Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-11-02

AN HONEST LIFE.-Ine poor pittance OF
seventy wears is not worth being villain
for. What matter if your neighbor lies in
splendid tomb? sleep you with innocence.
Look behind you through the track of time.
A vast desert lies open in retrospect; wear
led with years and sorrow, they sink from
the walks of man. You are to leave them
where they fall; and go little further, and
YOU will find eternal rest. Whatever you
may have to encounter between the GRADES
and the grave, every moment Is big with
events, which come not in succession, but
bursting forcibly from revealing and I'M
known cause, fly over this orb with diyersi-
fed influence.
AGRICULTURAL fairs don't need revenue
licenses unless horse trotting is included,
when they have TO pay $40 for license
and pay over two per cent OF the gross
receipts.
EXPENSIVE MILK.-A story, illustrating
the cost of amateur farming, is told of a
retired merchant who had farm on Long
Island, with all the modern inventions, and
fancy stock of all kinds After showing o
friend over the premises, one day, he inyit-
ed him into the house. Brown said he
you have seen the best farm in the state;
now sit down and rest and take something
l have milk and champagne. Take your
choioe-they cost the same
MEAT PIE WITHOUT VENT.-A correspon-
dent of the London Lancet, in commenting
on the case of Mr.. Spragus, charged with
having poisoned hiswife, and her father and
mother, at Ashburton, says, ''All learned
Psychologists and chemists appear to have
forgotten the important fact, that if meat
pie is made without hole in the crust to
let out certain emanations from the meat,
cholic vomiting and other symptoms of slight
poisoning win occur. have known two
instances of large parties being affected in
this manner from eating meat-pies that had
no vent in them.
SHIPPING APPLES. The Waukegan Ill1
Gazette says that within two or three weeks
past over four thousand barrels Of apples
have been shipped from that city, all of
which were grown in Lake county. Hon. I.
d. Nelson Of Fort Wayne, Ind, informed us
some ten days since, that he was shipping
apples to New York as fast as he could pack
them, and find conveniencies for their trans
portation. He had already sent thousand
barrels. They readily command eight dol
rel a barrel in that city, while they can be
put up at about two dollars barrel in Fort
Wayne, thus affording a very handsome
profit. The apple crop this year at the East
is next to nothing
LARGE YIELDs.--The crop of vegetables
in Scott county, Iowa, this year, is worthy
of notice. The crop of onions this year is
without precedent. The number of bushels
raisod will paanh ono million of on ovoro oa
of four hundred bushels per acre On
farm ow' ed by Mr. Johnson near Daven-
port, from six acres were gathered three
thousand, four hundred bushels. Some farm
ers say they they will get eight hundred
bushels from single acre The grape and
potato crops are also very large OF the
latter, farmers claim 10 have raised four
hundred bushels per acre At the present
prices, farmers will realize $50 per acre
after all expenses are paid
Mr.. ISRAEL PERRY of Lavalle, Sank Co.,
Wis, has used this season from one pump
kin seed, II pumpkins, weighing in the ag-
gregate 202 pounds.
BUSINESS NECESSARY. - The experience
Of life demonstrates that that regular and
systematic business is essential to the health,
happiness and usefulness of man. Without
it, he is uneasy, unsettled, miserable, and
wretched. His desires have no fixed aim,
his ambition no high and noble ends. He
is the sport of visionary dreams and idle
fancies--a looker-on where all are busy;
drone in the life Of industry moper in the
field Of enterprise and labor. If such were
the lot of the feeble and helpless only, it
were less to be deplored; but it is oftener the
doom and curse of those who have the pow
er to do without the will to act, and who
need that quality which makes so many 9TH
ers but the want Of which unmakes them
the quality of vigor and resolution Bus
mess is the grand regulator of life.
TAKING UP TREEs.-An enormous amount
of money is annually lost to tree purchas-
ers from rude and unskillful taking up.
Trees are torn up by the roots, as if the trunk |
and branches were the only thing necessary
and the roats superfuous. The proper
way is to open trench on each side Of the
Tree, with common spade, keeping the
edge towards the tree so as not to GROSS any
of the roots. These trenches should be far
enough from the tree to avoid the main roots
and deep enough to go below oil except the
tap root; which may be cut off. This being
done, the tree may be pulled up with the
roots entire.