Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-06-19
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sDIspATcHEs of the 11th from the Span
ish frontier say that several Carlist bands
in the Basque provinces had reyolted
against Don. Carlos and demanded that the
war should cease The Don had ordered that
upon capture they should be shot. The Car
lists shot two officers, on the 18th, who had
mutinied at Durango. Orders had been is
sued to the Generals in command of the
National troops to pardon all Carlists who
should give in their adhesion to the Govern
ment. Bayonne dispatches of the 10th say
that eighteen Carlist officers had been shot at
Tolussu by order of Don Carlos for mutiny.
In the French Assembly, on the 10th,
the Ministry were defeated on provision
of the Electoral bill fixing the age OF
electors. A vote of censure was moved In
the French Assembly on the 10Th against the
Minister of the Interior, because he had failed
to prevent recent disturbances. This was de-
feated by small majority. The Left Center
had resolved to introducea bill for the disso-
luton of the Assembly. This would be fol-
lowed, says a French paper, by civil war.
A Deputy belonging to the Left Center, on the
18th, introduced in the French Assembly the
Constitutional bill defnitively proclaiming the
Republic, and moved that its consideration be
declared urgent. This motion prevailed by
yeas 345, nays 341. A resolution declaring
that the government of France is monarchy
was defeated by 100 majority. The Constitu-
tional bill was referred to committee OF
thirty. Sc "a a@M K@w
A TERRIBLE steamboat accident lately oc-
CURED on the Volga, in Russia. Two steam
ers were racing when one OF them, the Bell
sarius, exploded her boiler, killing sixteen
and wounding sixty Fifteen passengers
also jumped overheard and were drowned.
THE Pope received the American pilgrims
on the 9th. On the 18th the Pope was pre-
sented with $1OOO and o Golfer OF gold from
American mines.
A LETTER from the Catholic Bishop of La
randa has been published in the French papers,
giving the particulars of a recent massacre OF
Christians at Tong King, China. The letter
states that 10000 persons had been strangled,
burned or drowned.
THE meeting of the International Sanitary
Congress at Vienna has been postponed to
Jan. z, 1879.
THE rumor prevailed in London on the 18th
that the British Government had offered its
services to settle the differences between the
Argentine Republic and Brazil.
A GENEVA dispatch of the 18th announces
the appointment of M. Bodenheimer as Presi'
dent of the Swiss Confederation for the ensu'
ing yeas. .xFn ge 3 4v~j
AN English man -of-war recently captured q
SLAYER having on board 225 negroes bound
for Madagascar n.~r. a.ryf7ers So.
KING VICTOR EMMANUEL prorogued the
Italian Parliament on the 18th.
"A REBELLION has broken out in Khol1an, ii
| Central Asia. Special dispatches from thai
| region, received in London on the 18th, report
that sixteen officials of high rank had been re-
| Gently beheaded. Nk a.
DIR. UHLING, the man who attempted to
swindle New York life insurance company
by representing that a coffin filled with bricks
was the dead body of person insured, has
been sentenced to States Prison for eighteen
mOnths Pss -.-sr