Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-10
LATEST NEWS.
TEE OLD WnaRLn.

The French Assembly on the 30th ult.
by vote ofS532 to 81 finally adopted the Elect
oral bill which had been SO long under discussion.
All the colonies have the right of representation
except Cayenne and Senegal.
Prof Thomas Hewitt Key, the emil
nent English philologist died in London on the
goth.
Late advices from Liberia represent that
country as likely to be overrun by native savages.
The colonists had lately been defeated in a
pitched battle and had been compelled to leave
the inland settlements and concentrate at Mo-
ravia.
A London dispatch of the list says the
Spanish authorities at Toledo had lately broken
up Protestant church and expelled the pastor
and schoolmaster
A Madrid telegram of the list says the
last Spanish note to the United States, which
was declared to be Spain's utimatum, promises
gradual emancipation and increased freedom of
conscience; that foreigners when arrested shall
have immediate hearing, and that Legal redress
shall be obtainable for past injuries.
On the morning of the Both ult. the
wife of Hon. Hugh Childers was found dead in
her bed at her husbands residence in London,
with bottle of chorofo m standing partly empty
beside her.
The death of Hon. B. P. Avery, United
States Minister to China, announced in
Washington on the 30th ut.
A Berlin telegram of the I'd says that
Turkey had theoretically protested to Montene-
gro against the Montenegrins taking part in the
Herzegovinian instruction, and that the great
powers unanimously supported the protest.
Gen. Kaufman has recently demanded
of the Russian Government q reinforcement of
10000 men, with artillery, as otherwise he would
not be able to relieve the garrison at Khokand.
On the I'd, in London, there were several
failures principally among brokers. The largest
was that of Bruggiote Bros, stock and share
brokers. Liabilities $350,000.
The Federal Council of Germany has
passed resolution adding 100000 marks to the
una already allotted, to facilitate the display of
German products at Philadelphia.
A Vienna telegram of the Sd says it was
reported there that the Princes of Abyssinia,
through American missionaries, had asked
the assistance of the United States against Mo-
hammedan invaders.
The municipality of Paris has contrib
uted 10000 toward the subscription TO send a
delegation of French workmen to the Philadel-
phia Exposition.
A Paris dispatch of the 9Th says Minis
ter Washburne had left for Turkey on three
months leave of absence.
The clearings of the London Stock Elk
change on the last day of November aggregated
.e300,000,000-the largest ever known.
A Madrid telegram of the 4th says the
operations of the Spanish army in the north of
Spain had been greatly delayed in consequence
of the body of snow on the mountains.
The French steamer Amerique is miss
ing and was last heard of in disabled condition
in latitude 7:40, longitude II. An English war
steamer was sent Al the 9Th to see if anything
could be learned Of her fate.
An explosion Of fire-damp in the Powell
Duffryn coliory, near Tredgear, England on the
9Th, caused the death of twenty operatives. Ten
were recovered badly injured.
Count Gutenberg the prospective hus-
band of the daughter of Prince Bismarck, died at
Berlin on the 5th.