Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-09

ery of the continent, and fight it out on
that line with the Royal Society of Co
penhagen. The Chinese will doubtless
send over Prof Ching-a-llng- ching-a-
ling -chum-chi to look after Mongo-
| liam inscriptions on the sandstone OF Col
umbia.
"A native of Australia, Mr.. j. E. Ev-
ans, recently gave an exhibition OF remark
able strength, at the Spa Hotel, In Ches-
terrified, England, to establish his claims as
the strongest man in the world. lie held
a fifty.six pound weight in various posi-
lions, at arms length, and increased the
number until he raised four ffty-slx pound
weights above his head, holding them at
arms length, and, at the same Tune, stand
ing upon four tumbler glasses. lie also
held the weights on the top OF the glass,
and allowed glass of water 10 DE paced
upon the top of the weights. lie lad hat
upon the floor, and let tltty-six pound
i weight fall distance OF about yard on
| his bare chest, and the weight rebounded
as though it had come in contact with a
piece of India-rubber A piece OF stone,
| four inches thick, was next placed upon his
chest, and Mr.. Hinch, blacksmith, smashed
it with two blows into fragments: MIR.
Hinch and Mr.. Turner then cut piece OF
| tWo-inch iron in two across his chest with
the hammer and chisel. The feats conclu
ded by Professor Hercules lying Hat upon
the floor, and allowing Mr.. Hinch to strike
4 him, with all his strength, with sixteen
pound sledge hammer The blow was met
by the Professor, and the hammer re-
bounded without leaving scratch upon
his BODY 1-g4
Incidents and Accidents.
"A young man named Bowen has been
arrested in Brooklyn, charged with forging
his fathers check for $4,000. -
"A child of Mr.. Casey, of Madison,
Wis, eighteen months old, fell headfore-
most, into boiler of water, and there died
| before discovered.
"A few days ago at the Salt Lime
| Works at Clitherto, England, two tons of
| gunpowder were, used at one blast, displac-
ing 10000 tons of stone.
-Ossian E. Dodge had just driven off
the bridge which spans the Mississippi at
Minneapolis, with party of ladies, when
| it was carried away by the high water. :
| IN Trey, New York,5a lady stumbled
on the walk and, in falling, the point of
her parasol penetrated her right eye, caus-
ing a wound which destroys the eye for
life. @T -
"A Hollander named VangDer Linden,
living near Pella, Iowa, was standing in
front of his reaper, on the 23d, when his
horses started, cutting one leg off, clean, at
the ankle!rY
AT Plattsburgh, New York, July 81, a
lady, named Ellen Kirk, was instantly
killed by her dress catching on coupling
of the main shaft of Gregory & Cos. wool
len mills.
Newton s. Parker, of Osaukee, Mr.
Chandler, of Sank Centre, and Robert
Watson, of Getty township, were drowned
a few days ago in attempting to cross the
Sank River. '0t
Mrs. Salome Wheeler, of Halifax, VT,
drowned herself in a mill-pond a few days
ago. She was widow, &c years old, in
independent pecuniary circumstances and
woman of lovely character.
Rev. Robert G. Chase, of Philadelphia,
lately drowned with his wife and six others
in pleasure party at Mount Desert Island,
Maine, had an insurance of $11 900 on his
life, policy of $4,000 being a gift of his
vestry.
Three men in Texas were convicted of
murder and sentenced to be hanged within
a month unless they produced the alleged
victim alive and well before the expiration
OF that time. Fortunately they were sue
cessful.
Mrs. Smith, of Boone county, Iowa
raised and picked, with her own hands,
this season, 200 quarts of good marketable
strawberries, from a piece of ground nine
feet by Twenty-Five, being q few feet less
than rod square. She calls them the
"Black Prince" Who can beat this?
One of the Towards, the American
gymnasts, while going through perform
ance in the Casino, at Marseilles, made a
spring with the intention of clasping his
brother around the body, but missed his
grasp, and fell from an immense height
into the orchestra. Although seriously
bruised, he was not killed.
The editor of the Effingham Oily
Uaei0nSst makes the following valedictory
in plaintive good faith: With this num-
Der closes our connection with the Union
sst. Our expenses per week are about $15,
whereas our average income does not ex-
coed three or four dollars per week. 1t
would take rich man to publish paper
at this rate"
Two ladies of Clarion, Pa, went to the
woods to gather moss, and while walking
along were startled by a shrill scream of
some unseen and unknown animals. The
sound came nearer and the ladies fled, but
soon found the animals close upon them
so near, in fact, that they were plainly seen
and found to be wild cats. The savage
creatures continued to follow and the Ia
dies to run until near the borough limits.
AT Ravenna, Ohio, a daygor1two since,
while lady was working in her flower gar
den, near her house, an owl suddenly dart
ed down and alighted on her head, insert
ing his claws into her scalp, and causing
the blood to flow freely over her person!
The lady being badly frightened, screamed,
and her son running to her assistance,
found her struggling to detach the claws
from her head, which she finally succeeded
in doing. -,....-..s Il
In Alleghan county, Michigan, a few
nights since, as we learn from the Paw
Paw True Nortlterner, a newly married
couple concluded to try sleeping on the
hay NOW in their barn (probably de-
string to enjoy early the aayday of mar
ried life). During the night three men
came to the barn for the halters, designing
to run off the horses belonging ON the
place, but the appearance of the happy
couple Disconnected their plans, and they
beat hasty retreat.
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