Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1876-03-03
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

The entire French election returns were
received on the 22d. The members elect of the
Chamber of Deputies are thus classified: Re
publicans, 1873; Conservative Republicans, IS
Bonapartists, 81; Legitimists, 26; Conservatives
"a; Consttutionalists, 20; Radicals, II. In 16t
districts there was no choice, and second ballots
are necessary A arts dispatch of the same date
announces the resignation of M. Buffet, Chief Of
the Cabinet, and the appointment of M. Dufaure
as his successor. ff
The steamer Switzerland, from New
York, while steaming up the channel at Antwerp,
on the ed, ran down the 5rigantine Hero. -Four
of the crew of the latter were drowned.
Winslow, the Boston forger, was
brought before London police court ON the 23d
and remanded until March 2 to await the arrival
of an officer of the United States with extradtior
papers.
A Constantinople dispatch of the 23d
says the Sultan of Turkey had signed decree
granting full and complete amnesty to all in
surgents who return to their homes within q
month.
The Captain of the steamer Franconia,
which recently sunk the Strathclyde, has been
charged with manslaughter, by order of a Lon
don coroner's jury, and placed under arrest.
C. E. IA. Dixon, Liverpool merchants,
failed on the oath for $3,O00,0OO.
A Pesth dispatch of the Gath says the
high water in the Danube had caused immense
damage in that city. The suburbs were entirely
submerged, and several large manufacturing es-
Establishments had been destroyed. A distillery,
undermined by the current, had fallen on the
evening of that day, and crushed eleven persons.
The Wiener Presse of the 25th announces
great battle in Herzegovina, near vossojevich,
and the total defeat of the Turks
A Buda Hungary) dispatch of the 25th
says the old town of 3uda and the town of Walt
zen, twenty miles north, were entirely submerged,
and that the Danube continued to rise threaten
ing widespread destruction.
A Schonebeck dispatch of the Goth says
fearful floods had occurred in that portion OF
Germany. In that town between 6OJ and ZOO
houses had been flooded to the roofs, giving the
inhabitants barely time to escape from the attics.
More than thirty dwellings had been washed
away, and the newspapers were filed with APP
peals for aid for the sufferers.
1t was officially announced at Madrid
on the Goth that eight Carlist baitaions had re-
fused to fire on the royalists at Pampeluna, and
that, after conflict with the officers, the force
tiona troops. Dispatches of the 9th say that the
CaTlist forces near Lecumbri had killed Gen.
Egana, their commander, and. solicited amnesty.
1t was reported that Don Carlos had crossed over
into France and then issued manifesto that he
generously relinquishcd the struggle to promote
the happiness of Spain.
According to Berlin dispatch of the
27th, Austria had ordered the Herzegovinian ref
ugecs in her territory to leave within month,
under penalty of expulsion by force.
A Rome Italy) telegram of the 9th
says the Marquis Mantigazza had been arrested
for forging King Victor Emanuel's name to
bill for 2G0r00 francs. He stated that other
forged bills for large amounts were in circula-
ton.
The MonSteua' of the ,26th says the in
ternmcnt of several thousand Carists in France
had led to the discovery of large number OF
French deserters in their ranks. These last would
be court-martialed by the authorities.