Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-26
CUR n EMIT ITEM 3.
Domestic Paragraphs.

10000 persons daily-men, women anu
children.
"A balloon which broke from its moor
ings at Hartford, on the Attn, traVeleo 10
stTatford. n. Il 300 miles; in two hours
and forty minutes.
Plumb Loonlis has returned to his home
in Oneida county. New York. He is putting
mn new buildings on the site Of those recent
ly burned by the mob
Henry Ward Beecher's congregation at
Brooklyn. N. Y, on the next Sunday morn
inc after the fire, raised $1,000 in few
minutes, for the Portland sufferers.
"A gentleman of Oquawka, Illinois, has
taken steps to procure patent of new in
vention to dig potatoes. 1t not only digs
them, but puts them into the basket.
The Greenport, L. L, Wdtchman states
that by some decease in Germany, poor
family residing at the East End of the name
of Soak, have become heirs to 81, 500, 900.
"A Western horse-tamer advertises a
performing horse that will kick cigar out
Of any ones mouth, of the audience, who
chooses to let him, without touching their
face.
Emigration increases. 15,48l emf
grants passed over the Pennsylvania Cen
Gral Railroad during the first six months OF
this year, against 1895 during the same
period last year.
Figures, received from Chinese sources,
give the Chinese population in California as
numbering So, 800 persons, one-fourth Of
whom are employed upon the Pacific Rail
road improvements.
"A disconnected individual procured five
cents worth of arsenic. a few days since, at
New Albany, for the purpose of suicide
The quantity was insufficient, and the in
vestment dead loss.
Two men in Covington, Kentucky,
Peter Murphy and Henry Harrimen, re-
Gently fought across table with revolvers
Nine shots we're fired by both parties, but
without fatal result to either.
"A New Hampshire man, having lost his
wife, caused stone to be raised over her
grave, which, in the depth of his grief, he
had ordered to be inscribed: :" Tears can
not restore her; therefore weep"
Mrs. David Smith of Lebanon, Tenn,
recently gave birth to four children-two
boys and two girls each weighing six
pounds. The mother and children are
doing well, and all are likely to live.
2 "A California lion, on exhibition in San
Francisco, thrust its paw through the bars
and seized little boy near the cage by the
arm, drew him close to the cage, and then
tore his head horribly with the other paw.
The wife of John Michaels, Of Bethany,
New York, finished hoeing potatoes on Fri
day, and on Monday gave birth to three
daughters weighing II J, another III,
and third 10& pounds-all as lively as
Guinea pigs.
"A gentleman nemed Taylor at Kalama-
zoo, Mich,. came near losing his life, on the
Both ult, by catching his foot in lady's
sitter" as he was passing her on stair
way. He was was precipitated 10 the bot
tom, and picked up insensible.
The Savannah Board of Aldermen has
adopted an ordinance prohibiting colored
persons from entering the public park, I'M
less nurses having white children with
them. Policemen at the gates will enforce
the order.
I'm the Philadelphia criminal court,
recently, a colored woman named Elizabeth
Wilson was convicted of the heinous crime
Of setting colored boy, five years of age,
on stove and burning HIM in a horrible
manner. She was sentenced to fine Of $25
and one years imprisonment.
1t is said that there is cave in the
mountains Of Schoharie county, New York,
which has been explored for distance of
% miles. Parties are generally carried
four and half miles. 1t has fine halls,
splendid stalactites, and the usual wonders
and curiosities of subterranean galleries.
On Monday evening three Catholic
priests and two students we're drowned in
Annapolis Bay. They had started out on a
boating excursion, when one of the party,
Father Classens, accidently fell overheard,
and in attempting to rescue him the boat
was capsized. Only two of the party were
saved.
-Smugglers on the Canada border have
been mixing castor oil and alcohol, and
entering the compound as q preparation,
bearing duty of so cents per gallon. The
ingredients are readily separated, and the
alcohol left pure, whereby the duty of 81
per gallon on that article is rather neatly
saved.
Miss Emma Barth, of Diamond Lake,
H., was seized with every symptom of
hydrophobia on the 18th, and is not expected
to recover. Some three years ago, this
young lady was bitten by dog, but little
was thought of it at the time, and yet,
after so long an interval, the poison shows
itself.
1t is reported that marked change in
the Horse Shoe Falls, at Niagara, has oc-
Cured within few days. Large portions
of rock have given way in the center of the
shoe, giving it more triangular appear
ance, which is said to add to its beauty. II
has been demonstrated that the falls recede
ten or twelve inches year.
Among the sad occurrences incident OIL
the late Portland fire may be mentioned the
fact that an old gentleman, "A years of 2ge
who, on the Sd inst, was worth at least
$40, 600 in real estate, is now one Oh the
daily applicants for rations, which he OBJ
tains in tin-pail He wears TO the city
delivery the only suit of clothes he has
left
AT Mobile, few days ago, an inquest
was held upon the body of Timothy Dris
coll. The evidence before the jury was tha
Driscoll who was a Waterman, compliance
on Thursday night that he did not feel well
ami the mosquitoes bothered him, and added
that he was going where they would no
disturb him. He had not been in goot
health for some time.
The identical cannon which fred tht
first shot in the late rebellion, passed
through Cairo on the 18th, in charge o
four members of the l5ih I'm; ed State
Regulars, en- route for Washington. 1t is
x-pounder, with smooth bore, and wa
used on Morris Island, in firing into tn,
steamer Star of the West at the entrance o
Charleston harbor on the 9th of January
1861. Ii is an interesting rebel relic to b
added to the many already at Washington