Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-28

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diana, to come off next month.
"A great deal of champagne is very
cheaply made by charging sherry with car
bonic acid.
The municipal tax levy of the city OF
! New York for the next year will be eighteen
millions Of dollars.
"A wrecking company have commenced
raising the old erigate Merrimac, sunk by
the rebels near Fortress Monroe.
1t took fast youth just FIVE weeks to
| finish a fortune Of $500, 900 in Paris. He
had the lorettes to assist him.
1 I'm New York city, so statistics state,
there are fewer marriages by one third than
there were twenty-five years ago.
Fears are entertained that the Morgan
race Of horses is TO become extinct. a meet
ing has been held to discuss the matter.
Detroit has been discontinued as state
rendezvous for returning troops. All Mich
igan troops will hereafter rendezvous at
Jackson.
It is estimated that from % to 80 per cent.
Of deaf mutes, are the children of first cous-
ms. A fearful warning this to those who
entertain a notion of forming union Of this
kind.
Gen. Fremont will take up his residence
in ST. Louis, and take immediate measures
for putting into operation very extensive
mandatory of railroad, bar, and sheet
iron.
F H. Smith of Birmingham, Conn,
| recently coughed up ounce ball which
went nearly through his head at the battle
of Averysboro N. c., and could not be pre-
viously extracted.
Miss Margaretta Fox, one of the famous
Fox sisters claims to have been married to
DIR. Kane the Arctic traveller, some years
before his DEATH But DIR. Kanes friends
deny the story.
The safe of the paymaster Of the Pitts
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway
Company, was opened on Friday night last,
in Pittsburg, and $50, 900 extracted there
from. There is no clue to the robbers.
The first lesson business man should
learn is the value Of printers ink, and then
to know how to use it to advantage. The
biggest incomes in business last year, aC
crued to the judicious advertiser.
Pit Hole, the great Venango county oil
city, was thus named in consequence of an
extraordinary pit or cavern that exists near
that city. In this pit stones may be thrown
but they are never heard to drop. It's depth
has not been fathomed.
The census returns for all the counties
is Wisconsin, shows the population to be
1886, 847, an increase of 92207 since 1860,
The voluntary contributions towards the
objects of the war. were $8,000,0o0. The
state debt is 81 1863, 900.
1t is stated as singular fact that the
) martins, robins and other birds that are in
| the habit Of disappearing some time in 0cto
Der, have already left for parts unknown
This, it is prognosticated, means an I'M
usually cold winter approaching.
Capt. Aaron Bancroft of Newburyport,
Z Mass, namesake, probably relative of
g the late Rev. Aaron Bancroft of Worcester,
the father of our celebrated historian, has
been appointed agent of Butterfed's over
land express company at a salary Of $4,000
| per annum.
The New York World announces the
8 purchase Of six thousand barrels of beef in
! that city for shipment to Great Britain. 1t
says the dreadful cattle disease now raging
in Europe, will have an important influence
upon our market for cured meats, if we shall
| be SO lucky as to escape the disease itself.
"A Mr. T. D. j. DeNyes of Brooklyn,
last week took box of the 'patent univer-
sal safety matches" in his hand, closed the
lid. and struck one of the matches on the
bottom of the box, when the whole Of them
9 exploded, burning his hand SO that he was
f disabled for some time. Not so safe after
all
The frog show at New York is an fat
1ccompk About four hundred of these
marsh warblers ars OF exhibition, some in
1 bird cages, and some in glass globes. Here,
says a writer, they disport upon cooling,
dripping moss, and dream away the tardy
hours, wondering, ''why is this thus?'
Brigham Young, some time since, ask
ed the King of the Sandwich Island to allow
him to send Mormon missionaries to the is
, land. To this the Sandwich Island Secre-
tary of State replied the Mormon tenets are
subversive of good government, and in VIC
lation of laws of the Kingdom, and that eff
t forts to establish colony of the saints there
, will not be tolerated.
1t is asserted that in Germany, since
the beginning of the railroad system, TWEEN
ty or thirty years ago, not single life has
been lost in consequence Of carelessness or
mismanagement on the part of the railroad
agents. few have killed themselves by
, incautioasly approaching or getting off the
5 train, but none have been killed by what
, are called accidents or casualties.
; A correspondent Of the Pittsburg De
spatch says peculiar kind of disease, by
some denominated the oil itch and by others
called the Titusville itch, has just made its
2 appearance at Pit Hole. 1t first appears
on arms and faces and is contagious. En-
tire families even down to the babies, are
scratching and preachers, actors and every
body else, are playing the French fiddle,
: "A Harrisburg paper tells of a man who
has failed in business four times, was burnt
out three times, was robbed five times, was
upset in a stage coach and thrown down an
head foremost through hatchway in store
) at Reading, has been married three times
and is the father of twenty-one children.
He ''still lives" and is engaged in business
in Harrisburg.
A clergyman called on poor parish
Toner, whom he found bitterly lamenting the
loss of an only son, child of about four or
, five years age. In the hope Of consoling
the afflicted woman he remarked that zone
so young could not have committed any
: very grievous sin, and that he had no doubt
e the child had gone to heaven" ''Ah sir,
said the simple hearted creature, shut Tom
my was SO shy-and they are all strangers
there"
A man in Darlington, Vermont, who
l was partially insane, killed himself recent
: ly by trying to force stone down his throat
using stick for that purpose, and the re-
suit was that he forced q frightful hole