Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-13
Foreign Gossip.

the physician, he found the woman dead,
and the husband lying stupid beside. her.
Foreign Gossip
The wires of the Russian American
Telegraph have been stretched a distance of
seven hundred and fifteen miles above New
Westminster, in British Columbia 1855
The Geological Garden at Dresden has
been destroyed. The smaller animals were
given away or turned loose; the larger
beasts were killed; and the ground has
been levelled for fertilization. o.si2
News has been received that Mad. Anna
Bishop was wrecked on Mariana Islands in
May, compelled to remain on an uninhabited
island three weeks, and finally escaped by
travelling ], 400 miles in an open boat.
The London Gazette says that Mrs.
Sinker Bellefontaine gets 100000 of the
$35, 00O,0 900 which was bequeathed to the
Church family, and of which Mrs. Walker,
of Hartford, was supposed to be the only
deseendantin this country.
| "A late Paris paper announces that
within the preceding fifteen days sixty
seven new styles Of hats for ladies were
| patented in that gay city. We are not in
| formed of the peculiarities of the sixty seven
hats, and we must wait their arrival in this
country.
When it was proposed to the Pope to
arm his troops with the needle-gun, he
replied says the Opinione rationale,
that it would not be proper for him to be
the first of Catholic powers to adopt an arm
that had been used by the Lutherans against
the devout Austrians, and which was evil
IDENTIFY from the devil.
The French company which undertook
the completion of the great Virginia canal
from Richmond to the Ohio river. has failed,
or abandoned the enterprise. The scheme,
it is said, was originally projected, or
backed, by Louis Napoleon, as part Of his
American 'spolicy," by which he was to
convert the Southern Confederacy into
magnificent French colony. When the
Confederacy "went up the spout the canal
project followed it.
Late advices from Valparaiso state that
news had been received at that point of the
abandonment by Spain of the war against
the South American Republics. II was also
stated that the allied Powers were not con-
tent to let Spain off so easily, but had de-
termined to make retaliatory war against
her commerce.
Mr.. Beckwith, the United States Com
missioner for the Paris Exposition, writes
from that city, strongly urging that promi-
nent among the American features Of the
Paris General Exposition in 1867, should be
model school house, with all its modern APP
planes, school books and apparatus, and
with teachers and scholars, sent ever for
the purpose.
Mr.. r. Mushet states, in q letter to an
English journal, that one Of his improve
ments will, in conjunction with Bossemer's
pneumatic process for producing steel or
highly refined iron, return an annual reve
nue. of one million dollars. He also states
that cone of his patent processes alone is
at present Of more commercial value than
all the patent processes with two exoep-
tions) collectively, for the improvement Of
iron and steel, taken out by others during
the present century,"
| The telegraph, in Switzerland, is the
property of the State. An office for the re-
ception and transmission of dispatches is
established in almost every village, and the
charge is uniform-one franc, about twenty
cents, for twenty five words, or little over
one cent per word, irrespective of distance.
The dispatches are printed, and the estab-
lishment, even at this low price, yields a
large revenue to Government.
The London correspondent of the Leeds
Mercury, after abiding to report that
Disraeli is to become Lord Hughenden, and
60 to Paris in Lord Cowley's place, says:
+" Mr.. Disraei does not really understand
finance He has to get up all he wants for
the occasion, and looks to the bank governor
for the time being for advice. Hence it is
whispered that his colleagues would prefer
seeing some one else-say Sir Stafford
Northcote-chancellor Of the exchequer."
The London Spectator says: Once every
week or oftener, girl throws herself over
one of the London bridges, and when fished
out by the police or waterman, tells the
magistrate that her ssyoung man" had Tilted
her or deserted her, or chad words with
her, and she cannot live under it, and she
will do it again, so she will. and is remand
ed by the humane official to give her time
to consider herself. Solitude usually effects
| a cure more or less perfect, and the poor
girl walks off with her friends, partly
ashamed of her crime, partly rejoicing that
she" will read the report in the police
sheet, and no longer doubt that ''she means
it,
"A good anecdote is related of the
french Emperors departure from Vlchy
His first ualet de chambre, Leon, has been II
his service since the Emperor was quite
young man, having been placed upon his
person by Queen Hortense, His devoted
attachment to his master is well known. Al
J the Emperor was leaving Vichy, he called
, for Leon, and having handed sealed packe
to him, told him the parcel contained thu
, title deeds of the chalet and grounds he ha(
, just quilted, and which the Emperor haa
inhabited during his successive visits. ''1ol
! are landlord now" said his master t.
Leon, "and | hope that you will accept mi
next year as your tenant at the rate Of 20,
000f. rent. l shall pay regularly"