Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-18
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Government allows JEFF. Davis SzO per
week for the purchase of rations'
The members of the Roman Catholle
founcif assembled at Baltimore, represent
5000, 900 of people
st. Patrick's Cathedral, New York, will
he rebuilt at once in the same style and
after the same plan as before.
EZFhe population of New Orleans is
d6uble what it was during the war, one
8 fourth larger than ever before.
The Universal Peace Society, the Pres
ident of which is appropriately named
Love, met IN Philadelphia on the 10th inst
"A contract has been signed to complete
The 70 MON Pacific Railroad two hundred and
8 aftys miles west.of Fort Riley by December
l, 1867.
The explosion of a .keg Of yeast at
Freeport, Illinois, the other day, carried
forty pound bar of iron lying upon it,
through the ceiling.
"A man forty years old committed sui
eide in Philadelphia, on Tuesday, because
hesdid not wish TO outliyea his mother, who
kWas dangerously i'll. ~@
"A race horse having been recently
killed in South Carolina by lightning, the
owner said that there was nothing but q
streak of lightning ever caught him.
"A fish was caught in the Chic river near
Cincinnati, last week, the stomach Of which
on being opened, was found to contain q
two dollar bill, and a valuable diamond
ring. 49,
SJd6n.C. Fremontwas elected on The LIST
Ainst.' President of the Atlantic & Pacific
Railway, the st. Louis side-cut or switch
from the main line which is to run westward
from Chicago via Omaha.
"A. school=boy whosdrank at the faucet
in the basement Of the City Hall, Spring
field, Mass, the other day, was taken VIC
lently sick soon after, and only found relief
when he threw up a small frog.
BY suddenly starting up his team to
-evofd a; passing train at Detroit, Friday,
Robert Walker threw his wife, who was on
the back seat, out on the track, and the en-
tire train passed over her body.
= flames Brown,9a colored man in San
Francisco, formerly proprietor of livery
stable, has recovered verdict of $500
against the Morning Call, for the publica-
ton of local item headed ga Darkey in
Luck"
The largest single plank ever cut is now
on exhibition 'ineNew York city. It's di-
mensionsS as follows, viz: Length, II
feet breadth, feet inches; thickness,
inches; without split, knot, or imperfection
of any kind.
The work of cutting street through
Front HiH, Boston, which is densely popu-
lated, has recently been commenced, and
two thousand poor people have been COM
PEELED to vacate the premises occupied by
Them in consequence.
The receipts of lumber in Chicago from
January to October 6, 1866, were as fol-
lows: Lumber, 530,377 900; shingles,
3l8, s26, 900; laths, s5,799, 900. The annu-
al Sproduct of the State of Maine is placed
at four hundred millions of feet.
1t is said that there is village in YER
mont which has four churches. Only one
of these has bell, but inasmuch as the 9th
er denominations refuse to assist to pay for
the ringing of it, the owners Of the bell
will not allow it to be rung at all.
When the boilers of the Allena May ex-
ploded near st. Louis, the pilot was blown
up five hundred feet into the air, and alight-
ing head down into the river, descended to
the bottom kerchug. He came up all right,
however, and is ready for another blow up.
The earnings of the convicts at the
State Prison at Cbsrlestown, for the last
year, were the hea lost since 1860, and
more than paid the expenses of the institu-
ton. For the last six months they amount
ed to $4,000. There are now 518 inmates
iii the institution. -. -.
THE Portsmouth Chronicle notices a
monster cucumber raised in that town the
present season, measuring twenty inches in
length, fourteen and one-half inches in cir
conference, and weighing eight and three
fourth pounds 1t is quite likely that this
cucumber brought on the present cool
weather.. - -
Returns from all the Lodges of the
Independent Order of Odd Fellows in the
United States, except those in Texas
and North Carolina, received at the recent
meeting Of the Grand Lodge in Baltimore,
show that the total number of members of
lodges is 176, 175, and of eneampments
25,74 - - : OH s-EGj ~
During the recent freshet in Vermont,
and while Rev. Cyrus Liscomb, Of East Ca.
lais,Twa looking at the water pouring over
the dam in that place, the dam gave way,
carrying Mr.. Liscomb, down the rapids be-
AVWs anu Ofer Two uaulS, d ulSGduC0 Ol over
p'rods. and fall of TOTO rs feet, and at
last landing him on small island, .compar-
atively unhurt.
The Charleston Courier of Friday says
" From private letter which we have re-
ceived from the estimable wife of the dis
tingushed prisoner at Fortress Mooree,- we
learn with inexpressible regret that his
health continues to decline, and that the pc
cuniary affairs of his family are becoming
very embarrassing
IA lbFakema N named Ettlefeld met with
a series of disasters the other day. While
walking on the top of one of the car of the
up freight from Portland to Portsmouth, he
was struck by a bridge and knocked down
into the next car-an open one filled with
cattle. He was seriously injured by the
bloF- and fall, and had onev of his legs
broken by the cattle tramping upon him.
AT fair in Norwalk, CT, last week,
was a coop containing a rooster and some
five or six hens, all in the gayest of plum
age-red, white and blue; yellow, green,
purple &c. The colors, however, were all
artistical save the white, and were put on at
the NorTalk dye works. The rooster was
decked off in great agony" and strutted
about as if proud of his new costume.
According to the last United States cen
sus, the number of churches in the United
State was $4,000, and the value of church
property over $l7l,000, 900. The number
of@churches had doubled in the previous
ten years. More than one half the church
property was owned in four States New
York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and
Ohio.. Pennsylvania has more churche:
than any other State. u -3&o1 E.
The New York E0e1iRg Post says
"One of the curious results of the Europe
an war, and its contingent ruin of many
private fortunes, is the sudden appearance
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