Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-03-27

According to the statement of a CORE
spondent of the Daily Ne,os, published in
london on the 18th, in the Tirhoot district in
India 100, 900 natives, all of them famishing
want of food, had applied to the Govern
ment for assistance. The correspondent adds
that one-half the population will die if ade-
quate relief be not afforded.
A Vienna dispatch of the 18th says the
Catholic Bishops in the Reichsrath threatened
to withdraw if the passage of the ecclesiasti-
cal bills was pressed.
Aspecal dispatch to London paper from
Central Asia represents that anarchy reigns in
Khiva.
A meeting of Louisiana bond-holders was
held in London on the 1Sth and resolutions
were adopted denouncing the funding bill
passed at the late session of the Louisiana
Legislature as arbitrary, unjust and inju-
dicious, and calculated to shake confidence in
all American securities. They resolved also to
take measures to resist the carrying into effect
the provisions of the act.
A Berlin dispatch of the 18th announces the
death of Johann Heinrich Maedler, the we'll
known German astronomer.
"A Bayonne telegram of the 18th says the
Carlists had entered Olot without opposition.
The English Parliament reassembled on the
10th. Shortly after opening the members of
the House of Commons were summoned to
the Chamber of Peers to hear the Queens
speech read. Suitable addresses in response
were made were made by both Houses.
The Fusileers arrived at London from the
Gold Coast on the 10Th.
A dispatch was received by the Carlist Jun
ia on the Goth, at Bayonne, saying that Gen.
Palacios was marching upon Madrid with
$4,000 men, after defeating with great loss the
Republican column under Collejo, near
Minglanilla, forty-four miles southeast of
Cuenca. The Carlists had captured an out
lying fort at Bilboa. The bombardment of
the city continued The publication of mill
tary news at Madrid had been forbidden.
A London dispatch of the Goth announces
o that the steamer Manitoban, from the Gold
Coast, with Gen. Wolseley on board, had been
signaled off Portsmouth.
On the 10th an extraordinary rise in the
Thames caused great damage in Lambeth and
other parts of London. Sewers burst and the
. floors of many houses were forced up, and
several children were drowned. At Woolwich
the fires in the gun factories were extin-
guished and the store-houses set afloat.
On the 21st Disraeli refused to receive del
egation which came to ask for the release of
the Fenians.
According to Havana dispatch of the 21st
the insurgent Col. Peralta and sixteen of his
men had been killed by the Spanish troops.
late dispatch from the City of Mexico
says that a Catholic mob had attacked the
Protestant chapel in Puebla, smashed the win
dows and furniture, destroyed the Bibles and
stoned the pastor, Rev. Antonio Corral.
According to the London Morning Post of
the 21st Gen. Wolseley had been rewarded for
his Ashantee successes by being made Major
General, and had been awarded pension of
e7,500 per annum.
Kaiser Wilhelm celebrated his seventy
seventh birthday on the 22d. The Generals OF
the army visited him in a body and congratu-
lated him on the auspicious occasion. In his
reply the Emperor declared his Intention of
maintaining the strength of the army with a
view to insure the peace of Europe.
. Tenthsusand people witnessed the landing
of the Highlanders from Ashantee at London
on the 23d.
In the French Assembly, on the 23d, docu-
ment was presented, signed by Gambetta,
Ledru Rolln and other Communists, demand
ing the dissolution of that body.
The Esd was observed as a national holiday
in Italy, it being the twenty-ffth anniversary
of the accession of Victor Emmanuel to the
throne of Sardinia.
s A Madrid dispatch of the Esd says the Gov
ernment contemplated the promotion of Gen.
Burriel to the rank of Field M arshal for his
eminent services rendered in Cuba.