Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-13

Paper neckties are becoming fashion,
able 80 Ave atsiq 49, ~.
Cincinnati has operative furniture
mandatory with capital OF $2,Ooo,oOO.
1t is estimated that one and a half bill
lion of dollars are employed as railroad
capital in the United States.
Coal was never cheaper in gold than
it is now in currency. 1t sold recently in
New York at 1925 per ton at auction.
The Good Templars propose giving a
"more serious character to their meet
ings, and dancing has been prohibited.
One result of the war is that Wash
ington contains nearly double the pOpula-
ton it had in 1860, and the business is
twice as large.
In no other country in the world is
there anything like the great proportion OF
property destroyed by fire That there is in
the United States. ,,tFgrisqg
"A Leeds 1Maine) man named Stinch-
field recently sold horse in California
for $4,000. The horse was raised IN
Maine and can: trot mile in 215 every
time.
The, Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have Just given Buffalo house an
order for three million envelopes. Once
beforea Buffalo firm received an order from
the same company for five millions Z
DIR. Hedges has published m article
four columns long, on shydrophobia and
saws that if the wound is excfsed within
hour after affliction and nitrate of silver
applied it prevents the disease e
The Scientific AnaericGn computes that
if we are.not more economical, our supply
of anthracite coal will be exhausted in one
hundred and eighty years The present
stock on hand is eighteen billion tons
The American shipping interest is
reviving fast since the war. The number
of American vessels has Increased two
thousand in two years, and that of foreign
vessels in oui: trade has correspo ndingly
decreased. Ia !" eyS'e' = "
A Southern correspondent writes that
this year negro women have almost entire
ly withdrawn from working in the field.
In the DAYS of slavery they constituted
fully one half of the field force in the light
labor cuitures
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-
factre, the company has twenty million
dollars capital.
Mayor Smith, of Boston, introduced
SQUIRRELS into the Boston Common. The
animals first drove way the 'birns,i which
formerly destroyed the worms and then
girdled many Of the trees, WHICH have had
10 he cuff down q y = - ~
The statement Of the United States
Treasurertof May shows,a DECREASE ptfsfiye
million dollars in the national dept during
that month. The amount of currency IN
the Treasury has increased $3S, 900, 600
and. the coin has decreased $l5,000,O0O.
III Robert Henry Hendershot, wei
known as the drummer Boy of the Rap
pahannocI,"' elopcd with1s a merchant'
daughter from Poughkeepsie, N. Y, OF
Friday, May 81 They were married a
Newburgh They are each nineteen years
-lThe Quantity of oysters brought tc
Baltimore in a single season is fully
100000 bushels. Some of these art
hacked raw in cans, iced, one gallon il
Size. recurring about ,250,000 cans ant
100000 cases. The balance of then
say 100000 bushels, are Theoretically
wRichmond papers state that the Viz
ginia Central Railway will be completed
to Coyington by July 1st. The iron i
purchased, and the work of laying tn'
track has been commenced. The compile
ton of the road to Covington leaves only
twenty miles OF staging to the White sui
phur Springs. Jas M
AN immense consolidation of railroad
interests has taken place, by which tn,
Pennsylvania Central is to be EXTENDED
virtually, from Pittsburgh to the state lint
of Illinois, by way of Steubenville, IColum
bus, Union City, and Logansport. Thu
new road is to be called Pittsburgh, Indi
ana & Mississippi Railroad Company" Til,
,,nnnnct rllcted paD To Peoria is ah0Ilf ION
miles between Logansport and Union city
and this, it is said, will be completed by
October.