Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-04
FOREIGN.

A Paris dispatch of the ,,1Sth says the
government has proof of plot to assasi-
nate the Emperor and Prince Imperial,
and had seized plan found on one of the
prisoners to throw bombs through the
Emperor's window at the Tuilerles. 1t
has been decided that Prince Pierre Bona
parte shall be tried before the High Court
of Justice, on charge of homicide
through imprudence.
The High Court of Justice, for the trial
of Prince Pierre Bonaparte, will COM
mence op the 21st of March.
The German papers say emigration to
America will be larger this year than
ever.
Reports are received of horrible atroci-
ties committed by the troops of Lopez in
Paraguay, such as cutting the throats of
starving and unprotected women, and
leaving their bodies scattered along the
highways Deserters report Lopez as
habitually drunk.
La MarseiIIdise announces that, owing
tc the prosecution threatened, the name OF
Rochefort will not appear in that journal
hereafter. The name of M. Dangerville
is printed as chief editor; but it is under
stood to be cover for Rochefort, who
will continue to direct the paper.
1t is now stated that the uniform depth
of water in the Suez Canal is only nine
teen feet, instead of twenty;nine, as before
reported.
Lord Derby has formally declined the
leadership of the British House of Lords,
which had been rendered to him by the
Conservative Peers.
English Engineers have obtained con-
tract to build 800 miles of railroad in
Japan.
The preliminary examinations of per
sons arrested during the recent troubles
in Paris have been ended. One hundred
and eight have been Internationally dis
charged 112 held to appear at court; $50
kept under arrest for conspiring against
the state and life of the Emperor.
Washington's birthday was splendidly
celebrated at Vienna on the 22d, by a
banquet given by Minister Jay. a
The Hon. Anson Burlingame died at
st. Petersburg on the morning of the 23d,
of congestion of the lungs, after four days
illness.
The missionary packet Morning Star
was wrecked on Strong's Island, Pacific
Ocean, on the 18th of October, and was a
total loss. The passengers escaped and
were taken to Honolulu.
The Captain General of Cuba has issued
decree granting liberty to over two thou
sand negroes, prisoners of war, who had
been hired out to labor by the government,
with the understanding that they were to
become slaves after certain date.
Gustave Flourens has been sentenced,
at Paris, to three years imprisonment, for
having aided the desertion of two soldiers.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the Oath
at 1161s.
The formal opening of the Ohio River
bridge at Louisville occurred on the 18th.
An excursion train carrying 1900 persons
crossed the bridge in safety, and the
bridge is pronounced decided success.
A Washington telegram of the 17th
says: "The income tax is to be reduced
but not abolished. President Grant and
the administration are favorable to re-
duction of the tariff by twenty millions
and of internal revenue by thirty mil
lions"
On the morning of the Goth the barn
and dairy stables of B. Cavana, four miles
north of Cincinnati, were destroyed by
fire. One hundred and twenty cows, four
teen mules, three horses and thirteen
calves, besides a large quantity of hay,
grain, and other property, were destroyed.
The whole loss is estimated at $4,000
On the nth the boiler in B. c. Taylor's
Agricultural Works, at Dayton, Ohio, ex-
ploded, reducing the large building to a