Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-18

his pistol, and, taking deliberate aim at the
doctor, shot him through the breast. Both
fell dead together.
80 Foreign Gossip.
An American female in England
walked eight hundred miles in as many
consecutive hours.
The French Government has ordered
that during the Exposition no play shall
be performed which will be unpleasant to
foreigners. aa III
An inquest was held in London, the
other day, on the body of German noble
man, who had become so impoverished that
of late he and his wife had worked a
mangle. ..f+~ty} ,e,..5---,g Il
"A good deal of surprise is expressed
that the London Punch, for which Arte-
mus Wardwrote, published no obituary of
him, and that none of the writers for that
journal attended his funeral, NJ
"A foreign Prince has just sent small
box to Paris containing some costly jewels,
among them a pearl valued at $4,000 francs.
They are ordered to be sold to put the
Prince III funds to. visit the Exhibition.
The Hebreao National, a new Jewish
weekly published in London, complains
that the last English edition of Webster's
Dictionary contains the verb "tO Jew" in
tie sense of to cheat" "to swindle," etc.
DIR. Pearson, physician in good prac-
tice at Ely, England, has been convicted at
the Cambridgeshire assizes of poisoning
with strychnine two valuable horses
There was no motive alleged for the crime.
The prisoner was sentenced 70 five years
penal scrvitude.
Morocco, formerly the terror of Chris
tan nations, on account of her, piratical
vessels, now has not ship afloat, and
some of the Christian nations have COM
bined to put up light house at Cape Spar
tel, the Government of Morocco refusing
to do it on the ground that that nation has
nothing to lose by shipwrecks.
Queen Victoria has again appeared in
the public streets of London, which act
called forth the following from journal
circulating in the higher circles: "Not-
withstanding the coldness of the day, on
Thursday her Majesty passed up Regent
street, iii an open carriage. 1t need not be
said that great qualification was felt at what
appeared something like return to olden
| times.
The latest advices from Abyssinia are
to the effect that all the English captlves
are closely confined in chains in the fort
ress of Blagdala, but otherwise kindly
treated Col. Mereweather had gone to
MassoWah with the artifcers and various
presents sent to the King by the British
Government 1t is believed that an expe-
dition is about to be sent from India to
chastise The barbarian King.
Although the New Paris Opera House
will not be finished for two years, still sew
eral of the separate buildings depending on
the main edifice are finished The musical
library is completed, and great proper
ton of the archives are already arranged
in the upper story of the building. The
keeper of the keys of the Opera House
will have no sinecure, as he will have the
charge of two thousand five hundred
separate keys.
Young Dumas new play, Lies Idees
de Madame Aubray," was not long ago
performed for the first time in Paris, at the
| Gymnase. The Emperor and Empress ar
rived before the curtain rose, and paid the
piece the unusual compliment of remain
ing to the end. The author was loudly en-
cored, but did not appear. But Dumas
pere, who occupied a box in the second
tier, was extremely gratifed by the ap-
plarse which the crowd bestowed ON him
LII NCldOit VI oOu uppCdi dliCc
A London correspondent says: "Give
me a Yankee for finding a comfortable seat
in Parliament The other evening, the
eye of recognition cast over the Peers
seats might have discovered Carleton of
the Boston Journal comfortably seated be-
tween the Prince of Wales and the Bishop
of Oxford, quite as much at home-with
lis dress coat and white cravat-as either
of them. Indeed American correspond
sents are getting the reputation of being in
league with all the potentates of Europe"
During the masquerade ball at the AT
| fares Entrangeres, at Paris, where the EN-
peror and Empress were hidden among
the maskers by closely fitting dominoes,
which, as soon as discovered, were changed,
great amusement was afforded by young
| English girl, who on passing before the
| Emperor, was heard to say to her partner:
"That gentleman has changed his domino
three times for have watched. asked
his name and they tell me it is the Comte
| Gle Ham. Is he so great a man that he
must not be recognized?" His majesty
laughed outright, and when the young la
| dy passed back again, bowed low, to her
great amazement and confusion.
Arrangements are now being made in
| several of the English villages for insuring
free use of soap and water among the
poor At Redhill, for example, hot and
cold baths are provided three days week
for women and children from one to five
O'clock, and for men from six to nine
o'clock, free of all charge, except penny
for soap and use of towels. A bath may
be had ON special evenings for sixpence
A wash-house has been fitted up with cop
pers, tubs patent Wringing machine, etc,
with an ironing room attached, available
three days aweek at thecharge of a penny
an hour soap and soda being sold at cost
price Special care is taken to prevent the
linen from houses in which infectious di-
seases exist being received into any part of
| the building.
"A celebrated character has disappeared
| from the, Palais Royal, Paris. Rene Lar
tique was a Swiss, and man of about six
| ty. He spent the third of his life at din
ner. Every morning at 10 O'Clock he was
seen going into restaurant, and in few
moments was installed in a corner, which