Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-01-08
TIE OLD WORLD.

ult. the Spanish Republic had collapsed and
Bon Alphonso had been proclaimed King of
Spain. The army, navy and hepeople gen.
orally acquiesced in the change, and even some
of the prominent Carlist leaders had given in
their adhesion to the movement. Gen. Cam
pos had entered Valencia at the head of the
troops sent to oppose him when he pro-
ounced in favor of Prince Alphonso. Lon
don dispatches of the I'd say that King
Alphonso will be recognized by European
powers that he had granted amnesty to the
Carlists; that he had been rendered the sup
port of CASTELAR, and other well-known
Republicans, and that the Pope had sent him
his blessing.
MRS. MOTLEY, the wife of Joseph Motley,
the American historian, died in London on
the 1st
OVER 10000 Welsh colliers have struck in
consequence of a reduction in wages.
THE death of the Duke of Montrose is an
nounced.
M. LEpRu RoLL1N, the French Communist,
died on the 31st ult.
RAILWAY travel on the 1st was suspended
over very nearly the whole of Austria in con-
sequence of a very heavy fall of snow during
the preceding two days.
A CoNsTANTINoPLE dispatch of the LIST
says that 5000 persons had perished from
starvation in the city of Adana alone.
ACCORDING to the London Times of the I'd
the Swiss, Austrian and Belgian Governments
had adopted stringent measures against the
importation of American potatoes "infected
with Colorado bectle.'
GARIBALDI has declined the national grant
for his relief because of the condition of
italian finances.
THE Spanish Cabinet, on the 4th, ISSUED
decree suspending the jury system. The
marriage of the King with the daughter of
the Duke de Montpensier is broached.
THE NEW WORLD.
HON. GERR1T SMITH died in New York on
the 28th from an attack of apoplexy and
paralysis. Mr.. Smith was seventy-seven
years old.
DURING the prevalence of dense fog in
New York on the 28th several collisions oc-
Cured between vessels and ferry boats.
EVIDENCE was produced in the investiga-
ton in New York on the 28th, before the
Committee of Ways and Means, in relation to
the Pacific Mail subsidy business, showing
that King, late Postmaster of the House of
Representatives, had, in May last, drawn
$115,OOO of the funds deposited by Irwin, on
one of the latter's checks.
G. w. L. SMITH, who was kidnapped some
months ago in Massae County, ILL.,, and taken
to Tennessee, where, it was alleged, he had
committed murder, has been released
THE reports of the State Treasurer and
State Auditor of Minnesota show the receipts
of the year to have been 81 ,1t2, ,S12.52 and the
expenditures s1,148,O5996. The balance in
the Treasury is $1S3, 1874, against $216, 1885
at the end of 1878.
In a dispatch dated Dec. 25, McEnery
says: "The wrong just perpetrated by the
Returning Board against the people of Lou
isiana is more crowning infamy than the
action of the Lynch Returning Board" He
adds that resistance to the national authority
is not meditated.
A WASHINGTON dispatch of the 29th says
that Atty.-Gen. Williams, in the Cabinet
meeting held on that day, emphatically gave
it as his opinion that the Government must
sustain the report of the Louisiana Election
Returning Board and that that report was
right in law and in fact
THE order of Judge McCue requiring Mr..
Tilton to furnish bill of particulars to Mr..
Beecher has been reversed by the general
term of the Brooklyn City Court.
GEN. SHERIDAN left Chicago on the even
| A. o1+I~ f,~ Nnu 0rloaus under in
structions to hold himself in readiness in the
event of an uprising against the Kellogg
Government to assume command OF the Gov
ernment forces and carry out the instructions
copfidentially sent him.
THE Mississippi State Democratic Conven-
ton has been postponed from January Sto
April z.
THE opera house in Ottawa, Ill, was burned
on the morning of the 29th. Loss 100000.
ON and after JAM 1, 1875, all printed mat
ter destined for Canada will be treated as if
destined for the United States, the Canadian
authorities delivering it free of charge. The
same rule applies to transient newspapers,
postal cards and letters after Feb. l, 1873.
All letters received from Canada will be de-
livered free of charge.
THE Secretary of the Brooklyn Trust Com
pany on the 30th ult. testified that Congress
man Schumacher, of the Second New York
District, had received in money and credit the
sum of $275, 600 of the amount disbursed by
| the Pacific Mail Company.
KING KALAKAUA was given reception by
the New York Freemasons on the night OF the
| 30th ult.
| EoHs GoopMAy was hanged at ottawa,