Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-06

men rode up, and taking the prisoner,
carried him off short distance, and
shot him to death.
The South.
DR.. B. r. Willford, a prominent ply
sician and for many years professor of
meteria medIca in the Virginia medical
college died on the Doth, aged "A years.
Mrs. J. w. Corcoran died at Wash
ington on the Goth, of typhoid fever.
She was the daughter of Representative
Beck, of Kentucky, and was married on
the 9TH inst, to nephew of w. w. Car
an, of Washington.
The Senate, on the 22d, confirmed
the nomination of Robert Schenck, of
Ohio, as Envoy Extraordinary and Min
ister Plenipotentiary of the United
States in Great Britain.
A number of prisoners attempted
to break Jail at Nashville, Tenn, on the
ed. Shelton, colored jailor, shot and
killed one of them. The remainder
were then secured and ironed.
Thirty lives were lost by the
disaster to the steamer Nick Wall, bound
from st. Louis to New Orleans, on the
Mississippi river, near Vicksburg, on
Tuesday night, Among the passengers
were large number Of emigrants from
Chicago, bound for Georgia.
"A Natchez, Miss, dispatch, from
Memphis the 22d, says: "At 2 o'clock
this morning the steamers r. f. Lee
and Potomac collided opposite Natchez.
Both were badly damaged. The Lees
pilet ran ner on Z, bar, where she sank
in nine feet of water. The Potomac
was unloading for repairs. No lives
were lost"
Last Saturday afternoon, at Brownies
town, Jefferson county, KY, some men
and boys filled hollow anvil with pow
der, placed another anvil upon it, that
the explosion might be loud, when an
explosion occurred. One piece of the
anvil struck negro, Josh Lawson in the
breast, killing him instantly. A boy in
the party was slightly injured at the
same time in bar-room.
Foreign.
Dispatches from Vienna state tnat
the Turkish fleet is under immediate
orders for service, and extensive warlike
preparations have been made. The
Austrian official organ says the Emperor
declares Russia's reputation of treaty
obligations unlawful, and requires guar
antees against future notifications.
Russia continues her war preparations
on an immense scale.
Completion of the Mont Cenis
Tunnel. A dispatch from Susa an
nounces that the Alps were pierced
through on th Goth, and that the work
mon from both ends of the Mont Gents
tunnel joined in congratulatins upon
the completion of the great work.
The sinking of six English ships in
the Seine, by the Prussians, for the pur-
pose of obstructing navigation, has oc-
casioned great indignation throughout
England. The British vice consul at
Rouen has presented the Prussian COM
mander a formal protest against acts of
spoilation committed upon British sub
jects in the city.
The steamship City of Baltimore, at
Queenstown, from New York, reports
having passed, 800 miles from Fastnet,
a steamer, black, with white ports, who
reported loss of crew. She was bound
east under sail, and wanted no assis-
tance She is thought to be the Virgin
la, which left New York Dec. 3, for
Queenstown and Liverpool.
The Worlds special from London
says: "The. Manchester Guardian con-
tains statement that King William and
the princess royal of Prussia wrote to
the queen that they were opposed to the
marriage of Princess Louise with the
marquis of Lorne. The queen replied
with vehemence, advising them to mind
their own business. The incident has
materially changed the feelings of the
court toward Germany"
"A special to the World from London
contains a dispatch from Versailles,
dated Dec. %, which says: "A scheme
to assassinate the king of Prussia, Won
Moltke, and Bismark was discovered
here few days since. A number of
strangers arrived in the city on Wednes
day, when the gates were closed and the
citizens ordered to remain in their
houses on pain of death The patrols
then searched every place, and arrested
200 persons, of whom 20 were armed
with guns and pistols"
The news from the German Army
of the North is important. Gen. Man
teuffel is again marching on Havre with
much larger force than before. The
French report that they have taken
measures to resist them. An engage
ment is reported to have already oc-
Cured at Balbec, seventeen miles from
Havre, in which the French were victo-
rious, and that the Prussians bombarded
Male; thence they marched eastward
to Vervins.
"A dispatch from Blois the 22d says:
Plenty fighting, but no battles within
the past ten days by the army which is
operating on both sizes of the river, and
has possession of the country in the
neighborhood of Orleans and Blois. The
result may be retreat through the lat
ter city without general action. Every
day the outposts have a collision, and
the lines of one side or the other are
shelled. The French have repulsed the
enemy, but every night have slept
little nearer Blois, on the north side OF
the river. The engagements have taken
place for the most part on the triangle
formed by Beaugency, Mien, and
Marchenoir. Five days skirmishing in
that quarter has filled the hospitals with
wounded, and the roads in rear of the
army with stragglers. On the other
side the same continual and moderate
activity is kept up, the Prussians always
taking the initiative. and always sHek-