Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-28


below TO 10 deg. above zero, AMI people were
not particular which was which. all degrees
being alike uncomfortable. At Milwaukee
the range was from IL deg. below to deg
/ above; at Madison, y deg below; at Green
Bay, 20 deg. below at ST. Paul, % deg up
20 deg. below, and the cheerful despatch
says everybody was out sleigh-riding; at
| Dubuque, 6 deg. below, river frozen over,
and the ice bridge complete for the winter;
at Lawrence, Kansas, S deg. below, with a
few inches of snow, and promise of more.
AT Cincinnati the lowest mark was deg.
above zero, and that at New York and Balti-
more the mercury reported SIS deg. above.
The Jail at Louisville, Ky, is full Of
prisoners awaiting trial for various crimes.
There are over a hundred Of them.
Quite 6 number of plantations near Au-
gusta, Ga. have changed hands lately. The
purchasers are mostly from the North.
in Japan you can buy g first class
house fer thirty dollars, and live comforta
bly, IN it for two cents a day. Servants
charge fifty cents month, and horse and
groom my be had for the same time for one
dollar and fifty cents. 3
Herman, the magician, calls his business
man his prest'digitorielissical agent.
The Lord Chief Justice of the London
Court of Queen Bench is a member of the
Church of England; Mr. Justice Blackburn
is Presbyterian Mr.. Justice Mellor a
Unitarian; Mr.. Justice Shee, a Roman
Catholic; and the fourth judge presiding
over that Court, Mr.. Justice Lush, Bap-
fist. r
rhn I1nI,n
strange picture of the life led by the Raiah
of Mysore. His palace is filed With inward
of 800 people. "Therc are fifty wives of
his Highness, with about four attendants on
each and among the remainder are n0lt-
watchers, prophesying Brahmins, and Off
GERS of the zefana.'
i "A new sect has lately sprung up in ger-
lin. Its members call themselves The
Cogitants. DR.. Edward Lowenthal the
founder, has published book about his
opinions, which he calls religion without q
confession. The Cogitants also have their
magazine, bearing the following motto: sour
knowledge is our faith; our dignity is our
morality; our worship is life; and our re-
ligion is--our secret" A few of their doc
tries and practices are as follows Neither
theft nor fraud can be punished with i'm
prisonment Women are to have a part
in the church government. Only the lower
part of coffin should be buried in the earth.
All good Cogitants are to have good dinner
for nothing, and to dine in public, on Christ
mas Day, Easter Sunday, and Whit Sunday
The head of the Cog tants is to wear black
camlet cloak, with upright collar, and three
silver stars on it. n3
"A young lawyer of Memphis seems TO
have had very singular experience during
the war. He was captured with other rebel
soldiers at the battle Of Tishomingo Creek,
and, after six weeks imprisonment at Alton,
Illinois, was sent under guard to .|ohnson's
Island. Disliking duranoe vile extremely,
he took the risk of jumping ont Of the win
dow Of the car in wich he was being trans |
ferred from one prison to The other, and |
escaped with slight bruises, finding himself |
IN the middle Of prairie He walked TO
the first station, and having thrown away his |
uniform jacket, was engaged by the colonel |
of q Union regiment at home on furlough as
a hod-carrier at So day. Manual labor
was very distasteful 10 him, but hunger was |
imperative, and be worked steadily until he
found, after three days toll, that his employ
er suspected his real character, and had |
gone for guard to arrest him. He, of |
course, hea, and, finding sympathizing
friends in Chicago, was enabled to escape to |
Canada, whence he ran the blockade into |
Wilmington. He Joined his command, and |
fought the way through. A few weeks ago,
he met the colonel for whom he carried |
bricks, aud obtained from him without diff
Guilty the seyep dollars due him for labor
performed before his flight.
Hon. Philip Allen, Ex-Governor of
Rhode Island and afterwards United States
Senator from that state, died recently at
Providence.
ID. R. Locke, Esq, better known to the
reading public as Petroleum v Nasty, is
announced as an associate editor of the To-
ledo Blade.
&c Well, my boy, so you are going to try
your fortune in the city? l tell you it is q
dangerous ocean to launch your craft en-"
said man to neighbours son. IS Yes, sir"
the lad, taking hi Bible from his
pocket, "bnt you see I've got safe compass
% steer by"
George F. Sleveland, the mate of the
Inflated steamer Pewabic, was arraigned be-
'ore the United States Circuit Court at De-
roit, on Tuesday, to answer an indictment
'IouSAb u SHAASt ulul Wy Cuc OTduu jury lot
the action of the jury finding
he alleged blame of the collision of. Cleve-
and. The case was continued over to the
lext term of court.
The Madeira wine crop which for seve-
al years was destroyed by disease Of the
inc, was success this year. About 1000
,ipes of wine have been made, and the pros
'ects for the next years crop are even more
adorable.
Southern lawyers are reaping abund-
mt pecuniary harvests by their charges for
rawing up petitions in behalf of southern
APPLICANTS for pardon. One attorney in
outh Carolina is said to have forwarded up
Yard of thousand petitions to the attorney
eneraPs office, for each of which he receiv-
be fee of :S25.
The new building Of the New York
took Exchange was opened on Friday for
he transaction of business. The edifce is
f white freestone, and fronts fifty feet on
treet. 1t is one hundred and eighty feet in
epth, and four stories high.
The French newspapers announce as
urious piece of news that a shop for the
ale Of horsefesh as food has just been open
d in Paris Eby permission of the authori-
es. ea5 M
The Hardness we'll in Parkersburg Va
yielding q daily average of about $50
arrels The average during the week has
cen little over 30) barrels per day Twen- q
1enty-one hundred barrels Of lubricating n
il in seven days, worth at the well one hun h
red and five thousand dollars. 4
The editor OF the Boston Commonwealth i
.ootinn, Con RanEs hr channn ii1at Of or z