Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-09-26
General News summary.
THE OLD wORLD.

special dispatch from Madrid says the
bombardment of Cartagena had recommended
The insurgents were actively engaged in
mounting their guns, made frequent sorties
out, and captured cattle with impunity. The
| Pampelunia authorities had levied a tax on
clergymen and others suspected of favoring
the Carlists.
| A recent storm on the Black Sea caused the
loss of seventy vessels south of the Bosphorus
At one point 265 dead bodies had been washed
ashore.
Chief Justice Cockburn, at the close of the
4 hearing in the Tichborne case ON the 18th, said
| that if the claimant resumed his travels
through the country representing himself as a
martyr, it would be the duty of the court to
put stop to the scandal by committing him
to Jail. Every judge and juryman connected
with the case had been threatened with assassi-
nation if verdict against the defendant should
be brought in. The Chief Justice warned the
| claimant that if he made another speech or
| appeal before the public he would surely be
imprisoned. New revelations are made every
day of the trial, and public interest in the case
| increases.
| The British Board of Admiralty have received
| y
have been attacked by pirates near Penang
and two of their officers wounded. The man
of-war Thalia had been dispatched to the scene
of the outrage with orders to chastise the
pirates.
The Cologne Gazette of the 18th says that
cholera is raging with great violence in Hun
gary, and that the percentage of deaths is un-
usually large.
a telegram was received at the State Depart
ment, on the morning of September 10, from
VIM. Reed, Vice-C Consul of the United States,
at Dundee, Scotland, announcing that the
missing members Of the Polaris crew had ar
rived there in a destitute condition. Ten
were brought in by the Ravenscraig, and three
were expected to arrive in the whaler Intrepid,
within two weeks. Consul Reed was instruct
| ed to care for them and send them home by
the first steamer They say, after separation
from Tyson and his companions, the
! Polaris was abandoned in sinking
condition. The party wintered in Lifeboat
Cove, and in the spring built two boats of
pine, and in these embarked as soon as the ice
broke up. On the 22d of June they were pick
ed up by the RavensCraig.
Vienna dispatch of the 10Th says that it
had been officially reported thatthere had been
2, 755 cases of cholera at Vienna since the out
break of the disease, and that OF this number
hours preceding, forty-one fresh cases had
| been reported.
| A dispatch from London, on the 10Th, stated
that the announcement of the financial panic
in New York had caused great excitement and
wild fluctuations in the price of securities, but
no failures had occurred.
dispatch from London, of the 10Th, an
nounced the decease of the Emperor of Nor
rocco, and that civil war had broke out in
that country between the son and brother of
the deceased Sultan.
A telegram from Madrid, of the 21st an
nounced that the Cortes had adjourned on the
evening of that day. Malaga had been occu-
| pied by the government forces under General
Pavia 1t was reported that General Pieltain,
Captain General of Cuba had been recalled.
The crew of the yacht Deerhound, captured
by Spanish cruiser after landing cargo of
arms for the Cariists, had been released. The
end of the Cartagena insurrection was ap-
preaching.
A Paris dispatch of the 21st says that DR..
Nelaton, the distinguished French scientist,
had died at midnight on the preceding day.
According to Madrid dispatch of the 22d,
the entire British fleet in Spanish waters had
collected in the harbor of Alicante, which city
was threatenened with bombardment by the
insurgent iron-clads. The British Admiral,
supported by all the foreign Consuls, had de-
manded postponement of hostilities forfour
T od hot tha elf of
the Carlists in the north of Spain had become
precarious, and desertions were numerous.
Decentralization abounded on every hand.
Garibaldi had offered his sword to the service
Of Spain, but this had been declined with
thanks. A proclamation had been made by
the President suspending constitutional guar
antees, establishing a vigorous censorship over
the press, and prohibiting the carrying of
arms by civilians
A London dispatch of the 22d says that on
the preceding day desperate conflict had
taken place in Bury st. Edmunds, between
mob of Irishmen and body of policemen
The officers were compelled to use their clubs
vigorously, and did not succeed in dispensing
the rioters until many Of them had received
severe injuries. A renewal of the disturbance
was apprehended. During the progress of the
rioting several houses were attacked and
sacked
The Spanish steamer Murillo, which ran
down the emigrant ship Northfeet, some
months ago, having arrived at Dover, had
been detained by order of the British Admi-
ralty Board.
A Berlin telegram of the 22d says that Vic
tor Emanuel, King of Italy, had reached that
city on visit to the Emperor. 1t was said
that one of the objects of his visit was to Sc
cure an understanding with the Emperor for
joint action againsts possible French aggres-
sions, and to prevent the election of French
ultramontane to the papacy.
THE NEW WORLD.
Dennis Chapman, an old operator on the
Chicago Exchange, on the 10th, sent bullet
crashing through his brain, in the wash-room
adjoining the Board of Trade hall. Recent
losses occasioned by grain speculations are
supposed to have led to the deporable tragedy.
A special to the Minneapolis Tribune an
nounces the capture of Lord Gordon Gordon