Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-09
NUMBER Is.

The following is the public debt statement
January l.:
Six per cent. bonds. s.............. 81, ais T2S1H0
Five per cent. bonds. 53,4is,soo
Total coin bonds................ Sta ,206,9'0
Lawful money debt............ 5 13,67S,C00
Matured debt. bt........................ ll.ulUSeO
Legal tender notes. 37S, All 339
Certificates of deposit. .............. 36,720,0J0
Fractional curreDch. h................. 4S,544,f92
Coin certificates. s........ ............ 31,543.3O9
interest. ......................... 9|.o4' uSo
Total debt ................. :. *a,a9i. .Tea, ,es7
Coin :. .~~ .....:,........... ...... ss1.47a1oe
Special deposits held for redemption SO So
of certificates of deposit as pro- .E..Lr
vided by law... ................. So,T2oooo
Total in Treasury -. sisa, ,476 s61
Debt less cash in Treasury. ....... $2159,S15,3<0
Increase during month. ............ S,453,272
Bonds issued to Pacific Railroad @
Companies, interest payable in
lawful money, principal outstand-
Interest accrued and not yet paid. 1,93sf0a
Interest paid by United States. s0,447,9S6
mails, etc. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. 4,6s6,o54
States. DECENTRALIZATION. 15,7s1,9 ,9s1
One thousand workmen were discharged
from the Brooklyn Navy Yard on the I'd.
The number of deaths in New York City in
1878 was 30, ,059, of which 1,169were from vio-
lent causes. The number of marriages regis
tered in the city during the year was S,S65,
and the number of births %, ,5S7.
At the municipal election in Memphis on the
1st, the Republican ticket was successful by
majorities of about 500 and upward John
Logue is the name of the Mayor-elect =
The first regular services of the Reformed
Episcopalian Church were held in Steinway
Hall, New York, ON the 4th, with an immense
audience in attendance. Bishop Cummins
preached the sermon. ~t T Hf'1f
An attempt was lately made to kill Judge
s. T. Morris, of Brooklyn, N. Y, by means of
an internal machine that was sent to his
house. The Judge opened the box, but for
tunately the matches did not strike in such a
manner as to explode the torpedo contained in
it. Judge Morris is an active prosecutor of
the corrupt Brooklyn City Ring, and this is
thought to account for the attempt upon his
lie. Hall -
A late New York telegram says the entire
number of railroads which are in default is
more than lis, representing an Indebtedness
on their interest account of more than
$4,000 900. ~"
1t has been lately decided by the United
States District Court in Chicago that a Ma
tional Bank cannot be thrown into bankruptcy
under the Bankrupt law. rt
A Columbus (Ohio) dispatch Of the 4th says
the engineers strike had died so quietly that
hardly any one knew just the process of its
termination. Most of the engineers who could
obtain employment had gone to work.
The Executive Committee of the Labor-Re-
form party of Tennessee has issued an invita-
tion to the Labor -Reformers and Farmers of
the West and South to take measures for call
ing convention, to meet in St. Louis on the
22d of February next, in order to resist the
alleged unjust combinations of Eastern mo-
nopolists and capitalists.
A Key West dispatch Of the Sd says: "Cap-
tain W. D. Whiting, the Chief of Staff of the
North Atlantic Squadron; Lieutenant Adolph
Mark, Flag Lieutenant, and Chief Engineer
Harris, of the dispatch boat Dispatch, have
been summoned to Washington to testify in
the investigation in regard to the sinking of
the Virginius. Captain Whiting received the
Virginius; Mark brought her to The Tortu-
gas, and Harris made an engineering survey
before she left Bahai Honda" @ si .1l
The Postmaster-G General has ordered post
masters to forward all letters or packages re-
ceived from foreign countries to the places of
their destination before permitting any inter
ference by officers of the customs.
Henry Clews 81 Co., of New York, resumed
their banking business on the 5th, announcing
the fact In a circular, In which they warmly
thank their creditors for their forbearance, and
declare their readiness now to pay all their OBJ
legations in full. ..t,s{3 ~ {a..8
Gov. Taylor and the other state officers elect
of Wisconsin were installed at Madison, on the
5th, with the usual ceremonies.
Two Legislature es are in session in Louisiana,
representing the Kellogg and the McEnery
Governments. The latter body hasino quo
rum, and does not propose to do anything
more than prepare an address to Congress
Governor Kellogg's message to his Legislature
is devoted largely to the finances of The State,
and the statement of a plan for restoring its
credit by fundipg its debt at sixty cents on the
dollar. ..,sH .ingc9 aalse1 - Q"t2 I
The case of ,ex, Senator Pomeroy came up
for trial at Topeka,s Kansas, on the 5th.si He
did not appear in person, but his attorneys
made application for a continuance for thirty
days, which was denied by the court and his
bail declared forfeited.
The First National Bank of Memphis,
Ttoo,, ,,b;ob cuopondad d,,ripo or he Y1anic haa