Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-22
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-Corporeal punishment has been abol-
ished in the GAINESVILLE public schools. --
"A colored preacher of Virginia, only
lis years old, has just married gushing
beauty Of 80. Ll}},ll
Facts should always be stated in black
and white. Anything written in red ihk OF
course appears incredible. S
The Portland (Me.) A90ertiser expired
suddenly some two weeks since. The Ad-
UertiSer was established in 1898.
The population of Cincinnati is esti-
mated at 10000 In 1926 that city con-
tanned but 5000 inhabitants.
In New York the Russian baths have
been introduced, and are likely to be very
popular among those who can afford to enjoy
them. 4 r - - =
Catherine Scheriz, a Jewess, is creating
great sensation in Lancaster county, Pa,
as pulpit deolaimer. Her sermons are
pronounced very able. ~ a.
The last horse story we have is from a
veritable New Jersey paper. The horse is
said to be 20 HANDS high, and his ayoirdu-
pois is recorded at 1858 pounds.
Mrs Keenan,, of Lowell, Massaohu-
sets, was divorced from keenan, at ten
O'Clock Saturday morning and married to
Jones at four o'clock Saturday afternoon.
The Violence of the expansion Of water
When freezing IS sufficient to cle&ve globe
Of copper Of suoh a thickness IS TO require
force of $4,000 pounds to produce like
effect. e@ =
"A Litchfeld Conn. paper says: sour
peat men were badly sold a few days ago,
by some wags, who made splendid speci
men from SCOT and water, and exhibited it
as the genuine article"
Ward has nearly completed the full
sized casting in bronze of his Indian, and
ne will send it to the French exhibition so
that the United States will have one splen-
did work of native art to show.
The first message ever sent direct from
st Paul to Philadelphia was special from
the St., Panl Press office to the Philadelphia
Press. on election night Difference in
time, one hour and fifteen minutes. eI
The Biddeford Journal announces that
all the paper collar manufactures IN the
| United States have been consolidated, and
Mayor Shaw, Of Biddeford, has been chosen
President of the Company at salary Of
| $25, 900. 4ga
"A little orphan boy, in Little Rock,
Arkansas, who has for the past few months
| followed the trade of boot-black, was last
week made owner of $l28,000 by the will
of deceased relative in Louisi ana, on his
reaching the proper age.
A single tow of oairecently sent from
louisville to New Orleans by Pittsburgh
firm contained 825, 900 bushels, or three and
i a quarter acres as it lay in its original bed
| This was the largest shipment of coal ever
made by single tow boat.
The coal fields of America cover over
225, 600 square miles, an area equal to %
such States as Massachusetts. One cubic
mile viii furnish seven millions Of tons an
nually for thousand years. At this rate
our coal viii last sixty thousand years.
Marriages have increased remarkably
since the war, In Ohio the statistics show
that the number of marriages for the ear
ending July let, was twenty per cent.
greater than any year during or before the
war, and the same is doubtless true of the
other States.
= An Austrian drum-major is now In De-
troit looking for employment, who, accord
ing to his own story, has been in the army
seventeen years, has taken part in ffty-
seven Ddtei0ss anu o0on Wounueu Twelve
times, speaks fourteen languages, and plays
on thirty instruments.
The vestry of Trinity Church, New
York, have published card to warn the
heirs of Anneke JAMS against being led into
litigation against the church, which they
are assured will be useless. They DENY
that any compromise with the alleged heirs
has been offered, and say that none ever
will be; they assert that the title of the
church against this very claim has been re,
peatedly sustained by the courts