Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-13


in the penitentiary Of Illinois there are
at present one thousand end eight male and
forty. four female convicts, showing an In
crease of four hundre6 over last year.
Nearly every convict, Of both sexes, chews
tobacco, which is given them every Sunday
morning in, pieces about four inches square,
and which costs the lessees annually, 30; Oo0.
Every cell in the building is now occupied,
and the want of room is SO pressing that
Eve hundred new cells had to be constructed.
and are now nearly completed
The mania for starting evening papers
has broken out afresh. Mr.. Charles A.
Dana, formerly Of the Chicago Republican,
is said to be negotiating for the daily Nea0S
establishment with that end in view. Then
there is Mr. SweetzeT, Of the Bound 1a6te,
who is understood TO be engineering q
movement in the same direction. Frank
Leslie is contemplating two-cent evening
paper. Col Halpine, {" Miles OKeilly,'')
of the Citizen, is on the same track, but
whether anything is really to come OF 1t or
rot remains to be seen.
The corner stone on the old Masonic
Temple, in Baltimore, was removed the
other day to be incorporated into the new
one. 1t was laid in 1914, and when it was
ope1led, notwith standing TIE care taken to
transmit TO posterity the history OF the
building. two coins Of gold, half eagle OF
1895, and an eagle of 1911, with the inscrip-
ton on the marble, were alone found to De
unimpaired. The silver was blackened and
defaced. the figures on the copper had DIS
appeared, and some remnant of decayed
binding were all that testified to the printed
volumes that had been placed within the
stone. ee sr~1revo,7
in Detroit, new fire engine has just
been tested It is called L'Extincteur, =
and is a French invention. 1t consists of a
cylindrical metal vessel, of from six to ten
inches in diameter, and from two to three
feet in height, containing from p to 10
gallons of liquid.9 40 the bottomTcf the
vessel is stopcock, witla small india rub
Der tube and nozzle attached, capable of
throwing a stream scarcely as thick as an
ordinary goose quill In the, vessel is a
liquid which contains within itself the
power Of simultaneously checking any
combustion with which it may come in con-
tact. It is portable, intended to be carried
on the back by means of straps, and is so
simple that any one can make use of it.
The experiment was witnessed by a number
of prominent gentlemen, and was pro-
nounced successful. The fluid elected re-
sembles water, having neither taste nor
smell In --sf,-rrr- r-~r- .-75f-zs7 I
The Supreme Court at Troy, Now York,
has just made an important decision in q
case involving the rights and privileges of
husbands and wives. .Cornelia Whitney
brought an action against her husband,
Hamden Whitney, to recover the sum of
$4,000, belonging to her as separate pro-
perty. sa The wife, on retiring at Mi ht,
placed the money under her pillow. Next
morning the husband arose first, and alb
stracted and retained the money. The
husband demurred to the action on the
ground that the wife could not maintain .
suit against the husband. On the other
hand, it was contended for the wife that,
under the present statute, the wife, owning
separate estate, may maintain a suit
against the husband, directly in her own
name, for right of action connected with
such estate, and if not, that this action was
maintainable as an equity suit at common
law. Decision was given for the wife.