Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-18

wet with cnloroIOfm, to his nose TO get 10
sleep, while suffering with the neuralgia,
and the next morning was found dead.
The Secretary of War places Illinois
fourth on the list for furnishing volunteers
for putting down the rebellion. New York
is first, 455, 568; Pennsylvania second, $685. /
326; Ohio third, 81, 1888; Illinois fourth,
1884, 17. Grand total from all the States,
2, sos, 062.
"A story is told of an inveterate drinker
who signed the temperance pledge, but was
found soon after imbibing as otter as ever.
To his friends who demonstrated with him,
he replied that the document which he had
signed was invalid because it had no inter-
ual levenue stamp.
"A stock actor performing in the theatre
at Salt, Lake City, lately asked Brigham
Young for the hand of one Of his daughters
in marriage. The prophet became very in
dignant, and ordered the aspirant for the
honor of becoming his son-in-law never to
enter his theatre again. The manager in
terceded for him, and the actor being neces-
sary for the success of the theatrical season
the dread decree was at last revoked.
~ 1t is the pleasing custom of Killiman-
jaro, in Africa, for the women to do all the
trading; and they will not permit a man to
make sales in the market place. In some
districts of Africa where the husband is
permitted to sell, he is only the factor of
his better half. An instance is related Of
man who once sold goat without consulting
his wife, and was soundly berated by the
'business-Iike woman, who felt herself in
suited. "Doyou think you are unmarried
och oil tho mo 10 olu. sstyhv what sort of a
man are you?"
John Campbell died in Cecil county,
Maryland, lately, at the great age of ninety
eight years. He was very deaf and almost
blind, and so irksome in his manner of con
versation, that his friends never Informed
him Of the existence of the war, in blissful
ignorance of which he lived and died a
A frog was recently pumped up from an
oil shaft that was sunk in the Smiths Ferry
oil regions of Ohio, at the depth of 43O feet
He was blind. t-t
The Bishop of Lincoln in England has
come out against the pewrenting system.
He thinks the possession of pews 'leavens
| devotion with selfshness."
-Omnibuses and the heaviest loaded
wagons are crossing the river at st. Louis
on the ice. Such an event does not often
occur. st
"A man in New Haven, Conn, kept his
house open on New Years, and that night
his splendid piano and rosewood bureau
were stolen.
A railroad track has been laid across
the Missouri river on the ice at Atchison,
and trains cross regularly.
! The Wisconsin senate has passed bill
making habitual incompetence for one year
good cause for divorce. H
| Cen Grant has issued an order for the
discharge from the army of all civilians
except clerks.
Brigham Young has promised to build
that portion Of Pacific road that will run
through Utah.
"A young man in Quincy, Illinois, last
week skated % miles in an hour and 40
minutes.
Senator Sprague has given $4,000
to the Methodist seminary at East Green
witch.
The latest Emotion" is papea hat
which is to be manufactured in Springfield
The article is said to be desirable, durable
and waterproof aud will cost from 8 to q
cents apiece
"A man in New Hampshire recently sep
arated from his wife because she used q
pound of tea week. He said he had talked
to her with all the eloquenee of Cicero
but without avail.
Nearly two hundred thousand yards Of
fine French broadcloth, stored on board the
rebel ram Stonewall, at the Navy-Yard, are
4 I L
that the material is infected with the yellow
fever. A very stupid business, says an ex-
change: Expose them to the present frosty
weather for a day or two, and they will be
as valuable and safe as ever.
The Saturday Press says the Fenians
are so much amused at the row they. have
kicked up on both sides of the water
that the other day they laughed till they
split.
The statement that Gen. Lee has not
made application for pardon is erroneous
AS long ago as September last he addressed
a communication to Gen. Grant ON the sub
ject, who sent it at once to President
Johnson, who still has it under considera-
| ton.
The human body falls asleep by degrees,
according to NJ Cabins, a French physiol-
ogist. The muscles Of their legs and arms
lose their power before those which support
| the head, and these last sooner than the
muscles which support the back; and he
| illustrates this by the cases of persons who
! sleep on horseback Or while they are stand
ing or walking. He conceives that sense of
sight sleeps first, then the sense of taste,
next thessense of smell, and lastly, that of
touch.
In Ruthland, LaSalle county, on last
Friday night, the citizens visited O. grocery
kept by man named Herman, and after
tying him to a post, went into the saloon,
and finding that family occupied the up
per part, the belligerents took up o conec-
ton and satisfied their claims to the prop
erty and moved them out of the building.
They then proceeded to cut down the corner
posts with axes, burst in beer kegs and
whiskey barrels, and knocked out the doors
and windows, then hitched rope about the
roof and pulled the house down, chopped
and stove it into kindling wood, completely
demolishing it to the foundation.
The largest revenue Great Britain ever
raised in single year by taxation falls a
hundred millions short of the present stream
flowing into the American National Treas
ury.
The DUKE AND THE BISHOP. - When
travelling, the Duke of Roquelair used
very mean equipage and dressed in shabby
manner. Passing through Lyons in this
guise, he was observed by the bishop of the
diocese, who was afflicted with an Unsuitable
desire for news The bishop, seeing