Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-24
Sixty Acres Burned Over, and
1000 Houses Destroyed.
Destructive Fires at Oshkosh, wis.
and Iowa Falls, Iowa.
Meeting Of the Indiana State Democratic
Convention.
Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc, Etc.
THE OLD WORLD.

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the Assembly ON the 18th, on the proposition
to increase the salt tax. A dispatch from
Paris, of the 18th, says the Constitutional bill
had been submitted by the Committee o
Thirty for the consideration of the Assembly
The dispatch adds that its provisions please
nobody, and that its defeat is certain. M
Magne, French Minister of Finance, resigned
on the 10th in consequence of the defeat OF
his financial plans by the Assembly. On the
18th M. de Fourton, Minister of the Interior,
resigned because of irreconcilable differences
with his colleagues. Another crisis has oc-
Cured. Gen. de Cissey, Minister of War, on
the Goth announced the appointment of Baron
de Chaband La Tour as Minister of the Inte-
rior, and NJ. Bodet as Minister of Finance.
These new appointments leave the Bonapart-
lists without a representative in the Cabinet.
The Duke of Montebello died ON the Goth.
A MADRID dispatch of the 14th says
that column of Carlists had attacked
Cuenca, eighty-four miles southeast OF
Madrid. Troops had been sent to repel
them. A Madrid dispatch of the 18th reports
Ministerial crisis impending. According to
dispatches of the 10th, England, Germany and
Russia had about concluded to recognize the
Spanish Republic. The Carliets had ordered
one Republican prisoner to be shot for each
shell fired by the Republican fleet at Bilboa at
the Carlist army. The Carlists were vigor-
ously besieging Cuenca. According to a
Madrid dispatch of the 10Th a decree had
been issued declaring all Spain in a state OF
siege and sequestrating the property of Car
lists, whose estates are to be held liable to a
heavy penalty to the relatives of Republicans
slain, and finally creating special reserve Of
125,OO0 men. The Government had an.
| nounced that it would not permit the shooting
| of prisoners in retaliation for Carlist atroci
ties. According to Madrid dispatch of the
| Goth proclamation had been issued declar.
| ing that charges of sedition and conspiracy
shall be tried by court-martial, and that per.
sons convicted of interfering with railways
and telegraphs shall suffer death. A Carlist
telegram from Bayonne declares that Don AL
phonso entered Cuenca on the 10th and levied
contribution of e32, 900, and that 1900 of the
garrison fell into his hands as prisoners.
On the 14th an immense crowd OF
people assembled at Bismarcl1s hotel,
Kissengen, to congratulate him on his
cellor made a speech to them in which, after
thanking them for the demonstration, he
said the attempt on his life was not aimed at
him personally, but at the cause he repre-
sented. A priest named Hunlthaler had been
arrested for completely with the attempted
assassination. A Berlin dispatch of the 10Th
says the stringency of the regulations re-
stricting the Ultramontane clubs had been in
creased by the Government, and that the
clerical press would be closely watched and
vigorously dealt with for disloyal manifesto
tions.
DISPATCHES from Constantinople of the 10th
report that an extensive fire had been raging
for several hours in Galatea, one of the sub
urbs of that city, The fire. lasted six hours
and consumed 200 houses. Loss $2,00o,0oO.
A FATAL colliery explosion occurred al
Wigan, England, on the 10Th, by which fif-
teen persons were killed.
AT Pisa, Italy, and several towns of the
Romanza bread riots had occurred in con-
sequence of the bakers having made no ma.
| terial reduction in the price of bread, not
withstanding the recent considerable fall in
| -four.
| ACCORDING to Calcutta dispatch of the
| 18th, the rivers from Assam to Dude had
| flooded the country, causing much damage
| QUEEN VICTORIA sent message to the
British Parliament on the goth asking grant
! for Prince Leopold, he having attained his
majority