Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-02-22
Keep cut of debt. Paw as YOU 90. Buy

notnlng except the money is IN your pOcKet.
Have no account current at the grocer's or
butchers. Go without new clothes until
you can pay for them. Give your note of
hand to nobody. Eschew credit Deal for
cash only.
Boston ice is now used daily in CAL
cutta, Bombay, Madras, Hong Kong,
Whampoa and Batavia.
"A girl at Manchester, Vermont, has six
grandmothers, whose ages range from 40
to so.
During December fifty Post-mistresses
were appointed.
The Unitarians have subscribed $121,-
429.39 for the endowment of Antioch College.
In Providence, alone, the sum of 500, 500
was raised.
Under the title "Clergymen for sale
Cheap" the Rouad Table lectures the cler-
gymen who recommend pianos, washing
machines, pills and other commodities, g for
a consideration" and it gives a list of more
than twenty clergymen whose names are
advertised as indorsing various articles.
How many Of these are paid for the use Of
their names is not said.
"A noted spiritualist, Dr. Randolph,
says now that after an experience of five
years as q medium, it is his candid opinion
that spiritualism is one-third imposture,
one-third insanity, and one-third diabolism,
and that insanity is the usual fate of trance
mediums.
There is woman in Charlestown, N.
H., who has q collection of tame toads in
her yard. They know their mistress, fol-
low her, and hop in her lap to be fed, and
ore tenderly cared for.
The Luzerne Union tells of a breach of
promise case in which q lady, % years of
age obtained verdict of $4,000 against
repudiating lover of 62.
The famous damascus blades" are
proved, previously to grinding, by striking
them upon stones, ramrods and gun-barrels.
They may even be struck violently upon
wheel tires, or heavy pieces of iron, without
injury to the hammered edge.
Eighty thousand well to do Germans
emigrated to this country during the past
year, according to the London Times.
The expense of lighting up the. Hall of
Representatives at Washington with gas is
$3.50 night, and the cost Of heating is $25
additional.
No less than thirteen persons were
hung in different parts of the United States,
during the month Of January.
"A few years ago druggist of Portland
purchased lot of rhubarb at so cents per
pound. Last week he sold large quantity
of the same to a Boston firm for $3.50 per
pound. A snug little margin for profit,
that.
-29,O00,000 of people in America used
more paper than the twice as many millions
of England and France together, and one
American read more than four Frenohmen.
The Archbishop of Paris stated in the
Senate two years ago, that the suicides in
France averaged ten q day, and the infanti-
cides as many.
Damascus is the oldest city In the world.
| Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on the shore;
| Baalbec is q ruin; Palmyra lies buried in
| the sands of the desert; Nineveh and Baby
lon have disappeared from the shores of the
| Tigris and Euphrates. Damascus remains
what it was before the days of Abraham
centre of trade and travel, an island Of YER
dure in q desert, "a predestinated capital"
with martial and sacred associations extend
ing beyond thirty centuries.
| Two sharp boys in Waterbury, Conn,
twelve years old each, have started local
ton and press-work themselves, and sell
their own paper on the street. The sheet
measures seven inches BY nine.
The Altoona Tribune reports the shoot
| ing of gray eagle near that place, measur-
ing feet 2 inches from tip to tip of its
wings.
Seven burglars entered M. Arsene Hous-
| ayes house, at present unoccupied in Paris;
they were heard by neighbours; information
was given the police, the house was sur
rounded, and when the police entered, they
found the burglars seated around fire
made with the costly furniture, roasting a
chicken, and drinking the best wines.
-Polygamy is not very fruitful of reve-
nue., whatever it may be in other respects
Utah, with 100000 inhabitants, only pays
$50, 900 into the United States treasury this
year, whilst Colorado, with 10000 inhabit-
ants, contributes 100000.
Many colored women and children are
making 81 day by digging out bullets in
the soil about Petersburg and selling them
for old lead.
There are in the United States sixty
four towns and villages by the name of
"Liberty." Maine, Michigan, Illinois, and
New York have one each, containing 1,116,
891, and 2,612 inhabitants Arkansas has
three, with 1900 inhabitants Iowa has
with 1911 inhabitants. Pennsylvania has
seven, with 5,781 inhabitants. Missouri
has five, with 6,089 inhabitants. Indiana
has sixteen, with ID, 205 inhabitants. Ohio
has twenty-five, with 20,697 inhabitants.
Total 64,579. The smallest Liberty" is
in Keokuk county, Iowa, which has popu-
III. 20 H. r .c
Highland county, Ohio, which has g. popula-
ton of 4,075.
Judge Russell, of New York, got re-
putation few years ago for sentencing
.garroter to 40 years imprisonment. 1t has
recently come out that the next week after
the judge saw his friend, Gov. Seymour,
and got the man pardoned out.
During the progress of confagration
at Pithole, on the 9th, very astonishing
circumstance occurred. There are two wa
ter wells ON the hillside, about fifty feet above
Holmden street. Several parties were en-
gagged in pumping water and throwing it up
on the fire, when it was discovered that the
flames were increased instead of diminished
by the application. Upon examination, it
was found that in one of the wells the water
had beeu exhausted, and the pump was
yielding stream Of pure OIL The opera
ton was continued, and, when our inform
ant left, the well was producing and the
rate of one hundred barrels per day.
"A new Roman Catholic cathedral is be-
built in Pekin, China. 1t is TO be of magni-
icent dimensious-300 feet long and $50
feet in breadth. Its spire will overlook inc
Hottest of the palaces Of the imperial city.
The editor Of The Bunker Hill Auroea