Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-12

Domestic Paragraphs.

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The City Hall bell in New York weighs
5000 pounds.
Taunton, Mass, boasts an Irishman
/ 1913 years old, and able to saw wood and
drink whisky.
The Nevada Transcript tells of loafer
who has slept in hearse, where he had
lodged every night for weeks.
Mrs. Rowley recently died at Tuscaro-
ra, Steuben county, N. T., IN the hundredth
year of her age, leaving nearly 200 direct
descendants.
The colored population of Indianapolis
are having great revival of religion.
Eighty-three converts were baptised on
Sunday by immersion.
= 1t has been decided that "deserters
from the enemy during the rebellion, that
enlisted in the Union army, are not entitled
to Government bounties."
The number of deaths in the United
States army during the rebellion, exclusive
of those who died from wounds and other
causes after reaching their homes, amounts
to 253, COO.
Cameo buttons for ladies' jackets are
now the rage. They are of immense size fire.
quently no two heads are alike. Steel and
silver chains-called Ben@tons-are profuse-
ly used on bonnets.
The fin ding of the gas metre in the
ruins of Plies opera house, at Cincinnati,
turned off as stated by the private watch
man, leaves the origin Of the fire greater
mystery than ever.
At g temperance meeting at South
Reading, Mass, on Sunday night, the keeper
of the vilest liquor-hole in the town came
forward and renowned his business, and
pledged himself never to use or sell rum
again.
-Philo Chase of Litchfeld, Conn, died
For the last twenty five years his daily diet
whiskey. He adopted that diet from the
conviction that solid food injured him.
The Commercial List says that Phila-
delphian, who, few years ago, had reve-
nue. Of $4,000 per annum, and cut large
splurge among the bon ton of our city is
now an attendant in an eating saloon in
New York, on a salary of of few dollars
week.
The Enquirer Company Of Cincinnati
have purchased all the property on Vine
street, between the gas Office and Mozart
Garden, onswhich they will erect magni-
ficent opera house, with printing Offices in
the rear.
1t is proposed to double the present ca
pacity of the Erie canal by building q rail
road track on each bank Of the canal so that
locomotives may be used for towing boats.
The present capacity of the canal with horse
power is 100000 tons for a season of sight
months.
"A. T. Stewards new residence in New
York, now nearly completed, will cost ST.
| 100000. It's ground size is 128 by 60 feet.
Height of ceiling, first floor, % feet; second,
"A feet; third, Is feet, basement 10 feet.
1t will be altogether the most elegant and
expensive building in America.
A family of five persons resided upon a
farm in Derry, New Hampshire, for period
of fifty three years, during which time there
was neither birth, death, or marriage in
the family. Neither did they during the
time put letter into the Post Office, or
take newspaper.
Helen Western, somewhat noted as an
actress, was advertised to appear in ''eleven
characters and clog Dance at a Pitts
burgh theatre. When we read of all the
new inventions for the make up" Of fash
ionable ladies at the present lime, it is not
so difficult as might otherwise seem for one
person to appear in so many parts.
"A Chicago correspondent Of the Spring
! field Republican, speaking of the remains of
bodies found in the first named city, says
=" 1t is pleasant to know that bodies are
dissected and thrown into the lake from
which we draw our water for consumption.
1t must be pleasant for people who have re-
Gently lost friends to reflect that in drinking
their tea they may be imbibing a mild de-
coction favored with tincture of the one
| lost"
On Saturday last Judge Stowe, of the
Allegheny County Court, sentenced young
man named Noah Rea, to tventy-one gears
in the Penitentiary on three charges of
burglary and assault. Twenty one years
of solitary confinement This is q fearful
illustration of the barbarism of the system
in vogue in the PENNSYLVANIA State prisons
Twenty one years without sight of single
human face or hearing his own name called /!
"A great 1st of April hoax was perpe-
trated in Philadelphia. A morning paper
published correspondence between President
Johnson and suppositious President Of q
Johnson Association in that city, in which
the former promised to come to the city and
make public address on that day. Accord
ingly many people visited the hotel where
the President was supposed to be- and the
church at which it was announced that Sc
cretary Seward and Senator Cowan would
accompany the President.
"A reporter, who was getting up an ac-
count Of the mock-auction establishments of
New York for a weekly paper, saw in one
of the shops person whom he took to be a
countryman bidding on watch He step
ped up to him and said, whispering in his
ear, sDo you know where you are? This
is mock auction concern!" The fellow,
with an innocent look, replied, 81 guess
not" and kept on with his bidding Going
by the place again on the following day, the
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