Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-04
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THE Lincoln Monument Fund has
reached $4,000. It il invested in Govern
ment securities. and the interest is being
!. added to the principal. No design has yet
been adopted. and here is an excellent
opening for some artist to show his taste and
genius. III tg "a Io.
two strangers hung up their coats in a
Baltimore barber shop. The first, on leav-
in ~ took the wrong coat, which contained
So, 500. He did not discover his mistake
till acoosted by a police officer. He was
An exchange. drinks, &C., followed. '. g .
According to TIE last census the average
value Of. the different churches in the United
States, is: !. Mormon. $40, 900; Catholic,
$le, 600; Unitarian, about ST., O00;e Spirit
ualist, $3.50; Methodist, about $4,000;
Presbyterian, nearly $4,000; Episcopal,
$40, 600; Dutch Reformed $4,000; Con-
gregationalist, $4,000; Baptist, SLIGO. =
: "A singular strike has taken place
among the clergy in 7Buckeyedom, whore a
number Of ministers Of the Ohio conference
bfIthe Methodist Protestantchurch recently
held meeting at Sabina, and resolved,
Fafter earnest discussion, that they would
decline taking appointments the coming year
unless they were assured Of salary Of at
bleasbsai ,000sI oEaT .@7s6aF
b lin The Eastern Express oxide in Port
4ar d. Maine, the head accidentally falling
out of one of the three barrels of peas sent
from Lowell, Massachusetts, marked free,
for the destitute Of the sufferers by the late
| fire, note also; fell GU. saying to the con-
psignee e.; 5"SeH for the mostyou. can get, and
forward theproceeds.p 49,
os -44lAaeorrespo dent Of til eSelma Messenger
describes the ice noun ains; eighteen miles
from from Romn ~, WesS yirginia; as hill some
800 feet high, at<the footof which issues a
streamo of ice-cold wafer while on the side,
by turning uptthe loose rocks, ice may be
found in the middle Of summer, tie writer,
SAB he" states, having personally tested the
fact. r. has .fs33i5'-t1} sD'4'fe'2sH1S
in clearing away the. ruins of the Canal
Bank building, Portland, q few days since,
the workmencame upon the remains Of the
Fdog of the bank watehmal.h On the night
of the great fire, Trays master being alb
sent, assisting in taking care Of the treas
ure,, the dog refused to leave the banking
room whore he had SO often kept guard with
more than human fidelity. Coaxing and
full brute persisted at hispost.i OIL
sFi--.A certain preacher was holding forth
to a somewhat wearied congregation, when
he lifted UP his eyes to the gallery and be-
held a youLgster pelting the people below
with chestnuts. Dor.inie9 was about to ad-
minister e1 cathedra sharp and stringent
Ireprimapd for this fragrant aotlof impiety
iand disrespect,Y but the- youth, anticipating
him., bawled out at the top of his voice !:
F ..-Y You mind your preaching, daddy, and I'll
keep EN- awake. "d3gsrT e; ...FrnlE s~....
ID ---Less than a year ago, Sarah Ready, a
young girl employed in one of the upper
rooms OF. the Atwater block, at Cleveland,
was. descending the stairs, and ,playfully
leaning over the banister, lost her balance,
I fell to the basement floor, and was instantly
kil1ed.g On Wednesday evening last, Miss
Maggie Stookinger, who was employed In
the room, while descending the stairs, fell
over the bannister to the floor and was in
stantly killed.
Some time since, horse, belonging to
Mr.. Hugh Carbon, of Morris, Grundy county,
Illinois, departed this life, or, in other words,
died. His funeral and burial services were
neglected from day to day, until one of the
neighbours, Mr.. James Bennett, -notwith-
standing the fact that it was g none of his
funeral thought he would make it such,
rather than endure the perfume arising from
the carcass. He accordingly buried the
animal, and then brought suit against the
owner for twenty five dollars for the job.
ION last Wednesday morning, upon the
arrival at Detroit of the train from Chicago,
bootblack, about twelve years of age, was
seen to alight, having the implements of his
profession strapped upon his back, and car
rying some extra wearing apparel tied up in
| handkerchief. Upon being INTERCEPTED
| as to where he came from, and whittier he
was bound, he replied, that he was from
Chicago and was bound for New York.
The former city, he said, was "too small fol
feller to earn his SALT" and he, had con-
Guided to tryTNew York, and see if he could
do better.
The Manchester Mirror tells the follow
ing amusing story Of the barefaced conduct
of the hog stealers in the town OF Man
chester, New Hampshire. In one instance
the thieves woke up O. man in his own farm
house, told him one of their hogs had got
out Of the. Wagon ikto the road, and asked
his assistance to put him back. The farmer
got up. dressed himself, and readily com.
piled, and the next morning when he went
out to feed his hog, on looking into the pen
'Tfpdrd him non est. He had assisted the
thievesto steal bis own porker At another
house the farmer heard a squealing in the
road late in the night, and going to the door
saw man struggling witn aporker. The
same story was repeated, and assistance
given as at the other house, and the same
scene was enacted at the pen, in the morn
|fing. 'l' 9I'tli ID M