Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-29

years after the completion OF the ROAD snail be su
jected to preemption at S2 80 per acre; that Amer
lean iron and steel be exclusively used In the con
struction of the road, and that Congress may, al
any time alter or amend this joint resolution; ano
the bill then passed-4c to H. Executive sessloI
and adjournment.
In the House, on the 21st, resolution
providing for notification of the Governor oi
Louisiana ofthe vacancy in the First Congressional
District in that State, was tabled The bill to
wise, consolidate and amend the statutes relating
to patents and copyrights, was amended SO as to
reduce the salary of Librarian of the Patent Office
to $1,S00; First Assistant Examiner to 81 ,S00 Ex-
aminer in charge of interferences to $4,000, and
the bill was passed. The Naval Appropriation
BILL appropriating $16641 ,S45, was considered in
Committee of the Whole. Adjourned.
FOREIGN.
In the Spanish Cortes, on the 18th,
General Prim intiinated that certain
time would be allowed during which the
clergy must take the oath of allegiance.
The clergy still persisted in their refusal
to swear allegiance to the constitution.
Senior Olosaga has been appointed Presi-
dent of the Council of State a
Dispatches from the United States
Consul at Havana, received in Washing
ton on the 18th, represent affairs there
unfavorable to the insurgents. The i'm
preston was that the rebellion would not
last much longer .ste
. Recent advices from Asuncion report
that Provisional Government has been
formed for Paraguay, under the patronage
of Brazil.
The boiler of large linen factory near
Brussels, Belgium, exploded on the 18th.
Twenty men and women were either
killed outright or frightfully scalded
The factory was burned to the ground.
The city of Lisbon, Portugal, was WIS.,
tied by fearful tornado on the 10th, which
caused great loss of property. Some per
sons were killed, and many injured in the
streets. The shipping in the Tagus suf-
fered severely. Many vessels were
wrecked, and nearly all more or less dam
aged. No American vessels are reported
lost s, 3 >I.s.ca
The Canadian Government has paid
over the 100000 agreed upon as pay
ment to the Hudson Bay Company on the
surrender of their title. IS ss1
The United States Consul at Zanzibar
reports 5000 deaths from cholera on the
island within six weeks. L.f
A long-threatened strike began in Paris
on the Goth. The foundrymen and mould
$1,000 strong,-the tailors,
sugar refiners, and hatters had joined in
the strike.
NJ Barberel, Director of the Marsei1
,0ise, has been sentenced to six months
and to pay fine of 1000
francs, for the publication in that journal
of a congratulatory address from the
workmen of Lyons to the workmen of
LaCreuzot.
The death of Lopez has been confirmed,
an account of the same having been Off.
cially published in the Anglo Brazilian
Times
The family of Prince Henri de Bourbon
have refused TO accept the indemnity of
$4,000 imposed upon the Duke of Mont
pensier by the Council of War.
DOMESTIC.
Gold closed in New York on the 21st
at 113.
The tow-boat Raven exploded her boil
ers at Cincinnati, on the night of the 10Th.
There were twenty-three persons on
board at the time of the explosion. Three
were badly injured, five known to be
saved, and the remaining fifteen were
missing.
Every business block but two in Medina,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire on the morn
ing of the 18th. The loss, it was thought,
could not be less than 100000, the insur-
ance on which would not exceed one
third of that sum. Many persons were
burned, some severely, but no lives were
lost.
Washington dispatches of the 10th state
that "official information is received Of
Fenian designs on Canada,
but there is nothing on which the gov
can act. Many prominent gen
tlemen believe that the Canadian authori-
ties are moved by fears rather than facts. !"
" Nothing whatever has been done here
toward the reopening of the Alabama
claims question. Our government will
await the movement of Great
Britain"
A Washington telegram Of the nth
states that public business in Congress
was very much in arrears, and no one
thought of ending the session before the
first of July. @af6,
The First Congregational church and
some adjoining buildings. at Nashua, N.
H., including the post-office block, were
burned on the night of the 10th. Loss
100000. Two fremen were slightly in
jured. s a 4 e
Over seven thousand immigrants ar
rived at New York during the week
ending April 49,
A heavy frost in Georgia on the night
of the nth caused great damage to cot
ton, corn, and vegetable crops. Advices
from the canebrake or cotton belts are very
unfavorable.
Several hundred ship carpenters in
New York and vicinity were on strike
on the 18th against reduction of wages
from $400 to $3.50.
The O'Neill Fenian Congress assembled
in New York city on the 10Th. Between
fifty and sixty delegates were present,
circles in both the Eastern
and Western States. The proceedings
were mostly unknown, but the report
was current that some twenty or thirty