Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-13

Office IN Washington.
-SABirrels are reported to be so abun-
rdant an Orange county, Indiana, that they
sareadestroying the crops of corn.
= IAN anti-swearing society is about be-
ing started at Kokomo, Indiana. The Her
aid swears it will be good thing.
,.-,-4I whale, thirty-fve feet in length
FwhichA had been run into by a steamship,
drifted ashore en- the New Jersey beach the
other day. =
"A GAINESVILLE Wis., justice has decided
36B3 hi mat is not liable for the liquor bills
of hig wife, on the ground that they are NOT
necessaries Of life.
The Passamaquoddy tribe Of Indian
is thinning out at tue rate OF 20 per cent
a,gear. The last Of these "Mohicans" cam
be very far off at that rate.
MIR. James NJ. Betty, of Pittsfeld, was
recently clicked by a horse, and his life saved
by the blow falling upon fifty dollar
watch. The watch was badly demOralized,
however.
f.ir-a-The Madison wis Union tells of a
man who purchased can of oysters in that
city few days ago, in which he found a
genuine pearl valued at from twenty five to
fifty dollars. -
An unknown person in Massachusetts
has given 500 to the Warden Of the Mas
>eachusetts State Prison to procure a egeod
Ar6ast dinner" for all the prisoners on the
first Of January.
"a silk manufactory is to be established
atsSan Jose, California. The workmen will
be mostly German and French. The Cali
sfornia papers urge the raising Of mulberry
trees and cocoo1s.
The colored ladies of Buffalo have, in
rivalry with their palefaced sisters, entered
upon the fashion of frightening the color
of their sombre compilations with rouge
Plat is a new game OF rouge ct NOR.
The last great telegraphic feat is the
ordering Of wheat by London house Of
one in San Francisco, and the receipt by
the former, on the same day, Of the iatelli-
.gence that the order had been filed.
1.-The Baltimore secessionists are edited
to learn that the secret contraband mail be-
tween their city and Richmond, during the
war, was carried by detective in the SER
vice of the United States Government.
"A young lady at Lansing, Michigan,
was stung ON the forehead by honey be,
in August last. The poison of the sting
caused swelling, and SO pros trated her
nervous system as to eventually cause her
death.
-"Swans sing before they de-" said
poet, but G. B. Lasalle, of Logansport, Ind,
who recently shot a swan near that town,
says that in dying it made a noise very
much like duck or goose.
IA genius of Jackson, Michigan, has
adipaterted reversible boot and shoe heels,
the merit OF which is that they may be
changed so that they will wear evenly. One
pair Of them is to wear lifetime.
The most astonishing sentence in the
English language, at least for its great
length, is probably the seventh section of
the British Foreign Enlistment act, which
is composed of a single sentence containing
very nearly 600 words.
In Bourcicaults new play, "The Long
Strike" is Geographic scene in which the
operator reads the latest news to the audi
ence. A Philadelphia house was g brought
down." the other night, when he announced
the Fenian outbreak in Ireland.
Mrs. Surratt's house at Washington
has been occupied by several families since
That lady's deaah by hanging, but none OF
them stay long, and there is blood curdl
ling story that Mrs. S. is ghostly yisitant
there almost every night.
.s ~ Alice Reynolds, wife of st. Louis
thief, has been instrumental in having q
large number of private houses robbed in.
that city. Her plan was to hire out as
domestic, and then give the burglars the in
formation they wanted.
Harriet Drew, 20 years of age, died at
Boston, Mass, on Sunday, from the effects
of tea made from some poisonous herb,
which was prepared and given to her by her
mother, thinking it thoroughwort. Mrs.
Drew narrowly escaped death from thesam
cause.
"A key of one of the large record safes
in the State House of Columbus, Ohio,
having been lost, hole was punched
through Inc back with crowbar. The
rear wall of the s'safe " was found to con-
sist Of two thin sheets of iron, with layer
Of rotten bark between.
"A 300-barrel well has been struck on
Tar Farm, Oil Greek. It was tested about
two weeks since, and has been pumping
about 25 barrels per day until the Gath,
when it commenced flowing and flowed 500
barrels of oil, actual measurement, in
forty-eight hours. The well is 69l feet
deep, and is now the largest producer in
Pennsylvania.
: "A lady has gone into the freighting
business from Nebraska City, which place
she left on Tuesday with train of FIVE
wagons which she owns and conducts her
self for Denver. She received the freight,
hired the hands, and bossed the loading of
sthewagons. She is said to be well posted
in the business.
The Scottish American Journal says that
five years ago there was not more than a
score or two of gambling houses known in
the whole city of New York; but that to
day there are at least two thousand where
the young, the idle, and the yiciously dis
posed are employed night after night in
learning the business of plundering people.
by the disobedience of a lad in 1909, a
garden gate in Rhode Island was left open,
and a-pig got in and destroyed few plants;
a quarrel between the owners of the garden
ana the pig grew out of it, which spread
among their friends, defeated the Federal
candidate for the Legislature, and gave the
State Democratic Senator, by whose vote
war was declared in 1872 with Great
Britain.
Some time in October, two women in
New Albany, Indiana, named Mrs. Shuck
and Mrs. Crumbaugh, got into a melee, in
the course of which Mrs. Shuck flung a
coffee-pot filled with boiling water at her
tagonist. The cofTee-pot missed its In
tepded mark and hit little girl named
Medora B., Dresden, who died from the
effects thereof. Mrs. Shuck has been in
dicted for killing the child, and is in Jail
awaiting trial.
The Pacific Mail Company, which CON-
menced less than twenty years ago with a
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