Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-12

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explained that it must not happen again; tina
had been sick too, very SICK OF the whol
affair, and that the watchman had becom
demoralized and run away, that it was near
" midsummer and that all FLUSHING wa
laughing at US.
!. The Waterman lived in a little place no
bigger than good sized dog kennei that n
constructed from pieces of the roof and thu
bovs of the neighborhood considered it fin,
sport to pay him visit of dark night, and
sienalize their presence by shower O.
stones. His food was never luxurious, being
cooked by himself under many disadvantage!
and with few utensils. And when his money
became soant was supplied mainly through
the charity of the neighbors. He hadno bed
4 ding. and no change of clothes; and wheI
murder was committed near by, and The
murderer was hunted through the place by
constables, officers and half the people Of
a the place az posse comitatus, accompanied by
all the dogs in the village, and the crowd
yelling, screaming and fighting, rushed over
the watohman's kennel at midnight, waking
Thin out of sleep, he could stand it no longer
but inoontinently fed to parts unknown. Sc
that Sille had not arrived too soon, and
found everything needing care and attention
j He went to work at once, and bringing order
out of chaos, began rapidly to construct the
confused mass of material into the form and
stature of dwelling.
/ Murders are abhorrent things to me, either
from some natural idiosyncracy or from the
trainings of my profession which teaches
obedience to the powers that be, and prefers
teohnicalities to violence. have species
of horror at the thought of numbering any
one or being murdered myself, especially
the latter. It is SO dirty and bloody, the
body is 80 dreadful to look and 80 hard to
dispose Of, and it is so sudden and altogether
unpleasant. I was anxious to know before
settling in Flushing, if murder was one OF
1 the institutions, and was to be avoided
/ like ohills and fever, musketoes and other
similar visitations. A day or two after the
occurrence, applied to my invaluable friend
Neville for information, and inquired If
murders were common event. His man
ner In reply was very encouraging lie had
lived in Flushing nine years, and this was
the flrst case of the kind. IL was the most
peaceable place he ever knew; In fact he
had hardly ever heard loud word spo-
KEN He pictured it as the abiding place OF
angels or Quakers AMI put my scruples en-
tirely at rest Violence or disputes even
among the Flushingites, were not heard of,
and mukders were far rarer than deaths by
lightning. The day after this conversation,
there was little friendly contest among the
several fire companies of this peaceable viii
lage, to determine which engine could throw
the highest stream of water; and what was
nv amazement on reading the accounts in the
/ daily papers, to learn that the contest wound
up with free fight that knives, pistols and
clubs, were freely used, and that four per-
sons were killed and forty wounded. For a
family of semi angels, this was doing well.
The philosophy of average furnishes one
consolation, however-Flushing had evident
ly concentrated into one day, its allowance OF
murders for the next five years.
None of Stiles men were in the fight,
though at first, anticipated finding my eel
(! lar hospital and he kept steadily on, adj
ding boards and windows, and siding and
beams together, till they took on the sem
blance of a house To be sureit was rickety
and open as yet. One man fell between the
| timbers, another out of the window a third
from the roof, but that did not hurt the
house.
Two Irishmen were at work digging a
well, and | fell to moralizing at their fate
doomed to q lower existence than hewers OF
wood and drawers of water, not sufficiently
intelligent even to cut sticks, and condemned
to carry wood and dig for water, Musing on
their hard lot, peered down into the deep
I hole they were making in the ground during
the intense heats of summer, wondering how
soon science would raise the lowest Of men
above the condition Of beasts of burthen,
when one of them glancing up, perceived
me, and inquired: ''Was the boss z" / an
swereG the affirmative, and he informed me
that it was customary for the boss to stand
something, when he first came on the ground.
Moved by my sympathy, | stood a quarter
apiece, explaining that it must not be wasted
for liquor, to which they assented with great
hilarity. Alas for sympathy, and charity,
and human mildness Those wretched men
Immediately dubbed their quarters together
and converting them into gin, knocked OIL
work, and proceeded to get drunk. & They
remained incoherent, as the term goes that
/ is applied to their betters, all the next day.
4 As it was essential that the well should be
finished as rapidly as possible, my sympathy
was ended, and never stood anything Of the
kind again. 8 ri EsI {E.s5
What with drunken Irishmen and injured
workmen, murdered villagers and fighting
fremen, the country house progressed but
slowly towards completion. The walls, it is
true, arose like mushrooms-tho delicious
tvegetables---in night; the roof climbed into
place, partitions grew, and floors were laid,
windows crept into their sash eases and
doors and blinds were hung, but ''the end
/ was not YETI The seventh of July had come
and gone, and the country house bid fair to
be finished about Christmas time.
OF the cost Of the progressing dwelling it
I is not pleasantto speak; but as this yerita-
BILE history depends greatly for its value to
future generations upon its accuracy and mi
nrteness, will admit that the expense was
not despicable. Labor was high, as the
Nantucket builder explained, and timber
was high, and bricks were high, and Irish
men occasionally got high, and altogether,
he was compelled-muc against his wishes
to charge a high price. AS the building
/ progressed--or rather failed to progress, it
was suggested that he may have charged
enough to cover few days delay at ten dol
lars day But that would hardly have ac-
corded with the honesty of a Nantucketan.
I concluded to hire house hear by, which,
though not the one I had expected to occu-
py, was doubtless az good and had the adj
vantages of tight roof and solid walls.
Here / could conveniently watch theprogress
of the undertak ag, without being so deeply
interested az if LIZ lodging depended on it.
AS distance is 81 posed to lend enchantment
to the view, the stant prospectof the com
pletion of my d SEES hould hays been en-
4 chanting; and the summers invariably
return every I'D i it would be only ques
ton of a few n this, and my summer house
would be mere1 next summer house
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GREAT Nal kAL CURIOSITY O
our citizens RI rned last week from q visi