Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-07

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massing on the Turkish frontier, and the
reports of complications between Russia
and Turkey had created considerable ex.
citement in Poland. Rome is to be for
mally inaugurated as the capital of the
new government of. Italy.
AdSices from Paris, received in Tours
on the Goth, report successes for the be-
sieged in various minor engagements
around the city. On the 9th the French
made another sortie from Metz, and ad-
vanced to Ais lie Quaix, where the Prus-
slams were encountered. Another severe
conflict ensued, which resulted in the de-
feat of the French, though they carried
off their wounded, dead, and all the Prus-
sian prisoners captured. A village was
burned by shells.
A dispatch from Messerieres on the 29th
says an armistice had been concluded
with the Prugsian forces around that.
town, and would probably continue until
October7. Verdun was besieged, but the
Prussians had made no strong demonstra-
A London telegram Of the 29th says
the blockade of the mouth of the Elbe
had been renewed by the French feet.
The Berlin correspondent of thelNew
York Tribune, under date of the 27tb,
says "the popular appetite for conquest is
increasing, but trustworthy accounts from
headquarters represent the King and Bis
mark both sincerely desirous for peace"
Intense excitement was created in Lon
don diplomatic circles on the goth, by the
reception at the Foreign Office of note
from Russia, saying that the expansion of
the boundaries of Prussia compelled her
to interfere in the present struggle. The
military preparations of Russia were re-
ported to be proceeding on a gigantic
scale, snd there was great activity every
where. ert. sfss
There were fears at Liverpool on the
goth of general Fenian uprising in
Dublin, Londonderry, and other Irish
cities. rea.sr4 s
Several attempts at revolutionary dis
turbarces in Rome have been promptly
suppressed by the determined attitude of
the Italian troops.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Goth
At 1897
The population of Illinois, as ascer-
tanned by the complete official census, is
2 2,529,210. In 1860 it was 1,7o4, ,221. A
gain in ten years of S24,919.
During the week ending September "a
no less than five murders were committed
in the city Of Chicago and vicinity.
A New York dispatch of the Oath states
that owing to the presence Of French
gunboats outside the bay, the departure
of all German vessels, Of which number
were ready to sail, had been indefinitely
postponed. The North German Consul
had sent a protest TO Washington against
what he considers q violation of interna7
tional law. The French vessels were said
to be lying within one league of the
shore. '.'
The census returns from the State Of
Wisconsin foot up q total population OF
1,O45,OOO people. asA
A Washington dispatch of the Goth
says: "There is reason to believe that the
instructions TO our new Minister to Eng
land, as regards the Alabama claims, will
not differ frem those given Mr. Motley,
and will conform to the views expressed
in Secretary Fish's dispatch ofSeptember,
1859. It is still the desire of the Presi-
dent that when negotiations are resumed
they may be conducted in Washington" J"
The population of Minnesota is esti-
mated at 435, ,000-an increase of 263, 600
since 1860. st. Paul has 90, ,045, and Min
nespolis 1904. ta,.m
A fire at Cheyenne on tne night Of the
25th destroyed 100000 worth of prop
erty. 1a. t4esra5
The Iowa Central District Fair, which
was to have opened at Des Moines on the
Ssth, was postponed, on account of rain,
to the 18th, 10Th and Goth of October IS
An officer of the Revenue Department,
fresh from an inspection of the cotton
region of the South, estimates the growing
crop at not less than 100000 bales, a
larger crop than has been produced since
1850. He also conveys The intelligence
that the quality will be superior TO any
crop ever raised in the country.
1t was believed in New York city on
the 28th that the steamer Herrmann, of the
Hamburg line, which sailed from New
York on the 27th, had been overtaken
and captured by q French cruiser.
There was light frost in the scction
around Bangor N Me, e. On the night of the
9th.
Tbeisurvey Of the North Pacific rail
road is completed. The Puget Sound to
Vancouver route is said to be entirely
practicable.
The population of Oregon SIS is about
$1,000; and of Washington Territory
$4,000. iaai sras =; ',re .ss'iaa.o ae,siall a1s
The receipts of Q recent French SAM.
tary Fair in San Francisco, including do
nations from benevolent societies, were
about $50, 600. ea'aa ''' '.'7s'
Customs receipts for week ending Sen.
tember "a, S3,911,941. -..,s-,,s...,-
Written statements of Little Raven and
Yellow Bear, Chiefs, Of tie Arrapshoes.
have been received at Washington. com,
planning thatthe stir. r.,ulations of their treaty
with the Unite. States Cavern, ,,,o,,t =.