Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-28

Domestic Paragraphs.

The appearance of cholera has not aps
probably affected immigration. Over 49,
900 arrived at New York last month.
The Express figures up the receipts of
grain at Buffalo On the 18th and 18th inst,
at 1900, 252 bushels, the largest amount
ever received in the same time at any port in
the world.
AN advertisement of cheap shoes in a
country paper has the following nota bene ::
AN. B-Ladies wishing those cheap shoes,
will do well TO call soon, as they won't last
long" Honest
"A countryman went to Philadelphia
the other day and sold $4,000 worth of gold
and was robbed of his greenbacks before he
got home. 1t was the result of ten years Of
hard work and economy. ~ =.
"A document is on record in the Mercer
county Clerks Office, New Jersey, having
appended to it several sheets covered with
stamps to the value of 81, 995. This is
probably the most costly document in New
Jersey.
The Rev. Mr.. Witherspoon, Of Mem
phis, recently publicly burned two volumes,
issued by a northern publishing house, be-
cause one treated of the iniquity Of slavery
and the other Of the iniquity Of the rebel
lion.
"A man living in Haynes county, Miss
issippi, recently awoke from comfortable
nap of ffty-si hours precisely. He took
his snooze in a barn loft, and was unac-
eountably missing to his friends-during that
period. -ars.os s@g ,.ef'-'-
The surrender of Lees army threw in
to the hands of our Government thirty
thousand muskets of British manufacture.
These were sold to speculator, and from
him purchased at double their original cost
by the Canadian authorities. 'Ai
One Chas S. Dunlap got himself into
Jail, the other day, at GAINESVILLE. Ohio, for
going into the country and poisoning the
mouths Of horses, then suddenly appearing
as a ." horse doctor" and Offering to cure
hem for g so much" He ought to be made
to take q bit in his own mouth.
1t has been stated that rinderpest, or
pleuro-pneumonia has made its appearance
in New York, and that it has been officially
announced by the President and Secretary
of the New York State Agricultural Society.
The statement was erroneous. The officers
named announced the appearance of pleu-
pneumonia, but rot of the rinderpest,
diseases of cattle entirely different in their
nature. The rinderpest has not appeared in
this country, so far as the knowledge of the
officers named extends, and it is hoped we
shall escape the scourge. ". ~
There was an elopement in high life in
Louisville recently. The Democrat says the
young lady retired at the usual hour, but
before doing so tied a cord to her wrist,
leaving an end of the cord hanging out of
the window. At the hour appointed, the
impatient lover, unterriied by heavens
artillery, and his ardor undamped by the
torrents of rain that were falling, made his
way to the abode of his charmer. seized the
cord nervously, and gently pulled the BELLE
The signal was answered by hundred and
forty pounds of female loneliness dropping
gently into his extended arms The party
hurried into the carriage, and were driven
rapidly to clergyman's and jined."
"a New York spiritualist named Emma
J. Bulline, has been enlightening New York
audiences as to the experience of Gen. Scott
in the spirit world. She has seen him
dressed in a suit of pearly hue Of white,
or grayish silver shade A scarf hung
pendant from his left shoulder, being held
there by three silvery stars as the symbol of
his rank. A sword of golden hue hung by
his right side. 1t had double edged blade,
the handle being studded with diamonds,
rubies, emeralds and topazes. Upon his
right etood Washington; upon his left stood
Wellington; in front of him stood Napoleon;
on the left stood the late Gar of Russia.
The statesmen who received him were Wash
ington. Madison, Jefferson, Jackson and
Taylor. The others were Clay, Webster,
Douglas and Washington Irving. They
placed a chaplet upon his brow amid the
acclamations and anthems of the celestial
hosts, and much more Of the same sort of
spirit intelligence and spiritualistic pro-
family.