Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-17
Domestic Paragraphs.

4 Ill6 Ce0LT6 OI~tQe~ OIltcu- totdIcS ID 1oo
miles west Of Fort Riley, Kansas.
"A West Hartford cow ate four pounds
of tobacco, and died. No wonder.
The Lauhing Hyena is the title of q
new paper recently commenced in Texas
"A Wall street operator gave his
wife a Christmas diamond set worth
$4,000
john Browns cabin, occupied by him
when squatter, is to be sent to the Paris
Exposition.
"A Detroit clergyman received twelve
thousand dollars cash from his parishioners
on New Years.
The newest Yankee notion is an um-
brella with gutter round the edge and a
spout at one corner.
! B. D. Walsh affirms that $500, 100000
j will not cover the annual loss from insects
in the United States.
The oil springs of West Virginia are
boiling over at the low rate of seven cents
per gallon for crude OIL
| Upwards of two thousand immigrants
! from Europe arrived at New York on New
| Years day-nearly all of them in steamers.
One of the Boston banks testified it's
appreciation Of it's clerks by making
each of the ten Christmas present OF
$4,000.
The first house in Sedalia, Missouri,
was built in 1860. Statistics, just pub
lished in the local papers show a popula-
ton of $500.
The Kearney Herald says buffalo are
crossing the Platte near that point in I'M
mense numbers, and are going south for
winter quarters. iu sa m!r -aa
Mr. Walsh, the entomologist, has col
lected 10000 distinct specimens of the in
sect tribe within a radius of four miles of
Rock Island. g..arata i,atav ras#
The English sparrow has been thor
oughly domesticated in Central Park, New
York. Flocks of one thousand may often
be seen there.
A Revenue Collector named Brown,
was shot and robbed of $4,000 at Duvalls
Bluff, Arkansas, on Saturday. He will
probably die. i9..H a -a, .#t.-si,s,i
"A complete official list shows that one
thousand and sixty-One American ships
were transferred to the British flag in the
past five years rra ee.f.5rk
Some of the passengers on the train
from the East, which remained "snow
bound at Pittsfield, Mass, over Sunday,
held religious services in the cars. s
Mr.. Calicot, telegraph operator at
Sweetwater Bridge Station, ON the over
land telegraph line, was killed and scalped
by Indians on New Years day.
"A pastor of one of the Methodist
churches in Brooklyn was presented on
Christmas day with a baked potato, in
which was enclosed a $500 greenbaci1.. 49,
AT the recent funeral of clergyman
in Orange, the sermon which the deceased
had prepared to preach on the very day of
his sudden death was laid on his coffin.
Two boxes, each containing two dead
bodies, directed to an address at Bruins
wick, Maine, were discovered at Boston
recently. The murders remain mystery.
Seth Scammon, of Stratham, New
Hampshire, has an Ayrshire COW, ten years
old last Spring, that has given a little
over eight hundred pounds Of milk in ten
days. 4, ety-. e- an ay Gar w
The Shawano (Wis.) Journal says that
the taxes in that village are at the rate of
ta0enty-tltree per cent. The property own
ers there are deserving of considerable SYM
pathy. It)iG .aiJ5f5l tI,IlJ
1t is mistake to suppose that every
body in Kentucky is running for Governor.
are the candidates for Lieutenant Gov
ernor. 4F aaa .i 1't
Eighty persons live on the Gallos
Islands, in Lake Ontario, without church,
jail, minister, magistrate, doctor, lawyer or
grogshop.( They get along with "a school
"A dog who had lost the whole of her
interesting family, was seen trying to poke
q 1Niaoa Of oh ha honIla Of no
door of sausage shop, in Rochester, the
other. day.
"A conductor on the Boston and Wo1-
cester railroad is under heavey bonds for
trial. at Boston for criminal negligence
which resulted In the death of one of his
passengers. .--.--.--.--. --..--.,
George Wise, of Washington county,
Pa, was shooting hogs recently, and acct
dentally shot his child, in it's mothers arms,
inflicting q mortal wound, and severely in
juring the mother. 1sS- i-e'
In Washington county, Tenn, twenty
miles northeast Of Jonesboro, is an ancient
birch tree, on the bark of which is still leg
IDLE the following inscription: "1771-D.
Boon killed a barr
In the town of Ellenville, New York,
1877 electors voted for Edward Willis par
doned murderer, for Governor, which was
a singular method of rebulling Governor
Fenton for the pardon. ,r- II .... .-,r-.,
The Kansas State Monumental Asso-
citation has been incorporated. It's object
is to erect monument, costing $4,000, to
the memory of Kansas soldiers killed in
the late war. Governor Craw ford is Pres
ident
( A lady visited Petersburg last week,
for the purpose of purchasing her wedding
trousseau, and while there also purchased
a tombstone to be placed over the grave
of her late husband. The old and new
love.
Wendell Phillips, II, his late temper
ance lecture at Boston, said that no Mayor
had been elected in that city for the last
twenty, years, unless his friends could pom
Use that he would not disturb the igTog-
shops.
Hon. James Black, of Lancaster, Pa,
has undertaken to raise fund of 100000
for the use of the National Temperance
Society, and Hon. William E. Dodge, of
Now York, has subscribed $4,000 to this
fund
A fellow who has seen the Black
| Crook in New York, says he is con-
WINGED of the folly of women spending
money for so much dress, when. they can
render themselves so fascinating with very
| little.
| Another meeting at Baraboo, Wis, has
discussed the morality of raising hops
| No decision was arrived at, but the
general impression seemed; to. be~rthat
hop raising)is very lmoral at fifty -cepts-a
pound.
81. man died last vvael ii, S,hrax,-e1,,Ir,,v