Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25

| the MOnOngauela river pdChclS, was rODDeu
of $4,000, on the 9th inst, and reward
Eof 81, 5e0is offered A M = "a
/ Two mammothg tape worms, one 100
| feet and another rs feet in length, were
taken from the person of Mrs. Catharine
Roual, in South Troy, New York, on Tues
day, by Drs. Lyon and Stearns.
On the 9th inst, at Keokuk, Iowa, a
laborer, named Patrick Morrissey, while
dining under abank which he was'engaged
in excavating, was instantly killed by the
caying in of the earth. He leaves wife
and six children.
One Richmond gentleman recently
challenged another, and the challenge was
accepted. There was a Miss in the case
| The parties shot at each other, and there
were two misses in that case.
An exchange says an acquaintance
of ours a mother, too, not long since was
Elamenting the loss of a child, Zone of a
family of eight) because said she, there
| was Just enough for cotillion, and they
did dance so prettily,"
&C. W. Bullock, the Inventor of the
celebrated Bullock printing press, died on
Friday the 18th. A few days. before he
had his leg crushed by some machinery,
and after amputation gradually sunk He
was fifty-six years of age
| One hundred and fifty barrels of coal
oil, ON board two cars on the Pennsylvania
railroad, caught fire near Philadelphia, on
the 4th. The heat of the flames burned the
sleepers and twisted the rails~on the track
for more than one hundred yarlls.L4-
| In Portland, last Friday, workman
engaged in blasting rocks peeped round
| the corner. of the Cascoy Bank building to
! see if Ia charge was going off and RECEIVED
mouthful Of stones by way Of informa-
ton The principal damage was to his
| teeth.
"A man named Hoppis was brutally
murdered at Anderson, Ind, on the 9th, by
man named White. Hoppis was going to
Whites house to look after some stolen
meat, when w hite met him and smashed in
his skull. The murderer and his father-in-
law are under arrest. IA -
General Miner T. Thomas, who enlist
ed in the list Minnesota regiment, and was
in twenty battles without receiving harm,
recently fell from the trestle of a bridge on
the Pacific Railroad, and broke both arms.
1t is feared that the amputation of one of
them viii be necessary.
l. John Quick, of Oxford Township,
jersey recently tabscOnded with some
| $50, 900, obtained under an alleged endorse
cment of his father, from the Washington
| and Belvidere banks and private citizens.
The father overcome by the sons rascality
| committed suicide. nh lgI9a M doiiD
There have been five murders near
Pottsville, Penn, within the last two
months, besides number Of murderOusas-
saults, and twenty-seven robberies. The
! citizens threaten to break up the Molly.
I Maguires 1.-THE perpetrators of these
crimes-by lynch law.
[ "A notorious hotel thief named John
Adams, alias Bats, was last week arrested
by the Memphis (Tenn,) police, and pa.
raded through the streets with a placard'
| on his back on which were printed the
words, "Thief and Pickpocket." He
seemed to take it as a good joke. ~
Two little girls, daughters of Frederick
McCutcheon and Lewis Cottle, of Franklin,
Ohio, were playing in lumber yard, Sun
day, 18th, and as is supposed, in attempting
to climb up on pile of lumber, pulled it
over on them, crushing them beneath its
| weight When found, life was extinct in
both.
One Payne, going from Dunleith, ILL.,,
recently, to his home on farm four miles
away, came to a swollen creek, unsafe to
cross, and attempting, it is supposed. to
climb through the schoOl-hOuse to sleep
there, cut the main artery in his arm and
bled to death on the spot He was intoxi-
| Gated.
ALL must admire the gallant act of
| Colonel johnson, of Texas, who, while en-
| deavoring to save $4,000 in gold which he
had on the Inflated Alabama, was appealed
to for assistance by an aged lady, perfect
stranger to him. He gave up, at once, all
thought of the money, and carried the lady
| ashore, and was unable to return to the
| boat.
| Two miners were blown TO pieces, one
day last week, by the premature discharge
| of blast in Shotwell's mines, near Casey
VILE KY. The other miners, enraged at
the carelessness of the man firing it, seized
him and locked him in the powder house,
declaring their purpose to hang him that
they have done So
| The st. Cloud CMinn.) Journal relates
the following item Among the bills pre-
sented at the last meeting of the County
Board was that of woman who had been
allowed to purchase articles OF absolute
necessity to the amount of twenty dollars
on account of the poor fund. Sandwiched
in with the items of -four, pork and molas-
ses, was a pair Of hoops" NTKl~.
in SAdraine county, Mo-, last week, a
stranger was found totally blind, he having
with a stick put out both his eyes. He
appeared to be rational when found, but
/ said he was insane when he did it. He
seemed disposed to be non-committal about
his residence or nativity, limiting at a love
affair that did not run very smoothly as the
cause of his temporary insanity.
H. "A Maine paper says that a baby was
recently carried eff oOn. train and the
mother accidently left behind. The woman
was put on spare engine at hand, which
overlook the flying train, shackled on to
the rear, the woman passed over the tender
to the car without the train being stopped
land mother and baby were all right. OF
course they were, as neither was left! :
"A story is told of a man, at Hornells
, vile, N. Y, lately eating at single mea
one large square pie-tin heaping full O.
/ cold beef and potatoes, twenty four raised
biscuits, cut with a tea-cup, two pounds o
cheese, two pounds Of honey, two pounds
crackers one pound butter, two dozen her
rings, six cookies, one mince pie, one glass
, brandy AS matter Of choice, we woult
rather board that chap week than fort
night. .YTxJ00 EHl9I.EL
. "A fatal disease, termed menengitis, ha
prevailed for some time past in severa
places on Long Island 1t attacks persons
e in robust health, and is generally fatal III
: forty-eight hours The membrane of tn
brain and spinal cord are infamed, and tn
whole muscular system is subjected .