Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-10
CURRENT ITEMS.


The new paper shirts ere to be sold for
| twenty five cents each.
--Sententious epitaph in Scooben
Miss cemetery: Tho rottin, not forgot
ten"
The Protestant Methodists, Wesleyans,
| and Kindred churches. who believe in lay
representation, and do not believe in B sh-
ops, are to hold Convention in Cincinnati,
commencing May 8, to continue ten days.
The author of the "Hard Shell Bap
list" Sc, mons, which created considerable
amusement some years since, has recently
turned out to be William P. Brannan, of
Cincinnati, 0. -15aH
-The municipal authorities of Boston
have enacted that the bowling and billiard
saloons Of that city shall be closed at ten
o'clock every evening except Saturday, and
from six o'clock on that evening until over
Sunday.
The Chicago Tribune is pleased to learn
that each city scavenger has only an aver
age of thirty miles of streets to attend to,
and that if no more filth is deposited, the
present refuse may, by hard work, be re-
moved in six years.
The rapacious New York landlords have
.oyershot the mark. Since the moving time
of April l, there are many houses for rent
and no takers. Four hundred houses arc
noted by one newspaper as labeled ''For
Rent:'' ~ "
A man named Fleming died at Lock
port, Will county, recently, aged 102 years.
having been born in 1864. Was never sick
in his life, not even to the extent of head
ache or toothache, and was never q sufferer
from anything in the way of accident.
: A homeopathic. Life Insurance Com
many is about to go into. operation in AL
bany. 1t proposes to issue policies of in
surance upon the lives of persons who are
patrons of Homeopathy, at ten per cent.
less than the rate imposed upon persons
employing allopathic treatment.
"A prominent undertaken of Tniianapo-
lis, Ind, is busy making very large stock
of collins, in view of the approach of the
cholera, and appears to be enjoying himself
very much. Among the hundreds of wood
en- overcoats there is not one that fits the
proprietor. Is that suggestive of life insu-
rance!
lin the months of January and Febru-
airy the excess of passengers west of Chi
cago above those returning to the East. was
the excess of travel West was $500. and
for April it will probably reach 10000,
showing that the emigration westward is
increasing at rapid pace. iil,
Two boys in New York recently stole 4
tin box containing nearly $4,000. They
had been reading the papers and probably
intended TO compromise with The owner
or1he detectives for half the money. They
made one mistake, they did not steal enough.
Had they taken half million dollars, or
even one hundred thousand, there would
have been hope for them. AS it was they
went to jail.
The owner Of large dog at Grand
Rapids, Mich, few days ago placed one
hundred dollar loohing-glas before his
canine to worry him. The dog few around,
barking and growing. The owner was de-
lighted and cried g Sick. 'em;' the dog
s' sicked;" the mirror and the ''other dog
disappeared at the same time. The joke
rather turned On the owner.
THE following public journals are edit
ed by co'tr men:
The CoJored Ieanesseean, Nashville; the
Comnsunicator. Baltimore, Maryland; An
gio african, New York; Christian Recorder,
Philadelphia, Pacific appeal. San Francisco,
California; Colored Citizen, Cincinnati;
New Orleans 01rihune: Nationlist, Mobile,
Alabama; LoyaI Georgian, Augusta, Geor
gia.
The Cleveland Herald tells of young
German, recently married in that city, who,
on the Goth, was taken suddenly i'll, and, ms
was supposed. died on the i22d. While
watching by the corpse on the 23d, his wife
\ ~. y y y
after second movement was observed by
others present, 3 physician was called, re-
storatives applied, and the young man saved
from the dreadful fate of burial alive.
A sycamore tree was cut down few
days ago OF Ferry Point, Va, and in maui
ing it up lock of hair was discovered in
the centre of the tree, about four feet from
the ground. The hair appeared TO be o
curl from q female head, and must have
been put in its position some fifty or sixty
years ago. Ahole'had been gouged to the
heart of the tree, the hair put in and the
hole plugged up. The place had afterwards
grown over, and the cavity was found to be
in the heart of the tree. The hair appear |
ed to be as fresh as if lately cut from the
human head.
The Newburyport Heral3 publishes a
statement of Charles II. Golden, in Jail
there on charge of burglary, in which he
claims to have been very intimate with Mrs.
Cunningham and her family and knew all
about the projected murder Of DR.. Burdell,
in Bond street, New York, several years ago.
He saye, among other things. that Mrs. Cum
ningham offered him $25 000 and her
daughter Augusta in marriage, if he would
murder DIR. Burdell, by whose death Mrs.
Cunningham would get 100000. lie de-
clined the job, but took Augusta; to the the.
atre, returned with her to Bond street, and
slept,in the house that night, knowing, be-
fore he went 10 bed. that the murder had
been committed The confession looks ser.-
saiional, but may be true. ma