Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-08-23

The New York Nation takes the very
sensible ground that we need general
marriage law, applicable to the whole coun-
try, as much and more than we need gen.
erAl bankrupt law. "All American men
aud women it says, "ought to be married,
and all American children to be born under
! the same law. 1t may be added that so lax
are the laws of divorce in some Of the
States, that the Reverend DIR. Hovey, Of
Newton, has lately published little volume
in which the Christian law of divorce is
made obligatory on all Christians, any in
the laws of the States to the contrary not
withstanding. BY this rule crime or death
can alone dissolve the marriage relation"
=" Amelia" Brigham Young's latest
wife, is model woman for the Saiuts. )"
/ She is notional, imperious and coquetish,
and Young pets her like child. One even
/ ing friend took tea with her and the Nor
mon prophet After tea they remained at
the table eating nuts, and Amelia threw her
| shells through an open window on the op-
posite side Of the room Her husband said,
Amelia, don't do that put your shells by
your plate" 81 shan't do it," replied the
fair one; I'll throw them where please,
and I'll do as please, and you may help
yourself" And pulling her guest by the
dress, she said, "Come, let's go up stairs
and let hiln grunt it cut.
The Vice President Of the New York
Prison Association relates the story of a
woman, who having been drugged and
ruined by false lover, made steaIthy re-
venge the purpose Of her life. With money
coaxed from him she hired sharpers to lead
him to the gambling table and the saloon,
and after he had run through his property
and became broken down drunkard, she
hung around him to taunt him with her
ruin. After his death she made thirty one
other young men the victims Of her ven
geance on the sex. The gentleman who
narrates this adds as warning to young
men that, among creatures Of her class no
game is followed with greater relish than
that Of involving all who come within their
tolls in crime and its consequent punishment.
A young lady at East Windsor, Mass /,
was pretty considerably scared the other
day. She was brushing the dust from the
hearth Of the cooking stove, in which was q
full fire, when suddenly live and particu-
larly lively snake suddenly issued from a
hole in the stove door, full into her face. A
succession of screams brought the feminine
portion of the household to the kitchen, and
the mother dispatched the " sarpint," which
was charging about the room and writing
with pain. 1t seems that basket of chips
had been scraped up the previous evening,
and moment before the "scare, the
mother had emptied portion of them late
the stove, and with them went the snake.
AN apparatus called "kerosene tele-
graph" has been invented in Boston. 1t
consists of two small boxes, arranged with
levers for opening and closing apertures, of
an inch and half in diameter. An ordi-
nary kerosene lamp was placed in each
box with reflector behind it. One Of these
machines was taken by Mr. Cyrus A. George
(also connected with the office) to point in
East Cambridge, a mile and half distant
from the City Hall, and at 81 o'clock (the
time previously agreed upon) his signals
were received by his brother, who was sta
toned in the fire alarm office in the cupola
of the city hall. He answered them, and they
continued to converse with great ease andra-
pidity for an hour or more, sending and re-
ceiving messages They found no difficulty
in reading as accurately and nearly as fast
as by the ordinary means of telegraphing
With this apparatus the operator believes he
could operate, easily, five miles in clear
weather, and by increasing the power Of
the light 10 or Is miles.