Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-05-03

A rELEGRAPHIo dispatch from Bombay has
| been received at London announcing that
the ship Maria, which left that port on
March Is for Liverpool, was wrecked, and
thirty five persons lost their lives. In the
English House of Commons, Friday even
] ing, Thomas Hughes, member from Frome
| moved an address to the Queen, praying her
to urge OF the Spanish Government the
prompt ful6llment u its treaty obligations
so long neglected, regard to slavery and
the slave trsde in the Island of Cuba......An
explosion occurred on the steamer Illyrian,
on the Mersey, on Friday morning. Four
persons were killed outright and three dan
gerously injured. .....Mr. Periere has declined
the offer of the French mbassadorship at
London, and the Duke d'Harcourt will prob
| ably be appointed to the place......The Sui
tan of Turkey has sent one of his steam
yachts to Odessa to convey General Sherman
and Lieutenant Grant and friends to Sebas-
topol. W. Thayer, United States Consul
at Trieste, has joined the party lon March
8, the explosion of a ma gazine at Tientsn,
China, destroyed eighty houses, and many
lives were lost.
ONE of the walls of a building in course of
erection in the town of Kirkaldy, Scotland,
fell on Saturday morning, causing deplor-
able loss of life. Nine masons who were
engaged at work upon the building were
| suffocated.. 49,. One hundred and fifteen emil
| grants sailed from Liverpool for Canada on
| Wednesday last, under the auspices of Miss
Rye. Her project is for the relief of English
poor by colonization in the Dominion.
ADvIcEs from Rio Janeiro announce the
death on March 4 of M. Nicholas Bodisco,
Secretary of the Russian Legation in Brazil.
| M. Bodisco was native of America and a
! brother of the Russian Consul General at
| New York.....A Montevideo letter says tn at
| Prof. Agassiz and several of his party were
arrested there by an officer who thought he
| discovered evil intent because they were
filing their pockets with pieces of rock.
| All were taken to the guardhouse, but were
| soon released. THE Great Western Tele-
| graph Company, new Atlantic cable pro-
| ject, is prominently noticed in all the Lon
| don papers. A contract for making and
| laying cable has been concluded with
Hooper's Telegraph Works. The prospectus
states the charges for ordinary me ssages be-
tween England and America will be half of
the present rate, or SIS per ten words.
Hon. John, JAY, United States Minister to
Austria, and Count Andrassy, Minister of
Foreign Affairs, have exchanged ratifca-
tons of the trademark convention recently
negotiated between the United States and
Austria..... The claimant in the Tichborne
case has been admitted to bail. He will be
summoned sosn to answer the charges of
perjury and forgery.
A PROCLAMATION has been issued by King
Amadeus of Spain, declaring the provinces
of Navarro, Lerida and Biscay in state of
siege. 1t is stated that the Carlist bands in
these provinces decline to risk engagements
with the Government forces in the open
field, but harass the troops sent against
them by marches, countermarches, and am
buscades. The number of revolutienist in
Navarro is said to be 1000, we'll equipped.
.....Mr. Langevan, Canadian Minister of
Public Works, has introduced resolutions in
the Dominion Parliament that the Govern
ment should proceed Immediately with the
improvement and enlargement of the canals,
and recommending the construction of a
canal capable of floating sea-going vessels
from the Gulf o. st. Lawrence to the Bay of
Fundy.