Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-09-27
Domestic Paragraphs.

"A lady in San Francisco has been fined
and imprisoned for wearing the bloomer
costume.
"A noted courtessn of Cincinnati, Mrs.
Thomas, died ON the 18th, and left $4,000
to charitable institutions.
Rochester, N. Y, is to be made the
seat of a new Catholic Diocese so Bishop
Timon announces in late discourse in that
city.
1t is reported that tho reason why Ber-
nard Friery died so easy was because the
cap which cavered his face was saturated in
chloroform.
The census of Mobile recently taken,
shows e population of 40,962. Of this
number, %, 900 are negroes-showing an in
crease of 5000 in six years. l5tkjli J.
The New York Herald, September 9th,
publishes schedule of claim preferred
against an insurance company for lady's
wardrobe. destroyed by fire in that city,
which foots up $2l, 900!
At Detroit a great iron ferry boat has
been launched to ply at the railroad cross
ing. Her tonnage is 1900 tons. Upon the
two tracks running the length of the steam
er can be placed fourteen cars.
The citizens of st. Peter, Mimi, have
subscribed and paid in the sum Of $1,000
required for the purchase Of the Dorning-
ton farm for presentation to the State Of
Minnesota for Insane Asylum purposes.
1t is stated that New Haven is the only
place in the United States where ishhooks,
needles, and steel boWed spectacles are man
ufactured. Needles, however, are now man
ufactured in Bridgeport and other places.
DIR. Potter, of Tionesta, Venango
county, Pa, recently drove a pair of horses
100 miles, on an ordinary country road, in
9 hours and Is minutes, stopping once to
feed and twice to water. He afterwards
refused $4,000 for his team.
AT Hebrew temple in Cincinnati, pews
were sold for $1,000, and premiums were
bid as high as $500. Two hundred thou
sand dollars was realized, the most liberal
renting in the history of edifces for divine
worship in this or any other country.
"A commission firm in Atlanta, Georgia,
on the 10Th inst, received thirty bales Of
cotton for sale, which, when opened, were
found to consist of fifty per cent of heavy
logs, with several chunks of rusty iron,
which were neatly slowed away in the GEN.
tire of the bales and artfully concealed from
view.
I'm lead mine, in Tennessee, recently,
some specimens of red sandstone were
broken open, and one was found to contain
a petrifed human hand, in perfect state
of preservation. In other cases, parts of
animals were found, and one black snake,
some five feet long, was found, of the con-
sistency and weight of the stone.
1T is the duty of each member of the
Mt. Holyoke Female Seminary to write an
annual letter, stating whether she is N ar
ried or single, how many children she has,
and other particulars concerning her status
and progress. A young lady of the class of
1861, has Just written to the class secretary
that she is not married, but that she thinks
she can see little cloud that ariseth out Of
the sky of the future, like mans hand
Some individuals, slightly Disguised
with faro, keno and games of that descrip-
ton, are now playing game in which they
stand just as good a sight as the bank does.
Half dozen or more get together, and each
man writes his name on a slip of paper.
The slips are laid on counter, and the
money put up. On each slip, and covering
each name, lump of sugar is placed, and
the lump of sugar upon which fly first
lights is the winner, the party whose name
the lump covers sweeping the board.
"A terrible catastrophe occurred in San
raneisco, Cal, on the 18th of August.
building known as the Summer Street
House, in Summer street, few doors west
of Montgomery, used as a boarding house,
fell to the ground about 2 o'clock in the
E morning, burying in the ruins nearly al
J the occupants. The exact number in ths
establishment at the time is not correctly
known, but it is thought to be between 81
and 49, Already eight persons have beer
, taken out dead, and from fifteen to twenty
wounded.