Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-02-08
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"A Miss Randall living near La Crosse,
Wis, last week succeeded in poisoning q
wolf, the largest Of the kind ever taken in
that region. The bounty and sale Of the
hide brought her $12.
The Houston papers are now receiving
telegraphic dispatches direct from Wash
ington and New York, through Vicksburg
and Shreveport-the first in the history Of
Texas journalism.
Different sounds travel with different
degrees of velocity. A call to dinner will
run over 10 acre lot in a minute and
half, while summons to work will take
from five to ten minutes.
The John Brown song seems to have
been adopted in the British Navy. A seri-
Gus disturbance recently took place on board
Her Majesty's steamer Leander, at Valpa-
raise, which began by the men refusing to
come up when the watches were called, and
beginning to shout and yell in chorus,
g Well hang Commander Patten to an old
apple tree, etc.
= The Germans at Cincinnati are vio-
lently opposed to permitting their country
men to go South under contract with plant
ers, denouncing such contracts as a species
of slavery. Some forty such laborers were
coaxed off from the depot there the other
day. COL Lee, late of Joe Johston's staff,
has engaged ninety Germans in New York
for his Arkansas plantation, but he finds it
mixed question whether he can get them
| through Cincinnati, though their passage is
paid to Memphis, ...s,
There isn't {. single printer confined in
any of the n. Y. State prisons. What o
good lot they must be! This is particularly
striking, considering the number Of devils
employed.
notwithstanding the expenses Of the
war, the State debt Of Pennsylvania is
nearly 100000 less than it was five
years ago. a 7
f. There are two daily papers at Denver
and two more in the mountain region.
The Massachusetts Legislature has full
ly recognized the right of woman regular
! ly ordained in the ministry, to legally SOL
emnize marriage.
The Salt Lake Vidette says that stfunny
freaks occur in Utah" A short time since
Mormon was frozen between two wives.
It turns out he was engaged in hauling
wood between the respective cabine of his
first and second wives.
The population Of Topeka, the State
capital of Kansas, and the present termi-
nus of the Pacific Railroad, is from 2, 800
to 800.
The Lawrence, Pa, Journal confirms
the truth Of the story in reference to finding
of the young girl, Louisa Black, in hay
stack on the farm Of VIM. Cornelius, in
Lawrence county where she had remained
without food for twenty-three days. When
found she was in dying condition from
starvation and exposure-both feet were
badly frozen. Her physician found it ne
cessary to amputate both feet, and the Jour-
nal says when last heard from she was still
living, but it is very doubtful if she recoy-
| erS.
The Tunisian and Siamese Ambassadors
had hardly left France, when those of Mo-
rocco made their appearance at the Tuiler-
les, to present to the Emperor six Arab
horses and a tiger, as gifts Of his Majesty s
ally in the Barbary States.
Mr.! VIM. Hatton, young man residing
in Shippensburgh, Pa, one day last week
vomited live snake, about IS inches long
and more than half an inch thick He
swallowed it while drinking from pool in
Idaho about four months since, and has suf-
fered great distress in his stomach ever since,
complaining especially of sensation of
GOODNESS.
The Temps of Paris says" Bull
fights no longer suffice in Spain fort
night ago the Plaza de Toros, at Ubida, was
the scene of an entirely new kind of repre-
sentation. An elephant, of the name Of
Pizarro, fought bravely against two young
bulls. Wounded in the trunk, he at first
drew back, hesitated then, Selling one Of
the bulls by the neck, he sent it rolling
away like ball, and meanwhile, crushed
| the ribs of the other under his enormous
feet. The antique sports are thus again the
order of the day. Elephants now. Panth-
| erS anon.
There are several newspapers in Mexi-
co. The Times, edited by Ex-Gov. Allen, of
Louisiana, is altogether the best, however.
Next comes the Pgaro Verde, published at
| the capital, and O. prominent journal.
Printed on dirty white paper, in very mar
row columns, it is chiefly occupied with
official documents and manifestoes. Ell
| Noticioso, published at Vera Cruz, is neatly
and legibly printed, and contains consider
able news. The Estafstts is a journal much
| quoted. The Ranchero, Of Matamoras, is a
i" real live newspaper" and can whip ten
| times its weight in wild cats any time.
of 600 men mustered out of the 101st
Colored Infantry, at Nashville, Tenn, the
other day, $50 made contracts to go into the
country to work on farms. AS each man
took with him family averaging three
persons, about l 300 colored persons left the
city within single day.
This year Ash Wednesday falls on St.
Valentines day, and Easter Sunday on "all
fools day list of April.
- The name Dubuque should not be
written as it sometimes is, with capital B,
it being a simple and not compound word.
Mrs. Jennie Varney is now living in
Ossipee, New Hampshire, one hundred and
two years old. Her mother lived to be one
hundred and four. Jennie means to see
her and go one better.
"A stout and healthy couple at Boston
have an infant FIVE months old which
weighs only three pounds. 1t weighed
twenty-one ounces when it was born.
- The Journal of the Immaculate Concep-
ton, at Rome, has hit upon a new dodge to
obtain subscribers, Offering a months Gin
duigence," ~ pardon of all ones sins for
thirty days. This inducement is little
ahead of the Paris paper which promises to
each new subscriber fine obituary in case
of death.
AN instance is related where kerosene
was applied to thirteen horses for the pur-
pose of Kidding them of lice. The result
was that five out Of the thirteen died.
"A Pawtucket man lately accused wo-
man Of larceny, caused her arrest and i'm
prisonment, in the Providence county Jail.