Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-17
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-statisti, IS show that the cost Of Twin
- Co.. Fron, cisco has diminished one-ha
within the pa. 1t year.
Mrs. Palm, ar of Cincinnati has sued he
husband for $4,000 damages for putin
her in a mad house.
Its estimated trat175 different style
kof hats may be counted on the heads of tn
1 fair sex any fine day in Broadway.
A rich man in Albany recently pur
4 Joined two eggs from a farmers wagon, ant
ii 500 to have the tnastsl hushed up.
pa San Jose Courier says that the PEG
The - frequently hear the firing
pie of that tow 7~aneisco. forty miles
of cannon in San
distant.
"A New Jersey lighthouse A.'p0 pu1
out the lights at midnight, on the g 'aA'
that he thought all vessels should be IL the
harbor at that time.
Gilbert Pearcefeld, for the murder Of
John Tanner in March last, has just been
tried at Columbus, O., and sentenced to q
years imprisonment.
"A woman named Eva Glance, eighty
years old, was brought up before court in
Philadelphia, charged with assaulting Maria
Calender, seventy-eight years old. Girl
hood is ever impulsiVe.
"A gay newsboy, ten years cid, who had
read the papers, put his arm affectionately
around peanut girl at stand in Philadel
phia, the other day, and deliberately kissed
her. The damsel had him arrested, and he
was locked up for six hours.
! The Council Bluffs NonpareI has the
following official: Married, at the resi-
dence of Mr.. Ben. Jarvis, in Marshalltown,
Iowa, by the Rev. Mr.. Wiley, Joe Baugh,
! that's us) and Miss Mary G. Swanson,
| CHATS more Of us.
-Easterbrook, Jr.,, of Camden, Me-, in
sured his life for So, 900 some time ago, and
afterwards became deranged and committed
suicide by shooting. The insurance COM
pany refused to pay the policy, but the
Maine Supreme Court decides that they
must pay the $4,000, and the costs besides
"A boy born in Brown6eld, Me-, has
neither hands nor feet, can feed himself
without assistance, thread needle, tie a
knot in the thread, and sew on button with
considerable dexterity. He gets on and off
his chair, hobbies around the room and up
flight of stairs, nearly as quick as though
he were full limbed. He can also write a
good and legible hand. His name is Walter
FL. Stewart.
One of the features Of the metropolitan
police system of New York is the Lost Chill
dren Department, presided over by lady.
During the pleasant summer evenings, when
children are apt to wander away from their
homes, as many as IS or 70 are sometimes
brought in by the police from the various
precincts throughout the great city, and re-
stored to their parents through the medium
of the telegraph,
"A singular wedding came off in Dedham
Jail, near Boston, not long since. Two
men were imprisoned for assault upon Ger
man woman. To prevent her testimony, one
of them proposed to marry her, and the GER
emony was performed, the couple not join
ing hands, but answering the questions of
the Justice from distant parts of the Jail
rotunda. 1t was sharp dodge Of the de-
PENDANTS counsel, who saw no other way of
escape for his client.
A business firm in Memphis detected
thief quite adroitly, recently. They had
missed money from the till for some days,
amounting to $3.50, but could not detect the
guilty party. The cashier emptied into the
drawer a cup filed with nitrate of silver.
The thief went to the till to make his eve-
nings capital, and in abstracting the money
covered his hands with the nitrate, which
he wes unable to get off. An examination
of his paws in the morning proved the fau1
pans, or thief's, and the guilty party was
arrested.
"A Milwaukee lady was lately a bigamist
for day. She had been married, but had
applied for divorce. Her lawyer assured
her the papers should be concluded and
signed or certain day. Trusting to this,
she was married to husband No. 2. Unfor-
tunately the judge was taken sick and could
not sign the papers; moreover, he had
doubts, on hearing the evidence, whether he
ought to grant the divorce at all. The con
sternation Of the newly married couple at
this stage of the proceedings can be mag
ined. But upon the fact Of the marriag
being made known to tho judge, he waived
his scruples and granted the divorce, the
day after the wedding, greatly to the relief
of the woman.