Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-08

all nef idfU, HILLS, sausage medt, ctC, Sue
had laid up for the present years supply.
A dress-maker of Fon du Lac, Wiscon-
sin, has fallen heir to fortune of 81, $780,
000
The population of the city of London
is as great as that of the whole of Scotland.
"A man in London kicked his wife to
death lately.
How long did Cain hate his brother?
As long as he was Abel.
1t is reported that Maximilian's army
numbers As, 900 men, composed as follows:
French, 10000; Austrians, Belgians and
Egyptians, 10000; Mexicans, 5000. This
force has 100 field pieces and included
twelve cavalry regiments.
The State Of Rhode Island, by census
just taken, contains a population of 1874, 1856,
of which SO, 263 are males and 96,702 fe-
males.
The wife of Gen. Eli Long, whose trunk
rolled off the boiler-deck of a Louisville
steamer during the careening caused by
sudden gale, has recovered, in the Superior
Court of Cincinnati, 81, 5000 for its loss,
being little over half the amount for which
suit was brought. M
There is in New Y ork gentleman of
ample fortune, which he received by in
heritance. His wife recently ordered a
new carriage, and was anxious that the
g family coat-of arms should be emblaz-
oned upon its panels. This the husband
consented to, and taking pen, the million
aire drew something resem bling q small
mound; by it was stuck manure fork, and
upon the fork was perched chanticleer,
rampant. &c Why, what is this ?" asked
madam, in amazement. "This," said the
man of money, g is our family coat-of- arms.
| My grandfather made his money carting
manure in Brooklyn, and invested it in real
estate in New York Now listen to the ex-
PLANTATION of the arms. This mound and
fork represent my grandfather's occupation;
the cock perched upon the top of the fork
represents myself, who have done nothing
but flap my wings and crow ON that dung
hill ever since" The carriage still has
plain panels.
"A Directory of Indianapolis has just
been completed, and it contains 13,440
names against 1850 in 1864. From this
the Journal figures out that the present po-
pulation of that city is So, $50.
The United States is commonly known
in China as ''the Kingdom of the Flowery
Flag s Ia
Goethe says we should read d few lines
Of good poetry, hear some good music, and,
if possible, say few words every day, in
order to neutralize the debasing effects of
ordinary, vulgar life.
They had baby convention over in
Muscatine the other day Fifteen mothers,
with their little ones were present, and
they voted ON the question of the prettiest.
Naah Lahx
Every mother voted for her own offspring.
"A joint stock company with $4,000 cap
ital, is being raised in Buffalo, to establish
an institution to treat diseases by compress
ed air.
in Richmond there has been grand
tumble. A store rented the other day for
ST 800 for which 5000 was refused in No
vember. In the Canadian cities where the
provincialsm is observed of wood cut of
a house to each notice To Let" it looks s
| if the papers of Quebec and Montreal were
trying their hands at illustrations of their
respective cities in John Phoenix style.
The University of Michigan is now the
largest University in this country, contain
ing 1,O51 students, divided as follows;
Medical department, 436; law, 800; litera-
ry, 265. Three new assistant professors
have been appointed, one in each depart
ment. The institution is well endowed and
tuition is free.
-Pittsfeld, Mass, is having violent
attack of mad dog fever. Thirty persons
were bitten last Thursday, and the city
authorities have ordered the immediate kill
ing of all unlicensed dogs, and the claiming
up of all the other, as precautionary meas
ures.
| New Orleans now has population lar
| ger by sixty thousand than ever before.
Galveston and other Texan cities are full to
overlooking; and the same is said of Mem
phis, Mobile, Montgomery, Atlanta, and all
the towns of the southwest.
Tho editor of the Muscatine Journal
has been Z" shown bug about the size and
shape Of a bean, which was taken from the
heart of potato, that article not seeming
to be in any way decomposed or effected by
its chronological tenant"
In Liverpool, woman of sixty, the
mother Of nine children, determined to
marry young man of twenty-four Her
children played her a scurvey trick. Just
before the wedding the graceless scamps
sent hearse and coffin to the house with
an order for her dead body. A sensation
was of course created, but the old lady was
married nevertheless.
Not long since some person threw a
lighted Pharaohs serpent into the bear pit
in the Geological Gardens, in the Jardin
DIES Plantes, Paris. The bear attacked the
serpent and set his own coat on fire. A
plunge in an adjoining tank extinguished
the flames, but not until the animal had sus-
tanned serious in uries.
Mr.. c. F. Brough skated thirteen miles
in forty-fve minutes, at Dubuque, q few
days ago.
"A Justice of the Peace in Nevada agreed
to try case in which d beef was in dis
pute and to take the tripe for his fees.
While holding court he hung the fees ON a
nail outside OF the cabin, and during his
charge to the jury one of the lawyers stole
them!
The people of Philadelphia are still
considerably agitated by the communication
sent to the Legislature by trustworthy
physician, to the effect that the cattle d.
sease is raging in the adjoining county of
Montgomery. Great efforts appear to have
been taken to keep the matter secret al
though the disease has been raging nearly
twelve months. The doctor asserts that
many of the deceased cattle have been sold
to drovers and farmers of Pennsylvania and
the neighboring States, and that the flesh Of
the diseased animals has been sold to and
consumed by the Philadelphians.
"A rich and generous man at Salem,
Mass, invited all his children to dinner the
other day, and each of mis- sons and daugh-
ers-in-law found acheck for $4,000 when
the plates were turned. The grandchildren
oil o,,1 n