Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-01
Pacific bridge at Council Bluffs, Iowa, was
completed on Tuesday.
The South.

Thursday, between Gen. A. 8. Boden,E Chief |
of Police of New Orleans, and Hon. George
W. Carter, formerly Speaker of the House in |
the Louisiana Legislature. They exchanged |
shots with rifles at sixty PAGES without eff
feet. The differences were then amicably |
adjusted ......T TIE Meth odist Book Concern at |
Nashville was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night. Loss $4,000; insured for $4,000.
......A destructive fire occurred at Sharps-
burg, Bath county, KY, on Tuesday, con-
Stunning the Presbyterian Church and five OF
the best business houses in town. Three
men were arrested, charged with starting
the fire, and it was with difficulty that the
mob could be prevented from hanging them
On Saturday night fire broke out in
Goodall's boarding house, on Main street,
Memphis, Tenn. Owing to the scarcity of
water the building and several adjoining
ones were damaged to the amount Of 10,OO0;
fully insured. Henrietta Conley, colored,
employed ia Goodall's, was asleep at the
time and was burned to death ....A Will
mington, N. c., special says the Lowry gang
raided upon the town of Lumberton, and
carried off safe from the store of A. Fl.
Mcleod, with $4,000 deposited by various
parties for safe-keeping, there being no bank
in the town. Valuable papers were taken
from the Sheriff's safe. A posse of police
attempted the capture of the thieves, but
were too weak.
HENRY DORSEY, age 16, living four miles
south of Memphis, was accidentally killed
by his own gun, while attempting to shoot a,
wildcat. ALI the courts in Memphis have
been compelled to adjourn, owing to the coal
famine. 9 ~ ss
WOMAN named McManus while walking
on a platform at blast furnace, in Benwood,
near Wheeling, W. Va, on Monday, stepped
on loose board and fell to the ground, a
distance of Is feet She was carrying her
little boy in her arms at the time tile ACCT
dent occurred. The woman died soon after.
The boy had leg badly fractured..... The
suit of Fred Breitzman against the st. Louis
Packet Company for $4,000 for false i'm
prisonment and malicious prosecution in
1869, was decided in the First Circuit Court at
Memphis on Tuesday, by awarding Breitz-
man $4,000. .-. -...-.' ...s ..-..
Washington.
SECRETARY BOUTWELL, defends himself from
the fault found with him for the selection of
the Bigelow Block for the Post; Office site in
Chicago by asserting that the Government
saved 100000 thereby, and that he was
recommended to accept this bid by a. ma
JOFlJy VI Gu0 HeuUeTS VI Gue 1llluOlS OOQ-
gressional delegation. With reference to
the Government interest in the old site, it
has been suggested that it would serve
| for the location of new bonded ware
house.
WADE HAMPTON, M. G. Butler, and Ker-
shaw, of South Carolina, have reached
Washington, to ask for a hearing before the
Ku-Klux Committee, to defend themselves
against the charge made in the Senate, that
they were in active sympathy with the Ku-
Klux in that State. 1.-THE Senate in execu-
tive session on Monday confirmed the nomi-
nation of Charles Hale, of Mass achusetts, as
| Assistant Secretary of State.
Foreign. ~
WEST INH1A intelligence reports the suicide,
at Kingston, Jamaica, of Rev. Mr.. Rosen4
feldt, a convert from Judaism, who W as sent
there to Christanize the Jews. The French
Journal des De6Gts, commenting on the con-
| troversy over the Alabama claims, declares
that England and America are both wrong,
and fears a protracted misunderstanding
may lead to open rupture..... The French
Assembly on Thursday debated with much
feeling the proposal to head all tax papers
with the words Occasioned by the war of
1870" The Left moved to add to these
words, "decared by Napoleon" and the
Right moved as further addition, "and
continued by the Government of Septem-
| ber." The amendment Of the Left was
adopted, and the proposal passed the Assem-
| bly,. al.
| ACCOUNTS of q fearful Norther on the
Mexican coast are received. The English
bark Panuce, from Liverpool, which arrived
at Vera Cruz, on the 9th inst, dragged her
| anchors, and the vessel was lost Twelve Of
| the crew were drowned......A Halifax dis
| patch says the steamship New York expert
enced terrible weather on the voyage fro M
| Bremen. Her boats were carried away and
| knocked about on deck and badly cut in the
| face. One of the sailors fell from alott to
| the deck and was killed. E
The activity of Bonapartist agents who
are intriguing throughout France to secure
| the return of the ex-Emperor creates some
excitement in parliamentary circles at Yer
| sailles. ..... Minister Washburne has received
| instructions from his Government to nego-
tiate a postal treaty with France The
court martial of the persons connected with
the murder of several Dominican friars in
the town of Angel, Department of the
Seine, has ended. Three of the prisoners
were found guilty of murder, and were con-
| demned to death, and nine others were con-
| victed of completely in the crime, and
| awarded various terms of imprisonment.....
The subscription committee in Nancy have
already received 100000 francs in con-
tributions to the voluntary fund for the pay
ment of the war indemnity.
GEORGE II. BOXER, the newly appointed
| Minister Of the United States to CONSTANT
nople, was on Monday presented to Presi-
dent Theirs in Parisrby. Mr. Washburne......
I The Paris Opi,,ispe Rationale asserts that
| conspiracy has been discovered in which
three Generals under the late Emperor are
leaders. Their. plan was to disperse the As,
sembly by force and take possession of gthe
government, when they were to- be sup
ported by a large number Of ex-officers and
soldiers of the Empire from the North. The
| Opinione says that in consequence of this
revelation the Belgian frontier is carefully
guarded, and no one is permitted to cross
into France without passports. ....Bogumil
Dawson, the eminent tragedian, died near
! Dresden, Feb. 2, aged 54...... In the annual
estimate for the expenses of the English
army for the year there is a reduction of one
million pounds from the estimate of last
year.
IT is reported that Viscount Monck, who
was Governor General of Canada from 1861
to 1868, will be appointed Vioeroy of India
to fill the vacancy caused by the assassina-
ton of Earl Mayo. The English court cir
| cular announces that the Prince of Wales
| Intends to go to Y armonth to recuperate.....
| The injuries % Nine. Ristori, the well-known
tragedienne, by the recent railway accident
near Perugia, are more serious than at first
supposed. In addition to flesh bruis S, Ris-
| tori sustained fracture of the knee-pan,
which will render her unable to attend to
professional duties for long tme"....It is
reported that en- Sunday last the Pope signed
a decree convoking the Ecumenical Council,