Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
General News Summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
a London dispatch of the 50th says the
cholera had made its appearance on board a
ship arriving at Liverpool.
A Madrid dispatch of the 30th says that the
total casualties resulting from the lombard
ment of Alicante had been only eleven killed
and thirty wounded. The Army of the North
had been reinforced with 5000 men. Don
Carlos, as King of Spain, had issued postage
stamps bearing his likeness.
A London dispatch of the 1st says that the
death of Sir Edwin Landseer, the celebrated
painter, had just been announced
A Dresden telegram says the King of Saxo-
ny was seriously i'll.
A Madrid diepatch of the 1st says dissen-
sions in the ranks of the Carlists were in
creasing. The leaders Dorregarry, Roda,
and Lizzaraga had left their commands
and arrived at Bayonne. Hundreds of
deserters from Cartagena were coming
into the lines. They represent that demor-
alization and insubordination within the
city had increased. A majority of the .insur-
gents wished to surrender but were over-awed
by liberated convicts and the more desperate
portion of the volunteers. The news of the
failure of the fleet at Alicante had caused a
panic in the city.
Paris dispatch of the Sd says the city on
that day had been full of exciting and con-
ficting rumors looking to the speedy estab-
lishment of the monarchy. Count de Cham
bord would issue manifesto shortly.
A Rome, Italy, dispatch of the Sd says that
the Pope, on the preceding day, in an address
h 3oIo had fOllnwino lan-
guage: Confusion has entered the enemy's
camp. They strive to induce me to leave
Rome, but never will.
A special dispatch of the Sd says that Cen
trail Asia had become in an extensively dis
turbed condition. A civil war had been rag
ing in Khokan against the ruler. The Turco-
mans of the desert around Khiya were OBJ
stinately fighting the Russians; the Afghans
were fighting the Persians, and Yakoub Bey
was fighting the Chinese in the extreme limit
of that Empire. Bokhara seemed to be the
point of contention. 1t was said that the
Russians would be compelled in selfdefense
to take the same course toward Bokhara
which had recently been taken towards Khiva,
and reduce it to the condition of Russian
dispatch from Cartagena, Spain, ef The Sd
says that the insurgent frigates had not been
much injured during the late bombardment of
Alicante, and that they proposed soon to at
tack Valencia.
London dispatches of the Sd say that Parlia-
ment had again been prorogued until Decem-
Der 16 Advices from the Cape of Good Hope
are to the effect that sickness had broken out
o,,,opor +ha trooDs on that coast Ont of one
detachment of 104 marines, 80 were in the
hospital A chimney 220 feet high, in the
village of Northfeet, had fallen, killing five
persons and naming dozen others.
A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt, of the
4th, says financial panic had prevailed in
that city for several days.
A special dispatch from Paris, of the 5th
states that $50 deputies of the French Assem-
bly, had pledged themselves to support a mo-
ton for the restoration of the monarchy.
Theirs had consented to the proposed alliance
between the Republicans and Imperialists, as
the only means of preventing the restoration
of the monarchy with Count de Chambord as
Henri V.
A Madrid dispatch of the 5th says that
General Noriones had offered the Carlists bat
tie before Estella. They refused to fight, and
had hastily evacuated the place, which was
occupied by Government forces.
A Paris dispatch of the 9th says the trial
of Marshal Bazaine, by court-martial, for mis-
conduct at Forbach and Metz, had been com
menced on the morning of that day. The
impression prevailed that he would be con-
1emned to death and then pardoned.