Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-17
LATEST NEWS.
Continued Legislative Complica-
tions in France.
Attempted Assassination Of
Prince Bismarck.
The Grasshopper InfiictiOn i'm
Southwestern Minnesota.
Religious Troubles in the Republic of
Venezuela.
Another Reservoir Gives Way in
Massachusetts,.
Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas on
the War-path.
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Religious Troubles in the Republic of
Venezuela.
Another Reservoir Gives Way in
Massachusetts.
Cheyennes, Comanches and Kiowas on
the War-path.
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
THE OLD WORLD.

THE OLD WORLD.
On the 7th the French Assembly
passed the Municipal Electoral bill. Paris
dispatches of the same date say that the
Moderate and Extreme Left with 120 Le-
gitimst Deputies had combined to over
throw the Ministry Affairs eliminated in the
French Assembly on the 8th. motion that
the Assembly regretted the suspension OF
L Union was promptly voted down by 179 to
| so, the Left not voting. Thereupon M. Paris,
| of the Right Center, moved " that the Assem-
| bly,, resolving to uphold the septennial powers
conferred upon Marshal MacMahon, Presi-
dent of the Republic, and furthermore reserv-
ing the questions submitted to the Committee
on Constitutional Bills, passes to the order OF
the day." Announcement was made that the
Government identified itself with this mo-
ton. The motion was rejected by 331 yeas to
1868 nays Immediately after the adjournment
a Cabinet council was held, at which. the
Ministers rendered their designations, which
| President MacMahon peremptorily refused to
accept. Dispatches of the 9th say that the
Republican papers of that date had advised
the dissolution of the Assembly on account of
it's powerlessness to conduct affairs as at pres
ent existing. A message from the President
had been read to the Assembly, in which he
informed that body that he is President and
that he would hold control until the
expiration of the septennat, and suggested
the necessary legislation to secure to the
country defined institutions, calm and pros
peritv. Upon the conclusion of the reading
of the message a Deputy entered motion for
N1xr ox,6 fHoff f1,a
motion be declared urgent. The demand for
urgency was negatived by large majority,
and the motion to dissolve was referred to a
committee San Francisco Journals contain
inc articles by Rochefort had been seized in
the Postoffice. According to Paris dispatches
of the 10th the Committee of Thirty had held
an important meeting with the Minister OF the
Interior, at which the latter gave in his adhe-
sion to the bill drawn up by the committee.
The Leoititimsts were said to be irritated by
the Presidents recent message and would op-
pose the personal septennat. According to a
Paris dispatch of the 18th the Figaro had been
suspended for melting hostility to the Assem-
bly,.
ACCORDING to Madrid dates of the Sth the Re
publican army had been reorganlzed into two
corps, preparatory to active operations In the
field. A dispatch of the 10th says that the
Carlist Gen. Dorregary had issued a manifesto
iustifvine the shooting of Republican prison
ers. According to a London speelal from
Madrid of the 18th the Carlists had attempt
ed to intimidate the newspaper correspond
ents by shooting some of them as spies. The
Republicans had recently defeated Carlist
column near BilbOa.
On the morning of the 7th collision oc-
curred on the Lancashire & Yorkshire Rail-
wav. bv which five persons were killed and
several injured.
According to late London dispatch, En-
gland had demanded $60O0,O00 OF Spain as in
demnitv for its massacre of British subjects
captured on the Virginius.
ONLY half a million natives of India were
dependent on Government charity on the oth,
according to a Calcutta dispatch.
LATE advices from Australia report that the
clipper ship British Admiral was sunk, on the
5th of June, on Kings Island, in the Pacific.
| Of the lightweight persons on board, only
nine escaped.
| On the 10th London aeronautic professor
was instantly killed by falling with a newly
| invented flying machine from balloon in
mid-air. The contrivance did not work as he
| expected
| WHILE Prince Bismarck was sojourning at
the Saline Springs at Kissengen, on the 18th,
| cooper named Kullman fired a revolver at
him, the shot grazing his wrist, but inficting
| no serious damage. He was arrested.
| LATE Panama advices say that religious
| troubles had broken out in Venezuela. The
| President of that Republic had decreed the ex-
| pulsion of the Bishop of Merida, because he
opposed the law establishing civil marriage.
THE NEW WORLD.
IN response to letter from number OF
citizens, says an Augusta (Ga.) dispatch OF
| the 7th, Alex. III. Stephens had announced his
determination not to be a candidate for re-
election to Congress ON account of falling
| health.
| A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 7th says OF
the 5 per cent. National Bank reserve re-
quired to be kept in the Treasury, S9,0OO,OOO
| had been received, which is one-half of the
total amount to be deposited under the new
law. Applications for bank charters had
reached $300O,0O0, and the circulation sur
rendered S2,OOO,O0o.
THE Lincoln (Neb.) Land Office has been
| transferred by direction of the President to
Bloomington, iii the same State.
THE Rt. Rev. Richard V. Whelan, Catholic
Bishop of the Diocese of Wheeling, w. Va,
| died at Baltimore on the 7th
THE grain inspection fees in Illinois were
reduced throughout the State on the
7th by the Board of Railroad and
| Warehouse Commissioners, who have
tl,at the Sl,all he in