Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-07-21

| the purse was forgotten. 1t is generally be-
| lieved that the lamp was broken to conceal
the crime. Three cases of sunstroke were
reported at Louisville, Ky, on Monday, one
| of which was fatal. In one case the man was
rendered delirious from lying in the sun four
| hours on the grave of his wife, who recently
| died The books of the internal revenue
Office st Washington show that the orders for
| lager beer stamps now average 10000 per
| day, nearly four times as great as the orders
received during the corresponding time last
| year.
FEARFUL battle took place between a
| Sheriff and several Deputies and band of
negro desperadoes in Robson county, N. c.,
on the 10Th inst. Three of the Sheriff
posse were killed and three were wounded.
| 1.-The Postmaster General has determined
| to readvertise the routes awarded O accepted
| bidders who have failed to comply with their
| contracts. 1.-The Commissioner OF Patents
at Washington recently received from the
West the assignment of a patent sent there,
| for the recording of which there were inter
| nal revenue stamps to the amount OF Sl69 !;
| Just $168.95 in excess of the amount required
| by law, ON which the owner doubtless sup
| posed the assignment required five cent
stamps for every 500 received for the sale
of the patent, as the stamps were all care
| fully cancelled.
MARY E. WILLIAMS, aged II, and about TO
| become a mother, was taken from house of
prostitution in st. Louis, recently. 1t is al
feged she was seduced by Thos. Racine,
farmer living near Troy, Ill, who is said to
| have sent her to that city, and had her left
| at the above place. She has been placed in
the Female Guardian Home.....A cOlored
| deck hand on the steamboat Shannon,
| Mississippi boat, swore out warrant before
| United States Commissioner Garrett, at
| Memphis, recently, against the captain,
mate, and pilots of that boat for allowing his
partner, named Powell, to drown 20 miles
| above Memphis. Powell was rolling whisky
| from barge to the boat when the staging
| gave way and fell into the river. The men
started to his assistance, but the captain
ordered them to let Powell alone and save
| the whisky, which they did, and Powell was
drowned. 49,. Harriet Pindell, colored, was
| burned to death at Moscow, on Monday
night, in attempting to Bindle fire with a
| can of oil......A Mrs. E. g. Wharton, of Balti-
| timore, Md, has been arrested for poisoning
Gen. Ketchum and another man. Ketchum
| is dead, and the another man, named Van
ness, is in a critical condition. Poison has
| been found in Ketchum's stomach. He died
at Mrs. Wharton's house.
| Foreign.
| A DISPATCH from London says: Count de
| Chamburd is now at Chateau Chambord. He
| refuses to see the Orleans Princes until he
consults the people of France. His procla-
nation, calling upon the people to rally
around the Bourbon throne, creates great
| excitement. Unless the authorities inter
fere, there will be an imitation of Napol-
| cons StrasbOurg programme....".The Lon
! don Times publishes q letter indicating the
conduct of United States Minister Wash
burne during the seige of Paris, by the YER
sailles army, and stating in the most posi-
| tive terms that Washburne was never in ia
vor of the Communists. SILT is announced
| that the city of Paris will issue loan of
10000 900 francs to repair the buildings,
monuments, and public works damaged or
destroyed during the SIEGE. Official adj
vices from Russia declare that the Grand
| Duke Alexis Alexandrovtch will certainly
visit this country next fall, and will proba-
| bly, arrive here in September. 1.-The French
ship Severance has been totally wrecked
on the coast near the Cape of Good Hope.
All on board, including large number of
| passengers, were lost. One hundred and
| fifty bodies had been washed ashore from
| the wreck.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND Communist prisoners at
| Versailles have been released by order of
the Government, but 10000 are still held,
and will be tried in squads. 49,. Cardinal
Potrze, the Vice General, has prohibited the
| reading by members of the Church Ill the
Roman States, of non-clerical newspapers.
... Theirs, hearing that the Pope intended
to ask the hospitality of France, has adj
dressed q letter to the holy father, assuring
him of fitting welcome, but strongly dis
suading him from the project. Such pro
ceeding, he says, would offend Italy and
create difficulties in France, where it would
be impossible to grant his holiness privileges
suitable to his exalted position. Theirs
| promises the friendly offices of France as
a mediator between the Italian Government
and the Holy See, with a view to The restor-
alton of conciliatory relations between that
Kingdom and the head of the Church.....
| The French Government has paid to Switzer-
| land 100000 francs as a partial reimburse
| ment of the expenses incurred in the main
tcnance of the French soldiers who took
refuge on her soil. Switzerland restores to
France the greater portion of the war mate
rial brought across the frontier by the
| French army.
THERE is struggle among the Americans
in Paris to secure possession of the Com
munist prisoners as colonists. Some want
them for Colorado, and others for Lower
California and Arizona. The Government is
l
from London, bound to Quebec, was in colli-
sion a day or two since with the steamer
| Widgeon, in heavy fog, in the British
channel, of Eddystone Light. Both vessels
sustained such injuries that they sunk in q
| short time. The crews took to boats, and
the sea being smooth, reached the land in
safety THE English crew who are to COM
pete in the four-oared race, on the Kenne-
| beck ASK river, with the st. John crew, in
August, will sail on Friday next for Ameri-
ca, taking with them new boat Al feet long
and ISL inches broad, constructed expressly
for the race by Robert Jewett, of Dunston,
and named the England. The names of the
crew are James Renforth, stroke; James
Perry, John Bright, and Robert Chambers.
THE Saxon troops who served in the late
war made their triumphal entry into Ores
den on the 18th inst. 1t was announced
that Emperor William had made the Crown
Prince of Saxony Field Marshal of the
Empire.
FAvRE, in a speech before the French AS
sembly, declared the letter published as
from Theirs to the Pope, is apocryphal. The
Official Journal states positively that the
alleged letter is a forgery THE payment
of the first installment of the German in
demnity has been completed, and the
| evacuation of the department of the Seine,
Inferieure, Eure, and Somme, by the Ger
man forcss, has already begun. Count de
Polignas is dead Alexander Keith John
son, a distinguished geographer, died in
London on the 18th, in his 9th year.