Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-02
Domestic Paragraphs.
"A green pea Smelling machine. WI

"A green pea Smelling machine. What
next?
The tea drinkers Of this country con-
gume 100000 pounds annually.
-Watermelons have been selling in New
York at a dollar and half each.
Rev. DR.. Howe, appointed to the Epis-
copate Of Nevada, declines the Office.
Seventy children have been born in
tents at Portland since the great fire there.
The shrek Of locomotive SO frightened
little boy in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, that
he died
"A gentleman in New Hampshire, aged
80 years, has been sued for $4,000 breach
of promise.
"A Cleveland judge has decided that
g shaving ON Sunday morning before church
is work Of necessity.
One of the performing elephants at
sached to Bailey & Co.'s menagerie died in
Belfast, Maine, July 19. His value was
$4,000.
"A colored girl has brought suit for
breach of promise against negro in
Georgia. 1t is the first case of the kind
known.
The old 74-gun ship Delaware, one OF
the war vessels sunk at the Gosport navy
yard, at the outbreak of the war, has been
got afoat.
The New York police picked up q sick
man in the streets on tie 18th, and while
they were conveying him to the hospital one
of his ears dropped off.
"A Tennesseean appeared in st. Louis
brok er's Office on the 18th with $50, 900 in
L L
nearly five years.
The Portland Star tells a story of
man in that city removing the ru MS of his
house and finding his cooking stove, from the
oven of which peeped the cat with her fur
slightly singed.
Oil City, Pa, with its twelve to fifteen
thousand inhabitants, has no public or pri-
vate cemetery for the burial of the dead.
"A Brooklyn woman applied to the Mar
shall recently for permission to kill noble
Newfoundland dog which had scratch ed her
son slightly while rescuing him from drown
ing.
There are said to be at this time TWEEN
ty-one candidates for the position of Rep
resentative in Congress, thirty two for Gov
ernor, and eleven for United States Senator
in Kansas. ~0
A negro in Galveston, Texas, while
smoking mis- pipe near an open keg of gum
powder in grocery store dropped spark
amongst the powder, the result of which
was that the negro was blown to pieces, and
Galveston had one grocery less.
While passing through a piece of woods
in the town of Sutton, Vt, last week Mr.
Charles s. Taft was fercely attacked by
large hawk and considerably hurt before he
disabled his feathered assailapt.
DR. Fred. D. Huntingdon, of Boston,
who has been chosen Bishop of the Maine
Diocese, vice Bishop Burgess, deceased, was
candidate for the Bishopric of the Diocese
of Pittsburgh, at its first annual convention,
when Bishop Kerfoot was elected.
"A young lady in seminary at Kent's
Hill, Maine, was SO greatly mortified the
other day by being detected in pilfering,
that she ended her life by poison. Her
character was good in other respects, and
she was to have graduated in two weeks.
Over 200 persons are sick, and one
young man has died, at Arlington, Mass,
fl ON the effects of lemonade and refresh
ments partaken of on the 4th of July. They
were poisoned in some unknown manner.
A Coroner's jury is investigating the case.
The Nashville Press and Times tells of
an insult to the flag on the 5th, at Gallatin,
Tenn. The flag was torn down, one end
tied to the tail of cow, and the other tied
to the tail of dog, and the animals were
then driven through the streets by q mob of
bowling scoandrels.
"A large crowd was attracted at Jones
Wood, N. j., on the 4th to witness a man
drive six trained geese, harnessed to wash
tub, across the river. A paddle was used
to steer the tub and also to tap the geese
ON the head when disposed to leap out of
harness.
The -Ironsides, on recent trip, took
down to Detroit the largest mass of copper
that ever left the mines of Lake Superior.
1t is from the Cliff mines, and weighs Is, $50
pounds, or little over y tons. 1t is esti-
mated that In this mass there is fully ninety
per cent. of pure copper.
"A Minnesota paper gravely tells the
story that, from bed of peas planted on
June Sd there were taken peas fit for use on
the 2lst of the same month, eighteen days
after planting We have known peas fit
for use, to be taken from a bed the same
day they were planted-the chickens took
them.
1t is stated that the magnitude of the
late confagration at Portland served to
check the progress of the fire along the
northern side of the city The great vol
ume of heated air rising caused the cold air
to rush in with SO much force, to fill the i'm
mense vacuum that it had the effect Of
contrary wind, and blew the fire back.
"A man named Huss erman tore down a
U. S. letter box and kicked it into the street
at Cleveland, o., because his letter was re-
turned to him, Notwithstanding he had
pitched three cents promiscuously into the
box with which to pay the postage. The U.
S. Courts will look into the affair.
They do things in hurry in California
as witness the following programme of
pheasant little affair."" San Juan Nevada
stage robbed at a. m. of $4,000; reward
offered at 7 a. m. /; robbers shot and all the
money recovered at 2 p. NJ coroner's in
quest at P. M. funeral of the thieves at
. P. m. q 4Tf re, 0~r9 ~r
Geo. F. Moody, of Greenville, Conn,
an agent of the Travellers Insurance COM
pany, is under arrest on the charge of hav-
ing placed Instructions on the track of the
Norwich and Worcester railroad. The only
motive for the act seems to have been the
hope to increase his business by improvis
ing few broken limbs.
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