Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-22

The Detroit Advertiser and Tribune as
serts that hogs are fattened in certain por-
tons of that city upon garbage, and even
upon dead horses and cattle. No wonder
the trichina is feared
The Round Table isn't ashamed to state
but does it nblushingly-that large
business has been done during the skating
season by the corset makers in manufactur-
ing false calves for the young ladies.
by no other year in the past thirteen
has the number of emigrants that arrived at
Castle Garden in 1865 been exceeded The
total number for that year was 2O0,031.
Grand total since 1847, 3,250, AS
"A colored militia company is being
formed at Norwich, Connecticut. Forty
three men have been enrolled, and the COM
pany will soon be full. 1t will be the first
company of the kind in the State.
"A young man obtained divorce from
his wife in the Litchfeld county (Ct.) Su-
perior court, on account of Incompatible
ity" few days since the lady who lives
near Mortified, fell heir to $4,000
The st. Louis Board of health have
squelched the calaboose in that city, which
furnished the late horrible item of pet
raccoon eating away the face of drunken
Irish woman. It is to be passed out of use.
Some days since q young man named
Theodore Thompson, twenty years Of age,
eloped with the wife of Mr.. Johnson The
fair and loving lass is forty-seven. All the
parties are resident of Deerfeld, in Warren
county, Ohio.
"A new paper mill has been established
at Quincy, Ill. This is a move in the right
direction. Let paper mills be established
all through the northwest it may have the
effect of reducing the present outrageous
price of paper.
"A pair of lovers, fleeing from stern and
cruel parents, were married on the cars near
St. Louis the other day. Papa telegraphed
to the conductor to send his daughter back,
but ne telegraphed back: "Never return o
fair on this road"
Two new establishments-Wo and
Lucy Rushton' Shave been lately added to
the list of New York theatres. Two new
ones in Fourteenth street, and new opera
house in Fourth avenue, will probably be
ready by next fall.
"A young man at Lafayette, Ind, put on
an old pair of boots few days ago, which
had been abandoned by q transient boarder
at a hotel. and feeling something in the toe
shook it out, when it proved to be $50
greenback wadded up in ball
The Boston Post announces that Bier
stadts new picture of ga storm in the
cky-Mountains - is attracting the atten-
ton of citizen and citizenesses. We pre-
sumo its readers and readeresses are much
pleased with the announcement.
II, -,
ing because the supply of such singers does
not equal the demand. The man who sings
neatly a pretty ballad, and is willing to
cork his face, can make now more money
than the vast majority of mechanics, clerks
or literary men.
A couple celebrated their silver we'd
ding in Vermont the other day, of whom it
was said that they had never exchanged o
harsh word during their welded life Of
twenty-five years. The most incredulous
will believe it when it is stated that they
are deaf mutes
In the Supreme Court Of New York, a
very interesting suit by the city to recover
possession of an autograph letter of Gen.
Washington, which has been for more than
eighty years in private hands, was decided
in its favor. The letter was valued by the
jury at $1,000.
An item is going the rounds of the
press about man who is supporting eight
sets of children-one set by his present
wife, three sets by former wives, three sets
belonging to the husband of one of his for
mer wives by a previous wife = about IS
children altogether.
-The type-setting match in La Crosse, be-
tween Mr.. Booth, Of the Republican office,
and Mr.. Symes, of the Democrat office, was
decided on Friday last on "reprint" in
"bourgeois type. At the end of one hour
Symns was ten lines, or 10 ems ahead, and
Booth relinquished the contest Symes will
now be backed against the State.
On the day of prayer for colleges
party of Yale Sophs and Fresh INDUCED in
street riot, as if better to put themselves
in the attitude of special subjects for grace.
The faculty came up in time to secure
names for candidates for college discipline,
and several explosions are to follow.
The Erie Dispatch says that at the burn
ing of the Mercer Court House, after en-
deavoring for some time to extinguish the
flames without success, the volunteer fire.
men tilted the engine into the fire, and let it
perish with the building. Although the
" machine % was worthless, it was foolish
proceeding.
An extensive deposit of emery has late
ly been discovered near Chester, Mass. II
is said to be Of very superior quality.
Hitherto two places-Cape Emeri, in the
island of Naxos, and the neighborhood of
Smyrna-have furnished nearly all the
emery used. A few years ago q mine was
discovered in North Wales.
The Havana Qll.) Volunteer says that
an Individual of forty summers, called on
the county clerk for a marriage license, the
other day, and said when asked that he had
forgotten the woman's name, only having
been introduced to her the evening before.
Later in the day, however, he reappeared
with the name, and procured his license.
The New Lisbon (Ohio) Bucheye State
tells of whole family, consisting of seven
persons-father, mother, two sons, two
daughters and grand daughter living in
Columbiana county, having become afflicted
with lunacy in consequence of religious ex-
citement. Part of them are recovering, and