Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-05

"A Ia0y passenger IN q street 'o'hhaS
car in Milwaukee, recently gave birth to
child
1T is proposed to start a company for
the Introduction of the Cashmere goat, IN
Indiana
The Missouri Pacific Railroad, running
from st. Louis to Kansas City, is completed.
l. is 283 miles long, and it cost over 9lO,-
000,0 900.
The cholera, while decimating the pop
ulation of Marseilles, has caused the rats to
run away from the city. But what is gain
for Marseilles, may become an lntilctlon for
some of its neighbors.
DR.. Joseph Fell, Of indianapolis, has been
arrested for procuring an abortion upon his
own Wife The penalty is fine not exceed
/ ing $780, and Imprisonment IN the county
/ Jail, not to exceed one yeaF, at the dlscre-
/ ton Of the court.
AS battery was going into camp at
I New Haven recently, an old battery horse
grazing in a lot, hearing bugle-call, jump
ed the fence, took his old position In line
and moved out to camp with the battery. SO
much for force Of habit
The Canadian authorities have only
restored 100000 Of the funds stolen from
! the St. Adams banks by the rebel Canadian
raiders. 1t is stated Government has made
peremptory demand for the remainder,
| 100000.
| AT young ladies' seminary recently,
during an examination in history, one OF the
most promising pupils was Intercepted:
''Mary, did Martin Luther die natural
death ?'' ''No," was the reply, che was
accommodated by bull"
The population of Brazil was estimated
| by the Government, in 1856, at 7 SIT 900, of
whom 1000 600 were whites; 1,121 600
mixed free people, mulattoes, mestizoes,
! ETC.; 100000 civilized Indians; 100000
mixed slave population; 100000 African
slaves.
The best fish story Of the season is re-
lated by the New London Star, of man
who while bathing was seized by a huge
shark and dragged Is feet under the water.
Thinking that depth sufficient, he plunged
! his thumb into the monsters eye, was quick,
! " released and regained the surface and
! his boat.
/ A woman on the railroad between New
York and Philadelphia picked her fellow
/ passengers pocket of her porte monnaie. a
committee of ladies searched the thief With
out success, when, at the suggestion Of a
gentleman, the stolen property was found in
! the woman's waterfall.
"A terrible tragedy occurred last week al
Fairplay, Wis, miles from Dubuque, Iowa.
/ DR.. Haines, a physician Of that place, shot
his daughter knocked his wife down with
the revolver, inficting a mortal wound, and
then cut his throat with lancet, The cause
of this horrible tragedy is not known.
Belgium has been visited by water
| spout of extraordinary violence. 1t occurred
in the neighborhood Of Liege and has spread
ruin far and wide. The accompanying gale
caught people up in the air and dashed
them to the ground. II cut off the tops of
large trees and felled many other trees to
/ the ground II stopped railroad trains and
overthrow houses. It was attended by thun-
der and lightning and foods of rain. Alto
1 gether it was one of the most disastrous
storms that ever visited the country.
An amusing story is told Of California
minstrel who undertook to leave San Fran
cisco without liquidating his little bills An
officer, charged with warrant for his ar
| rest, searched the steamer over and could
find no trace of the delinquent The officer
was boasting of his success in preventing
the departure, as he had not seen him on the
steamer, when he was informed that a re-
spectacle looking colored woman among the
| passengers was nobody else but the minstrel
commencing his travels in familiar disguise
| "A fearful affray occurred recently near
Rome, Ga. Two desperadoes came up to a
church during seryice-time and called out
two Of the congregation. They refused to
come out, when the desperadoes commenced
firing at them, killing one and MORALLY
wounding a lady. Subsequently a squad of
the 29th Indiana, with three citizens, follow
ed them up and surprised them in their
house. The two men, in company with
three sons, made determined fight, killing
two of the citizens, but resulting eventually
in the death of the whole gang.
The island of Jersey has an area of less
than seventy square miles. Guernsey Of
about fifty square miles. Neither island is
manufacturing or mineral yet the popula-
ton of the former in 1861, was IS, 6l3, and
The latter 29,850; being at the rate Of over
/ eight hundred per square mile for Jersey,
and six hundred per square mile for Guern-
/ sey. The average population of Great Brit
ian, is under two hundred and eighty per
1 square mile; in Belgium, it is four hundred
land, two hundred and eighty
The Hon. Mr.. Grianell of Iowa has sig
nifed his intention Of appearing in congress
at its next session, dressed in cloth of Iowa
manufacture. The wool from which the
! cloth is to be manufactured, was sheared
| from Mr.. Grinnell's own sheep It is to be
made into cloth and dressed at Davenport.
He sent thirteen feeces, 1870 pounds of wool
, to the factory to be worked up for the pur-
! pose of making the cloth. He says he wish
es to wear what is fabricated at home as an
argument in favor of protection.
On the 22d of August, new planet was
discovered by DR.. Robert Luther, director
of the observatory al Blk, Germany. 1t
appears as d star of the tenth magnitude.
is the eighty fourth of the group of small
! bodies, revolving between tie orbits of Mars
/ and Jupiter, and is the fourteenth detected
| by DR.. Luther. During period Of twenty
! years, no less than eighty of these small
planets, varying from the seventh to the
1 twelfth magnitude, have been detected; and
as optical power is increased these minute
bodies will probably be found, which are
invisible to the most powerful telescope of
the present day.
The Erie Despatch tells funny story of
! oil: A citizen who lived near the refinery,
found his cellar knee deep with undoubted
petroleum No man in an oil country has
any right to be astonished at such indica-
I tons. He Iei at work, collected thirty-six
barrels of the fluid, and sold it to his neigh
bors of the refinery, at six dollars per barrel,
promising to bring them all he had They
| poured it into their immense underground
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the oil, and il came to pass they met again in
! the cellar Aftar tho nrocncc NJ Gala ba1