Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-13
CURKsENT ITEMS.


cording to census just completed is "a 40
an increase of A, 1872 in one year.
A coin 1920 years old is exhibited il
Charleston, South Carolina. 1t is almos
as great numismatic curiosity as a silver
quarter
"A New York paper says Samuel H
Barlow, of that city, has the choicest Ii
brary in the country. Only the rares
books are admitted.
The favorite material for adulteratine
ground coffee in New York, has been stale
black bread, the surplus stock of enigrant'
arriving from Europe.
The fire department of Boston proposes
to send to the Paris Exposition complete
miniature illustration Of the fire alarm ap
paratus used in that city.
The losses by fire in the United States
| for the first six months Of 1866, and where
more than $4,000 worth of property was
consumed, foot up $32, 976, 000
The amount deposited in Savings Banks
in New England is $1l5, 977, 900, by 527, 76z
depositors. In New York $l15 Az, 600, by
400, 600 depositors. Total, 1921, $4,000.
The new Academy of Music, now being
erectedfi in New Y ork city, will have, among
other. Improvements, some sly little private
boxes, (called Mezzoine, where you can see
everybody and not be seen.
The iron moulders of Worcester. Mass,
struck for fifteen per cent. higher wages, a
few days since. One establishment COM
piled with the demand immediately, and by
night all others had followed suit.
Fair Haven is agog with the story Of a
wedding which was to come off but didn't,
although theclergymaB had arrived and the
guests too,-and the cake. The young lady
at the last minute said she didn't think she
would.
"A dancing master has introduced new
sensation which is very peculiar and des-
tined to be extensively practiced. 1t is
styled 'sKiss Cotillion," in which the gen.
tleman always kisses the lady as they ''swing
the corners"
The exports Of cotton from New York
since September 1, 1865, have been asa, 1915
bales, against receipts Of 1868, 223 bales.
The estimated stock in port is ITO, 600 bales.
The balance (270,000 bales) was for home
consumption.
Mrs. Alexander, of Caldwell county,
Kentucky, killed her husband, aged sixty,
and was afterwards found dead in the yard.
She committed murder and suicide because
her husband refused to be married again,
after short separatio
indicative Of the ess Of art and the
appreciation of the puvnc is the introduce
ton Of classical music in Central Park, New
York. Not less so is the favorable reception
of the first promenade concerts Of the Man
nerchor at the Rink in Chicago.
Two friends meeting, one remarked !:
81 have just met man who told me
looked exactly like you" "Tell me who
it was, that Imay knock him down." re-
piled his friend. Don't trouble yourself"
he said, 81 did that myself, at once
- female operative at the Norwich cork
factory, on Wednesday, o1awled under the
shafting to adjust belt. when her hair
caught in the machinery and she was rar
idly whirled around the shaft, but was
miraculously rescued with slight bruises.
In st. Louis physician was called to
visit a man critically ill. Having written a
prescription he tore it up, because the wife
could not pay. The man died, and a be-
nevolent citizen has concluded to prosecute
him to the extent of the law.
"A man named Davis, living at Eliza
BEETHOVEN, Kentucky, o few days since beat
his wife so severely that her cries alarmed
the neighbors, who, on learning what had
been going on took Davis and threw him
into creek, and kept him there until he
was almost drowned.
"A week or SO ago Miss Lottie Beldel-
man, Of Chillicothe, Peoria county, Illinois,
lost her speech in consequence Of excessive
klInn hu 11nHor tho
She was struck dumb at the time, and in
week has only recovered speech enough to
speak in a whisper.
"A spark from locomotive fell upon the
dress of young lady travelling in the cars
from Williamantic to Hartford, Connecticut,
on Saturday. She did not observe it till
her skirts were in a blaze. A gentleman
sitting near her extinguished the flames,
and she escaped uninjured.
Mr. G. Edwards Lester, of 'sGlory and
Shame" memory, has written letter to a
New York daily, in which he claims that a
new fuel has been discovered, more COM
pact, cheap, and easily produced than either
wood, coal or peat, and surprising them all
In its caloric giving qualities.
1t is mentioned as illustrating the bene-
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lips, residing on Cape Cod. issued an ad-
vertisement forbidding any one to marry
Mrs Rosalinda Pratt, as she had promised
to marry him. The announcement had good
effect, for the marriage of the twain took
place at Harwich last week
"A remarkable case of resuscitation is
related by the Summerside IN. H. Journal.
1t was in Charlottetown, a case of suffoca-
ton where child had its respiration sus-
! pended for over an hour and half The
circulation as well as respiration were re-
stored after haIf-hour's exertion The
body had become quite black and apparent
ly lifeless.
The Cleveland Herald announces that
Mr.. G. G. Hinsdale, after experimenting
many years, has discovered the process Of
making Russia sheet iron, which has Sc
long been kept seer ct in Russia. The Her
aid says accompany, entitled the sAmericar
Sheet and Boiler Plate Company" is to be
organized in the city for the purpose Of
manufacturing the g Hinsdale IRON
"A few days since, little girl three and
a half years old, died at Carlisle, Pa, from
drinking whisky. The poor child was taker
By her father, a tinker, named McMullen
into public house, and was invited to par
take of six pence worth of whisky he had
ordered. She drank small quantity, wa.
seized with succession of fits, and upor
being removed home, died.
"A New York paper says: "Those VIII
shudder at the perils of the 1000 miles O
railway travel which the President is abou
to undertake, may be interested to know
that, when he passed through Philadelphia
Major Cyrus S. Haldeman, the railway in