Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-12-28
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OF freedom, WHICH crowns the dome o. tn6
Capitol is to be permanently placed on q
pedestal in the old hall OF the House of
Representatives.
While couple were being married in
an English Church the other morning, the
mother of the young lady, who was under
age, rushed into the church and forbade the
wedding. The officiating minister at once
stopped the service, and the bridegroom had
pronounced the words: With this ring
thee we'd declared that no legal marri-
I age had taken place. Since then, however,
the matter has been discussed Ut meeting
Of the clergy, and the unanimous decision
fthev arrived at was, that the couple had been
! properly and lawfully married according to
.fthe rites Of the Church. The point is a
very ticklish one, and will probably have to
| be settled in the law courts.
The London Spectator. in the course of
@ caustic and denunciatory criticism Of q
new poet. remarked; ''And this extraordina-
/ RI production, Mr.. - modestly conceives
| to be equal 70 Goethe" The audaoious
publisher managed to make q favorable no.
tice out Of this for his advertisement thus:
Extra ordinary production equal
to Goethe''-- Spectator
TT is reported that oil has been struck
on Copper creek, Crawford county, Wis, at
| the depth of 300 feet.
"A man in Maine lost COW last week
without any apparent disease; but an ex-
animation after her death discovered the
cause-a piece of hoop skirt steel spring
about two inches in length, which the COW
| had swallowed, and not being able to di-
| gest it, it had worked through the stomach
/ +oI ho
instant death.
| Joseph Ashley Fall River, Mass.
81, ton, recently undertook on a wager of
| $25, to eat turkey weighing nine pounds
| at one sitting. He accomplished the task in
30 minutes. 800
-Four black swans have been imported
from England, and have been domiciled in
| the lakes Of Spring Grove cemetery, Cincin-
natl. .GIa
"A child was born at the Indianapolis
poor house recently which had six fingers
On each haud and six toes on each foot.
The first sewing machine manufactured
by the Wheeler g. Wilson Company, is now
on exhibition at their rooms, No. log, Lake
street, Chicago. 1t is fourteen years old
and bears the simple inscription ga. B.
Wilson, Patented August 18th, 1851, Water
town Conn, Go. l.
DIR. Carnochan of New York, performed
two amputationg last week while the pa
tients were under the influence Of nitrous
oxide gas. DR.. Carnoohan states that from
the rapidity with which the gas operates,
the entire ins ensibility to pain, the sudden
ness of returning consciousness, attended
by no nausea or sickness, the gas appears
70 h. 60 too al
thetic agent.
Ohio in the only state that came out Of
the war with less dabt than she went in
with, the principle of taxation having been
adopted even in the darkest hours. The
State debt is now $13, 5OO,l75 against $14,-
250, 233 in 1860.
1t is stated that card of Mr.. James
Stephens was dropped into the letter-box of
the Right Hon. the Attorney General, the
morning after the Head-Centre's escape
from Jail.
The quickest stage or other trip be-
tween the Rocky Mountains and the Mis-
souri, river, was made in October by Ben
Holladay's line in three days and eleven
hours-distance 663 miles. Louis McLain
and party Of San Francisco, were the pas
sengers.
-Instead of asking each other whether
they are ready to go home, the printers on
the Boston morning papers look to the cap
ping OF their pistols, and say, when LEAVING
early in the morning: "Aro you ready to
meet the garroters :"
IA complete change Of system will be
shortly introduced in the madhouses in
France. Strait waistcoats, and all the other !
instruments hitherto used, are TO be abo-
ished, and the patients will live together |
and be constantly occupied at some useful |
work. The experiment has been tried at |
the lunatic asylum at Rlois with great sue
eeas. ifva
There are now in existence no less than |
fourteen hundred snd fifty seven oil compa-
mics, with total capital of eight hundred |
aud sixty nine millions five hundred and /
ninety -four thousand dollars, al, e
ri Prof. Agassiz has already obtained spe-
cimens Of more than seven hundred hereto
fore entirely unknown fishes, in South
America. aGfH 4e
BIcCullooh, in his report,
most aptly (but innocently) speaks of the
public debt as Is a matter Of interest,"" He
never spoke truer word.
Freeman Fl rdy, who fifteen years ago
was poor carpenter in Cincinnati, has just
built him house costing $3.50, 1000.
"A youngster Of fourteen years and his
sweetheart" two years younger, recently
eloped from Wallingford, Conn
An action has been brought in one of
the New York court. by person claiming
that he has been injured to the extent Of
p5, 200 by being described as colored per-
son IN one of the city directories. The
error happened in this wise: The person
who gathered the names for the directory.
set down coll" meaning collector of bills,
after the mans name The oompositor set
it up ''colrd," and so it went into print. F.
Edward B. Ketchum, the forger of mil
hops, still remains in the custody of the
law awaiting sentence. -
Among the patents lately taken out in
France are the following A hyeienic I
alphabet, in gingerbread method of max {
ing head-dresses, caps and pocket handker-
chiefs in paper; mechanical fan, opening
and shutting instantaneously a machine (
for cutting stone by means of a system of
points, reproducing infinitely the relief
required; an apparatus for making deaf ,
people hear; and no fewer than ten patents ,
Tor stopping railway trains.
The miners of Edmonds Main Colliery,
England, place which was the Scene of i
rightful explosion some time since, are |
low out on strike. The masters insist /
hat the men shall begin down in the pit at t
TX o'clock, but the men will only agree to {
De at the pit at six.
The Dutch ambassador at Washington
las made piteous appeal for an increase