Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-21
GLEANENGS.

-Ihe n few York Times ueNoIeo page W
the recapi ulation of railroad and steam
boat accidents, for five months, under these
lively headings: .'Opening OF the Fourth
Seal Death on Five Months Excursion
He takes the place of war after Lees Sur
render; What Railroads he Selected Tor ex-
pertinent How Entirely Successful he was
on the Rail; How Many He has Crushed
and Mangled since April; He Patronizes
Steamboats, for Change Of Air; How the
Boats Blew Up, and what became of the
Passengers.
A Virginia paper says the supply OF
game in that state is extraordinary. The
woods swarm with squirrels, there are
crowded settlements of rabbits, while the
partridges are so numerous that they come
up in fiocks to the very doors of the farm
houses and take spot luck" with the farm
er's chickens Virginia always was game
state.
A bull got loose in New York last
Thursday. lie first had fight with po-
liceman, who used up locust club and SIX
shots of revolver in the contest, and was
twice tossed into the air. He then tossed
boy through a second story window, strip
ped the crinoine from young lady, and
finally sunk from the effect of the wounds
he had received.
-Pittsburg is queer place. The other
day three men went into a lager beer sa-
loon, and two commenced catching all the
flies in the room while the third ate the in
sects as fast as caught, on a bet that he
could eat them quicker than his compen-
ions could catch them. They were arrested
and fined three dollars each for their fun
Pithole City is the eighth wonder of the
world the hyperbole of Petrolia's curiosi-
ties; the last discovery of Aladdin's lamp
A magic city of 1000, souls, with more
than corresponding noise and hustle, erter-
prise and excitement, with hotels and sta
bles and stores and telegraphs and expresses
with newspapers and theatres and churches,
with banks and land Offices, with every &C
cessory to city life except ice and railroad,
Pithole City is the growth of ninety days, q
flowing well of people and horses.
1t is stated by the Cincinnati CONNER
cial, that the military force of the United
States now consists of16,000 regular troops,
0,000, volunteers and 10000 colored
troops-in all POS, 900 men of whom 1885,
900 are reported as on duty in the field.
- The Brazilian squadron ordered to
blockade Paraguay, is, in turn, blockaded
by the batteries which the Paragraphs
have mounted on the banks Of the Parana.
This is something which has probably never
happened before.
An excellent article Of mineral paint
has been discovered at Black River Falls.
1t is Of bright red color, and contains con-
O.; II I, In ill oh ;c1 10
ordinarily used in mixing mineral paint.
"A man 80 years old was robbed in New
York Of $50 which he had laid aside to buy
q coffin with. The Providence Journal says
he viii hardly be able now to ''pay the
debt of nature
Tho total casualties in Grants Army,
from the time of crossing the Rapidan till
the surrender Of Lees army, were IS, 387.
Those in Sherman's army, from the forward
movement at Dalton to the occupation of
Atlanta, was 81, l99
in one of the villages on the Delta OF
the Nile, celebrated for the cultivation OF
the water melon, the whole of the inhabit-
ants died during the recent prevalence OF
cholera. Being unable to sell their fruit,
they ate it themselves.
Winchester, Va, was much occupied
place during the war of the rebellion. The
Union troops took possession of it forty
eight times, and the rebels twenty -seven
times. and on one occasion, it was occupied
by both sides in battle.
An Old Maids Aid Society was organ
lied at Warsaw, Ind, last week. 1t has a
Furnishing membership of thirty. Unmar-
ried gentlemen are requested to attend the
meetings.
Rather less gallant is the F'Bachelor S
Association" founded at Vienna, to promote
matrimony by keeping register of all
marriageable ladies, free from extravagant
tastes.
A lady in Philadelphia, fell from a bug
gy, hit the back of her head, and would
have dashed her brains out but for her
waterfall.
of all the specimens Of Gcrman-Amer-
lean photography that ever saw the light,
that Of q Hartford saloon-keeper is the
most excruciating. He has painted him
sign and it reads, ''Boshdevele Nodrushd, y
''Positively no Trust"
As Horace Greeley is to deliver the ad-
dress before the Minnesota State Agricultu-
raj Society, it is suge ested that he take for
his subject, ''The Eradication of Weeds. y
The oil excitement has reached Tennes-
see. Boring is being energetically prosecu-
ted in various localities among the noun
talns of the Cumberland New machinery
is arriving daily.
Missouri furnished 104, 756 troops dur
ing the war-over one third of whom were
supplied by St. Louis
The delivery of bogus kilograms and
getting pay therefor, is getting to be Sc
rious evil in New York.
Il number of Irish officers lately con-
nected with Wisconsin regiments, are about
going 10 Ireland. Among them is General
Nlalloy, late Colonel of the 18th Wisconsin
(lrish) Regiment, who is prominent Fen
ian.
You never need think you can turn
over any old stone or any old falsehood with
out terrible squirming and scattering OF
the horrid little population that dwells I'M
der it.
There is an apple tree in Danbury,
Conn, the upper branches of which hang
full Of ripe apples, while the lower ones are
in full blossom.
The Brooklyn ferry company carried
nearly 10000, 900 passengers last year, not
one of whom was either killed or injured
Thieves broke into the house of Mayor
Hart, of Racine, Wis, recently but brave
little lady, into whose room they came, seiz-
ed one Of them by the hair of his head and
held on until the house was aroused The
fellow cut at her with his knife, wounding
her rather severely in the hand and arm, and
made an escape only to be caught with his
partner outside of the house. He left his
cap in the lady's hand.
What is the use of signing and weeping
as we float down the stream OF Time Why