Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-06
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VI WllCu IC says. l.
can, at distance of 1000 metres, en-
velope an army of 100000 men in a sea of
flame within less than five minutes. If a
town has to be taken by assault, j have no
need ola Rotopschine, asI can sset it on
fire in very nearly the same period. In a
naval battle, would run into the enemy,
and in fifteen seconds cover all The deck of
the vessel with a torrent of flame which
would blrn the rigging, penetrate between
the decks, and instantaneously stife all the
crew. In an attack on seaport, l could
burn the town and arsenals within range
with the rapidity OF lightning
Religious and Educational.
Last year, in New York, only one Jew
was converted, at a cost of $7251O.
"A public meeting has been called
IN Springfield, Mass, to take steps to-
ward SURPRISING cruelty in the public
schools
About fifty northern capitalists, among
whom is Fernando Wood, have purchased
10000 acres of land in southwestern
Virginia, and will go into the iron manu-
facture, the company has. twenty million
dollars capital '-''
The great question of the day in Cam
bridge still is, "Should girls be whipped in
our public schools ?" The last eruption on
the surface of this controversy was the
publication of note which shows that
whipping has been generally abolished in
the schools of France, Prussia, Holland and
Germany.
There will be a great gathering of
Catholic prelates at Rome, on the Goth of
June, to celebrate the eighteen hundreth
anniversary of the martyrdom of st. Peter.
Quite party of priests sailed from New
York for Europe recently, many of them
bearing rich presents for the pope, and
money to relieve his present difficulties.
AT meeting of the pastors and dele
gates from. the Congregational churches in
New Y ork, Brooklyn and Philadelphia,
recently held at Newark, resolutions look
ing to the establishment of a new religious
weekly IN place Of the Independent were
adopted unanimously, and committee was
appointed to aid its advancement.
Some time ago Isaac Cromie, very
wealthy citizen of Louisville, made a will
bequeathing about 100000 to benevo-
lent institution in New York "A Catho-
lie and an Episcopal association of the
same name claimed the ,bequest. After
considerable litigation, Chancellor Pier
tie yesterday awarded the fund to the
Catholics. n
"A farmer in New York willed his
daughter four thousand dollars on condi-
ton that she would marry Catholic cler-
gyman. AS Catholic clergymen do not
marry, the daughter endeavors to break the
will. The defense is that the old man didn't
mean she should have any of the property,
and took this way of saying so.
d.. Brown Sequird, an eminent phys
iologist and physician to one of the Paris
ian hospitals, recomme ends the use of the
swing as a preventive of nervous attacks
which recur periodically. In certain cases
of hysferia and epilepsy he has prevented
the coming on of the fit by engaging. his
patient in violent swinging at the first in
dication of its approach.
(. "A second Mr. Creakle, who was turned
out of school at the west by half dozen
Of his big scholars, thus writes to his
brother, who is on visit to New England
=" BROTHER JM-Will you take the first
train that starts for Connecticut and see if
you can't find some of them fellers that's
death on Intentions. l want a fogg5ng- ma
chine got UP that will lick a whole school
at time. Some of them nutmeg coveys,'
can do it if they will only try. ! think
that something like drum, revolving at
the rate of seventeen thousand times a
minute, covered all over with lashes, with
nine sharks teeth at the end of each lash,
would give 'em fits, and no mistake. AT
any rate set some of them ere Connecticut
chaps to work on it" 4