Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-04-16
THE OLD WORLD.

A CORRESPONDENT of the Paris Journal des
DebatS writes to that paper from Rome that
the Pope will take up his residence in the
United States if it should become impossible
for him to remain in Rome, and it was
with view to such emergency that Arch
bishop McCloskey was elevated to the Car
dinalate
THE public prosecutors at Liege, Brussels,
on the 7th commenced an investigation into
the Duchesne plot for the assassination of
Prince Bismarck.
A BILL to enable unmarried women to
vote for members of Parliament, introduced
by Prof Fawcett, was refused second read
ing in the British House of Commons on the
7th, by a vote of 152 to 1877. The Premier
voted with the minority.
DISPATCHES of the 8th from Berlin say
that Herr sigl, editor of the ultramontane
paper Vaterland, recently sentenced an cont~-
3oaciana for publishing an article offensive to
Bismarck, had been arrested by the authori-
ties at salzburg, Austria, on the application
of the German Government, and sent to Ber-
lin. The Bishop d Breslau had refused to
resipn his see and legal proceedings had
been instituted to enforce compliance with
the decree of the court. The Government
had anncmced its intention to prosecute the
Carno oI subscribers to the Carlist fund, on
the3 round that they were fomenting re-
l>1ion against friendly power.
4 ALARMING rumors of war prevailed in Ber-
lin, Vienna, Paris and Rome on the Sth, which
a Berlin Ministerial journal of that date says
portended warlike combination against Ger
many.
THE Spanish Government has concluded
to send Is, 900 additional troops to Cuba. The
professors of the Madrid University who have
protested against the recent reactionary edu-
cational laws have been arrested.
THE French Government has instructed its
O>usuls to summon for the last time French
subjects abroad liable to military service to
have tleir names registered at the Consulates.
GEN. Eko, Carlist General of distinction,
n as given lnAis adhesion to King Alphonso
PAUL BoYNToN started from Dover, Eng.
on the morning Of the 10th to cross to France
in his life-preserving dress and arrived at
Boulogne in the evening He was obliged to
leave the water about five miles from France
on account of the darkness and boisterous
weather.
ACCORDING to Madrid dispatcn of the 10th
the Presidency of the Madrid University had
been conferred UPON lie Fuente, the former
editor of the Carlist newspaper There was
much dissatisfaction at the appointment. An
Estella report of the same date is to the effect
that the. Carlists had shot eight Alphonsist
prisoners, on the 7th, in reprisal for the Car
lists recently assassinated near Taffalaque.
THE Bessemer steamer made satisfactory
trial trip from Gravesend to Calais on the
18th.
The Humane Society Of Boulogne has voted
gold medal to Paul Boynton.
CONSIDERABLE loss of life was lately oc-
casioned at Shanghai by collision between
two steamers.
OFFICIAL reports of the 18th announce the
defeat of Carlists at Tolosa, with 100 killed.
THE NEW WORLD.
On the 9th, Mr.. Beecher continued
his denials of the evidence of Messrs. Tilton
and Moulton, and gave his explanation of the
letters which had passed between himself and
Mrs. Tilton, denying that they had any mean
ing which would warrant the construction
put upon them by the plaintiff, and claiming
that they related chiefly to Mrs. Tilton's do
mestic troubles and his own sympathy for
her as her pastor or friend. In his examina-
on the Sth Mr.. Beecher continued to explicit
ly deny all the statements of the prosecution
involving any criminality on his part in con-
nection with the scandal. In regard to Mrs.
Moulton, he says he was a frequent visitor at
her house, where he always met with cordial
and lady-li reception from her. He said he
was moi az her house on the I'd or Sd of June
1872, nor di0 he ever make confession 10
Mrs. Moulton of criminal conduct as CHARGED
in her testimony. Witness testified that at
one of the interviews between him and Mr..
Moulton, at the house of the latter, in Janu-
ary, 1871, when Mr. Tilton was threatening to
publish card relating to the scandal, Mrs.
Moulton said to him (witness) that she did
not believe the stories they were telling about
him, and that she believed he was a good
man. To this remark witness responded that
she might be sure he was a good man. Ow-
ing to the illness of Mr.. Beach, of the prose-
cution, the Beecher trial was adjourned on
the morning of the 9th to the 18th. In his
oAainluatIOH On bHc IStn MI. DeecHeT ueHleu
each and every statement contained in Mrs.
Moulton's testimony that referred to an ad-
mission or confession on his part of the
crime with which he is charged He de-
ciareo he had never had any conversation
WIN ner In which the alleged crime was dis
cusseoi sne never advised him to make con-
1ession 10 the church, and he never threatened
suicide.
T. I. BAaNUM, the great Snowman. was