Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-07

in Siberia they think the weather
moderate, and call the day pleasant when
the mercury is only 65 degrees below zero.
The Emperor has forbidden the publ
cation of Prince Napoleon's pamphlet
on the foreign and domestic affairs of
France. ri A
Lady Parks, the first English woman
who ever did it, has assembled to the sum
NIT of Fusgawa, the sacred mountain of
Japan.
Postoffice are opened by the officials,
fact which is made evident by very dirty
finger Marks " cE' y }'KFlh N ~
"A State dinner recently given in Wen
ma continued twelve hours. There were
twenty mine courses and fifty different
kinds Of wine. I ~ - ~
Misunderstanding is rapidly increas-
ing IN Russia. Several prominent army
officers have recently died from that dan
gerous dissipation. ( - Ell
Mrs. sBayard4 Taylor writes that her
husband has entirely recovered from the
1nalarious fever with which he was so Sc
verely sick at Rome.
"A society has been founded in Berlin,
under the patronage of the Prince Royal,
to provide occupation for the persons sui.
fering from famine in Eastern Prussia.
"A disguised tourist says of Italy
that it is impossible to enjoy travelling in
country, however romantic or pictur-
esque, where, half of the inhabitants are
beggars and the other half thieves.
-Assassinations and riot are the orderof
the day in Cuba. People are stopped in
broad daylight in the streets of Havana, a
dirk is pressed against their breast by one
robber, and companion rifles the pockets
Of the victims. .1aas. %
in Quebec that well-known individ-
ual, the Oldest inhabitant," asserts this
to be the coolest winter in his memory;
not so much from the occasional state of
the thermometer as the steady average
degree of cold.
The British newspapers were lately
in OBSTACLES over the capture of Captain
Michael Doheny, the " American Fenian,"
at Dublin The Captain died two years
ago, and it must have been his ghost the
Britishers caught. s.sa--s '7tsse2
The cable announces the destruction
by fire, January 25th, of a church at New
bury, England, built in 1906, during the
reign of Henry VII. The bell was among
the Oldest in the country, having been cast
in London in 1905.
Penny readings have been resumed IL
| Liverpool this winter, with even more
promise than last winter. The selections
are choice and various, excluding every
thing vulgar and immoral and the admis-
sion fee is only one penny. f5wrCI
The London Times lost five thousand
subscribers last year, and did not make so
much money by $4,000 as in 1866. But
| then Its, profits in that year were G7oO,OO
or nearly five millions in greenbacks, SO 1t
| Is not in a suffering condition.
| Smuggling on the Canada frontier is
conducted by well organized bands, who
| daily transfer hundreds of packages free
of duty. The other day fight took place
| in Vermont between gang OF smugglers
| and party of customs officials.
"A Scotch literateur is about to write
what he, calls true history of William
Wallace and Robert Bruce, separating fact
from fiction, and dragging those person
ages out of the ideal region in which their
memories have been so long permitted to
dwell.
The Quebec Legislature had its sense
of etiquette terribly shocked the other day
because the "usher of the black rod" for
got to knock at the door with his staff,
and then fell short of the half dozen bows
required when approaching the Speakers
chair. fa.F-0 .rn.rgr
The Italian Government has under
taken to finish the Mount Gents tunnel
and open it u business in 1871. The
French Government has promised to pay
its share of the expense in three annual
payments, the first of which will be due
in July, 1858. DIe W f.
AT the Stafford (England) Town Hall
an Irishwoman was recently charged with
theft, and it appeared that she had trained
her daughter, only five years of age, to ac-
company her to shops and pilfer articles
from the counters whilst she engaged the
attention of the shopkeepers.
The total number OF emigrants that
sailed from Liverpool to all parts of the
United States, British North America, the
Australian colonies, South America, ETC.,
for the year just closed, amounted to 49,
6S1, and for the previous year 122,S8S,
showing decrease as compared with 1866
of 6,702 <fa mH
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