Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-08
General News summary.
THE OLD WORLD.

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President MacMahon prorogued the Assem-
bly, on the Goth. In his address he guaranteed
to preserve order during the recess, and stated
that the Government was resolved to maintain
peace, which is frances present greatest ne
cessity. He made grateful acknowledge
of the successful negotiations of President
| Theirs in securing the evacuation of French
soil by the German troops.
| Vienna dispatches of the goth state that il
the barracks in the suburbs of that city there
had been in one day as many as two hundred
cases of cholera and thirty deaths. The mum
Der of deaths from that disease in the city was
reported at twenty per day. The same dispatch
es say there was no doubt that many of the
highest prizes for goods exhibited at the Ex
position will be awarded to Ameeicans.
After two hours fighting at Seville, on the
Goth, the Government troops of Spain gained
and held the leading strategic points in the
city. The Carlist forces which had been LAYING
seige to Borga for several days had met with 9
repulse and raised the seige.
The approaching marriage of the Duke OF
Edinburgh and the Grand Duchess Alexan.
drovna, of Russia, was announced to the
House of Commons, ON the 2Sth. Her Males
~ asked that suitable provision be made fol-
him in anticipation of the event. In the
House of Lords, on the 29th, the motion fol
an annual allowance of S1250O0 to the royal
pair was carried unanimouslyIw without debate
but in the House of Commons the measure
met with opposition.
Permission has been granted to the GOOD
TO 1oJo 10,
Paris dispatches of the 3Oth ult. say it is
currently reported that Marshal MacMahon
will retain the Presidency of $he Republic but
six months longer, when he will resign and
return to the command of the army. 1t is
thought that the Republican form of govern
ment will be succeeded by the Monarchy, and
it is deemed necessary that Marshal Mcmahon,
who has great influence with the army, should
be in command upon the occasion of the
change.
1t is sal that women played conspicuous
part in th recent massacre at Alcoy, Spain,
as they did in Paris during the Commune, and
that nothing which occurred in Paris, even
in the last frenzied agony of desperation and
baffied fury, at all approaches the brutal mas
sacre in the former city.
In the British House of Commons, ON the
31st ult., the bill granting an annuity OF
Eos, 900 to the Duke of Edinburgh, upon his
approaching marriage, was passed to second
reading by vote of 162 to IS.
A dispatch received at Madrid on the even
ing of the 31st ult., announces that the
insurrection in Seville had been suppressed
and the city was occupied by Government
troops.
A Paris dispatch says that the German
troops evacuated Nancy and Belfort on the
31st ult., after burning all their goods which
could not be taken away. The inhabitants Of
both cities remained in their houses while the
Germans were leaving.
A Madrid dispatch announces ship fight
at Malaga on the 1st, and the defeat of the in
surgents, with loss of eighty-seven killed
The departure of the insurgent fleet from AL
meria caused great rejoicing.
The Insurgents, 1000 strong, attacked Por
tugalite, seven miles from Bilboa, on the
morning of the LIST. The garrison made .
vigorous and successful defense. The Car
lists were defeated with heavy loss, ant
driven over the Galinda River 1t was re
ported in Paris, on the LIST, that Don Carlos
had captured Estella, with the entire gar
rison, which surrendered as prisoners of war
The bill granting $125, 900 per annum to tht
Duke of Edinburgh, on the occasion of hi
marriage, was passed in Committee of tn,
House of Commons on the 1st.
The Shah of Persia arrived at Vienna on th,
I'd, and was received by the Emperor
portion of the Jesuits expelled from Ger
many have found a new home in Lancashire
England. Others have established themselves
at Stonyhurst and st. Buenox, in the North o.
Wales.
A dreadful accident occurred on the morning
of the I'd, on the Northwestern Railway, neal
Wigan, Lancashire, to the Scotch-tourist ex
press train from London. Twelve persons
were instantly killed and thirty wounded
Among the killed is Sir John Anson Many Of
the injured would die
A Madrid dispatch of the I'd says many per-
sons who joined the insurrection in the south
in favor of the independence of cantons, had
abandoned the cause in consequence of the
excesses committed by the insurgents during
the occupancy of Seville by the insurrection-
lists. Many buildings in various quarters OF
the city were burned, and in number of the
streets every house and store was robbed. The
conduct of General Contreras, in bombarding
defenseless towns, was producing an immense
reaction in favor of the National Government.
At meeting in Hyde Park, London, on the
Sd, to protest against the grant to the Duke of
Edinburgh, it was resolved that the Queen be
petitioned to refuse her assent to the bill.
A London paper of recent date says that
statements had been officially made that the
English Government knew nothing of the
Persian concession to Baron Reuter- until it
had been granted. Earl Granville stated in
the House of Commons that the first he
heard of it was from Reuter- himself, last
September. A correspondent says that Reuter-
regarded his concession with the eye of an
Englishman, which he regards himself by res
idence and interest, and offered Earl Granville
an opportunity to reap the political benefit of
the grant for England. Granville ignored the
political significance of the concession, and
treated it entirely as commercial speculation
which it was entirely out of the ordinary line
of the policy of the Government to protect
There was large popular demonstration in
Seville, Spain, on the Sd, in favor of the Gov
ernment. The members of the revolutionary
junta at Cadiz were under arrest on the 4th
The city of Grenada had surrendered to the
Government troops. The Province of Anda-
lusia was completely pacified.
A Paris dispatch of the 4th says there was
much excitement over the fact that Count de
Paris had gone to visit the Count de Cham
bord, and had arrived at Vienna, where he
was received by the Emperor Francis Joseph
In view of the reconciliation of the Bourbon
and Orleans branches, to which this pro-
ceeding points, the Vigilance Committees of the
Left and extreme Left of the Assembly were
holding daily sessions, and were prepared to
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