Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-26
GLEANENGS.

There was great storm of rain and
wind at Havana, Cuba, during the first week
of this month, compelling people to suspend
business and shut themselves up. There
was some loss OF life, and much damage
done
"A letter from Edward Spangler 10
friend in Baltimore is published, and in 1t
he proclaims his innocence. AS to his rela-
tons with Booth, he says: g He asked me to
see to his horses wich / did he said that he
would make me honsonld presen, which he did,
SIR years on the land Of Dry Tortatgas never
enjoyed his confidence or his favor except
occasionally when we met at arestaurant he
would ask me to have something to drink.
Floods in Japan, unprecedented in vio
lence and disastrous results, occurred III the
month of August.
-a Gladiator" the last winner Of Derby,
has won in all eight races, the stakes in which
amounted to the enormous sum of e26, 422, or
about $4,000 in American gold. This for
a three-year-old colt is much the largest
amount ever Won.
The cholera is decreasing at CONSTANT
nople, but is increasing at Marseilles The
average mortality at the latter place is from
sixty to seventy per day.
"A young man at Bordeaux, France, re-
cently-stabbed his sweetheart thirteen times,
until the poor girl was dead. He then washed
the blood off his hands at the public foun-
tain, and quietly surrendered himself to the
authorities. ia&
"A church in Springfield advertises for
members. No more improper than was the
reply Of q church committee in Connect
jiol lint
irreligious man applied for membership,
blandly assured him that the church was
full
1t is said that the French half-penny
daily paper, called the La Petit .Iounai, cir
culates an edition of million and a half
copies. Doubtful. fe
The American Bible Society has entered
upon its fftieth year, and its friends propose
making it a jubilee year, and as such its
board of managers will celebrate it.
"A st. Louis street car conductor was
fined $25 for trying to put woman off the
cars, supposing she was negro She proved
she was an Indian.
"A gentleman living near Jacksonville,
H.. thinking he heard disturbance among
/ his horses, got up, went to The window,
was in this attitude, the sash fell and caught
with spring, thus holding him a close pris-
oner His family had gone away on visit,
and he was alone in the house. He shouted
until he was hoarso, and tried every means
to extricate himself from his predcament,
but it was all in vain; and he remained until
morning, when he was seen by rasser-by,
and relieved from his awkward position more
dead than alive He soon recovered, and
beyond stiff back and few twinges Of
rheumatism, is rs well as ever.
The negroes Of Alexandria, Va, have
formed Coal Protective Association, and
now buy whole cargoea, at q great saving
from monopolist prices. Some prominent
white citizens have gladly purchased from
the association.
The indianapolis papers complain Of the
vast amount of scoundrels in that city, and
hint at vigilance committees and evident
remedies if they do not stop their crimes
The Madison Qnd.) Courier says it has
heard young ladies singing, who will care
for mother now % while their old mothers
were wearing themselves out in the kitchen
over the family washing.
1t is proposed 10 hold Planters Con-
vention at Montgomery, Ala, next month, to
develop, by means Of consultation some sys-
TEN of employment and remuneration for
negro services, which shall be of general
application.
Mosquitoes have made their appearance
in London this summer r the first time.
They buzz, but do not bite.
The report of Captain Moore, who was
sent to Andersonville to mark the graves OF
Union prisoners for future Identification,
says he numbered and marked the graves of
L, AGO of our dead soldiers, being obliged to
designate only 467 as unknown"
There are now So, SOC, 900 worth of boots
| and shoes manufactured for the trade in Chi
cago in year, and the business is rapidly
| increasing.
In Cochin China bull races are very
much in vogue. The bulls are harnessed to
chariots, and run with great speed.
The New York Home Journalsays; Gone
of our merchants living in Nineteenth street,
discovered, the other day, that he had lived
for two years in the same block with his bro
Their whom he had not seen for twelve
years"
For a wedding coming of in New Y ork,
one millinery establishment has some sixty
odd dresses in charge which viii cost money
enough to buy thousands of acres of land in
Nebraska, Da cotah, or Idaho.
AT Birmingham, England, a charwoman
was cleaning some attic windows, forty feet
from the pavement, and az she was leaning
out, suddenly fell into the street, upon Il man
passing by. He was fatally injured, but she
escaped unhurt.
The Barnum and Bennett Museum prop
erty suit, of which so much was lately said
in the papers, is soon to come into court. The
litigation does not appear to retard the build
ing of the new Herald Office, which is still
going forward.
During the four years the present Sultan
Of Turkey has been on the throne, there has
been as great an improvement in the financial
and material state of Turkey as the disor-
ganizatlon which presented itself on his ac-
cession, and the internal wars of Montenegro
and Syria could admit of. The revenue has
increased from e10,000,000 in 1851 to near
GA, 100000.
"A despatch from Toronto states that DR..
Blackburn, the yellow fever plotter, has been
admitted to bail on his own recognizance, his
sureties being discharged.
A country exchange says that the first
month of fall was the warmest of the sum
mer.
The Viceroy of Egypt, who himself quit
ted Egypt on the first appearance of the
cholera, has just dismissed several high
functionaries for having abandoned Egypt
during the epidemic.
The sorghum crop in Wisconsin this
season has been success beyond all expec-
tations. With their improved machinery and