Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-25

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travel each way by the Pacific steamers
from San Francisco tc China.
An Albany laborer found two 500
greenbacks sewed up in the sleeve of coat
bought at a secondhand store.
/ Forty ght millions of gallons Of pc
ftroleum. oil have been exported from the
United States in the last year.
= "A New York milliner has just paid
| $95, 600 cash for palace on the Fifth ave-
niue, for business purposes. lrs
/ &C. W. Ricketston, of Pittsburgh, who
died suddenly few days ago, had life in
! suranee to the. amount OF $4,000.
"A boot-blaeking machine has made its
appearance on the streets in Buffalo, to the
great Indignation of the professionals"
The appointment Of a large number of
Generals to sinecures with large salaries,
is what burst the National Express Com
pany.
Seventy turkeys have grown fat on the
grasshoppers on Deer Island, in Boston har-
! Dor, this summer, which they were sent out
there to ex terminate.
The Davenport 0owa) Gazette claims,
taking Mr. Roots canvass as a basis, that
Davenport contains population of between
eighteen and twenty tho1sand inhabitants.
There was married in Oskaloosa, Iowa,
last week, a man aged rs and woman
aged 80 years. The man was a widower,
while the woman is now taking her sixth
husband. 80 - 81
"A lady in Jersey City en- her death bed
accused her. husband of poisoning her. The
poor man was quite startled until, at post
norton examination, consumption was clear.
! ly shown as the cause.
An enterprising chap in Maine recently
sought to escape the responsibilities Of be-
ring a father by sending a notice of his
death to the papers. The scheme didn't
/ satisfy the demands of the mother orsthe
Law. g z < 2 n e =
The Detroit Free Press says: "Justice
Kuhn informs US that, Out of 218 couples
4 that he has joined together as man and wife
within the last six years, not ne-third are
ispow living together"
- A New York correspondent Of the Gin
cinnati Commercial says that ex-Minlster
/ Bigelow WILL ON his return from France,
unite with Chas. A. Dana in the establish
ment of a radical morning newspaper in
that city.
+. "A child in Bethlehem, N. Y, was sup
| posed to have died last week Of diarrhea,
and was prepared for the grave, and laid in
! its coffin. But its father heard a noise in
the night, and to his inexpressible joy found
the little fellow alive.
Mr.. Burr Andrews showed to the editor
of the Davenport Democrat a basket Of 100
apples which weighed 125 pounds, or an
average of twenty ounces to the apple. He
offers to ger 500 that this cannot be beat
Itby any orchardin the.United States.
The funeral of a woman of bad char
acter in Boston on Sunday, was disturbed
by collection of roughs who Interrupted
the services by heoting and groaning,~ and
went to such lengths that it was found
necessary to detail police to guard the coffin.
The manager of the Nashville Theatre
was perplexed the other night The stage
carpenter took laudanum, and the low
comedian took the cholera. The play was
commenced, however, and presently some
body started a false alarm of fire, and thus
emptied the theatre.
The Postofice Department find iucreas-
ing trouble in New England, owing to re-
fusals by railroad companies to carry the
mails at established rates. From Boston to
Lowell and Nashua the naills run by horse
power, arriving in Lowell fifteen minutes
after the cars.
"A project is on foot for applying the
city of New York with gas manufactured at
the coal mines in Pennsylvania, and then
conveying it through iron pipes, distance
of $50 miles, to the city. 1t is asserted
that it can be furnished alta much cheaper
rate than is now paid. % -
"A monster trout, measuring four and
half feet in length. three feet around the
body and weighing 70 pounds, was caught
in Lake Erie, Is miles from Dunkirk, last
week, by Buffalo gentleman. 1t is the
largest trout ever caught in the lakes Of
! which we have any record. = ~
AT Lewistown, Pa, on Monday night,
girl of II years, arose from her bed while
asleep, hoisted the window, and deliberately
craWled through, falling a distance of ff
teen feet to the brick pavement in the yard
below, and yet did not awake. Strange as
it maytsee she was only slightly injured
One night last week, two loyal Kansans
stopped Missouri negro, who was driving
a team, at Turkey Greek Bridge, over in
Bourbon county, Mo, and demanded his
money. The negro gave the rascals his
empty pocket book, with which they left.
This is about as mean as &c stealing coppers
from dead Negroes eyes,"
-Postofice clerks occasionally get off q
funny thing. "A clerk incur postofice heard
a tap at the window of the ladies' depart
ment, when who should he find there but a
man by the name of Drake, to whom he
said: 4" NJ. Drake, will you please go to
the other side? this department. is for
dptcks. ." va - IL
On Saturday, the 9th inst, couple of
whales were seen off Sandy Hook by party
on steamboat excursion in that locality
They remained in sight for some time, and
1 frisked about and .spouted in the lnostgrace-
full and approved manner. Such a sight
has not been witnessed on the Jersey coast
in many years.
The Colts Patent Firearms Manufae-
turing Company, Hartford, Conn, have re-
ceived an order for the manufacture of
thousand needle guns, conforming in all re-
pspects to the famous needle gun of Prussia.
The company have also an order for. the
production of one hundred revolving cam
non, at cost of 100000
4 A down east paper has, story. of an
interesting cat, which found a mouse caught
in q cellar one night, and she took the trap
in her mouth and carried it to the bedside
4 of the mistress Of the house i; putin 1 IL
down there, she commenced and continiled
to new until The sleepers awoke, and
helped the cat to the mouse, ~ss7Y- =
The Washington Republican notes the
following extraordinary matrimonial coin
4 cidence: .''The father-in law of: our fell
4 low citizen, A. Hart, Esq, residing in Phil
adelphia, celebrated yesterday his golden
i wedding, his eldest daughters silver we'd