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


census just completed. The entire popula-
tioa of the metropolis is ascertained to be
1860. In 1860, in was 613, 669. Decrease
IN five years, 81, 100!
Somebody in Hartford advertises the
yo'ks of eggs for sale at Is cents per quart
He uses the whites in some chemical pro-
cess
"A western editor was recently request
ed to send his paper to distant patron,
provided he would take his pay in ''trade u
At the end of year, he found that his new
subscriber was coffin maker.
The most valuable lot of furs ever
brought to St. Paul, was received last week
from the Hudson Bay Company-6,0 O0mink
skins, worth $50, The skins filled twelve
ordinary sized boxes, and the st. Paul Press
says are worth more than their weight in
silver.
"A woman who was buying trunk in
front of a store in Centre street New York,
was killed by hammer dropped from a
window above
Moral. Never by trunk in front of g
store in Centre street, New York.
New Orleans papers reveal a dreadful
state of things Their local columns pre-
sent dreary waste of paragraphs, from 10
to 80 day, recording robberies, outrages
and murders
During the war for the suppression of
the rebellion, 252 battles were fought, II OF
which were naval achievements. There
were SO in Virginia, 81 in Tennessee, Is in
Missouri, II, in Georgia, 10 in South Caro-
lima, II in North Carolina, in Alabama,
6 in Florida, IA in Kentucky, l in the Indian
Territory, / in New Mexico, and one in
Pennsylvania, the only one in northern
state.
The late North Carolina State Con-
vention could not find national flag in that
state to hoist over the Capitol at Raleigh,
and were obliged to send to New York for
one.
"A piece of ground located on Union
Square, has been contracted for by Mr.. Bar
mum, on which he intends to erect Muse
um edifice. The ground covers over seven
lots. Work will be commenced in May next
and it is intended to have this building COM
pleted by the lst January, 1867. 1t will be
six stories in height, and ire-proof, and
contain peculiar facilities for reaching the
upper stories.
"A proclamation will soon be issued by
the President, appointing day Ct national
Thanksgiving fer the restoration of peace.
Some mischievous parties have hoaxed
the freedmen in Mississippi by the promise
that they will each receive Christmas pres
ent of tract of land from the Government,
and therefore they refuse TO make contracts
to labor beyond Christmas
A negro, particularly dead one, is
not considered worth much ID New Orleans
Judging from the following item cut from
the local Of New Orleans paper: ''There
is dead niger in the river at the foot of
Custom House street. That is poor Sam
oo's obituary.
An old lady in Springfield Mass eighty
one years of age, fell and dislocated her
shoulder last week. II was set the same
evening. and on the second day she made
her bed and walked a mile. She evidently
was one Of the sold stock -
In the Jail in Boston are two babies,
other nine, both small of their age, and ev-
identity infantile in mind Their offence
was stealing few grapes, and they were
committed for non payment of fine and
costs.
Free speech has been infringed upon
at New York. A man called an alderman
thief and has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages!
Rats walking over bell wire lately
kept one of Albany's first families awake
for week Of nights. They thought it was
"spirits.'
To prevent the frequency of e'breach
of promise cases in the English court, a
bill will soon be introduced into parliament,
enacting that promise to marriage, to be
held binding SO that the breach of it shall
constitute ground of action, must be given
in writing and attested by two competent
witnesses.
The population of Washington is esti-
mated to be $4,000. Before the war it was
about 10000.
A speculative individual in Petersburg,
Va, is buying negroes at $40 per head, in
gold, upon the supposition that the United
States will hereafter pay for all slaves eman-
cipated by the war.