Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-28

The Fifth Avenue hotel cleared Sl o,OOO I
the lasttwelye months.
One hundred and twenty five thousand
persons do business in New York city and
live out of it.
The shoe business is exceedingly pros
porous, because every pair Is soled before 1t
is finished.
james Morgan, Detroit printer, has
/ just fallen heir to $50, 900 in gold, which is
on deposit in the Bank Of England.
A woman in Washington has been sued t
because her five dogs disturb congregation
in that city by barking during service.
"A vacant lot in Chicago, with 40 feet |
| front recently sold for Sl45000, or over
twelve hundred dollars per foot of frontage!
III would rather have newspapers with |
out government" said the great Jefferson |
Ethan a government without newspapers"
Nashville has a population of 10000;
places OF amusement, newspapers, with /
3 more in prospect, and some 500 drinking
saloons.
| Within period Of ten days, ten per-
/ sons have been bitten by mad dogs in In
dianapolis. But one death has so far occur
red.
A match factory in Oshkosh, Wisconsin |
employs fifty girls who earn from three to
five dollars per week Trust the girls for
making matches. e
The exports Of specie for the past eight |
months have been only $2O,OO0,0OO We are
mining gold and silver at the rate of $780,
900, 900 year.
The National Cemetery at Antietam will
be twice as large as the cemetery at Gettys
! burg and contains almost twice as many
graves.
Newport letter-wriers unite in telling
how democratic the lady bathers are. They
don't object to the embraces of the serfs /
Horrid, isn't it?
The mortality in the Andersonville pris-
on-pen was so awful that the rebel authori-
ties must certainly have thought a thousand
times, ''tho pen is mightier that the sword ;,
"A few days since young Philadelphian
who was stopping with party of friends at
the Ephrata Springs, Lancaster county, in
attempting to pull off one of his boots broke
his leg.
There is in Louisville an organization
known rs the g Forty Thieves" composed of
boys between the ages Of and Il. The
captain Of the band was sent to the House of
Refuge last Monday.
The cheap dinner movement, which has
done so much for Glasgow, and other large
cities, has extended to London. A dining
house has been established there that will
accommodate 4 1000 persons daily.
The Scientific american says that Colts
| pistol mandatory is running twenty four
hours day, in order to supply the increased
demand for revolvers, and adds that most
orders come from southern negroes.
1t is proposed to light the streets of
village not thousand miles away from this
place with red headed girls. If we lived
there, says our dabster, we'd play tipsy
every night, and hug the lamp posts.
The rapid increase of population in
Colorado justifies the belief that it will soon
apply for admission into the Union. The
population at present is about 30, 900 souls,
with a large preponderance of males and
voters.
/ "A man has just taken out a patent in
England for luminous hats They will,
he says, preserve the wearers from being
run over by cabs at night, and would, to
some extent, enable saving in the lighting
of streets
The present population of Springfield,
Illinois, is 10000 In 1860 it was 1922,
being an increase in five years of 6,686, or
/ III per cent. At the same ratio Of increase
in five years more it will be the second city
in that State.
A smart three months-old Cochin Chine
rooster, residing in Portland, Me-, bad
mortal combat with a full-grown rat. The
fight was well contested on both sides, and
after continuance of thirty-fve minutes,
ended in the death of the rat
One Of the wonders displayed at the New
York State Fair at Utica, last week, Was
cheese weighing four thousand pounds 1t
was made in Canada West, is now being ex-
hibited at the London, G. W., Fair, and will
be sent to England.
A disease called hog diptheria is now
rapidly spreading in Fairfax and adjoining
counties in Virginia The animal appears
well in the morning, during the day its neck
swells, and by the next day it is dead. No
cure has been discovered.
A gentleman from from Portland was
left from the Grand Trunk train, but jumped
into his carriage and overlook it at Fail
mouth. He claims that he made the five
miles in four teen minutes and he certainly
could not have been much longer about it.
"A Mr.. Babcoek, of Milton, has been
hiring woman and her husband, reaping,
this season. The wife proved the best work
man, and Mr. Babcock accordingly paid her
the highest wages, three dollars per day
while her husband, being less expert, re
ceived inferior pay
I Some men who trotted pony to death
were recently brought before the magistrates
OF Worcestershire, England, for cruelty, and
fined. The pony was to have been driven
ninety miles in twelve hours on wager and
had nearly finished the task when he died
from exhaustion.
John Ruskin, in speaking of the fash
ionable passion for auburn locks, SAYS: 81
am informed too, and can add my personal
testimony to the fact, the red-haired girls
who have been on the shelf until they are
no longer young, are now going off in the
matrimonial market like wild-ire''
A statement is published that the sus-
pension of work on the Mount Gents Tunnel
was caused by the discovery therein, on the
10th OF July, Of an immense deposit of dia-
monds and other precious stones since which
time the French and Italian governments
have taken possession of the work
Mammoth boats, justly entitled to besl
called 9 floating palaces" are the rage ON
the Hudson river. The Peoples Line folks
have laid the keel of new steamboat to be
fifteen feet longer than the St. John, five
feet wider, and to contain one hundred state
rooms. She is to have three tiers of the |
latter-one more than any other steamboat
ever built.