Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-09

handling loaded gun, shot his little daugh-
Ter through the head.
The citizens Of South Danvefs, Mass. are
greatly excited over the discovery Of torpe-
does in their coal number have been
found, by different families.
Washington Irying's Rip Van Wrinkle
has been adapted to the stage by Dion
Bourcicault, and is having great success IN
London.
- The Streets Of New I ork is running
at Mrs. John Woods Olympic Theatre. The
other evening the bootbiack. taking paper
from newsboy in the snow-scene, read from
the amusement column the announcement Of
every manager, "This establishment does
not advertise in the Hsra1d.7 The protraet-,
ed and uprnarious applause which followed
showed The popularity Of the cause Of the
managers in their war with the editor Of the
HerGid.
III is said lhat Maine is now building
ffty-fve per cent. Of all the vessels in
process Of construction on tho Atlantic
coast.
A terrific gale occurred at Key West on
the 22d inst, and large number Of vessels
went ashore twenty wrecks being visible
from the lookout Of the steamer Massa-
chusetts
Mr.. A J Prints, superintendent Of the
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, gas works was found dead
in street. there last Thursday morning
about 2 O'Clock, hayi,- cen sutfocated by a
piece Of tobacco (which he used too freeiy}
lodging in his wind-pne.
A J. Balringio on, employed ia Iselch.
o,.'oo IoI. In 4! Ia rpr
cutting a war off one Of his feet.
Under the heading Of "Reconstrnetion
begun" The Boston Aapertlser reports the
following ssAt the competitive daclafdation
Of Harvard College last Saturday, open 10
all applicants from the new Freshman class
the first premium was awarded TO a student
who had lost his arm serving as captain in
the Confederate army thesecond toa young
man Of negro descent. The first undergraau-
ate of that race who has ever been admitted
10 the University.
ink. buff, mauye and green starch is
now made, and by its aid, any delicatedab-
ric may be colored as well as stiffened
Parties from Logansport, Indiana, have
purchased lot together with Il water priv
iege from the Minneapolis Water Power Co,
the factory building OF Demeritt & Brown.
They intend 10 erect thereon next spring, a
splendid Touring mill, containing ten run Of
stone. Capacity 800 barrels OF -four per
day.
"A late invention is a self-faatening but
ton, by which buttons are attached to any
garment without the use of needle and
thread They can be instantly removed at
viii, and always stand straight ana firm,
never hanging half loose from he garment
"A countryman having partaken TOO
freely Of Pittsburg RIM, while on a visit to
that city, sealed himself upon the curb stone
to sleep off his rotations, when his head fall
ing on one side. he was soon strangied to
death By the tight huttonel neck band ofhis
shirt
The Burlington Ramkeya confirms the
story that Mary Harris (the lnurderess) is
in Richmond Va, working as milNner I'M
der an assumed name. She left Burlington,
the home Of her family, some i've or six
week since.
Joshua Watson of Scipio, La Porte Co,
Indiana, raised this year /, 100 bushels OF
cranberries on ten-acre marsh cost Of
gathering and marketing Sl00; net profit,
81 800
A New York PAPER says IA person
high in authority asserts that ii 10 all non
sense to elect members to the Legislature at
Albany for It's much cheaper TO buy them
after the election is over.
"A San Francisco dispatch of the Gath
of Oct. gives the following particulars Of
yet further piracles committed by the Shen
andoah The Palmetto arrived yesterday,
from Ployer Bay Sept. 2Ist. She reports
thecapture of "A whalers by the Shenandoah.
which had been heard Of at that port. All
the names are included in lists hitherto
Ielegraphed eastward The last seen of
the Shenandoah, by The ship Victoria, was
in the early part Of July, when steering
south under full sail During her operations
she passed through Behring's Straits to
the east cape where she burned nine
whalers, presumed 10 be part of the twenty
four whose names were reported BY the
Palmetto.
The proposed mastering out Of the
Veteran Reserve Corps has been through
the advice of Gen. Grant reduced down to
this that those who wish it will be dscbarg-
ed and those who do not will be retained
The different regiments are to he consolida-
ted and the number Of shoulder straps reduc-
ed. Congress viii be asked make it a pcrma-
nent organization, into which men who have
been wounded and desire to remain in the
service, bat who cannot enlist in the regular
army, according TO the regulations, on
account Of existing disabilities, win be
admitted
Two Prussian officers, Capt. Cslow and
! Major Won Shack, fought duel recently al
Magdeburg. They agreed to fight Till one
Of them was killed, and twenty-eight shots
! were exchanged before Capt Calow was ia
tally hit.
/ The celebrated case Of the burning Of
! the steamer Martha Washington for he in
surance money, has been paralleled by the
burning Of the steamer River Queen at
Pittsburg. The steamer was new and was
owned by four men who did not pay the
debts contracted IN her construction, and she
was attached for the claims She was inst,r-
ed for $4,000, and one Of the partners
named Champlin conceived the idea Of burn
ing her, and carried his purpose into effect
Champlin's confession states how he burned
the boat.
A little hoy in Indiana went of on horse
back TO drive up the COWS He tied the hal
ter strap around his neck, and the horse
became frightened and threw him off, and
then kicked and dragged him 10 death He
was found horribly nangled
A man in Birmingham, England ran his
pipe stem into his tongue, and died from the
atscess caused by the accident.
Two boys got into a soufle at school in
Cairo the other day, when one them fatally
stabbed the other with knife The Juvenile
murderer was about 10 years old