Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-01

man on his death bed confessed to the CRIME
for which Garnet suffered; the first wife,
repenting of her conduct, hunted him up,
confessed her cruelty, reconciliation was
effected, and the second wife voluntarily
gave up her claim. The first wife now lives
with her husband, and the second is iber-
ally endowed
"A couple who were engaged ffty-fve
years ago had a falling out, and the young
man subsequently married and lost three
wives, while the lady married and lived
ffty-three years, raising large family.
The original couple recently met, revived
their first love, were married, and are now
living happily at Lynn, Susquehanna CO.,
Pennsylvania.
Westminster Abbey has just celebrated
its 8O0th anniversary.
The London Times says, at the present
rate of reduction, the English national debt
will be extinguished in about 400 years ;
under these circumstances, it is doubtful
which will be extinguished first: the nation
or the debt!
Over one million of Webster spelling
books have been sold in the South since last
April, and the demand is so much greater
than the supply, that the publishers have
sent to Europe to get it printed.
The sports about Detroit and their con-
freres are greatly excited over Sc canine
be settled in that city or its immediate
neighborhood. The dogs have been in
training for the combat about three weeks.
The quiet inhabitants of Norwalk, Con-
nectieut recently had decided sensation in
their village. Sunday night the body
snatchers attempted to "resurrect the
body of a young lady who had been buried
that afternoon; and succeeded hey their
anticipations. She had been buried while
in cataleptic fit, and upon being exposed
to the night ali animation was restored.
The resurrectionists fed and she walked
home, Her. parents refused to admit her,
believing her to be ghost. She then went
to the house of q young man to whom she
was engaged. He took her in, and on
Monday morning they were married.
Apples impregnated with strychnine
are the latest mode. by which the travelling
thief operates upon his fellow-passenge be-
fore working" his pockets. @
One of the richest merchants of Phila-
delphia commenced his mercantile career as
the proprietor of an apple-stand, while one
of the bankers of Cleveland first became
known upon his present business street as
the vender of popcorn.
"A man named Delvin, in Maine, has
lodged a complaint against his wife for
playing practical jokes on him while drunk.
We advise her to quit her Deolup.
The story is told of a clerk of an Eng
lish church, who, finding it very difficult to
pronounce the names of Shadrach, Mesh
ach and Abednego, which occur II times in
the third chapter of Daniel, read them only
once, and in the subsequent passage referred
to them as q the aforesaid gentlemen"
"A laboring man in Rochester, N. Y, q
few days since tasted a bitterness in his cof-
fee. His suspicious being aroused; he made
inquiry at the drug store, and found his
wife had purchased strychnine, and had
attempted to poison him, for she loved an
other man. a .~.a5 .I
Two ladies in Waterbury, Ct, dressed
themselves in fantastical garments and start
ed for the post office. They were met on
the corner of one of the streets by gang Of
rufians who detained them half an hour
insulting them. They finally sought refuge
in a mansion near by, and were escorted
home. A warning to fast damsels
I'm the skating ponds of Brooklyn, N. Y.
catching creased pigs has become one Of
| the standing attractions.
| "A Washington correspondent of the
| New York EUening Post severity criticises
the fresco painting In the dome of the capl-
tolfor which the government pays the sum
of $4,000. He says the plaster has been
so badly mixed and laid on that great seams
stretch across and dive about the picture,
making the whole look as dangerous to a
person beneath as the rain soaked ceiling OF
an attic. 5aa 1850
During the past year, conscience money
in sums varying from one cent TO hundreds
OF dollars, and in the aggregate amounting
to 500, 900, was deposited in the vaults O
the Treasury Department.
The authorities of a prison in Canada
advertise as follows: sEWanted, a respect
able man to act as turnkey in country
prison. One who understands music, car
play the organ, and sing bass, would b,
preferred
| There is considerable excitement il
New York over the proposed removal of st
Paups (P. e. Church, opposite the site O
| Barnum's former museum and the devotion
| OF the GROUNDS 10 palatlal stable Tor the
care Of the horses of the several railroad
lines which centre at that vicinity. In tn,
Broadway front, which is really the front o
the church, is buried Gen. Montgomery
who fell at the assault on Quebec, and who's
| body was carried from the field by Aaror
Burr; while in the yard surrounding the
church is buried the body of Alexander
Hamilton, who was basely assass mated ;
| in duel by the same Aaron Burr.