Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-03-29

eastern part of Louisville, shot himself on
Sunday night with shotgun, placing the
muzzle in his mouth and touching the trigger
with a cane. The cause is supposed to be
temporary insanity, from heart disease.
John s. Washington, for thirty-five years
marine reporter of the New Orleans Plea
y1tne, is dead.
DIR. GosHoRN, Postmaster at Dyersburg,
Tenn, has absconded with nearly $4,000 in
Government funds. Sam. Russell, son of
the proprietor of the hotel at Paris,
Tenn, accidentally shot himself on Satur-
day while hunting, causing death in few
hours.
L. .GALLEN, of Meade county, Kentucky,
was killed on Tuesday by a falling tree,
which blew down on him while at work in
lector of the Fifth MARYLAND Dirtrict, has
been arrested and deposed from his posi-
ton, charged with being defaulter in sum
ranging from $40, 900 to $50, 200,
GEORGE ScHwAB, aged IS, died while sta
ting in chair in a saloon at Louisville on
Wednesday. Old age and restitution is
supposed to be the cause.
Washington.
THE President on Tuesday signed the act
of Congress authorizing the survey and
marking of a boundary between the terri
tory of the United States and the posses
sessions of Great Britain, from Lake of the
Woods to the summit of the Rocky Noun
tains.
Foreign.
FIVE new English war vessels have been
launched during the past two weeks.."..A
telegram from Gibraltar reports distressing
disaster in that harbor, whereby number
of people belonging to the royal navy lost
their lives. A boat belonging to the British
steam frigate Ariadne, at anchor off the
town, while going from the vessel to the
shore, capsized, and eleven persons were
drowned, including two officers. ...It is re-
ported that Theirs on Wednesday gave final
notice to England of the remuneration by
France of the commercial treaty between
the two nations. 49,. Posen, the apothecary
who was suspected of contemplating a muir
derous attack on Bismarck, has been released.
THE Archbishop of Cologne has formally
communicated Profs. Hilgers, Knoodt,
Teggen, and Rush, of the University of
Bonn, for their rejection of the dogma of
engineers Naaf, Riggenbach and Zschokke
are about to construct a railway to the sum-
NIT of Mount Vesuvius, similar to that at
Mount Washington.
A PENSION of $1,000 has been granted to
Lady Mayo, and 100000 has been settled on
her children by the British Governmental.
The assassin of Lord Mayo has been exc
cuted at Calcutta. He made a confession
and declared that the death Of the Viceroy
was not the result of conspiracy, as he
alone designed and carried out the murder.
He also said that he intended to kill Gen.
Stewart, who accompanied the Earl of
Mayo on his tour of inspection to Fort
Blain, and was only prevented from fully
executing his purpose by the promptness of
his arrest after attacking the Viceroy.
A VIENNA dispatch of Tuesday says:
The workingmen in the mines of the Roths-
childs, at Wittnawitz, in Moravia, enragcd
at the non payment of their wages, attacked
the Offices of the Superintendent. Gaining
entrance, they burst open the safe and ap-
propriated the contents. They then de-
molished the building. The soldiers were
called out and fired on the rioters. Four
were killed, fifty wounded, and one hun
dred arrested. Order has been restored,
but the mines are guarded by the mill
tary.
A SERIOUS confagration occurred at Dus-
seldorf, Germany, on Wednesday. Among
other buildings, the famous Academy of Art
was burned, and many of the most valuable
paintings were destroyed. .....A Russian I'm,
perial decree reopens Sebastopol as COM.
mercial and military harbor, with the forti-
fications restored. >.@