Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-05
GEEANENGS.

to seventeen months imprisonment each, IN
Philadelphia, last week.
The National Bank at Concord, Mass,
was broken into last week, while the Cashier
was absent, and robbed of $500, 900.
A large gold mine in the Wilderness,
Virginia, is shortly to be worked by North
ern parties.
A man in Kansas raised so much corn on
| forty acres Of ground that he had to hire an
adjoining field of 100 acres TO stack il on.
A man in London died from gianders,
contracted from washing diseased horse,
when he had an injury upon one Of his i'm
! gers.
Mr. G. W Thompson, Of Woodford conn
| ty, H., had his eye picked out by a young
sandhill crane which some boys had captured
and were exhibiting to him.
1t is stated that Herschel Y. johnson is
! to be an assistant counsel in behalf Of the
rebel steamboat burning gang, now on trial
at st. Louis.
An ex-army sutler who resides in 1ndi-
annapolis made s., 0O0, 000in fourteen months,
which he invested in United States bonds,
thus escaping taxation.
/ A French engineer has experimental in
photography until he has invented an appa-
ratus by which pictures can be taken IN a
parlor or anywhere else.
When Wirz the Andersonville ijailor,
was first placed in the Old Capitol he bor-
rowed and read Milton, DeQuincy, ETC., but
now he reads Bakers Call. 1t won't hurt
him.
The propeller Buckeye, from 0gdens-
burgh to Toledo, struck wreck in the st.
Lawrence River on the Oath, and sunk.
Three persons are known to have been lost
and four others are missing
Mace and Wormald, q pair of English
bruisers. are going to pummel each other on
/ the 1st Of November, for the champions belt
and G200 a side. The betting is understood
to be even on the two men.
Twenty-Five new hotels have been opened
at New Y ork during the last four years, and
| they still want more. Two monster ones will
be built next spring-A. T. Stewart being in
terested in one and the Lelands in the other.
The latest fashionable arrival in New
| ! ork is that Of a Partisan lady, who calls
herself an artist in nails and eyebrows, and
is prepared to put the finishing touches to
any fair American lady's beauty.
The Boston lancers are to visit Chicago
next month. They come in full uniform and
bring their well-trained horses with them.
During their stay they will be the guests of
! the Ellsworth Zouaves
"A St. Louis burglar, who was robbing a
room III which young lady was sleeping,
could not resist the temptation of kissing the
beautiful lips of the damsel, and was caught
at it. 1t will be States prison for kiss.
A patent for making shoes with wooden
soles has been perfected, and the Brooklyn
4 N. \. } Edgte says that the boots and shoes
made under this patent have been subjected
/ TO the seyerest tests, which they have with
! stood-eyen their friends being surprised at
their good qualities.
ANDREW Frank, policeman at Niagara
Falls was shot dead last week, as was also
another man, by gang of roughs. BY way
I of retaliation, four houses Of ill-fame were
/ destroyed two Of them being burned to the
/ ground. A son Of the murdered policeman
! led the mob.
The mine of spathic ore, or native steel,
! at Waterbury,, Conn, has been sod to a
Hartford company for 100000, and q hum
dred men are now at work erecting smelling
works, sinking shafts, etc. This ore is said
! to work directly into steel without the usual
4 carbonizing process.
= Returns Of the State census of Massa-
| chusetts have been received from all but six
teen towns, and they foot up ,2l6,497 The
missing towns, it is estimated, will make the
aggregate population nearly / ,2T2 ,000 and
the voters about 245, 600. The increase pop
ulation since 1860 is about II 900.
The Union Bank of New London, Conn,
has double-barreled, forward and back ac-
ton, patent combination, burglar-proof lock
on its safe. The other day it was locked,
and the password was forgotten; the conse-
quence was that neither the maker nor any
body else could open it, and the door had to
be cut off.
The play of q The Confederate's Daugh-
ter is having great success in one of the
London theatres. General Butler appears in
it as " the tyrant of New Orleans, makes
love improperly to the Confederates daugh-
ter, but is foiled by a faithful negro, who has
a fight with Butler, and beats him with a
broadsword in a square fight. Butler after
wards undertakes to hang the lover of the
said daughter, but he is reprieved. Butler
is relieved from command, and the Confed-
crates daughter triumphs. The play is
!
A writer suggests in The NeW York Sat
arday Times, that every railroad should be
provided with its private graveyard, where
its victims might be inferred at the company $
EXPENSE simple act of justice to surviving
relatives. Appropriate epitaphs could be
| placed over the remains of the sufferers from
each accident, stating that nobody was to
blame, etc, as the following, for instance:
COW ON TRACK
bovine waf from the adjoining field
The track invaded, and my fate she sealed;
By the cow-catcher caught, she flew sky-high
And so, dear friends, hope at last shall l.
"A little daughter of Geo. Coos, of New
London, aged five years. few days ago was
reaching over a well-curb to get water from
the bucket, when she lost her balance and
fell into the well, depth of thirty feet.
She was soon missed, and her father heard
cries of, How cold am !" and immediately
went to the well and found his lost child
struggling with death. A person rescued
her from her perilous situation. She was
taken out insensible, and could not, it is
said, have lived more than two or three
minutes longer.
Some of the late rebel Generals are max
ing themselves generally useful. prominent
Major General from Louisiana has charge of
the construction of the wharves at New Or
leans. Two Brigadiers have secured places
in the Commercial Express Company One
Brigadier is prosperously engaged in the bu-
siness of boss drayman. There are other
Generals who are spoken of as civil engineers
on our railroads. Almost every store has a
Colonel or Major There are three distin-
guished Colonies extensively engaged in the
auction business. One Colonel, who has d.
rected big guns in some of the fiercest battles
of the war, is now selling ball rope and bag