Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-12
Anticipated Trouble in the
French Assembly.
How the Sultan of Morocco
CueIIS an InSurrection.
The Views of the President Upor
Specie Payment.
Suit to Test the Validity of the Wis
consfn Railroad Law.
Interesting Personal, Political and
General News.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
| ACCORDING to Madrid dispatches of the I'd
demonstration was making against San Be-
bastian. 1t was thought the Carlists would
capture that city, According to Madrid dis
patches of the 4th Lequeitto, a Biscayan mar
| itime town, had been bcmbarded by Repub-
lican vessel because. foreign vessel laden
| with articles contraband of war had been
admitted into the port. On the 9Th 500 of the
| Intransgente insurgents who some time since
escaped from Cartagena to. Algeria re-em-
barked for Spain on Spanish steamer. Over
5000, 600 in gold were recovered. According
to Bavonne dispatches of the 9th serious
mutiny had broken out among the National
forces at Guipuzcoa. 1t was rumored in Mad
rid that the Carlists had been defeated in
Gangia.
ACCORDING to Paris dispatch of the 5th
| the council of war had sentenced to death
Deputy NJ Bloncourt, of Guadaloupe, for par
ticpation in the acts of the Commune. M
Bloncourt escaped from France several months
ago. On the 9th 10 Deputies united in a
manifesto calling for proclamation of
definite French Republic or dissolution of
the Assembly. The excitement in Paris was
very grave. The feeling in the French capital
on the Sth was very gloomy in consequence of
the demand of the Left. The proposal for a
dissolution of the Assembly had been signed
by 125Deputies. ~ '
THE owners of the Durham collieries, ac
cording to a London dispatch of the 4th, were
evicting large numbers Of their striking ten
ants.
|. CAPT. GEN. CoNCHA has decreed that the
price of gold in Cuba shall be regulated by
notice which he will give every morning.
THE Catholic Episcopate of Bohemia has re-
solved to array itself against the Ecclesiastical
laws. a 81 UA1a So ~
THE Sultan of Morocco, according to tele-
grams, received in London on the Sth, had
finally quelled the insurrection in the city of
Fez. A heavy cannonade had been opened
upon the place, and ninety persons were killed.
The insurgents surrendered and the Sultan
granted them amnesty.
THE NEW WORLD.
ar the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway, held in Chicago on the 4th, resolu-
ton was adopted approving of the action OF
the Directors in contesting the recent Wiscon-
sin legislation. A Milwaukee Judge, on the
4th, decided the Potter law to be constitu-
tional in an action brought by certain Ocono-
mowoc parties against the st. Paul Railway.
The case was appealed to the Supreme Court.
The Wisconsin roads have decided to adopt
the plan of requiring all passengers to prepay
their fares before entering the trains. The
hearing on the application for an injunction
restraining the officers of the State of Wiscon-
| sin from enforcing the Railway law until its
validity can be determined has been postponed
| until the third week in June. 6&
GEN. Bristow was confirmed as Secretary of
| the Treasury on the I'd, and the nomination of
| e1-secretary Richardson as Associate-Justice of
| the Court of Claims was also confirmed. On
| the 4th Gen. Bristow assumed the duties of
Secretary of the Treasury, and Mr.. Sawyer
rendered his resignation as Assistants Secre-
| tary.
THE wife of Michael Dwyer, of Brooklyn,
NY, killed her three children and seriously
| hurt her husband on the morning of the I'd.
She was insane. azr 5&S s Ti
ANOTHER suit was brought by the Illinois
Railway Commissioners against the Chicago q
Alton Railroad Company on the I'd, for viola
| ton of the Illinois Railway law.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has given
notice of the readiness of the Department to
redeem 500 bonds as follows: Third series,
act of Feb 25, 1862, $50 coupon bonds Nc.
10,6O1 to No. IL, 100, both inclusive; 500, No.
"a ,OO1 to "a, 400; $500, No. 17,601 to $4,000;
/ 1000, No. ,0O1 to 46, 100; registered $50,
No. 1,411 to ], 1,45O; $l00, No. 10,561 to 10,6S0;
$500, No. 6,3O1 to $3.50; 81, 900, No. 25,651 to
26, 100; $4,000, NO. S, ,101 to $500; 900, No.
1881 to 1O,5O9. Total, $5,O0o,0o0 Interest
will cease on the above bonds on the Sd of
September next.
Col. Scorr was elected President of the
PENNSYLVANIA Central Railway Company On
j the Sd.
| DIR. PATTON the prosecutor of Prof. Swing
before the Chicago Presbytery, has taken an
appeal to the Synod of Northern Illinois, bas-
ing his appeal upon the I" prejudice, haste, in
| justice, mistakes and irregularities" OF the
| former body.
/ WINTERMUTE, who murdered Gen. McCook,
Secretary of Dakota Territory, in September
last, has been convicted of manslaughter.
Gov. WESTON, of New Hampshire, was in
augurated on the 4th.
/ THE Committee of Conference on the Cur
rency bill, on the 4th, decided to recommend
that 371a per cent be the proportion of
greenbacks to be retired; the abolition of re-
serves in circulation; and Jan. 1, 1878, as the
time for the resumption of specie payment.
sA- GEN. SHERIDAN telegraphed to the military
authorities on the 5th that the Indians in the
vicinity of Fort Abraham Lincoln had taken
the r-path in large numbers.
THE Anti-Secret Society Convention, recent
ly held at Syracuse, N. Y, adopted resolu-
tions declaring that in all secret, oath-bound
fraternities, including Oranges and seerei
temperance societies, the convention recog
nizes conspiracy against all who do not be
long to them, and standing menace to the
religion of Jesus Christ; expressing special
opposition to speculative Free Masonry; re-