Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-26

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| ago Some of the farmers of the region
| failed to profit by the fever that ragged all
| over the country. Near Pit Hole there is
| a farm. the owner of which refused $780,
600 for it. while to-day the same farm,
| farm house and all could not bring $4,000
Incidents and Accidents.
"A young wife in Indiana, aged sixteen,
| las lust presented her husband, aged eight
cen, with three bouncing boys. AZ
| The principal attraction at Union
Park, Allegheny City, Pa, on Saturday,
was the erial wedding and bridal excur
sion. Over thousand persons were pre-
| sent.
| Mrs Margaret Grant, Staten Island,
N Y. has been arrested, charged with
| nOisoning two farm hands named McClos-
| kew and Dougherty, and an aged lady, all
| of whom died.
Two men in Paris, ILL.,, who periled
| their lives to rescue g. drowning woman
who had leaped from the bridge, were saw
agely abused by her sisters that they did
| not let her drown.
| A South Carolina negro was struck by
! a locomotive and thrown fifteen feet into
the air. falling back on the boiler. When
the train was stopped, he complained that
| the boiler was uncomfortably hot, de-
| scended and walked off,
"A lady in East Brooklyn, N. Y, lost
some nice Valenciennes lace, and looked
with suspicion upon servant girl. Short
LILY Afterwards she found neat birds nest
in her garden, fabricated principally of her
lost Valenciennes lace.
| -" MY friend, don't you know that it is
very dangerous to take nap while the
cars are in motion?"
| "Why no!' exclaims astonished indiyld-
| ual suddenly waking up, "why SOP"
| because this train runs over sleepers."
The editor of the Charlottesville (Fa.)
i Chronicle, says he slept in q room with a
| farmer the other night, who kept such q
a grunting, that he asked him whether he
| had the toothache. "No," he said, "but
he was afraid the wheat would rust"
The Fourth of July was a terrible day
in New York city. according to the papers.
| There were twenty-five fire alarms, and
about thirty men, women, and children
were shot, drowned, or manned in the
cheerful festivities of quiet celebration,
where the use of firearms was prohibited
by law and the police.
| "A young man called at the city clerk s
office at New Bedford, a day or two since,
and asked for " death warrant" The as
founded clerk assured him that he dealt in
no such documents. "Well," said the fell
amounts to the same thing" We hope
that youth will catch tartar.
| "A man at Nahant has obtained ten
| dollars damages against the Eastern Rail-
/ road on the ground of inconvenience
L I>x,o oI,o ha oh IF N
road. It was claimed that sufficient notice
of the change was not given, although
hand-bills declaring the fact had been
| posted two days previous according to
custom.
l The New Orleans pacGyt1ae says /:
I"During the rain storm on Tuesday after
noon, young German woman, while rid
ing in Dryades street car, was suddenly
seized with the premonitory pains OF labor.
The car was hastily cleared and q fine boy
was the result" Inasmuch as it is custo-
mary, when child is born at sea, to give
it the name of the craft, or as near like it
as circumstances will permit it is respect
fully suggested that the boy be called 'Os-
car.
"A terrible accident occurred in Balls
ton, New York, last Wednesday. A lad
named Miller went INTO the field to catch a
horse, and while returning his arm became
entrapped with the halter, when the horse
started and dragged the little fellow round
the field next to the rail fence. The father
was in sight and rushed to the rescue but
when he reached the scene, his boy s
brains were dashed out, the left side of his
face was broken in, and both arms and legs
we're broken. Aa
Sunday afternoon, man stepped into
a street-car in Buffalo, but the moment his
eye rested on policeman he jumped from
the car and ran The officer followed and
arrested him. He begged to be released,
and offered a large pecuniary inducement.
The officer took the man before the Super
intendent, where he again attempted bri-
berry, offering as high as one thousand dol
lars. = All this time no one but himself was
aware that he was a criminal, or would
have suspected him, if his own conscience
had not tortured him into exposure. He
said his name was Lamar G. Scott, OF New
York, and, In response to telegraph, it
was ascertained that he was forger who
had disappeared from that city.
About a fortnight ago two telegraph
wires on the New York Central Railroad
began to act very unreasonably. At ten
o'clock in the morning they would "strike
work." and resume at four in the afternoon.
A careful examination of the line produced
no result. The superintendent himself
looked into the matter, and saw nothing.
1t was a complete puzzle. An old Albany
operator, however, was more successful.
About sixty miles west of that city he
found point where the wires passed over
the roof of building, almost touching it.
AS the sun rose the wires fell, and at twelve
o'clock they lay snugly together on the tin
roof AS the sun fell, they cooled and rose
and by four o'clock they were in their
proper positions Of course, the trouble
was no sooner explained than rectified.
On the evening of July A, at Niagara
J Falls, Mr.. Benjamin Tyrell, sleepingca
conductor on the Central railroBd, dis
charged gun from the front of his resi-
, dence, and ball, supposed to~be from his
} gun, entered the breast of a child II
months old, which was being held in the
arms of its mother, at distance OF three
hundred yards or more, killing it instantly
: The ball passed through the fieshy part o.
: the mothers arm, causing severe wound
1t is also stated that it made flesh wound
in her body. Mr.. Tyrell gave himself VI
| | to the authorities, but was not held In Gus
+ tody. This gun, it appears, was one left
, at his house some time since by a MAI
named Christy, who is now III Chicago.
Foreign Gossip.
, The sherry wine merchants Of Cadi;
|, have told our consul that +" the stuff sent tt
, the United Ttates was not sherry at all, bu
! slons mood tn xvash ont the tubs and fol