Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-12
Weekly News Summary,
FOREIGN.

The insurgents IN CuDa have opSIIucIeO
the track and burned the bridge on the
Cienfuegos and Villa Clara Railroad, thus
cutting off all communications between
the two places.
A London telegram of the Both ult
says the paper found in bottle off the
coast of Cornwall, reporting the loss OF
the German emigrant ship Weser, proves
on examination, to be hoax.
Sir Richard Grosvenor, the Marquis o1
Westminster, died on the 31st ult., aged
seventy-four.
A cable dispatch on the I'd states that
the cities of Frankfort, Weisbaden, and
Mayence, Germany, with surrounding
country in each case, were visited by
shocks of earthquake during the night OF
the 31st ult.
News has been received from DR.. Liv
ingstone dated Aug. s, 1868, asking thai
supplies, nautical instruments and alma
macs of 1869 and 1870 be sent him. He
was in good health and was at Zanzibar.
A Washington dispatch of the Sd says
recent official dispatches from Crba repre-
sent that the Cubans were making very
little progress. The people were becom
ing dissatisfied with the delay and mac
tivity of the insurgent leaders. On the
other hand, the Spanish army was con
stantly receiving accessions, and was pre-
pairing for vigorous campaign.
A Madrid telegram of the 4th states
that Admiral Topete insisted upon ten
dering his resignation as one of the Cabi
net, and it was probable that the whole
Cabinet would resign, and General Prin
would form new one. The Cortes ha(
again adjourned.
The London papers in their obituary
notices of Mr. Peabody say he was one o
the few whose private virtues are followed
by public fame. There was nothing hare
or narrow about his philanthropy. HI
simply did whatever good came in hi
way.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 5tl
at 1915.
All the officers of the privateer Cubs
were discharged ON the 30th ult., by tn,
Commissioner, except David A. Telfair
D. D. Munroe, Nicholas Isling, r. H. Glib
son, N. D. Phillips, Lewis French ant
John Lynch, who were required tC
give bail in $500 each for their appear
ance before the United States Distric
Court.
The tobacco crop in Virginia is report
ed as but two-thirds of a crop; the corr
crop is failure, but the wheat crop is re
markably fine and abundant
Advices from the Stonewall on the 30tI
ult. state that the boat was still burning
Several more persons had been picked UP
alive.
According to the report of the Com
missioner of Pensions there were 1871, ,96t
pensionersIon the rolls Junei3c, 1869, and
the total amount paid out was $2S, ,422,
SS4OS.
The Governor of Virginia has desig
mated the 18th inst. as day of thanks.
giving.
Sixty-five of the dead bodies of victims
of the ill-fated Mississippi river steamer
Stonewall had been recovered up to the
I'd inst. The colored steward and cham
bermaid were the only ones identified.
The 18th inst has been appointed as a
day of thanksgiving by the Governor OF
Iowa.
The Cincinnati Board of Education have
adopted resolutions prohibiting the read
ing of the Bible in public schools-ayes.
%; noes, Is.
The Commissioners of the Union and
Central Pacific Railroads have made their
report, in which they state that both com
panies are doing large amount of work
on the roads, and in short time they will
compare favorably with any road in the
country.
Eighteen inches of snow at Moosehead
Lake, Me-, on the 1st; ten inches at Ban.
gor.
The following is a summary ofthe public
debt statement, as published on the 1st
inst:
Debt bearing inter-