Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-12

The Hon. John l.. Harvey, wealthy
and eminent lawyer of high social standing
at Dubuque, committed suicide in sleeping
car of the Great Western Railway, on his
Journey to Boston and Brattleboro', having
been subject for years past to fits OF despon-
dency and insanity, hereditary in his family.
Some time elapsed before his Identity could
be established.
An English iron mill has succeeded IN
making sheet of iron SO thin that it requires
4. 800 sheets to make it an inch in thickness,
thus effectually beating the Pittsburg iron
workers, who made sheet so thin that It
took 900 of them to make an inch, and
CHALLENGED all England to beat it, if they
could.
An ingenious Frenchman has made
mosaic landscape composed of insects. LII
contains more than As, 1000 beetles, besides
big and little bugs of various hues.
Nicholas Van Vert, of Troy, N. T., aged
seyenty-six years and four months, living on
the 'burgh ssgreen" with a weil-beloved wife,
| aged sixty-four years and two and half
months, has just been blessed with twins.
The railroad projects of the English
! capitalists, who recently visited the West,
are summed up in double track on the Erie
road from New York to Salamanca, the con-
struction of bridge at Buffalo, and the ex-
tension of the branches of the Atlantic and
| Great Western road.
Upon the occasion of marriage in Fall
River, Mass, recently, Of a son OF Col. Rich.
ard Borden to daughter of DR.. Nathan
/ Durfee, the officiating clergyman, Rev. Eli
Thurston, received marriage fee larger than
was ever paid before in Massachusetts. The
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erously extinguished q mortgage OF $500
which rested upon the homestead OF the
parson
The Indian names which designate so
many of our naval vessels are the subject OF
transformations by Jack. He calls the Wis
sahickon the g Widow Higgins the Miami
/ the g Miasma'' and now the Miantonomoh
has been christened by the same authority,
"My- aunt knows-no-m and the Shock
ockton the "Shocking corn"
The Palladium press at New Haven, Ct,
was recently stopped by an eel which had
crawled into the water pipe which furnishes
the power for the wheel.
1t is stated that no flag Of a Vermont
regiment was ever in the keeping of the enc
my during the war.
The Taunton Gazette says that Boston
has been rewarded for its increase in popu-
lation.
Rev. Z. Erskine, late of Sterling, H.,
now financial agent for the proposed new
college of the Presbyterian Church of the
Northwest, is about to publish new religi-
GUS weekly in Chicago, to be known as the
Northwestern Presbyterian. The paper is to
be the religious organ of the Presbyterians
4 to be printed on a large sheet, and to be
gotten up in neat and handsome form. Mr..
ErsEine is to be the editor and proprietor,
seconded by an able corps Of regular con-
tributors. I
1t is proposed at Lewiston, Maine, to
have an exhibition of the different styles of
bonpets worn within the past twenty-five
years. A very large hall will be required.
A California editor speaking Of COM
plant by his readers that he don't publish all
the local items that they desire to see, justly
observes that it is often their own fault in
not sending the facts. He says he don't like
to publish birth after the child is weaned,
a marriage after the honeymoon is over, or
the death of man after his widow is mar
ried.
Census returns fix the white population
of Iowa at 750,074. colored, 1859. There
are &c., 60 dogs in the State which with
the wolves have destroyed $26, 148 worth
of sheep.
The great fire at Constantinople destroy
ed 5000 houses, more than three hundred
palaces, eight mosques, two churches and
five khans. Over $4,000 people were made
homeless
The New York Herald is quite merry
over the theatrical managers Of New York
who have Withdrawn their advertisements
from its column because it (the Herald re-
fused to publish the advertisements of the
opera and Mr.. Barnum's place Of amuse-
ment. 1t likens these two to the fox in the
fable, which, having its own tail cut off in
duced the other foxes to submit to the same
painful operation,
"A manufacturer in Manchester, Mass,
has been heavily mulcted for making false
returns of the amount of his business. An
investigation showed conclusively that some
eleven monthly returns did not show a true
statement of his business, and he was as
sessed ST, 200 extra to cover the deicien-
cies, and fined 1900 for making fraudu-
lent returns.
The number of printed volumes in the
English language in California, which in
L Ii
1866 at about 1000, 600, progress UMPIRE
cedented in all the annals of literature
The barbarous practice of carrying liv-
ing calves through the streets packed in
carts with their feet tied and their head
dangling over the end board or against the
wheels, has been summarily stopped in New
York by the arrest of butcher man, and
the imposition of an exemplary fine. Serv-
ed him right.
When the inn-keeper at Neufchatel
catches al Emperor, he makes the most of
him. His bill for entertaining Napoleon
and the Imperial suite thirty six hours was
| $4,000. He is almost up to the prices of
American hotels.
One Sunday, recently, six thousand
people visited Sydenham Crystal Palace
| The usual amusements there were suspend
ed, and instead of them lectures were given
on Egyptian.and Assyrian antiquities.
The Vinton, Iowa, Eagle says that Mr.
John W. Mather, of Benton county, lost his
power of speech two years ago. The other
day, while blowing. one of his horses be-
came entangled in the traces, and as he
stopped over to adjust matters the horse
kicked at him, which frightened him so that
he instantly began to yell out g Whoa!"
The official report on the race between
the Winooski and Algonquin states that the
economical performance of each vessel was
equal, and that the arrangement of the
Winooski machinery is the completest aid
most convenient possible, and its economy
is fully equal to that given by the very con-
pick design of the Algonquin.
The discovery of what is true and the