Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-08-25

| Swiss government will not appoint an ar
| bitrator upon the Alabama claims until
those of England and Italy have been
| appointed An encyclical letter has been
issued by the Pope, urging the faithful to
| offer prayers for the freedom of the Holy
! See and the triumph and tranquility OF the
| church 80. The Ofciel Gazette publishes
decree appropriating for public use two con-
vents and three plats of ground in Rome
belonging to religious bodies. IAN improb-
| able rumor is ahoat that Victor Emmanuel
has offered to restore the quirinal to the
Pope, and enter into a league with France
and Spain to secure the perfect indepen-
dence of the Holy Father.
| COLLISIONS between the Orangemen and
Catholics, and between the Orangemen and
police, are reported daily in various parts of
Ireland 500. Queen Victoria is reported quite
| i'll, so much so that considerable anxiety is
| felt regarding her in the royal household
...... Liberal journals in Rome express the
readiness of Italy to accept an alliance with
France, if the latter will abandon all nego-
tiations relative to the Pope......A dreadful
calamity has visited the small Island of
Tagalonda in the Malay archipelago, about
| fifty miles northeast of the Island of Celebes
| An outburst of the volcano Ruwang was ac-
companied by convulsion of the sea, and
beings, cattle and horses from the island.
| The number of persons who persisted IS
stated at 416.
THE Emperor Napoleon has declined to
receive the address of welcome which it had
been proposed to tender him, except at the
expressed wish of the British nation......A
dispatch from Strasbourg states that dis
turbances have occurred there between
| Prussian troops and the inhabitants. Much
| animosity is shown by the inhabitants to-
ward the troops, and many attacks are made
on them without an opportunity Tor re-
| prisals. A number of Prussian troops be-
came involved in quarrel with several
| inhabitants, and a fight ensued, during
which number belonging to both parties
were killed and wounded.....I is stated on
authority that serious disagreements have
arisen between the French and German Gov
ernments with reference to the Frankfort
| peace negotiation. The present difficulties
are likely to lead to further complications
| which may result in the suspension OF the
treaty of peace negotiated between the two
Governments at Frankfort......A case Of
Asiatic cholera has appeared in London, and
creates extraordinary sensation among the
people, dispatch from Berlin says the
cholera is increasing in Konigsberg, but no
cases have yet occurred in Dantzig.
DISPATCHES dated the 10th announce two
fatal cases of cholera in Paris.....In Kon-
igsberg, Prussia, on the 18th inst, 81 per-
sons were attacked by cholera, and % died.
.....Advices from London state that fatal
cases of cholera had appeared on three
steamers from Cronstadt, in Russia, to Hull,
but the English authorities were taking
every measure to prevent its introduction
by ships arriving at their ports. .....General
Garibaldi is very ill, and his son Ricotti has
been summoned to his bedside at Caprera.
......Advices from Yokohama, Japan, dated
July %, state as follows: A heavy typhoon
at Kobe, on the 4th of July, caused the loss
of 400 lives. Several vessels were wrecked,
including the Pride of the Thames. The
captain, two mates, and the steward were
drowned. The damage to property is esti-
mated at $500, OOO.....The Gear has informed
Gen. Lefo, the French Ambassador, that no
treaty of alliance between Russia and Ger
many is in existence.