Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-04
Incidents and Accidents.

their mules by feeding them with shelled
corn.
"A Baltimore coroners jury brought in
the verdict Of /" death, from suicide, by his
own hands ~ -
81 = The New York Times predicts that
boys of Is will be admitted to vote before
women are
"A minister walked fifty miles to, be
present at the recent Baptist convention in
Lynchburg, Va.
J Congressman Darling, of New York,
had one of his legs broken by fall from
his carriage, recently
1t is asserted in a New York paper
that there are in that city at least seven
thousand people who wear false eyes.
= = In Franklin county, Mass, the State
constables seized lot of elderberry and
rhubarb wine, and locked up the owner.
Dir Holmes says that easy. crying wild
oWs take new husbands soonest; there is
nothing like wet weather for transplanting.
"A daughter of Squire Murry of Olney,
Ill, aged IL years, committed suicide by
hanging herself on Thursday afternoon,
the goth.
The japanese jugglers in Boston were
shown trick, the other night, when their
rooms at the hotel were broken open and
robbed of $3.50 in gold ~ g
Three weeks ago woman left trunk
in store in Providence, which she did not
call for. On opening it, the dead body OF
a child was found in it.
On the 18TH. sail boat containing
eight persons capsized on the Passaic river,
naaY orb I hfc
FFench lady and, two children, were
- "A K5nthdcky dentist extracted eighty
seven patients on a recent court day. That
isfwhat Mrs. Darlington might call dis
tracing story.
"A vote of the citizens of Vineland,
Cumberland county, n. j., was recently
taken on the proposition to license the sale
of intoxicating drinks, resulting in a unan-
imous verdict against license.
AN inquisitive urchin at Pittsfeld,
Mass, while reclting lesson the other day
from ,Christ's sermon on, the mount, broke
out. q Mother, did Jesus Christ getstwo
thousand dollars ayear for preaehings" y
/ "A young fool, named Allen, employed
in the Atlantic Iron Work, in Norfolk,
Va, nearly lost his life few days since
by the explosion of a shell, into the
fuse hole of which he had thrust redhot
wire.
"A few days ago, verdant youth, with
his blushing bride, arrived at fashionable
hotel in New York. The head of the fam
lily Immediately registered his name as Mr..
c. L. and lady, Vermont, on 5rj-
ddE t0aCer"
The vigorous blowing of the steam
whistle upon North river steamboat, the
other day, attracted a swarm of bees, which
alighted on the end of board, which was
sawed off, and the whole swarm transferred
to tight box.
The sharper who sells greenbacks at a
discount, and then sell jewelry and refunds
the money, and then sells lot at 80
apiece, and then flights out" has been
operating in Goshen, and took in the folks
beautifully.
in Newcastle, Del, recently colored
man who had killed his brother in drunk
en- rage was publicly pilloried, then whipped
with sixty lashes forced to pay fine of
$4,000, and then taken to prison to be con-
fined for life
"A gentleman, who was relating an &C
cident he had met with in Cambridge from
a fall, was asked by a surgeon if 1t was
near the vertebr@ that he had been hurt
" No, sir, was the reply, 1T was near the
observatory"
= a man and. his wife in North Brook
field, Mass, have been caught in cutting
the hair from their nelghbors cows tails,
for hair to sell to the tin peddlers The
good people of that town think it rather
mean, especially as fly-time is at hand, +.
"A man engaged in blasting in Summit
county, Ohio, had an iron tube three feet
long, blown into his head, where it became
firmly imbedded 1t entered the forehead
and passed through-th back of the head, a
foot of the tube protruding from each side.
He is yet alive. E -
James Brown, aged eight years, while
fishing in the river at Poughkeepsie, few
days since, was dragged into the water and
drowned. 1--WE hen found his hands still
elasped the fish pole, while upon the hook
was huge eel, which had probably
dragged the little fellow overheard. ..
An exchange says that the cost of
prosecuting Lindsey, the child whipper,
was $4,000 Now as his fine was only
$3.50, it is suggested that it would have
r,een cheaper and better for the county to
have paid him the 1850 and saved the
farce of a GflaI
"A man famed August Beck was suffo-
Gated by the heavy gas in deep well in
East BROOKLYN, Yesterday. Simon Groes-
beck and August Richie, who attempted
to save him, were also suttocated. Anoth-
CIR man, named Reuben Barley, escaped
With his life Groesbeck and Richie each
leave wife.
10 The immense herds of cattle that now
roam at will through the wilds of Florida
and Georgia, are proving serious lncon'
venlence to the railroad trains Scarcely
atrain runs at night without more or less
destruction of stock, and not unfrequently
half dozen at a time are hurled from the
track and destroyed. NAI4L 'I45 IL
"A young lady who had been anguish
ing for several years in ST. Louis under
mysterious disease which baffied the skill
Of the most eminent physicians, it has been
ascertained by dentist, was dying from a
slow poison distilled through the system
by the amalgam with which two of her
teeth had been filled. ai,,a,,t ...,-,-
On the plantation OF Mr. w G. Tur-
ner, of Adams county, Miss, Friday week |,
Colwell Voss, formerly of the 9th colored
infantry, was struck by lightning and
killed He had steel hoe on his shoulder
and was conversing with Mr.. Tur-
ner His hair was set on fire, and Mr.
| Turner burned his hands in extinguish-
ing it.
The Meriden Visitor tells of suicide