Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-04

Establishment, and said, g How do you do,
Mr.. Phelan?" The latter returned the
greeting, but it was still evident that he
did not recognize his visitor. The General
then said, ~ see you have forgotten me,
Mr.. Phelan," adding with his characteristic
modesty, 81 used to play billiards in your
rooms in San Francisco. At that time they
called me Capt Grant, and now they call
me Ge1eraln The surprise and gratifica-
ton of the billiardist may be imagined,
and need notJbe described. - ~
Domestic Paragraphs.
The Americans are the thinnest of all
the European races.
There were III divorces granted in one
county in Indiana last year. yry, q
The New York Eoening Gazette says
the Astor House is to be given up as a
hotel and devoted to stores and offices.
Good Friday. this year, comes on the
10Th, and Easter Sunday on the 21st OF
April, until which time Lent continues.
The sale of theslate Senator Wrights
paintings, made at the Leeds Art Gallery,
New York, Melted over fifty thousand dol
lars.
u One hundred and forty tons of ice are
reckoned to be stored in the ice-houses OF
Chicago. That city is great on ice and
wate~.
Six hundred thousand dead letters, in
closing 100000 In drafts, were destroyed
last year. The drafts were sent to their
owners.
AT late term of the Clay County,
Ind, Circuit Court, some young gentlemen
were fined S. each for laughing and whis-
pering in church.
A man at Seneca Falls, N. Y, has a
piece of linen three thousand years old. 1t
has never been washed. He hasn't worn it
all this time, however.
Barlow Jennings, of Danbury, Ct,
owns cane which one of his ancestors
brought to this country two hundred and
twenty eight years ago.
The road over the Sierra Nevada, be
tween Nevada and California, is entirely
blocked up with snow. At the Golden
Eagle mine 1t was ~ feet deep. Old
The Bentonsport 0owa) Signal says
that one druggist in that village has sold
over three hundred gallons Of whisky in
two months. What sickly town!
The report as to the filling up of Dutch
Gap Canal is untrue, and the Richmond
(Va) City Council are considering the ad-
visibility of improving it so as to make il
navigable.
"A Vermont man recently bought TWEEN
ty-six railroad tickets, intending to take his
wife and twenty-four children to the west.
among the two dozen are eleven pairs OF
twins-all boys
Rev. Stewart Dodge, son of William
E. Dodge, ESQ.,, of New York, has gone to
Beirut, Syria, to take part in the manage
ment of the new college started there 10y
American generosity.
John Stewartson, of Hamburg, Ere
mont county, Iowa, was arrested few days
since on the requisition of the Governor of
Illinois. Reason-he has one wife in Illinois
and another in Iowa.
JEFF. Davis plantation, with that of
his brother Joe, have been sold to former
slave of Jeff's for $400,000 on ten years
lease, and the colored man, it is said, will
make $4,000 this year, urE vcE g
"A temperance meeting was held in the
Washington Jail on the Oath, which nearly
all the prisoners attended. Surratt and
Sanford Conover refused to appear. About
half the prisoners signed the pledge. y.
. The New York State census of 1865
shows that in that State there arc now two
families of thirteen children living together,
two of fourteen, two of sixteen, one of
nineteen, and three of twenty-one
Over 800 miles of railroad are now
completed and in use in Kansas. The
number of newspaper is twelve dailies and
forty-three weeklies Two of the dailies
and three of the weeklies are German. 4
AN Attica, n Y. farmer who had re-
fused forty-five cents, sold all his large ac-
emulation of butter in Buffalo, few days
since, at twenty cents Present prospects
indicate still lower prices, rather than
higher. - -.- .-.t... CO..
The California Borax Company ships
2 800 lbs of boraX and upwards every day,
st a cost for all expenses of 800 ton. The
article is said to be worth $500 ton in
the European market, and 5000 in the
American.
In suit about some jelly, the other
day, in New York, it appeared from the
evidence that the strawberry, pine apple
and other jellies were all formed out of
apple jelly colored to suit the name and
favored with essences. X1-
The oldest of all oddities, q "linen
recently took place at the house
of Mr.. George Benedict, at Rome, N. Y,
the twentieth anniversary of the parties
most concerned Linen presents from
" unmentionables down to night caps
abounded in great profusion.
The Gazette reports that a man living
near GAINESVILLE Wis in talking few days
Since about trichin@, said that he had
Tod thrN fn,,f &, l,,+
killing them, thought the meat did not look
right, and concluded not to use them in his
own family, but had taken them to town
and sold them. { rFfN NfFFE Z
The New York Times says: awe
have never known oranges to be more
superintendent than during the last month.
Being plentiful, they have also been cheap.
The travelling street vendors have sold good
ones for twenty-five cents a dozen, while a
half dime would secure one fit for Prince.
and the little ragamuffin could obtain sat-
isfactory specimens for nickel penny
apiece. 7vE
MIR. Pitt Hoard, of Watertown, N. Y,
at recent session of the Supreme Court,
brought case against T. F. Peck, drug
gist, of that place. for selling to his wife,
unbeknown to him, laudanum to the
amount of from four to sixteen ounces q
day. 1t was shown that Mrs Hoard used 1t
as a beverage, thereby injuring her health.
The prosecution was conducted by Hon.
II. s. Hammond, defended by F. w Hub
bard and A. B. Moore. A verdict of $500
damages in favor of the plaintiff was rem
deTed.
The other day, at Toledo, Ohio, a cat
tie dealer received pay for a steer which he
had sold to butcher, and rolling the green.
backs into small wad, put them into his
tobacco box Shortly after, he extracted,