Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-21
= CUsRHsENT NEWS zTEEsss
Domestic Paragraphs.

Chicago wants park.
iowa has i've female editors
iowa In 1856, returned 4O3;9@ able
bodied militia
A young man in New York was fnef
five dollars for stepping on lady's dress
There is proposition on foot to estab
fish murder detective agency in Philadel
phia.
IA. ii Steward, Of New York, had SIS,
1000 worth Of silks stolen from him re
Gently
-Four bears have been shot near Crevt
1 Cour Lake, only seventeen miles from st
Louis.
In Northern Vermont barely enough
/ snow has faileuto alIowgof tolerably gooC
sleighing. 4 & j
i A Memphis lady took chloroform
when about to have aswollen finger lanced
and died
A man engaged to be married in Pat
terson, n j., stole himself into jail to avoid
the necessity.
"A colored man and a wild hog got
:" inter fight at Baton Rouge, La, and
hboth wereKilledl D1 4 TT 10 81
YALDE (0heever's churchin NewdYorkllas
been sold to Tiffany & Co., who viii erect
a store on the site
Some of the New York beggars refuse
to receive anything less than fifty Gent
postal currency. -
"A Scotch weman,sby name Macfarlane,
has come ont III Aendon as preacher, and
the papers praise her.
"A man in Delaware petitioned for a
divoreesop the .gre,nd. THAI s'his wife was
IA very disagree ealile, womah.p 81
I -qhe fact that no murder was Commit
ted in Memphis one day last week is Zee
corded in one Of our exchanges.
Since the assassination Of President
Lincoln over fifty thousand people have
visited his old home at Springfield. sdN
r7-Leayenwofth,3 Kan.,g which q few
gearssince was d small tfading post, did
$4,000, coo worth of business last year.
DCoaches rdhning from junction. city,
Kansas, to Santa Fe, New Mexico, make
the "trip regularly ii. seven days and two
hours OGiT9M d0Q8T1 e |
| "A daughter Of a St. Louis chimney
sweep is shortly to be married, and the ia
ther has issded no less than 800 cards of in
vitation.
-fAwomanin Cincinnati, who, on visit
ing her husbands Office, discovered long
hairs in his hair brush has sued FORA
divorce a1J0IU 229TguI
"A man in Cincinnati, lately arrested
for robbing railroadc cars while rthe passen-
gers were at dinner, is discovered TO be
worth 100000.
A new suspension1b ridgepver the Ohio
is talked of at Wheeling to take the place
of the present structure, which us deemed
Ineither conlniodious or safe606
The population of Oregon Increased
IbetweehgtBe last two censuses Inearlyithree
hundred per cent, a rate larger than that
of any other State except Minnesota
ES-The engineer ofthe Missouri River
Bridge Company is about to build large.
7number Of. fatboats to beused in the com
ystruction Of the bridge at Kahsas City.
Miss Gustina Bartlett died at Bartlett,s
Island, mouth of Ellsworth river, on the
18th ultimo, aged fifteen. She was of
enormous size, and weighed about 400 lbs.
Mrs Wildly kicked a conductor in the
mouth, att Erie,Pa., because that unhappy
man would Totlet herself and husband get
on the train without showing their tickets.
"A man at Fredericksburg, Va, wasre-
Gently knocked down by lightning. MIe
had been at deaths door with rheumatism
previously, but has not felt twinge Since.
|, The wife ola poor artist died sudden
denly at Darlington, Pa, last week, and it
was discovered that she and her husband
had been subsistingr on nothing but CORN
meal ~ - AZ ''<1'4 =
1t is saibthat in no single instance has
a northern man made enough this year in
growing cotton or aanythinga else down
south. to pay expenses. Some, mistake, or
'else Something wrong abouti il.
"A choking horse was saved fromldeatha
at New Haven, the other clay, by insert
/ ing the street hose into his mouth and
turning on full head of water, which
forced, the obstruction down intp the
stolnach.lo2 EfiGta - IF
The Patent Office is the only self:susl
tanning branch of the g overnment. The
fund now on hand after paying the entire
expenses of the office, is $280,000, all paid
by inventors.
"A Massachusetts gentleman who. had
been much annoyed by solicitor offdnds,
recently gave him check for twenty dol
lars, payable to the order of the "biggest
bore in Plymouth" 1t had not been pre-
sented at last accounts ----~--
Near San Mateo, Cal, a woodnlan,
having had both his legs crushed by a fall
ing tree, chopped through the tree, three
feet in diameter, thus extricating himself;
but was obliged to remain on the spot three
days before succor reached him.
Walter B. Cow, the wifeeof a.
wealthy manufacturer OF Cincinnati, who
eloped from her husband with her4over, a
few weeks ago, was traced by detectives to
iowa, and brought back by them to that
city. 4
Edward Welsh, on his return home
from ST. Paul last Saturday, drunk, to his
farm in Dekota counta, collided with
team few miles out, which displaced
4him pffomv &hiss seat ESQ that his head
dragged on the ground until it was nearly
rwornof.I sC1
A young man in New Orleans, about
to be MARRIED, borrowed a diamond cross
worth $4,000 fronlhis berothedsand pawn
ed itt0obtaip money for wedding expenses.
He was arrested and tried to hang himself,
but was preYentedsu
- The death .ofa soldier is recorded in
1884 who had five wives, and his widow,
aged ninetM weptG over. the grave Of her
fourth husband Thewriter who mentions
this little circumstance innocently observes
that THE said soldier was very much at
tached to the married state" VA
"A large oscillating rock is said to have
been found III the wilderness of Western
Arkansas. 1t is situated in the channel of
torrent, and moves to and fro, apparently
from thelaction of the water. The nlotioG
produces loud noise, which can be heard
several rnifesASo-the story runssz