Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-21

"A New York widow "Ducklow ,
put two thousand dollars in "coupor
bonds under her carpet for safety, and
had them stolen.
A woman in Maroa, on the Central
Railroad, south of clinton, eIlI,s recently
/ sold her hair for two dollars, to. pure "a
set OF brass jeWelry.
"A negro made his appearance in East
Aiachias, Me, the other day, and was quite
a curiosity to the young people, many Of
whom never saw colored man before.
The National Temperance Society in
New York acknowledgements zoo, 0OOpages
OF tracts, $40, 900 packages sof books, and
over ,3ooeoo. single copiessof temperance
: Two gentlemen discovered and re-
moved pile of rails from the railway
track, three miles west of Jefferson Iowa,
which had been placed there in revenge for
the destruction of pig
J The last specimen of z. L. Barnum' s
elasticity comes to us in the shape OF an
invention, patented by him. whereby an
india rubber band is applied to the tight
enlng OF pants, vests, and drawers.
2 There is case of courtship in East
Lynne, Conn, that has been going on for
more than forty-five years, and during that
time, with very few exceptions, the gen
tleman has called on his intendedon each
alternate Sunday evening $50 a'-s@~ ~
AT large fashionable reception i'll
New York the other evening the flowers
used for the adornment fthe rooms and for
the guests cost over seventeen hundred.doL
lars by which the general expenditure of
the occasion may be estimated
Joshua Soule, DID,, the venerable
senior Bishop of the Methodist Church
South, died at Nashville, Tenn, on the 9th
inst, at the ripe age of eighty six years
He was born in Bristol Maine, in 1881, and
entered the ministry in1798. @ssIib6es
In the New Orleans Museum the young
lady who goes into the lions den put too,
much pomatum on:2r hair. When she
stopped to let the NJ IAN lion Jump over
her, as usual, thatse : /; ious beast stopped,
to the great alarm }! he spectators, and
bit off her waterfall. ?
AT the late town meeting in Nan
tucket, there were present three hundred
and seventy five people over. seventy Years
old, seventy-fve who were over eighty, and
nine who were oyer ninety. Nantucket
must be the place where people live till
they dry up and are blown away.
All the wit ofthe world, it seems, is
not monopolized by Irishlnen, as the follow
ing from the San Antonio Texas Express,
referring to, the obsequies ofsGeneral John
ston, at Galveston, ~will show 1t says:
eff General Johnston was alive, he would
tell the fools to let his ashes alone" Oh
The fashion of fifteen years ago ofwear-
ing black court plaster on the face has Just
been revivedin New York; and number
Of the bellies now appear in full dress with
sable spots in close proximity to charming
dimples. They are sentimental finger posts,
pointing out the tempting localities
"A woman named Weiss attired herself
in mans apparel, Tuesday, in Newark, N
j., and undertook to thrash Mrs. Miller,
when Mr. Weiss, her husband, came along,
and discovering man beating a woman,
and gave his wife sound whip
ping before he discovered who she was.
Lincoln University, located at Lincoln,
Logan county, Ill, has been in operation
for only five months, and already numbers
over one hundred and thirty students in
attendance 1t is under the charge of five
Synods Of the Cumberland PRESBYTERIAN
Church. The cornerstone was laid Sept.
IA, 1855. a5S'z5 $1,000 'z5@s goa 'Vas1
1t is reported that diamond of i'm
lnense value was found i'll Tippeeanoe
river, near Monticello, Ind, on Monday.
The value Of the precious stone was first
estimated at $250O00 Subsequent inves.
legation reduced it to $25 5000, and later
and more scientific observation places the
figures at $16,300
! The Kendall County I'll J Record says:
son Sunday night, some imp of Satan in
pf
Of Dr.. j. A. Cook in the town of Fox, and
trunks of two hundred fine apple trees-the
holes in many instances going through the
heart fthe trees"
Missouri will soon bes covered with a
net work of railroads. Those aids to com
merce and national intercourse that SO
closely and surely follow the advance of
are spreading all over Mis-
souri,, and intersectins and helping each
other while developing the richest and best
portions of earth's surface. -4c.y skt%t &
I There is shoemaker at Lynn who
makes by hand regularly one pair of shoes
in an hour, or 60 pairs i'll week He has,
when in a hurry, doubledson this
rate, and finished two pairs in an hour, or a
shoe insfifteen minutes. They are said to
UOtWClI ulduS, dHll Qul 1UlC, HnlCH 10 h1OlC
than is true of all shoes.
"A number of persons have been dig,
ging for some time for hidden treasures on
the beach near Belfast, Me, under. the di
rection Of a clairvoyant. The emejuni can
see in her minds eye richest filled with
riches few feet beneath the surface, but it
is moved as the diggers approached it, by
evil and mischievous spirits.
There is dentist in New York who
PULLS so many teeth that the gold plugs
extracted from them are worth five huns
dred dollars. He takes the teeth to his
residence in Brooklyn and uses them to
enrich his grape vines, they affording a
large quantity OF ammonia. The effect
upon the vines has been to make them
bring forth an abundance of fruit.
A. terrible accident occurred in the
woods in Wisconsin, by which man was
thrown eighty feet into the air. The man
killed was standing on abalance tree to see
a tree come down, when the tree in its fall
ing course, struck the other end OF the tree
on whichthe man was Standing, and the
tremendous weight of it coming on the
spring lever threw him like a shot into the
air. .}t3
About nine months since, boy resid-
ing near Buffalo, n. Y, while amusing him
self with pistol, accidentally discharged it,
and the ball entered his BRAIN The boy
came to his senses after a while, and is alive,
through all attempts to extract the ball have
been unsuccessful and viii probably re-
suit in death. He cannot Speak, and the
ability to read is gone, but the accident re-
suited in increasing his power of the organ
of calculation, and he can now figure up
with marvellous celebrity very abstruse sums.
"A correspondent, writing of Salt Lake
Citv savs. 1This singular Town covers an