Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-04
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.
rIiscelIancous items.


in Milwaukee.
"A class in washing is department
in the Bordentown, New Jersey Female
College
Commodore Vanderbilt is going heav-
lily into the iron business In Nelson county,
Virginia. y ~
Women do all the work in Peru, and
the men are worthless set of gamblers
and thieves.
1t is said Sonora has eight women in
the population to one man. Counting
ought to be easy down there.
"a man by the name of Merritt T..
Money killed forty one rattlesnakes in one
day last week near Keosauqua, Iowa.
An opium eater at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, killed himself suddenly the other
day by taking an overdose of the p oppy.
Rev. David G. Page, D. D., resigns the
rectorship of Christ Church, Allegheny
City, Pa, on account of old age and falling
health.
Prof DeMill, of Dalhousie College,
Halifax, N. s., is said to be the author of
the Dodge Club 2 papers, in Harper's
Monthly. .risova,t.g.. .,s ,,,n,.., st4t
i. "A railway has been proposed between
Calcutta and Dariealing, and the scheme
is approved by the Bengal and India GOV
ernnents. s'ru}eg ;ffaV ieqasls
Z The lake trade of the West will amount
in 1870, to ST. ,O00, 100000. Sixty years ago
there was not a craft on any Of the lakes
larger than q canoe az 't',s a
George Armour, Esq, of Chicago,
proposes to donate $4,000 per annum for
Roo Cr ho IF IN bro Af
the Young Mems Christian Association.
The Philadelphia Ledger tells of a
school teacher who makes the reading OF
newspaper regular exercise of the
school, and says the scholars like 1t greatly.
"A giant potato in the Paris Exposi-
ton weighs fifteen pounds. 1t Is in the
form of a barrel, and il excavated would
hold five quarts of water. No small po-
tato that. 'tHs%f Le'rf7t .d2af r..
u The Union Pacific Railway Company s
artesian well at Julesburg has reached a
depth of five hundred and fifty-two feet,
and Is going down at the rate of thirty
feet per day. " Ha5 15{ .ia
There are nearly two dozen political
Journals now published in Paris, and the
Figaro lately affirmed that nineteen Others
have been authorized by the Government,
which have not yet made their appear
anCe. .0 II o..t
The steamer Dean Richmond, which
collided with the c. Vanderbilt on the Hud-
son river, at Rondout, sixty miles below
Albany, was one OF the finest steamers In
America, and what Is termed four story
boat She cost abont 100000
The French are engaged in getting up
a new expedition for the purpose of Arctic
exploration, under the direction of M.
Lambert. The estimated expense is $780,
600, large portion of which has already
been subscribed. The Emperor has given
$4,000.
An arrival at New Bedford from Hud-
sop Bay brings news from Mr.. Hall, the
Arctic explorer, who was at Repulse Bay,
where he has remained for about two
years. A year ago last winter he made a
Journey to Pelia, Bay, about one hundred
and eighty miles north. @"'
Small Mirrors, it is announced, are
placed outside the windows of the private
houses in Brussels and other German cities,
by means of which the lady inmates are
able to see without looking out, those pass
ing by In the street below, the figures be-
ing reflected In the glass. a,ob '1e,5
1t Is reported that the War Depart
ment will soon issue an order directing
the establishment OF q school for artil
lery practice at Fortress Monroe. There
was such aschool before the war. Wheth-
er similar schools will be established at
other points also, it not fully determined.
An exchange says: 1.-THE common
belief that the fashions in ladies dress or
tntn 70 with .,f
Paris Ia an error Not only do the styles
not originate with the women, but they do
not all originate In Paris. The astistes at
the bazaar at Berlin are credited with the
most of these inventions"
Two companies of troops under Gen,
Jefferion @. Davis, sailed from San Fran
cisco for Sitka (Alaska) yesterday A
number of mechanics and laborers accom-
panied the troops. Among the passengers
on the same vessel was Henry Baller, agent
of San Francisco company which has
purchased all the right, title and interest
of the Russian Fur Company for six hun
dred thousand dollars.
f The st. Louis and Illinois Bridge Co.
has accepted the proposals of James An
drews, Of Pittsburgh, for the entire stone
work of their bridge. The contract will
amount to over three-quarters of million
of dollars, and is to be completed by De-
cember of 1869 1t should be stated that
this Is the bridge at Washington avenue,
and not the one contemplated by Chicago
parties owning another charter
There is not in the whole of Switzer-
land toll gate. The government forbids
by law anything which may tend to inter-
rupt or interfere with travel in or between
the different cantons The magnificent
public roads which one finds everywhere
throughout the country are kept in order
at the expense of the cantons through
which they run, the federal authorities
having each paid, however, at the construc-
ton. one half of the expense. 4
Australia Ia not alone in It's super
abundance of sheep, for at Hawkes. Bay,
says q New Zealand paper, the settlers
have under their serious consideration the
question Of how to dispose of 10000 to
100, 900 sheep per annum. III they "boil
them down 2 they will realize profit of
six shillings per head, This is their only
alternative. Their flocks are increasing,
and the old sheep must make way for the
new. r4oa. tf4sg
The PRESBYTERIAN gives an account of
3 member of "a Presbyterian church in
Ohio, who was suspended for having
Joined the Masonic order, He appealed to
the Presbytery, which sustained the appeal
by vote of fifteen to ten, and restored
The party appealing TO the communion of
The Church. The Presbytery, however,
passed resolution that their action was
not to be construed as expressing approba-
lion of the Order of Masons or any other
secret society a .t. -