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


on the plains, some five years since, but re-
Gently escaped from captivity, passed
through Springfield, H., last Sunday. with
MS uncle, who resides in Quincy. His par-
ents reside IN Oregon, and suppose him LONG
since dead.
EX-SENATOR ID. r. ATcHIsoN, of Missouri
IS now resident of Kentucky, and getting
rich rapidly. He has also left off drinkin@
and swearing.
The firm of Jay Cooke & Co., is now the
heaviest banking house in America. Four
new partners entered the firm JAM 1st.
A WASHINGTON LETTER-wR1rER tells a
droll story of the President, by which it
would appear that he was being shaved the
other day, when the barber accidentally
tWeaked his nose little too hard. "Par-
don me- sald the barber very naturally
tut your iiand In my coat pocket and pull
out one" rejoined the kind-hearted Chief
Magistrate, land I'll fill it out foff you when
you've DONE"
ExGov. HOLDEN has resumed the editor
ial control of the Raleigh Standard.
The Providence Press makes the inered;-
BILE statement that q Hartford photographer
has succeeded in taking a picture of him
self, trundling himself home in a wheel
barrow.
NEARLY all the shoes made III Haverhin,
Mass are made by steam, anu every part of
the business is carried on independent Of
the rest. One shop turns out the heels and
stiffnings, another uppers, In another sole
leather is cut, and finally the goods are
made UP by steam power exclusively.
number of new establishments have been
lately started, worked by steam power
entirely.
Mr.. JOHN Mort, of Contra Costa county,
California, near Dalfville, has invented a
new and ingenious double-revolving pillow.
The plows, two in number, are placed one
above the other, upon a horizontal axis,
under the beam and parallel to it. It's ope-
ration is as follows: After the pillow has
passed across the field, and turned for the
return furrow, by the touch of a spring the
pillow not in use, and which turns an oppo-
site furrow, falls down from where it is sus-
pended, while the team, in starting, brings
up the one which has just been in use, and
places it in a position where it is locked,
awaiting the next turn of the team. The
invention is a very simple one, and promises
to be Of great value for blowing gardens or
lands which have been fenced, as wei as
ground where dead burrows are objected to-
i,
has recently produced mechanical press,
by which, it is said a speech may be printed
while it is being delivered, and be all ready
for publication at the time the speaker
leaves the platform public trial of it re-
Gently took place at Modena when five
stanzas of Dante's great poem, together
with learned commentary of the same,
were read and and printed from the reading
in Eupo containing zach thirtu lafforc in
the space of nine seconds.
A New INVENTION, styled the pistolo-
graph, has been put in operation in London.
1t is a picture in glass obtained in the first
instance by an instantaneous flash, and made
permanent by fire. 1t was found that by
| inclosing q Photographic picture between
two plates of glass, AID subjecting the COM
pound to a heat short of that required to
melt glass, for defrite time, the hree sub
stances eventually formed but one, as hard
and as homogeneous as q single piece of
crystal--as equally unaffected by damp or
moisture-and as capable of being cut by
| lapidary into any required shape, while the
original lustre of the indurated picture
would continue as unchanged as the innate
veins of o polished agate.
GEN GRANT has contributed the sum of
politan Methodist Episcopal church in
Washington, an enterprise which was begun
few years ago.
OssIAN E. DODGE, the quondam peripa-
etc humorist, has become treasurer of the
Vermilion Mills Gold Mining company, of
st. Paul.
IT is whispered that a new magazine @ to
be started in New York, with Hurd &
Houghtcn, as publishers and Bayard Tay
lor as editor, which is expected by its san
! guine projectors to cast the atlantic MonthLy
far into the shade.
| FURTHER DETAILS of the duel between
Prince Achille Murat and M. Rochefort,
confirm the report that the Prince had his
shirt torn in the encounter, and inflicted q
slight wound upon his antagonist, where
upon the honor of the parties was declared
| satisfied.
SIR CHARLES EAsTLAKE, President of the
British Royal Academy, was bled to death
by the Italian physicians, who bleed for
everyihing-but their county. His grave
is near Mrs. Brownings, at Florence.
Mrs. SwIssHELM is trying to print
weekly paper at Washington with female
compositors, but says that the Printers
Union throws obstacles in her way, which
she is determined to overcome.
IT is stated that Mr. r. H. Stoddard is TO
edit the new magazine, Tom and Countrv,
to be started in New York in the spring.
| THE chief stakeholder in the New Yorl,
Tribune is DR.. James c Aver, of pill cele-
| brity. A late New York correspondent saws
| that Greedy has been re-appointed editor of
that paper at salary of So 900 year
| ON Thursday morning Capt. N. G. Wash
| ington, of the historical Virginia Washing
| ton family, was married, in st. Louis, to o
| Miss Mary A.. Soulard The wedding and
reception were the fashionable sensation of
the city.
On examining the personal effects Of
| Homer G. Hubbell, the missing cashier of
| the Missisquoi Bank, at Sheldon, VT, in
| order to prepare for selling them at auction,
it was found that he bad an extraordinary
amount of clothing and boots-such as
twenty-five pairs Of pants, twenty pairs of
boots but very little worn, fifteen vests, and
number Of overcoats. In lis safe, which
was broken open, was discovered $500
United States bond.
GEN. GRANT has contributed the sum Of
SIS, 600 to aid in the erection of the Metro
politan Methodist Episcopal church in
Washington, an enterprise which was begun
few years ago.
A MAN named Aaron Bedbug, of Lewis
county, KY, has petitioned the legislature
to change his name. He says that his
sweetheart, whose name is Olivia, is unwil-
ling that he should be called A. Bedbug, she
/ O. Bedbug, and the little ones little Bed
bugs.