Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-23
Domestic PARAGRAPHS.

"A 237 pound sturgeon was seined in
the Saugatuck river at Westport, r.. l., re-
Gently. @ i -
A Newburyport merchant last week
received telegram from Calcutta, which
bad only been two days and five hours on
its way, and cost him $500.
Houses are so scarce in Hartford,
Conn, that people flock to them, when
deaths occur, even before funeral, hoping
a family may be broken up and lease OBJ
tanned. @~
The Ellis Locomotive works at
Schenectady are now employing 480 men,
and turning out finished locomotive
every week, having contract for twelve
from the Union Pacific Railroad Company.
The latest invention in the billiard line
is a table eight feet wide and fourteen feet
long. The size immense, the proportions
odd, yet the table has that peculiar merit
usually expressed by the trite phrase" It's
as fair for one player as the other"
Two negroes in Richmond were so de-
lighted at the idea of being able to ride in
the street cars. that they carried their
breakfast and dinner with them and re-
manned in one of the cars till night One
of them proposed that they should go after
their beds.
The dry goods dealers at New York
have not all succeeded in their haste to be
rich during the last year, if their returns of
income be correct Henry B. Claflin, whose
income in 1865 was half million, returns
$25 profit from his business in 1866, and
another large house reports 80 cents.
"A countryman sold an old stove in
Worcester, Mass, short time since, and
on returning home learned that his
daughter had placed in the stove oven a
box containing $500, and all his deeds and
valuable papers. He returned to the city
in hot haste, and after considerable delay
and anxiety recovered his property.
The Louisville JON nal says: awe
have been carrying on the Louisville Jour-
nal between 36 and 81 years. During all
that time, we have known no man OF bust
ness in the city to fail who advertised lib
orally. And we have known no one to
succeed in any considerable, if even IN a
respectable degree, who didn't advertise
liberally!" II
One of the most notable social results
of the war, has been the introduction OF
horseback riding as popular exercise in
Boston and vicinity Before the war twas
almost impossible to find saddle horse in
any of the livery stables, and hardly any
gentleman owned saddle. To-day, in all
the suburban towns there are dozens OF
saddle horses, and they are used both by
ladies and gentlemen.
There is at q Nashville brewery a
mammoth frog, weighing twelve pounds,
which Is supposed to have attained his
enormous size from the nourishment re-
ceived from the health-giving beverage
manufactured at that establishment. He
is kept in the cellar with no companions
but his own thoughts, and drinks his regu-
lar allowance of lager with all the appar-
ent satisfaction and relish of portly
Mynheer of the olden time.
Spanish Lake, situated two or three
miles above New Iberia, Louisiana, and
one hundred and fifty yards from the Teche,
is fed by springs, and more than half its
surface is covered by a floating turf, whose
roots are interviewer so closely that man
may walk on it. 1t looks like flat prairie
to those who travel on its banks. At all
seasons, except winter, it is as green asour
prairies in April. By cutting through this
floating turf, fine fish in abundance may be
caught. In time this turf will cover the
whole Lake.
The Michigan Southern Railroad, to
fill !" sink-hole' of forty rods, under its
track in Northern Indiana, has dumped in
two acres of earth, averaging ten feet in
depth three acres of timber and brush
wood the ditchings and scrapings of fifty
miles of railroad track, for about eight
years past; the old ties of about 100 miles
of repaired track; and about 5000 car
loads of gravel; besides the 40 rods of en-
bankment from four to six feet high that
hafn hn
The work of filling seems now to have
been accomplished.
Incidents and Accidents.
"A gentleman residing near Bangor,
Me-, while taking down an old barn, re-
| covered his watch which was stolen from
| him twelve years before.
AT a recent fire in Cincinnati, ten
thousand boxes of candles were melted in
the basement. The grease puddle is val
ued at thirty thousand dollars 4
Some miscreant, a day or two since,
| Washington, hung in the chamber of the
| New York Board of Aldermen.
After desperate fight of two hours,
a lobster was captured near Flint Island,
last week, which weighed three hundred
pounds and was four feet long, with claws
nine feet. ,. sa-
-Fifty-cent stamps are beng extensive.
ly counterfeited and " shoved" in Phila
delphia The engravings are well executed
but the notes are one-eighth of an inch
narrower than the genuine.
"A single-stone diamond pin, valued al
$4,000, was recently stolen from the per.
son of Mr. j. Rankin, of Binghampton, on
the New Haven Railroad, while the cars
were stopping at Bridgeport.
An old dog at Rockport, Mass, sixteen
years old, deliberately walked into the water
on Monday, and drowned himself. The re-
cent heavy tax laid upon Ills race Is sup
posed to have been the cause of the deed
"A resident of New Albany, Ind, ap
| piled for a divorce on the Sd instant, on the
ground of an obstinate and incurablt
propensity TO steal on the part of his wife
| After long discussion, the justice refused
| to grant the divorce.
The other day dog got into the sheep
| fold of General Singleton, near Quincy
/ ILL.,, and destroyed four hundred dollars
worth of his valuable South Down sheep
With hydrophobia and sheep killing, dog
are pretty generally becoming nuisance
| Frank belong, of the Greenleaf saw
mills, Meeker county, Mimi, was engaged
edging off a lot of boards, when his foo
accidentally became entangled, and brought
length of his leg. He did not long sur
vive. ma
"A little daughter of sheriff Dissosway
complained of a sudden rain in her ewes
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