Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-04
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$50, 900, of which only $4,000 are gentle
men or merchants; the rest are Indians or
Lepors, who throng the streets as fruit
sellers, vendors Of small wares, water and
pack carriers, etc., etc. There is q great
display of fine carriages and elegant equi-
pages. The houses Of the wealthy are most
/ barbaric in splendor. The ladies at the
opera dress very elegantly, with profusion
of jewelry No lady wears q bonnet. An
elegant mantilla is thrown over the head.
"A young man named Parson S. Para
mour was fined five dollars for saying he
would be id on the streets of Indianapolis,
last Friday.
The advocates of prohibitory liquor
law in Canada, are urging what is called
the g Dunkin Act" similar to the 6 Maine
Law" The ssvoice of the people is taken
upon its adoption, and in many places the
majority is largely against it. At Puslinch,
| Wellington county, recently, after an over
whelming negative vote, the villagers had a
grand blowout, and burned the protector of
| the law in efhgy.
--Audubon's "Birds Of America was
produced in 1910, it being then pronounced
''the most magnificent monument ever raised
| by art to natural science" A few years
since copies could be purchased for from
$500 to $500. Now well bound copy will
| cost ST. 500. Only one hundred copies were
| printed.
An old silver dollar of 1894 sold in
New York for $152.50.
The internal revenue from cigars sold
in the United States during the year 1866
amounted to So .069 448.
Isaac Scudder, of Randolph county,
H., roughly used his son for not wishing to
60 hunting with him, the boy being i'll.
The son subsequently died, and though the
physician said that the treatment of the
father had nothing to do with the death,
remorse drove the father to commit suicide.
in New Haven, on Thursday, the spire
of DIR. Clevelands church was rocked so
violently by the wind, that for hours, crowds
Of people watched to see it fall.
"A Company with $4,000 capital, has
been formed at st. Paul, to demonstrate, by
actual experiment, whether the Minnesota
gold mines north Of Lake Superior, lately
discovered, can be probably worked.
The preachers of Philadelphia are hav-
ing an animated correspondence with Col
Forney, of the Press, relative to the publ
cation of MS paper and the running of the
street cars on the Sabbath.
A Paris letter mentions as an instance
Of the folly and extravagance prevailing in
that city, that a baptismaI dress for an in
FAINT has been prepared, f exquisite en-
broidery and lace, at an expense of eighteen
thousand dollars
i'm 1860 Illinois had ponulation of
LII, 95l, and produced "a, l59, 800 bushels
of wheat, being IA 10 bushels per capita.
The same year we raised lis, 296, 779 bush
els of corn, being 81 lilo per capita.
The State debt of Illinois is less that
Sl0,000,000 and will hereafter be reduced
by the surplus revenue, at the rate Of about
100000 yearly.
An old bachelor says the most difficult
part of surgery is to take the Jaw out Of a
woman
There was a serious rebellion in a dis
trict school in Kittery,, Me-, the other day
three of the scholars killing their teacher
by beating him with stone One Of them
has been arrested.
Virginia is fast recovering from the
terrible effects left upon her by the war.
But few traces are now seen upon the re-
nowned battle-felds at Bull Run. At Ma
mass junction the Notifications have almost
entirely disappeared-a scarcely distin-
guishable line alone marks their existence
AT Bristow, the graves of the fallen are lev
eled with the ground, and the ties of the
long line Of stockades from Dukes Station
to the Rapidan, have been made into rail-
road ties From Alexandra to Culpepper,
however, the country is still barren-almcst
desert, but at Orange Court House, new
houses are springing up, and fences fill the
places Of those destroyed.
Female pickpockets are said TO be doing
healthy" business in Philadelphia.