Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-09-27
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.
Personal ana Literary.

ULlfflNUS AND DILL L ANUS'
Personal and Literary.
SEBA SMITH, the once popular humorist,
author of "Jack Downing's Letters" is in
feeble health at his residence, at Fat
chogue, L. l.
THE Boston Daily Press, the last penny
paper experiment in that city, expired on
Saturday night, after troubled existence
OF just two weeks.
LIZZIE EUPHEMIA PoCAHONTAs SPOTTED
TAIL, daughter of the distinguished Spot
ted Tail of the aboriginal persuasion, IS re-
ceivIng her education, with piano and
other accompaniment, at Omaha.
GEN. THos. W. BENNETT, of Liberty,
Ind, returned home last week, having
"done Europe" and Travelled 9.972 miles
in six weeks, taking in all the sights from
Barney Castle to Venice, including seve-
raj crowned heads and distinguished per-
sons of lesser consequence. iia
JOHN GRNDELL, the wellknown RUIZ,
ner, has been engaged to tram EoTara
Payson Weston, for his walk FROM Port,
land, Me-, to Chicago. Grlndell, several
years ago, ran ten miles in 80 minutes, on
the Cambridge course. He is confident
that Weston will be successful in his COM
ing long walk. 49,. r..-..' s-. s.a,... III
GENERAL COLE, the murderer OF
Hiscock, at Albany, last spring, is hopeful
and in good spirits, while his wife, the
cause Of the crime and the tragedy, has be-
come insane w. j. Hadley will defend
Cole, and he has declined the offers OF pro.
fessional aid from Generals Butler and
Nye, and Sanford E. Church. .yed ot 'i
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f. o Domestic Paragraphs.
John Morrissey won $4,000 at the
Springfield regatta by betting on the
Wards. tr
-Flaxseed is profitable crop this year
in Ohio, yielding largely and selling at 81
per bushel. 6e5ii3 air o5 aui4I z
Prime peaches have sold at SOC. box
in Chicago, and the market has been liter.
ally stalled.
"A five minutes hail-storm destroyed
1000 panes of glass in the Susquehanna
railroad shops. b.
New Orleans is trying to raise ban
annas and be independent of the West In
dies. It will succeed. 4a + r.. '''- EXT.
-Sportsmen complain of the scarcity of
prairie chickens. The spring rains played
smash with the eggs. o.
There is colored boy at Hatfield,
Mass, only nine years old, who weighs over
two hundred pounds. rrem-
Coaches make the distance between
| Denver and Cheyenne in twenty hours,
and the fare is $27.75.
--Forty-seven thousand bushels of corn
were discharged from vessel in Boston,
by an elevator, in twenty-six hours. .
-Enterprising youths in Canada pass
the notes in use at a commercial college in
Toronto upon unsuspecting countryman.
Fort Lyon, on the Arkansas river, is
about to be rebuilt at a cost of 100000,
and will be one of the finest forts in the
West.
Mcclure has been beaten by Smith
| for the possession of the Imperial Japs
little All Right included and is travelling
with them in New England.
"A negro was hung up and fayed in
De Soto county. Miss, by two white men,
for selling white girl and forcing her to
live with him IL the woods for several days.
"A Providence editor has received an
invitation to attend linen wedding. The
anniversary period is not stated, but may
perhaps be guessed from the character of
the gifts. ........5
The total exports of petroleum were
in 1862 upwards of 100000 gals in
1868 more than 28,OO0,O00; in 1854 in ex-
cess of 100000; in 1866, 100000; in
1866, 1,7O0,00O,0OO. r
The Cuba telegraph was opened to the
public on Wednesday, the 18th inst Con-
gratulatory messages passed over it be-
tween Secretary Seward and the Captain
General of the Island.
Some individual thought to place a
founding in opulence by leaving it with
John Jacob Astor recently. The authors
of the infants being will be disappointed
to learn that it was given to the police.
"A State Constable heard one person
remark to another, on fremont street, Bos-
ton. that the new Masonic Temple showed
q good deal of public spirit, and that the
said Constable spent whole day In the
Temple trying to find the spirit.
1t is estimated that 5000 of the bust
ness men of New Y ork live in the neigh
boring towns, and enter and leave the city
call this kind of population New York
Roost ers. n
! Stick to that word ''never." It is
worth it's weight in gold. Cling to it as a
| drowning man clings to rope. Grasp it
| firmly, as soldier attacked on all sides
craps his sword. God has said, and will
stand to it, 81 will never leave thee"
1t is reported that Charles FL. Burrill,
having failed to recover the $1,000000
which he demanded from the city of Bos-
| ton, for substitutes furnished on her quota,
is now going to sue ex-Mayor Lincoln and
the city authorities, personally, for the
amount. .rHs
"A novel grading machine is at work
on the Fox River Oll.) Railroad. 1t con-
sists Of pillow, with apron and gearing for
carrying the earth up and depositing it in
the roadbed. Tt is worked by four horses
and two men, and will do the work Of thir
ty men in grading TLHeal
| An American named Pratt, belonging
in Alabama, has patented writing ma
chine, by which double the labor of rap
| id pennlan cen be performed in the same
period of time. Its price is only ten dol
lars. Could Mr.. Pratt only invent think
| ing machine, editorial work could be easily
performed.
DIR. Henry G. Shaw has contributed an
article on Foreign Bodies in the Ear" to
the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.
In his experience, he has taken from the
ear cotton, slate pencils, peas, maggots,
| cockroaches, beads, glass, crockery, shells,
paper, pins, ivory, teeth OF combs, stones
| and seeds. .-.~-~--s0t T,,f--f
The New York Post suggests that the
ashes and garbage of that city be saved