Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-01
GLEANINGS.

instead OF burning themselves on the funeral
piles OF their deceased spouses.
Twenty school children, while
skating on the ice of reservoir at Celma
Ohio, on Wednesday last, broke through,
and all were drowned before help could
reach them. H -H.'
The Professorship of Greek and Latin
in the Baker University, Kansas, is accept
ably filled by Miss Martha Baldwin, grad
uate of the Berea (Ohio) University. She
has occupied the chair for a year, and at
the late Commencement was selected by the
faculty to deliver the annual address, which
duty she performed very handsomely. She
is but u years of age.
The New York Epanqezist says that
Father Agapius, the Greek, Church priest
who made such sensation in New York a
few months since by officiating in an Epis-
copal Church there, has been turned out of
his church by his ecclesiastical superiors,
for countenancing church outside of the
Apostolic succession, and the Father dis
gusted, has made application to be received
into the Presbyterian Church. no
There is more skating on Central Park,
New York, on Sunday, than any other day.
The crowd there Sunday, 18th inst, was esti-
mated at 100000, no less than $4,000 being
skaters. tsysar
A large addition to the well known,
Glen House, at the White Mountains, which
was in process of construction, was blown
down by tornado few days since. IS.
- The new ship canal across the Isthmus
OF Suez is now in running order. ~
A verdant but terribly determined pair
of clippers were married in the cars near St.
Louis the other day. The passengers
liked it. eraa
Nevada is on The eve of adopting the
national currency (greenbaeks); and things
are working toward The same result in Cali
fornia. s34q $50 .ae65t.a: aoftfet.
--Obrien county, Iowa, was organized
some five or six years ago; has never had
population of over thirty never polls over
ten votes; and yet has o county debt Of
1000. sa asaz f.a .ta.,| l#4.3.s,.lr
Seven persons have just escaped from
Sing Sing. This makes fifteen or twenty
who have broken Jail there within month
or two.
are living in Essex, Mass, within four miles
OF depot, yet have never stepped into q
railroad car. i.
--.Bierstadt's new picture, GA Storm on
the Rocky Mountains" has just been fin
isbed and placed ON exhibition in New York.
The young LADY students of the Seneca
Falls Academy have organized literary
society, which meets once week and call
themselves ''The Go-Home-Alones."
False announcements of marriage are to
be punished by fine of $500 and FIVE years.
| imprisonment, in Pennsylvania.
The match trade for the present year,
it is estimated, will amount to $9,000,0O0.
Adams Express Company found out,
without much difficulty, who stole half q
million recently, but they are unable to
learn the whereabouts of Joseph M. Hoad-
ley, who has had dog sent to him by ex-
press. e55 - :s>a
- Mr.. Trenholm, Secretary of the econ
federate States ~ Treasury, testifes that,
just before the evacuation Of Richmond, the
total amount of specie in the possession of
the rebel government was between $500, 600
and $500, coo, part Of which was distributed
among the soldiers of Johnson's army, and
part among the military escort of jeff.
Davis. =. ..er5r j.
= There are now twenty-three daily and
weekly newspapers published in Tennessee.
- In Alabama there are over AZ, 900 per-
sons in state of restitution.
The appointment of Notary Public has
been conferred upon Miss Stebbins, in
| Chickasaw county, Iowa. ~ tFL
| The thieves are getting sharper and
/ sharper in New York, On Monday week a
young man of pleasing address made several
purchases in a jewelry store in Maiden
Lane. and rendered a thousand dollar bank
bill in payment While the shopman was
counting the change at his safe carriage
drove up, and a man. leaping out, handcuffed
the customer in a trice, announced himself
as detective, ordered the jeweller to fol-
low to the Tombs to prefer a charge against
the man so nearly successful in passing
counterfeit money upon him, and hurried
off with the prisoner, jewelry, and bank
note all in his possession. The merchant
made his way to the To1nbs, but could find
nothing of either detective or criminal, and
at last discovered that he had been robbed
| by the conniyance of two skillful confeder-
| ates.
| - Prof. Newton, of ale College, has been
to Washington for the purpose of submitting
| to Congress a system of metrical weights
and measures, and to aid in endeavoring to
secure the passage of a law establishing that
/ system throughout the States a
! The young men of Rushvile, Ind, have
/ agreed to total abstinence for a year, on the
/ condition that every one who violates the
i pledge shall be published in the papers. =
1t is not generally known that soldiers
who have lost limbs in the service Of the
United States are entitled to artificial sub
stitutes, that can be procured upon the pre-
sentation of evidence of honorable dis
| charge and that the wouDfl causino the loss
of the limb was received in service. They
are furnished free of charge, and do not
affect any pension or bounty claim the SOL
| der may have against the Government.
! -Kourakine, Georgian prince was re-
Gently so unfortunate as to get in the way
of rambling bullet. His bereaved widow
has but seven million dollars on which to
| lament his loss. 9.'at s
Liquor is sold at / 400 places in Wash
ington, one for every ninety of the popula-
ton. ss rae 5 ~ H
There isn't single printer confined in
any of the N. Y. State prisons What a
good lot they nust be! This is particularly
striking, considering the number of deoils
employed. 8sl tm
"A French newspaper recently an
| nounced that none of it's subscribers had
died of the cholera, that few of its sub
scribers were peck marked, and these were
subscribers for only three months, and that
three Only were bald, and they were in ar
rears with their subscriptions. s ~
In 1850, Mr.. Garnet, living near Au-
burn, was sent to Stare Prison forgery He
served out his time, and when he came out,
his wife, deening him guilty, refused to
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