Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-06

| great increase IN manufacturing. when
the mills now in process of erection are COM
pleted, it will have more spindlvs than
Lowell, and be the first city IN America in
the amount of cotton and wooden goods
manufactured. A large part of the ma
chinery is moved by steam.
"A Cincinnati paper, in speaking of the
cholera in that city, says it is very re-
markable coincidence that the caterpillars
which heretofore destroyed the trees and
shrubbery during the summer months, have
not made their appearance this year (; and
the same phenomenon occurred in l849,
when the cholera was so fatal.
The building inspectors of Philadelphia
have notified the contractor for the " Wig
wan" that it had been put up In violation
of the ordinance of the city prohibiting the
erection of wooden buildings. The penalty
for the violation of the ordinance $3.50 was
paid. The structure to be removed within
thirty days, or another penalty Of 800 will
be imposed.
1t has been discovered that stories Of
Indian depredations are sometimes manu-
featured by residents in frontier settle
ments, who desire the presence of troops
for profit instead of protection. This has
turned out to be the case with regard to the
reported massacres in Paradise Valley, Ne
vada, in the early part Of July.
In Charlton, Iowa, recently, the friends
of a gentleman and lady who had mutually
plighted their troth were invited to see them
made one. The clergyman came, and the
people came, the bride was ready, and the
bridegroom was there; but he discovering
just before the knot was tied, that there was
q mortgage on the lady's property, refused
to be united to her.
in Inc School Superintendent's Conven-
ton at Indianapolis on Thursday, report
was made in favor Of FIVE days per week,
and not more than ten months per year in
the school year. No child should enter
school under six years old; two hours per
session, twice per day, is long enough for
children under ten years of age. The re-
port was laid over until next year.
Mrs. Catharine Mertz diedlast week in
Cambria comfy, Pa, in the 9lst year Of
her age. She was the mother of II child
rem, 9 of whom are still living-the age Of
the eldest being 70 years, and that of the
youngest 46 years, their united ages being
543 years, and their average age so years
and 3 months. Mrs. Wertz was also the an
cestor of IS grandchildren, and 126 great
grandchildren. Her descendants number
in all 224.
The Toledo Blade says day or two ago
a messenger from Cincinnati for Detroit
left his overcoat in the car at the Toledo de-
pot, and in it was found by the conductor
about $4,000 in counterfeit money, the
greater part of it corresponding with the
bills previously passed in that city. The
owner Of the overooat has not called for his
garment, and probably never will.
Capt. A. J. Lloyd, late of the 10th
Kansas Infantry, was taken with cholera,
and died on the train from Kansas City.
When it became known that case of
cholera was on the train, panic was Gre
ated, all the passengers, except two ladies,
deserving the car in which the Captain laid.
These two noble women remained, and ad-
ministered to him until he died. The con-
ductor wished to put him off the train, but
these heroines told him if he did SO he
would have to put them off also, and he de-
sisted.
The work Of rebuilding the structure
Of the Smithsonian Institution at Washing
ton, which was destroyed by fire, is slowly
progressing. The large towers on the north
have been built with fire. proof floors to as
sure the safety of all the documents in
future beyond all contingency. The large
tower to the southwark, which was badly
injured, will soon be rebuilt. The roofing
Of the main building, two hundred feet
long and ffty-five feet wide, will be Of
wrought iron covered in with stating, with
rolled iron parlines on novel plan. Ii is
expected that this roof will be up and COW
cred in the month of October
"A private letter from Washington men
tons the serious illness of literary gen.
tleman of that city, his disease being pro-
nounced "pen palsy" The affection
derives its name from the fact that it is at
tributed to the use of the popular French
copying ink which contains arsenic Both
his hands and feet are badly swollen, and
his health is so precarious that his physi-
clans have prescribed abstinence from la
Dor, and especially from the further use of
the copying ink. The case should serve as
a warning to those who use the fluid which
has proved so deleterious in its effects.
There are now three hundred comfort
able tenement houses built in Portland for
those burned out at the late fire, which
those resident under tents will occupy. The
| system of issuing rations will have to be
kept up more or less all winter, but the
! number to whom those are given is being
/ gradually reduced. They now number
about seven hundred. To meet the necessi-
ties from the beginning of the trouble until
spring 100000 will be required besides
the gifts of food and clothing. Probably
! $20O,000 will be needed to aid in rebuild
ing.
The Presbytery of California IN. 81
met in San Francisco recent1v and form ad
| a dozen of Chinese converts into a Christian
society, an event which will have historic
interest throughout the annals of the
church. The application of the people,
which was conched in very modest terms, is
dated and signed as follows:
"SAN FRANCISCO, In THE 9TH YEAR
ssoF TUNG CHA, 1sT MONTH, 10Th DAY
"Kum All Lum, Sam Shuen, Tam Shing,
Sho To Ming, An Heang Shing, Mung Man
Chin Me, Tung Shat Wo, Leang, Tih Foo,
Wang An Heng."
The elephant Antony" belonging to
Bailey's circus, died recently Of consump-
ton, at Belfast, Maine, where it had been
detained some days by its sickness The re-
mains were given to DR.. Pendleton, the city
physician of Belfast, who dissected the
huge creature, and found its weight to be
about three thousand FIVE hundred pounds,
and the arrangement of its internal organs
the same as an OK. It's heart, which has
been preserved in spirits, would fill large
water bucket. Or. Pendleton intends to
have the skin stuffed, and to set up the skel-
eton in his private museum. The Belfast
Journal remarks that the elephant left no
estate to be administered upon. His trunk
had nothing in it.