Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-15
Foreign GOSsEves


Foreign Gossip.
-Prussian sheep have the small pox.
-Maximilian, of Mexico, keeps bank
account in New York city.
--Eighty-four of the leading London
shops close, on Saturday, at two o'clock.
London spends one million pounds per
year in baskets, hampers and things CT that
J sort.
The waste paper Of the British Govern
ment sells annually for seven thousand
pounds sterling.
The Anglo Indian mail is conveyed
from Calais to Marsailles at the rate Of more
than mile minute.
"A youthful couple, aged respectively
eighty four and eighty-one, were married
at Nice, in France, on the 9Th ult.
An honest London omnibus driver re-
turned to the owner two thousand pounds
which he found on the seat Of the vehicle.
"A German mile is as long as two of
ours. A German pound has several more
ounces, but German dollar is considerably
| less.
"A Coroner's jury in England lately re-
turned verdict against q railway company
for the fatal effect produced or an invalid
by the screeching of their locomotives.
"A Paris doctor, Gan American by
birth, with an income of 100000 per
annum is continually embarrassed on &C
count of the extravaganza of his family.
"A young "lion " in Paris, is amusing
himself by driving about fourth hand in q
smart barouche. Four immense Pyrenees
dogs take the place Of horses, and gallop
nearly as fast-quite as fast as Paris police
rules permit.
"A dense fog in London or the 18th of
! October caused an almost total suspension
of business. Navigation on the Thames
was impossible; and people stumbled
through the streets in more than midnight
darkness, that was not relieved by the light
Of the gas lamps at noon.
The duke and duchess of Argyle have
| adopted the sensible resolution of allowing
their second son, Lord Archibald Campbell,
to enter as partner in a large business
establishment in Scotland. Ti,e young
nobleman has left England for the. south of
France, where he will be engaged for some
time in the study of the vintage system of
the country.
| The journeymen bakers of London held
a meeting recently to consider how best
| they might be relieved from the exhausting
night work which they now perform. The
meeting was chiefly remarkable for the
speech Of Mr.. Wright, % master-baker
who strongly counseled the men to strike.
ssFancy London without bread for forty
eight hours" said he.
The Amazon river, with its many trib-
utaries extending for thousands of miles
through South America, offers fine field
for navigation. Nine steamboats, it is said
now make up the steam mercantile marine
Of the Valley of the Amazon, together with
some smaller vessels On the upper waters
These are owned by company that for
merly had the monopoly Of the navigation
of the great river, but now it is open to
the competition Of the world.
There are now building in England, CT
under orders to be built, twenty six iron
armor plated vessels of war. The estimat-
ed expenditure on the hulls of these vessels
from April Ist last to March 31st next, is
G256, 632.. From the return moved for by
Mr.. Laird relative to iron plated ships and
batteries, it seems that there are thirty
iron-plated ships afoat, and four building.
The floating batteries are the Erebus, Ter
ror, Thunderbolt and Thunder.
Two European newspapers, one of
which has had the longest life End the other
the longest name, have ceased to appear.
The first is the Frankfort Post Zietung,
founded in 1916, by the Prince of Tour and
Taxis, and continued by the princes of that
house till Taxis and Hapsburg and the Postal
Confederation broke up. The second defunct
is the Observation-Disclosures a
Flemish paper whose very readers must
nave been out of breath in pronouncing it's
name. ~ar
The great slumbering volcano, Popo-
catapetl, has recently been explored by
party which reports the crater accessible.
Millions of tons of sulphur are lying in
there, end in many cases IN pure state.
1t can be carried to the summit Of the vol
cano, and from thence to the summit Of that
externally snow crowned mountain, at an
expense Of only so cents to the 100 pounds.
The value of 100 pounds in Mexico is $40.
The crater is. big enough TO hold several
cities, but it is not probable that any will
be built there at present.
4 At the funeral, a couple Of weeks since,
Of man named Pierre Wyss, at Taurrelen,
near Basic, the gravedigger, while throwing
in the earth, thought he heard sound as
| if two blows had been struck in the coffin
He accordingly informed the clergyman,
bu this latter, believing that the man was
under an illusion, would not allow the
coffin to be opened. The matter having
come to the knowledge Of the aut horities
the next day, they ordered the exhumation
of the body. when the man was found to be
still alive, but expired forty eight hours
afterward.
Soon after the death of Prince Albert,
thesooty Emperor Theodorus, Of Abyssinia,
hearing of that melancholy event, and
moved probably by sympathy for the I'M
fortunate widow, sent to Queen Victoria q
formal proposal of marriage. The offer
was treated with silent contempt. His sa-
BILE Majesty, after waiting some time, came
to the conclusion that he was Intentionally
insulted, and, out of revenge, seized the
principal Englishmen then within his
dominion. By the latest accounts there is
reason to fear that all the prisoners, as well
as an envoyrecently sent out to their succor,
have been put to death. Queen Victoria
has at length been induced to dispatch to
her savage sutton an autograph letter, in
the hope of securing the release of the sub
, jects. if they are not already released by
death.