Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-22

field, and highly priced On this account.
ofa<y Foreign News.
Cholera has again broken out in Constan-
tinople.
Extensive strikes are reported among the
English pottery establishments.
The Jamaica Committee Of the British
Parliament has unanimously resolved to
lndiet Governor Eyre for murder.
Three thousand insurgents, ON the Isle of
Gambia, who had tax en- refuge in the caves
of Melidoni, were recently drowned by the
rising of the tide.
Telegraphic dispatches have been IRE
ceived in London, which state the war in
Japan is ended. The report of the death
of the Tycoon is confirmed
There is an increasing unpopularity
against the Queen of Spain among her sub
jects, and she was recently Kissed at thea
tire. 1t was rumored the Govern ment con-
templated a coup d etat,
AT the last meeting of the French A cade-
my of Science an announcement of the dis
covery Of new telescope planet was re-
ceived from NJ. Luther It has been
named Antiope, an is the ninetieth of the
SERIES
Montholon, the French Minister, has re
ceived notice to leave here on the tenth of
December for his new position as Minister
to Portugal, as his successor will be here at
this time
Five officers Of the Japanese navy are
now stopping at the Metropolitan Hotel,
New York, having come to this country for
the purpose of studying the language, GUS
toms, and army and navy systems Of the
United States.
The Fenian prisoners, Daniel Whelan,
William Hayden and John Quinn, have been
convicted by the Canadian courts, and re-
ceived the sentence of death, to be carried
into effect on the 18th Of December, as in
the convictions previously made.
There is glut of American silver in
Canada, and, except at brokers' Offices,
those who hold it cannot in the lower
province sell the quarter dollar for more
than twenty cents, and even at Toronto it
is current at only twenty-three to twenty
four cents.
cable dispatch of Constantinople. Nov.
Z, says thatth trouble between the Sultan's
government and the Cabinet Of the United
States, growing out Of the conduct of the
Turkish officials towards the Consul and
Consulate of America in the Island Of Cy-
press, has been settled.
The whole merchant feet of Prussia be-
fore the war, consisted of one thousand six
hundred and sixty five ships Of all dimen-
sions, the greater number of small tonnage
employed in the coasting trade. AT the
present time ten thousand two hundred and
tWo vessels sail under the Prussian flag, or
Prussian protection. t ~I92ii2
There is q report from France that the
Great Eastern has been chartered by M.
Despeches for the purpose Of transporting
visitors from New York to Brest during the
Paris Exhibition, The great ship can &C
commodate thirty five hundred passengers,
and the speculation would probably be re-
munerative.
In spite of the many denials, rumors, Of
Prusso- Russian alliance continue to pre-
vail in England. 1t is even said that the
treaty provides for the admission Of the
United States into the alliance, with a sover-
eign establishment in the Mediterranean
Sea, and guarantees that nation highly
favorable commercial advantages.
The Roman journals announce that on
the 9th Of the past month the Pope received
by the electric cable, from the city Of Balti-
more, the salutations and good wishes Of
forty-seven Bishops and .Archbishops as
sembled in council in that respectable seat
of American Catholicism. The dispatch
was dated at 1880 o'clock before noon,
and was received at $3.50 o'clock the same
day.
The steamer Pioneer returned to New
London on the 14th, from six months
cruise in the Arctic Ocean after whales.
She penetrated as far as the icebergs, and
communicated with DR.. Hall and party, who
were looking for traces Of Sir John Frank
Inns expedition, on the Goth of July, at
which time they were all well. The voyage
was more successful than that of any other
vessel in the same waters, and thus demon
strated the practicability of our whale YES
sells using steam power.
The Herald has special from Greenwich
Observatory, England, detailing shower
of meteors seen on the morning of the 4th,
described to be Of great beauty AMI brill
fancy Five thousand were counted in one
hour, and and nearly twelve thousand in
all. Prof. LOOMS, of Yale College, pro-
nounees the dispatch spurious, and it is i'm
probable that there has been witnessed this
year in any part of the world display of
meteors at alto be compared with the grand
display of 1926.
The Calcutta Engkshman, Of the 22d Of
September announces that the famine in
India may be considered almost at an end.
What distress remains is being fully met, it
athrms, by the means of relief afforded, and