Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-21

IAN epidemic raging among cats, In
Sweden, has latterly been engaging the at
tention Of veterinary surgeons in that
country. Ithas bee found to proceed from
trichyne worms microscopic beings which
are often found in raw flesh.
oil wells or dggings Of highly prom.
ising nature, have been discovered in Eng
and. At present, says the Shipping Gazette
we are unable to give tie particulars, al
though assured that they will prove OF such
nature as to astonish the public.
The thralldom in which the peasantry
of Mecklenburg is held, leads to rapid de-
population of that Inflated state The total
number of emigrants from that part OF Ger
many to the United States last autumn was
estimated at about 4, 600.
! Buttons as large as Eve franc pieces
are the rage with the ladies In New York,
as they used to be with the New YORK.
roughs.
| A "Big Injun" died in Huron county,
| Michigan recently, more than hundred
years old. Saugautuwassa was his sweet,
pretty name
The price of the new fall and Water
| bonnets in New York city, ranges from
twenty to sixty dollars, and occasionally
higher. eos
| As telegram has superseded the word
| telegraph, SO, in London, the word "rara-
gram" threatens to take the place'of para
graph.
"A woman has right to go into a store
and look at the goods as long as she chooses
whether she wants to buy or not, and if
clerk gets angry with her, and demands to
know the reason for her not purchasing, he
| is an inhuman brute, and deserves fine Of
! $40. That's the way the law has just been
expounded at Brooklyn, N. Y.
The interminable divorce case Of Edwin
Forrest, the actor, has assumed novel
shape. He appeals to the Supreme Court OF
the United States to set aside the action OF
the New York Supreme Court, which grant
ed his wife divorce, his grounds being that
the marriage occurred in Great Britian,
and the courts of this country have no bus
mess to NEEDLE with it.
AS the cholera did not appear at Flor
ence, King Emanuel went TO Naples to meet
it, and passed fearlessly through the infected
wards of the hospitals, speaking comfort to
the sufferers. His presence had q very
cheering effect upon the people, who receiv-
ed him with bonfres, professions and illu-
who accompanied him, was smitten, and for
short time her case was CT .sidered hope
less, but she finally recovered.
"A conductor out West recently demand
ed two tickets of the Siamese twins, but the
twins insisted they were one, and as the
conductor couldn't eject one without the 9TH
er, he had to let them pass.
Owing to the lawlessness in Washington
1t is proposed t. do away with the munich
pal government of that city entirely, and
place its affairs altogether in the hands Of
Congress.
Oliver Spencer. aged "a, died at Peters.
burg, Rensselaer, county, N. T., recently
with remarkable record. He never took
any medicine, and was never sick day In
his life.
The Lehigh Valley, where all the eie.
ments of successful iron manufacture ex-
ist, exhibits rich and growing towns. Alen-
town has nearly trebled its population since
1851, and now boasts of over / LOCO inb alb
itants The valley of which Allentown is
the geographical centre, produces oDe-tenth
of all the iron in the United States. corr
respondent says: "Within an hours walk
of the town are no less than seventeen blast
furnaces and five large rolling mills, two for
rails and three for merchant iron.
The Gsntlemoa's Msgwstae the oldest
literary property in England. having been
published hundred and thirty four years,
is offered for sale.
~" Three thousand of the fnest poems in
the English language are beiag collected.
and will be published in one VOLUME, in Lon
don, for Christmas.
The Viceroy Of Egypt's astronomer
has discovered, by a course of astronomical
calculations, that the great pyramids were
built about $500 b. G.. Bunsen thinks 1t
was 24O0.
-- Ten editions of Jean Ingelow's poems
have been sold in London in the last two
years. Such success 10 unparalleled since
Che popularity Of some of Byron's poems
fifty years ago.
They have garroters at Medford, Mass.
who initiate JEFF Davis in their Disguise &c
what base uses have hoop skirts falleni
1T is not uncommon in China, when q
crimipal is sentenced to death for his ohenc-
es, to obtain substitute who for the sum OF
five or six hundred dollars, will act as th Z
prisoners proxy in undergoing the death
penalty. The authorities readily permit fhe
substitution, because by their laws, so Jue-
tice is vindicated in the person of somebody,
it is matter of supreme indifference wAeth'
er he is the offender or not
From the statement, it appears that
Massachusetts has actually paid upwards OF
fifty millions of dollars on account Of abe
war.
On the night of the 9th inst, the coua t.
ing-room of Jameu Roy, of Port Schuyla r,
N. T., was broken into, two iron safes bicpt n
open, and $4,000 stolen, $780, 900 Of it IAN