Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-01-26

melt of interest -thereon......Ihe steamer
Importer sunk at Horse Head, below van
Buren,, Ark, on Tuesday. She IS total
loss. She had 1000 bales of cotton en- route
to New Orleans.
Washington.
TIE President has author zed the adoption
of an additional rule by the Advisory CIVIL
Service Board, allowing temporary appoint
ments TO be made without examination,
where the necessities demand il, pending
TIE perfecting form of Civil Service ezaml-
nation. "a
The resignation of Vincent Collyer as Sec
rotary of the Board of Indian Commissioners
has been accepted. 1.-THE Territorial Dele
gates have united in request to the Presi-
dent that hereafter, in making appoint
ments in the territories, he would select
from citizens Of the same, as he does IN case
of the States...... Secretary Belknap, under
Joint resolution Of Congress, has set apart
j, 52I acres for a military post at Fort Smell
ling, and has conveyed the remainder OF the
military reservation to purchasers on prin-
ciples of equity. There are twenty-five ap-
plicants for position made vacant by the
RESIGNATION of clerk in the Postothce De-
partment on Monday last. The Postmaster
General has directed that the applicants be
submitted to competitive examination, and
that the names Of three who pass the best
examination be sent him. from these he
will seltet one for the appointment.
Foreign.
A TERRIBLE explosion occurred in the
lakewood colliery, Wales, on Thursday. One
gang was shut off and probably persisted.
Eleven men were taken out dead. Immedi-
L. Gopoac hrOlya o11t
and the extensive works and machinery
were entirely destroyed ....,. Viscount Parker
Milbank, M. P, in an address denounces
the public course of Sir Charles Dixie. He
promised to call on him to repeat in Parlia-
1nent his declarations in regard to the Crown
and Government, and on his falling to an
swer, to brand him as he deserves.
The smallpox is spreading through oft
the British Isles. Cardinal Cullen permits
the use of meat on Friday for sanitary rea-
sons, owing to the prevalence of the disease
......A committee of the French Assembly
has reported in favor of repeating the law
sequestrating the estates of the Orleans
princes..It is reported that President
| rhers has requested Gambetta to. discon-
| tinue his public addresses in the south Of
| Franco. Letters from Havana state that
the sentence of the American Doctor Howard
|
| approved by the Captain General.
NUMEROUS kilograms have beensent to
Madrid, via Key West, protesting against
Valmaseda's removal, and a steamer, char
tered expressly for the purpose, has sailed
| carrying remonstrances of the colonies OF
many volunteer regiments, as we'll as cti
zens..... 1t is rumored that Minister DeLone
has accepted a mission from Japan, similar
to that Of Mr.. Burlingame's from China
with salary of 100000 per year. ST.. r.
The newspapers of Paris and all other
large towns in France oppose the taxation O.
raw materials suggested by Foyer Quertier
Their columns are filled with articles fore
telling the disastrous effects the imposition
Of the tax will have upon the industries O.
the country 1905 The Spanish Ministry ha;
unanimously resolved not to remove Count
Valmaseda from Havana.
THE sale of the French newspapers ConSti
tutiomnel and Gaulois has been prohibited by
the Governmental. Hostility to the imposi
ton of a tax on raw material is spreading
throughout France, and deputies are daily
arriving at Versailles to protest against the
measure...... Notwithstanding the efforts o
the French authorities to prevent the assas
SludJlOn Ol OSTHdu So1ulS1S AZ CHS W
cupied departments, these outrages still con
tinue. Another case is just reported, the
victim being a Prussian soldier belonging tt
the garrison at Luneville, in the department
of the Meurthe. The German military com
mander has demanded the surrender of thu
assassin, and the French authorities are
searching for him...~.A company to run {
lire of steamships between Naples and New
York has been organized in the former city
THE Channel Tunnel Company has beer
registered in London as a legal corporation
...... The treaty for the session to great Britain
of the Dutch possessions on the Guinea eoas
meets with violent opposition in Holland
where it is generally atigmatized as dis
honorable...... The Telegraph Construction
and Maintenance Company of London have
signed g contract for the laying OF an At
lantic telegraph cable to New York, direc
.....A number of ex-officers of the French
army, at the invitation of the japanese
Government, are about to proceed to Japar
to instruct the native army in military tao
tics...... Published statistics show that $4,000
emigrants left Germany last year, nearly al
going to the United States.