Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-19
GLEANENGS.

Randolph county, H., purchased quantity
of calomel from a druggist in Chester last
week, and administered II to some forty OF
their patients 1t subsequently appeared
that corrosive sublimate was mixed with the
calomel 1t last accounts several persons
had died from the effects Of the poison, and
several others are not expected TO live.
a New Bedford lady, who was in Boston
recently, astonished female pick pocket
who in a crowd had thrust her hand into the
lady's pocket, b. turning and coolly inquir-
ing, Why do you put your hand IN my
pocket, when / have my purse here IN my
! hand q
/ The wife of an OFFICER III McClellan's
/ army, at present residing at Raleigh, North
1 Carolina listed her husband on the PENN
sula il 1862. While 81 camp party OF
/ Confederates made raid on an outpost com
manded by her husband, and during the me-
( lee an infant was shot and killed in her arms.
/ For a moment she was frantic with grief, but
soon rallied, plunged into the thickest OF the
/ fray. and with her own hands despatched
seven of the assailants. For this feat Gov
ernnenf conferred on her the rank and emo
luments of major of infantry. SO says the
Raleigh Progress
:
commenced an agitation for the adoption OF
the .'ten hours movement in their trade.
The recent census in Minnesota shows
population Of about $4,000, an increase Of
$4,000 in five years
"A Tyrolese sharpshooter has been con-
demned to eight months imprisonment for
having turned cruciix into target.
The Boston Post tellssa story Of mar
riage that took place in one Of the city
churches last week. The ceremony was to
begin at eight in the evening, but the min
lister having neglected to notify the sexton,
the couple and their friends were kept
waiting an the sidewalk until the outside
doors could be unlocked, and it was then
necessary tc force boy through ventila-
tor to remove the bars from the inside doors.
In July last, paper sold in Cincinnati
at l5M155c. Ii is now l6c, and very little
to be had at that. at the same time the
price in New York was 14c. and yesterday
the article was scarce at 10000. Paper is
as high now in this market as it was year
ago, when gold was $40. If publishers,
therefore, had when paper was down. re-
duced the price Of subscription, they would
now be compelled to advance, or publish
during great portion of last Year,
"A destructive fire occurred at Pithole
recently, by which the tanks of the Grant
well, containing four thousand barrels Of
oil, and thirteen engines and derricks were
consumed The loss is about $l50,00O
The French army numbers over 400, 600
men, part Of whom are in Mexico, some in
Rome sonic in Algeria, and the balance III
France.
Almost every country paper has one or
more notices OF second growth of flowers
or fruit on the same plant this season. These
instances are most frequent on apple trees
and rose bushes though second crops of
strawberries are not uncommon.
The new Union Depot now being built
at Cleveland viii be, when finished the
largest ia the United States, being three feet
longer than The Central Depot in Chicago.
On The 10th of September a huge fire
was kindled ON the Sehnee Hoppe, the high
est of the giant mountains in Lower Silesla,
to celebrate the birth Of a child in hut on
the top of the mountain The Prussian wags
say this is the . highest-born parsonage in
the Prussian dominions."
"A Texas letter-writer says: Any man
III this State who does not own four hundred
head OF cattle and seventy or a hundred
horses and mules, is worse than worthless.
Beef sells here for five cents per pound,
horses and mules from fifteen to thirty dol
lars for round lots, and are within two hun
dreu and fifty miles Of good market. As
far as the eye can reach in every direction,
and as far as you may go, the country is
alive with stock
An agonizing story is told of a vain New
York young lady, who, dissatisfied with her
good but irregular teeth, had fifteen of them
pulled out to make room for new and false
set. In vain her dentist wished to spare her
eye-teeth. She would have them cut. Merry
ots prostration followed the operation, and
she died victim to her pride, leaving the
set of false teeth she had ordered uncalled
for.
The Southern papers that come our
office, says the Louisville Joay'aal seem to be
in the enjoyment OF unexampled prosperity
Many of them are printed on the best paper,
with new types.
- The effort for city consolidation at Pitts
burgh, is taking on both form and strength,
and viii be pressed in the next Legislature
of Pennsylvania. Within a radius of four
miles from the centre of Pittsburgh are
10000 inhabitants, in thirteen distinct po-
litical communities.
=" A traveller" wishes lis to explain what
sense there is, just now, in the term g rail
road securities, seeing that there is no Sc
curly on any of the railroads. We can't
do it.
Mr.. j. c. Watson, Of Ann Arbor, Mich,
telegraphs to the associated press that he has
just discovered a new planet
-Maximilian' Imperial decree nominally
abolishing slavery in Mexico, but establish
ing a system of peonage in the Empire but
little less obnoxious, ELECTS considerable
aninadversion there. 1t is too transparent
bid for rebel emigration and support to
find favor at present.
One of the boilers Of Pratt & Co. s roll
ing mills, near Buffalo, exploded recently,
instantly killing three men, and seriously
wounding twenty oil RS, some of whom have
since died. A portit 4 Of the boiler, ten feet
long, was carried three hundred feet by the
force of the explosion. The accident is sup
posed to have been caused by letting in cold
water when the boiler was very low.
The artesian we'll, at the western limits
of Chicago, is one of the great ouriosties
of our country. 1t is bored to the depth Of
III feet, and is flowing at the rate of 6O0,-
600 gallons of pure water daily, which is
: forced to the height of twenty five feet
above the ground level. Two other wells
are being sunk near by; one for oil, and the
other for water The latter has been drilled
to the depth of $50 feel, and about ten feet