Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-30

geological situation of the strata of Nulla-
berg ; infiltration was impossible. The in
ference to be deduced was that the crystal
line stratifed rocks of Scandinavia were
formed when there existed animated crea-
lures, but at time long anterior to the PEE
period when life is supposed to have first
existed on the earth.
Domestic Paragraphs.
Several of the refineries on Oil Creek
are about to start up again. t;.rrp /
"A New York ferry company have on
hand 725, 600 one-cent pieces.
There are fifteen new oil wells going
down in the vicinity>Of Pithole. CT -
People have walked, in Georgia, twen-
ty miles for peck of corn meal. So
Filming for cruelty to animals is be-
coming quite common in New York city.
"A Vicksburg paper says :: " Ristori is
a simultaneously stupendicular tragedist"
They charge $14 day for board IN a
Colorado town, and $40 for board and
lodgings. O. # 80
Paper race boats are the latest novelty.
They weigh only thirty pounds, and are
quite safe. - 49, go. - --- --
"A broadside gun carriage worked by
steam has been adopted by the Ordnance
Bureau of the navy.
3 There were II 1928 births, 4,97S mar
rIages, 4S6 divorces, and Z, $50 deaths in
Connecticut last year.
There is a lady in Saginaw, Mich, only
81 years Of age, who has given birth to
sixteen children at eight births.
The New York street cars carried
93,907,682 passengers in 1866, an increase
of II ,635, $50 over the previous year.
"A Minnesota man realized from his
wheat crop last year more than twice the
amount paid for his farm the year before.
The Oswego IN. " starch manufac-
tory employs $500 operatives, and will pro-
duce 12,000,0 900 pounds of starch this year.
"A widow in Erie, Pa, advertlses a
grand hop" with which to procure funds
to defray the expenses Of burying her hus-
band. ,e,r ,...- -,a.-
Mrs James Cox, residing in Chicago,
presented her husband on tine 18th with
male May-hower weighing only seventeen
pounds. . @ 1 .yf11I tTe-
The largest woman in Maine, is Miss
Sylvia Hardy, of Wilton, who is seven
fifty pounds
Twelve thousand eight hundred and
twenty six steerage passengers have arrived
at New York since the LIST inst, from
European ports. h@ n
ladies promise that if they are
allowed to vote they will elect their candi-
dates by "thandsome as well as sweep
ing" majorities. %
Temperance has promising children !;
but Drunkenness has a scaly family; we
have seen among his sons, Debt, Dishonor,
Disease and Death. 81
"A Cleveland paper says there is man
in that neighborhood so mean that he sits
on the door-steps of the church Sundaysto
save the wear of his pew cushions.
-Firecrackers are tabooed. A little boy,
SIX years old, burned some the other day in
Chicago, and was fined two dollars for it.
Other little boys will take warning.
I'm Lowell, the other night, two rival
traders kept their stores open and goods
hanging out all night, each having deter
mined not to close until the other had.
The Fairbanks, the original inventors
of platform scales, although no longer pro-
tccted by patents, melt up in their manu-
facture over thirteen tons of iron per day.
"A man named Bible has just been sem
fenced to a three years term i'll the Western
i ennsy lvania Penitentiary for stealing
watch and coat His good name couldn't
save him. -.
The richest member of the Connecticut
Senate is said to be an Irishman who
bought farm in Pennsylvania for $4,000
just before thepetroleum excitement began.
He is said to be worth So, 800, 900 now.
The meanest man we have heard of is
that one at Northampton, Mass, who sued
his brother the other day for $40 for the
board of himself and wife during visit
which they paid him three years ago, when
first married.
"A farmer in Saratoga County, N. Y,
has lifted a barrel containing one hundred
and forty-five pounds of sugar with his
teeth, after which he offered to bet S25 that
he could lift it with twenty-eight pounds
more in it. = tsiiH,ts6 z
AT fashionable wedding at Norfolk,
Va, last week, the bridal presents were
valued at $4,000. Among them were a
$4,000 roll of greenbacks, two sets of dia-
monds, a camel's hair shawl and large guam
titles of silver plate.
The Independent, referring to the fall
in rents in Broadway and other large bust
ness streets of New York, says the owner
of second story, who last year received
$4,000, but for the next asked $4,000, has
been glad to take $1,000. .q
.a A young lady has just drawn S93.16
from the Haverhill Savings Bank, being
the accumulation of deposit of $12 which
was made in her favor thirty years ago, by
a lady, to purchase a bridal dress on the
occasion of her marriage. a z
The La Crosse Republican afirms that
the steamers of Dayidson's :" Lightning
Line" between La Crosse and ST. Paul, get
into ST. Paul every day an hour or more
ahead Of the cars, which leave Wlnona at
the same time the boats leave.l
"a Boston paper says that the BARRIERS
in that city are discussing the question
whether it will be lawful to finish shaving
a customer after midnight on Saturday
night. The half shaved individual would
await the decision with interest.
The latest invention in the billiard line
is table eight feet wide and fourteen feet
long. The size is immense, the proportions
odd, yet the table has that peculiar merit
usually expressed by the trite phrase" It's
as fair for one player as the other"
"A man in Montgomery, Vermont. lost
his wife by death on the 18th of March,
and on the LIST of April married again.
After the notice of the marriage In the
local paper, he had the suggestive saying
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