to be
held at Indianapolis May, 2Sth. In the offlclal
call, President Reynolds, Of Chicago, says:
By the Constitution of this body each State and
Territory is entitled to two representatives Tor
every State organization fostering agricultural pur-
suits The United States Department OF Agr1cul-
ture Agricultural Schools and Colleges win an en-
dowmeDt of not less than 100000, and Agricultural
and Horticultural Societies of not less than fifty
contributing to the support of this Con-
gress. are entitled TO one representative each.
In urging the appointment and attendance OF
DELEGATES as thus provided for very little needs TO
he said The purpose of the organization is to
afford an opportunity annually, for an interchange
of views and opinions upon all subjects affecting