Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
Foreign Gossip.

OIClSaM 0.S.S9ARs
The Italians are emigrating in large
numbers to South America.
-The ground on which stands the mer-
chants exchange, in London, is valued at
$4,OOO,OOO. ~ .be.4 il a.. D, .,.a.,, ID, NJ.
1t is calculated that during the past
year there have been in Rome 21,OOO
Americans and 1000 English. r. Z ,
Queen Victoria has declared that she
will sign no more death warrants, so there
can be no executionsin England.
The Judges charge, in recent poison
ing case in Canada, lasted thirteen hours.
The jury gave verdict of guilty in five
minutes.
DIR. Mott once performed an operation
which required, in point of time, just five
minutes. The patient was rich, and the
bill was $3.50. "a 81 ~ I'll.
An Eastern correspondent says the
greatest compliment an Arab can pay is
to pass to you the leg of fowl after
having first bitten off a mouthful for him
self
During a severe gale on the British
coast steamship lost one of her paddle
wheels and, in order to make the other
work, the stock of Goals running short, four
hundred pigs were burned to keep up the
| fires.
Her Majesty Esther Blythe, alias Es-
Their Rutherford, queen of the gypsies, has
made application to the parochial board of
Jedburg in Scotland for relief as pauper.
Queen Esther owns a horse and cart and
eight children. The parish have offered
| to admit her to the poorhouse.
DIR. Stark of the Scottish Register Of
| fee has compared the vital statistics OF
| married and unmarried men, and an
| nounces that the mean age OF the married
at death is 6O2 years, while that of the
bachelors is only 4r7-excluding those
| who die before % in. both classes.
Late reports from the Medoc (Canada)
gold region represent the excitement on
the increase. and greater numbers OF peo-
pie going there than ever before. AAold
dust has been found in several new places,
| and diggers were generally successfully at
work. Indeed, One-fifth acre lots were sell
| ing at $1,000. f-- ~'IEH E5l =.
A Royal proclamation has been issued
by the Queen of Madagascar, forbidding
civilians to wear hats with brims. That
privilege is restricted to the Government
| officers. The civilians are now wearing a
kind of skull cap. Many wear their old
| hats with the brims torn of. The streets
| The most notorious robber in Coratia,
named Udmanics, was shot the other day,
| after desperate fight with five gendarmes,
| who had surrounded and set fire to house
| in which he had taken refuge. He leaped
| from the flames, killed one gendarme,
wounded another, and had thrown third
| to the ground, and stopped for moment
| to dispatch him too, when the wounded
| pendarme shot him dead. =
| A Justice of the County Court OF
Hamilton, Canada, has recently decided
that railway ticket is good until used, no
matter what date it may bear. The decl-
sion was reached after the trial of the case
in which passenger by the Great Western
Railroad brought an action for damages, in
consequence of having been elected from
the cars for insisting upon riding with a
ticket marked "good for this day only"
Hans Christian Andersen says: 81
generally found the jovial Alexander
l Dumas in bed, even long after midday
Here he lay with paper, pen and ink, and
wrote his new drama. I found him thus
one day; he nodded kindly to me and said
sit down aminute, / have just now avisit
from my muse, she will be going directly.
!, He wrote on, spoke aloud, shouted 0ioat
sprang out of bed and said, The thire
act Is finished. ~EA
"A novel, about xmesmerism and othel
mysteries, with the titleof MelcasoreP orles
by Mr.. Aitchenbee, has been published IL
, London, and has brought out {
singular variety of criticism upon it
!, merits. The author is newmanln lltela
, ture, gentleman at large, man OF goot
, family, and his name is Henry Nugen
r Banks. His non de plume, Mr.. AlschenDee
is simply an attempt to spell the sound o
t his initials. 14/FS@.!a
A London letter by the last steame
o saws ";For some reason emigration ha
/ taken new start; German and Irish ar
h crOwding to America, the Scotch are tax
: ING possession of Jamaica, and so man,
i Italians are leaving Genoa for South Amer
. lea that the country districts ere becoming
+ depopulated and the Government may b
: Obliged to interfere, For the right of emf
i. grafton is not altogether acknowledged
o Some Governments claim military service
The Italians run away from conscriptioi
: and taxation, but if the people go tn
l. country is ruined. sis Ri
vi Says a London letter; The Fenian
:, in Ireland have really behaved ike gentle
:. men. and are credit to their suppose
le American origin and training. The othe
a night party went to country mansio
q and demanded arms. 'They were refused
a. Excuse me- said the leader, but It is al
N solutely necessary that we should hay
re them, and if you do not open the door,
al shall be under the disgracefll necessity {
,e breaking it in; but will injure the loo
ID as little as possible On this the door ws
,ol opened, and one of the men, CAREFUL
ID T cleaning his feet on the scraper and dot
at mat, went in and helped himself to tn
arms, when the party quietly left"