Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-31
Domestic Paragraphs.

! III MS Su(ueO SOOu lOftune.
Domestic Paragraphs. ~
There are sixty German newspapers in
Pennsylvania.
The population of Kansas increased
$4,000 last year.
There are one thousand paper mills in
the United States.
The American Bible Society printed
last year 1,1f9,259 copies of Scriptures.
Since the commencement Of the wal
there has been decrease in the negro
population of Virginia, of 10000
New York reioices in seven citizens
whose collective wealth is estimated al
100000.
The Michigan fisheries furnish from
| seventy-ive to one hundred thousand bar
rels Of fish per annum, worth about ST.,
100000 cn
Cincinnati has divorce case fifty pei
cent more scandalous than the Stewart
case. Forty lady witnesses were Oh the
stand in one day.
Thirteen thousand vessels passed east
ward, and seventeen thousand westward
through the Delaware and Raritan Canal
during the past season.
The London Globe proposes a new tax
one on railroad tickets. A penny stamp
on each, would produce clear million to
the British revenue.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, "wife agency y
is in operation. 1t is conducted on the en-
ployment agency system, the prices rang
ing from SO to SO.
The railroads OF this country employ
100000 men, and at least 100000 men,
women and children depend for their sup
port upon the railroad interest.
Eleven passengers were wounded,
some seriously, by an accident on the
Virginia and Tennessee Railroad, near
Dublin station, Virginia, on Sunday night
last
"A conductor on the Boston and Wor-
cester railroad is under heavy bonds fol
trial at Boston for criminal negligence
which resulted In the death of one of his
passengers.
A New Bedford lady recently wrote tc
q Boston publishing house for copy OF
"Gellert; or, Trust in God" and received
for reply, "There is no Trust in God III
Boston"
The magnitude of newspaper business
may be inferred from the fact that the re-
ceipts of the New York Tribune, week be
fore last, for subscriptions, sales, and adj
vertising, amounted to $628O0.
The Boston Journal, commenting on 6
recent decision of Judge Ames, says: "a
man who rides on the cars in Massachusetts
on Sunday must do so upon his own tenn
| poral as well as eternal risk and RESPONSE
bility."
On Saturday, the 10Th, in Wilmington
| N. c., the regular Court issued letters o
administration to colored man for the
| settlement of an estate. This is the first
| case that ever occurred in the Southern
| States
"A forty-two mile sleighing race came of
! last week "Down East" for purse o.
| $1,000. The run was from Providence tC
| Boston, and was made by the winner, the
mare "Black Maria" in the remarkable
| time of three hours and twenty minutes.
B. F. Barker, agent of the Union
| Pacific railroad, has received 100000 in
| Government bonds as the subsidy fol
the last section of the road, now com
| pleted to point 305 miles west of Omaha
| Nebraska.
The New York Legislature have
repealed the law against granting free
| passes on the railroads in that State. 1t
was practically nullity, and treated as
| such by large proportion of the deadhead
| fraternity.
| Some eccentric genius broke into the
| Treasurer's office at Wabash, Indiana, the
other night, unlocked the. safe and
| deposited twenty-five dollars in the
cash drawer, leaving everything else I'M
| disturbed.
The wife of an extensive hose manu-
facturer in Cincinnati has eloped with {
| lover. She took advantage of her hus
| bands absence to make purchases of jew
elry, &C., to the amount of $4,000, and il
| on her way South. The affair creates grea
| excitement there.
| john A. Harris has been awarded
$3.50 damages in his suit against the Bal
| timore and Ohio Railroad, for injuries re
| ceived in collision alleged to have beer
caused by negligence. On the former tria
| $4,000 was awarded.
Referring to the paragraph, q day Q
two ago, of the stove which has been il
use in the Capitol in Virginia since TIT
Mr.. Spear, of PHILADELPHIA writes that h
has in his store in Market street stow
that bearsthe date of 1863 Why is it tina
we have no such durable articles in thes
4 days?
Young America must hereafter b
content to celebrate Christmas and indie
pendence Day without the usual fusilade O
Chinese crackers The Tariff bill intro
/ duced into the Senate contains clause tor
bidding the importation of fre-crackers
4 Mr. Fessenden inserted the prohibition be
l cause the Portland fire was caused by crack
ers.
Edward H. Weylan, clerk lately il
the employment of the Erie Railway com
4 pany, at New York, is alleged to have de
camped, after embezzling $4,000 of tn
4 company's funds. The alleged fugitiv
was intrusted with the preparation of TIL
company's pay rolls, and the frauds ar
said to have been committed by placin
fictitious names on the laborers roll.