Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-16

Commercial, would require 6,S57 trains, of
twenty five cars each, equal to seventeen
trains daily, by each of the two roads dur
ing the entire navigation season Of two
hundred days, and yet the grain trade is
| scarcely one-half thetonnage to be moved.
18t 30 Foreign Gossip.
-Carlotta believes that she was poisoned
with totouche in Mexico.
Gen. Breckenridge and lady continue
to live in Paris, as guests of the family OF
Mrs. Burbank, of Kentucky. ------.
IA Russian Prince, in Turin, dressed
himself elegantly, put on his yellow kid
gloves, and committed suicide.
Mrs. Disraeli sits nightly in the ladies'
gallery, watching through lattice, the
brilliant fence of her husband.
Lord Lyons, as Ambassador to France,
has $4,000 outfit, $4,000 per year salary,
and one of the finest mansions in Paris
eMr Disraeli's creed" said Mr. Lowe,
I recently. "is political rebellism. He holds
that every thing is as good as every thing
else, and that nothing matters particular
ly.".r1s 4 Il n
THE Bessemer steel is likely to super
sede iron for cooking utensils. The thin
sheets of steel can. be. pressed into any
shape, and will effect saving of heating
material. altI H'@ e'4E.' f"
The daughter of NJ. Jules Favre, the
distinguished French statesman, was re-
Gently married to M. de Saavedra de Ruy
Gomez, an artist, and formerly private Sec
rotary tostheAlate Emperor Macmillan.
Miss Burdett Coutts gave grand ball
in honor of the 5000 Belgian volunteers
| who visited London, and 1900 English
aristocracy attended. Supper for the thou
sands of guests was served in the garden,
and military bands discoursed music on the
1awnI9.rs = a 81 ladJa0 1883 s-ai ten Hoo bar
| -Juarez has shown that he means that
Mexico shall be made a civilized and
Christian nation, by publishing decree
In which he forbids lotteries or public
| raffles, whatever may be their object"
throughout the Republic as among i'm.
moral games" 80 taaia'- ssaaa 9At 10 baSd
| The London Reoieao says of Wait
Whitman's poems that I" a careful perusal
of these remark able productions has con-
WINGED us that the vague impressions we
| have now and then encountered, that Walt
| Whitman is kind of learned pig, is far
| from correct" :El siaiasaa haG"z at' {pi
During debate in the Corps Legis-
latif, nj. Bizoin contrasted the pay of a
French Marshal with that of Fench sol
dier. The Marshal receives 10000 per
year, while private soldier, M. Bizoin
quoted soldiers own words" receives
halfpenny day for his menus 2,5disaTs,
for tobacco, soap, needle and thread" a,,
The draining of portion Of the
| Zuyder Zee," says the Precursor, of Ant
werp, lis seriously contemplated in Hol-
land. An eminent engineer, Mr.. Boyer
inck, has plan for recovering 100000
acres from the water-that is, the whole OF
| the part situated between the south of Ke-
teldIep and the north of the Isle of Urk.
The success which has attended similar
operations in the HARLEM Lake, from
which $4,000 acres of land have been re-
covered, augurs favorably for the result OF
the work now under consideration nor b
If eza ~ $780, saiao9olH@ g1egs isa
Incidents and Accidents.
| An alligator story comes from Louisi
ana to the effect that on the Opelousas
railroad, since the overflow, the engineer
has to blow the whistle most Of the time to
lkeep the creatures off the track, WAere
they congregate with suicidal persistency
"A, passenger train ON the Connecticut
River Railroad, on the 5th, ran into a car
rage, near Springfield, Massachusetts, con
taining Mrs. Alexander Chaplin, and Mrs
! Dunbar. The, first will probably die from
her injuries; the latter is not seriously
hurt. RIM, f....,se y,f f,s,.ef7s
In Hudson City, N. j., a day or tw'
since, a man named Andrew j Johnson chas
tised his son, nine years old, for stealing
| TWENTY-FIVE cents. AT the second blow tn
t bow expired, either from. its severity o
t from fright. The father is said to be il
, | great4distress 80 - ~
> "A New Haven paper tells the story 9
a widow in that city who having an
: nounced that her daughter had received
t large fortune at the death Of a friend
f purchased largely and borrowed freely
t until it was learned that she had bee
7 playing huge confidence game ON tn
s community. jos isetl isja.a' sf-l 49,
Some excitement was recently create
4 at Ellensburg, N Y. by hediscogery tina
t a clergyman who had been preachin
r some little time in neighborhOod clos
Y by Ellenburgh depot and at Clinton Mill
!. was "a woman During service at the la
q ter place she tainted away, when the IN
n position was discovered. H
On the 9Th inst. collision occurre
8 midway between Birnlingh and Pontia
:, between a freight and gravel train. 81
: empty cars OF the latter, which. were ,bt
e ing backed, were thrown up over lth
. freight engine and smashed The locom'
J, tive was also seriously damaged. fTw
4. men were slightly bruised.
il An accidental fire in Thompson
e Co.'s well, at Petrolia, G. w., on the 3
It inst, communicated to the adjoinin
d wells. Ten were destroyed with allttI
). machinery, tanks, etc. Loss $4,000
n mostly to the King Flowing Well Comp;
is ny, composed of Noble, Taylor, Marsha
& King s .s' IS. - 4.
ell "A country youth attending the circl
e at Guelph, Canada, offered the elephant
Y plug of tobacco The sagacious anlrn
d which had probably been tricked the san
p way before, stetched out his proboscls
lie if to take the tobacco, but instead suddel
lie " seized the wight s hat, and after cneWln
N to pulp, threw it down at the feet OF u u
owner. .f -eI..gs -
81 The New York Eoeaing Post OF the 81
Or ult. saws: complaints have been entert
Of against John c. Heenan and three COME
in crates. of No. 1862 Broadway, and again
d. Augustus Robbins andsone Shanky OF n
It. SO Chatham street, on charges OF keepil
n gambling houses at the above places. Wa
a. rants nave been issued for the arrest OF 7
accused" .s bez ssq5s - pa 3