Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-08-17
General News Items.

voted TO raise S2o,OUD 10 erect uleniOi ia
to the sons Of the college who have fallen
in the war.
-, Kentucky has furnished 2S,8l8 col
ored troops. The whole number ofpersons
in!that State made. free through the instru-
mentality Of the army, is stated at Zoe, $50.
IA fire in Williamsburg on the 10th
inst, destroyed the Empire Glass Works
and Sherrell's Tannery. Sherrells loss IS
$4,000. The loss Of the Glass Company
is $780, 600 insured for $4,000.
49,. The Wisconsin cautions the veteran
soldiers against selling their papers to spec
ulators. the object being to sell them back
to them at heavy advance should Congress
pass land bounty for the soldiers who en-
listed in the second year Of the war.
-. The late storm was very severe in
the La Crosse valley, assuming the char
acter Of wiiiriwind near Sparta, and doing
much damage to the crops.
-. Gen Howard stated recently before
the American Institute Of Instruction Of
| New Haven, CT, that more than 100000
people in the insurrectionary States have
learned to read within the last three years.
| IA Lodge of Good Templars of eleven
members, has lately been organized in Ian
caster, Grant county. The lodge in Platte
vile numbers about one hundred members,
and that Of Hazel Green over two hundred
members.
...A writer in the Monroe. Sentinel,
signing himself s. n. St. John, argues
strongly that there is undeniable evidence
Of petroleum in arough and broken section
Of country, about six miles west Of the vii
| lage Of Monroe.
80. An effort is being made to establish
an experimental farm in this state, to aid in
the proper and useful education of the or
phans of the soldiers who have given their
| lives to their country. A similar institu-
ton has been established and is in success
full operation in Pennsylvania.
-. Mr. Dickinson of the Lafayette
County Union has associated with him III
the publication of the Union, Mr.. G. I.
Duncan, Esq, an old resident of Darlington.
We see the Union publishes the Clerks
list, occupying six columns.
-. The census Of Wisconsin, so far as
the returns are in, shows an increase Of pop
ulation of about Is per cent.
80. Austria is almost in a state of bank
ruptcy, caused by her obstinacy in support
ing vast ard useless army Of 100 600 men
in time Of peace.
-. Col Lowell, State Provost Marshal,
has had sword, sash and belt presented
to him by the clerks in his Office
THE Oldest paper in the civilized
world is the Gazette de Paris, which in
1866 enters its 235th year
-. The population Of Grant county, &C
cording to the recent census, is 33,6l6, be-
ing an increase OF 3,077 since 1860. Of
this population, 1874 are of foreign birth
1877 are white males, 1865 white fe-
males, 103 colored persons, 8 deaf and
dumb, II blind, and 27 insane.
-. Mr. England, who for many years
was city editor of the New York IrjbNne,
has accepted a position on the Chicago Re-
| publican. Mr.. England is admirably adapt
ed by talent culture and experience TO con-
duct the news department ofany paper.
-. The State Committee Of the Copper
heads have issued call for a State Con-
vention, to be held in Madison on the Goth
of September. The call invites nearly
everybody to join in sending delegates to
the Convention.
/ -. The total number Of National Banks
chartered is 400, with an aggregate capt
tai of 1870, 100000, and a circulation Of
Sl6l ,971 $50
-. The free negro laborers on the Sea
Islands make large wages,-from 5000 to
600 year. In many cases where they
work the land on their own account, they
make from 81 900 to $4,000. There is
now on deposit in bank by negroes in that
neighborhood over $4,000
A few merchants in Philadelphia
have subscribed $4,000 for bronze stat
ue of Abraham Lincoln in that city.
=. Gen Geo McCook is spoken of as
the probable Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor in Ohio.
The Racine and Mississippi and
Northern Illinois Railroad earned from Jan
uary lst to July Dist. s244, 232, an increase
of S37 ,667 over the same period in 1864.
IA large number Of Polish emigrants
are settling in Portage county.
-. The total membership of the Yves
leyan Methodists in Great Britain is $50, $50.
THE First National Bark of Madison
has sold since January last, $4,000 of
the popular 7-30 bonds. This is doing
well for Madison.
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