Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-27


and bullion afrons the United States have
amounted to sS670,0O0, 600, while the pro
duction of Australia is estimated at $780,
100000, making total supply from both
sources of $1,420, 100000
Incidents and Accidents.
On Sunday, June 16, there were forty
funerals at one time waiting, in New York
to cross the Brooklyn ferries,
"A waterspout in Cera. Brazil, caused
of high mountain, burying two houses
and every person therein.
-7JacksonsB enhare, who shotasMr. Shep-
herd in franklin county Iowa, last sum
'mer, has been sentenced to'the penitentlary
for four years. He is but seventeen years
of age.
"A, farmer in Delaware county, Ind,
while blowing last week, hung his coat
upon the fence, and an old sow came along,
tore the coat in pieces, and, chewed up q
roll Of greenbacks containing $fTO5.s
In Philadelphia, recently, while some
boys were drinking from a hydrant in front
of a. new building, one, aged, fige years,
was instantly killed by brick thrown by
a workman. The murderer was arrested.
David Clum, of Sand Lake, New York,
assigned all his property to his wife some
months ago. Recently he wanted to COG
cupy and possess" it again, on his own
account, but the partner of his joys refused !;
wherefore he went to his barn and hanged
himself
Geo. W. Riley, of the boston wood
firm Of Riley & Co, was thrown from his
carriage at Ballard Vale, Andover, Mass,
few days ago, and injured so that he lived
but an hour. He was forty five years old,
and had an insurance on his life of thirty
thousand dollars.
=, The Boston -Adoe,t68er says that, the
"blacklegs" invade New England cars to
the inconvenience of quiet travellers. A
clergyman who seated himself in smok-
ing car found it almost impossible to resist
the opportunities of sharper to hazard q
few dollars on "three-card monte"
"A man at Portland, Me-, had his house
robbed recently by New York profess
siona1, who, on his way home, stopped and
wrote a. letter to his victim, returningg q lot
of papers valuable tosthe owner alone, and
signing himself :" poor but honest bur
glar." Hftd4 ID ara III - u .IlHsIHR
The Adrian (Mich) Times having
started report that "a little son ct A.
W. Fi2h, of Detroit, was overpowered in
that city by IN eagle, now turns its bat
teries of ridicule. upon all the stupids
who have copied the "joke." Only make
it "A White Fish and the joke isappar-
ent. . -
An elderly female. in Springfield re
Gently set an injured husband on the track
of an erring wife, who had gone off with
man" On catching up with the couple
the man was found to be the lady's brotherl
So the husband was not an abandoned
man nor was the wife an abandoned
woman. HdaQ aa3 a,5airI ~ f..ps l+Ha" .
- The room of. Captain J. H. Tighe, g.
S. A., at the Planters House, St.Louis,
was entered on the night of the 18th, and
robbed of money and svaluables to the
amount of $4,000 The Captain was stu
pefied with chloroform by the robber, who
conducted his operations with great skill
The Davenport Iowa Democrat says
it is reported that Judge Hubbell of that
city will institute a suit against the West
ern Union RAILROAD for $4,000 damages
for injuries received at the explosion of the
steamer Lansing" Mr., Oliphant will
possibly Institute another suit against the
company for similar amount
The wife of Ezra Rood, Of Wayne,
near Detroit, Mich, died on Tuesday, the
18th, from the effects of bee sting. She
was walking III the garden in the company
of another lady, when honey bee stung
her on the ball of the eye. She screamed
and fell backward, and, though every
means was employed to relieve her suf-
ferings,ss expired in ten minutes
A hogshead of tobacco was accident
ally started on the bank Of the river near
Charleston, Kanawha, Va, last Saturday,
and in its progress knocked down and
relied over the mate of the steamer in
which it was about to be shipped. All
who saw the accident expected to find the
man crushed to lifeless mass; but he was
only mashed into the mud, from which he
arose ia time to shout orders,t to- catch that
shogshead.s = { = 4 ~ 3 I (.
The Tennessee papers tell funny story
of the exploits of a negro who, a short time
since found bag of gold in hollow log.
He converted his gold into -twenties, and
had over $4,000 HeWent to New Orleans
worked in barber shop, studied evenings
acquired a good knowledge of English and
French, and in March last went to Europe
as an attendant of an Confederate Gene
| raj and now turns up as the proprietor OF
first class American restaurant in the Paris
Exposition.
At Buffalo N. Y, last Sunday, a woman
named Chaplin, a cook on canal boat
jumped overheard with a view of drown
ing herself She was rescued and taken
! to the station house, but again tined to
commlt suicide by hanging herself with
an apron. She was then handcutfed, but
still managed to tear her dress, into. strips
which she made into rope, and again sus,
pended, herself from bar i'll the grated
| door. r, This time her hands were tied0be
hind her, 50 that che could not kill herself
by hanging, at least. ,sst as, grs ~ b.saao
during the last winters snow storms
the road from Syracuse to 0swego was
heavily ,obstructed A train which was
j blocked UP ION the road had 10 offer its
passengers the usual amount of starvation
1 and Impotence in the place OF progress
/ Among the passengers was a lady with a
4 little boy, for whom she bad paid half fare
| The conductor on his ninety ninth round
taken, probably, for the purpose of pass
ing away the time stopped in front o.
this lady, and looked at the tickets and
looked at, the boy. This boy IS toe
large to travel for half fare said he
"He wasn't when he startedt" retOrteC