Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-11

mouse OF Ill. b. Claim q Co., III 1000,
amounted to s7o,oO0,o0o, against $40, OO0,-
900 in 1864
"A diamond pin, containing thirty dia-
monds and worth several hundred dollars,
was found at Ban gor, the other day, IN q lot
of rags imported from Smyrna.
The Paris ladies wear great coats,
this winter, with black bodies and blue
sleeves, or otherwise parti-colored.
There was regular July thunder
storm at New Bedford, Mass, on Thursday
Of last week. -
The consumptives who go to Minnesota
and find relief in the remarkably dry,
healthy atmosphere of that State are num-
bered by thousands. The pulmonary
brigade is one of St. Pauls institutions.
"A Mr.. Stafford was murdered some
twenty-five years ago at Shelburne, VT,
and man who lately died in Canada con-
fessed on his death bed that he was the
murderer. He murdered him for money,
but got only 25 cents
+ "A man 70 years cid, in Murray, Or
leans county, n. T., recently sued his ia
Their, who is 103, and brought in his bro
theirs as Witnesses. -e
Goods are now so cheap in Texas that
parties are buying them up at auction, and
sending them to New Orleans and New
York.
In the town of Murray, Orleans county,
New York, Lemuel Cook, aged one hundred
and seven years, and or : of the three sur
yiving soldiers Of the Revolution, was re-
Gently sued by his son, "youth" of seven
ty-eight years of age. There are several
sons, all of whom were witnesses at the trial,
the youngest of them being sixty five years
old
Mr.. Hubbell, the cashier Of the Missis-
quoi Bank, at Sheldon, VT, who mysteriously
disappeared some time ago, and was traced
as far as Chicago, where the clue was lost,
proves to be defaulter to the extent Of
$4,000.
A great fish convention is to be held at
Harrisburg, Pa, soon, of the people re-
siding along the upper Susquehanna, to
devise means to enable them again to catch
shad and other fish, which the construction
of the canals prevents them from doing.
The thieves have discovered new use
for chloroform in stealing pigs. The pork
ers in Adrian, Mich, disappeared in most
unaccountable manner, and what was re-
garded as strangest, they were carried off
without making any disturbance. A gentle
man, however, discovered the depredators
operating one night, when going to the pig
pen he found two fat hogs lying helpless
and unconscious, having been drugged with
chloroform.
AN artificial cave has been discovered
in Lookout mountain, Ga, and explored for
a distance Of 175 feet. Various Indian rel
les were discovered, and the place is thought
to have been refuge for Indians in former
times.
"A few evenings since, as citizen was
passing Sixth and Pine streets, Philadelphia,
two men approached him and asked him for
him a violent blow, knocking him senseless.
A valuable Newfoundland dog belonging to
the gentleman, was on the opposite side of
the sire ct, but Immediately came ever and
alta cked one Of the thieves. When his
mas ter became conscious the faithful animal
was licking his face. and early the next
morning large piece of flesh and portion
of the pantaloons of the thief were found
ON the pavement. The bite was clean one
nearly full pound Of flesh being taken
from the rascal.
There will be but one eclipse this yea
that will be visible to us-a total eclipse of
the moon, March, Both.
"A brutal negro living near Trappe, Md,
cut his wife's arms off the other day, and
she soon bled to death. Her intimacy with
another man aggravated him.
George W. Day, of Chelsea. Mass, the
inventor of q machine for making shoes
which drives the shoe thread like pegs,
making a good imitation Of pegged work,
has sold his interest for $500, 900, and is to
receive per centage on every pair of boots
made by this process.
In the little town of Wegleben, in West
phalia, ffty-four persons have suffered
death from trichines, derived from eating
the flesh of diseased swine. The disease
is uncomfortable, and the death dreadful
one.
The owner Of a tenement house in New
York, who had some undesirable tenants
that he could not get rid off, conceived the
idea of " smoking them out" Cutting q
hole in the chimney above the rooms occu-
pied by the family, he placed fat stone
across the fiue. The result was the stop
page of the vent, and the suffocation of all
the members of the obnoxious family, two
Of whom died from inhaling the coal smoke.
"A monstrous wild bear, weighing $50
pounds, was lately killed in France.
The friends of the Suez canal are en-
couraged to be more hopeful for the success
of the project since the death of Lord Pal
merston, who bitterly opposed it.
One who is half man, half dog, will
bow to the rich and bow-wow to the poor.
What a host of sawbones will be turned
upon the world next spring. Harvard Me-
deal School alone will spawn two hundred
and fifty of them.
"A miser recently died in Ohio from
grief at his heavy income tax.
The most profitable crop in Mexico is
coffee You plant about six or seven hun
dred trees to the acre; it begins to bear at
two, and produces full crop at four years
old.
"A man named John Jones, living at
Atlanta, Ca, sends to the Wyandotte kan
sas) Gazette the small sum of $4,000, Con-
federate money, and asks the editor to send
the paper month.
A man has been convicted in New York
of keeping gambling house for children.
-Parepa's company, which has travelled
considerably the last few months, is called
/" Parepa-tetic."
They have got g female contortionist''
at the Pithole +" Atheneum." What next?
Stephens, the Fenian Head Centre, is
such an admirable French scholar that he
has Translated several works of Dickens into
that language. $50 -f
The commerce of the world is estimated
to require 8, 100000 able-bodied men to be
constantly traversing'th the ocean.