Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-06
Mrs. Davis. a lady seyenty.five wears


Mrs. Davis, lady seventy-fve years
old, recently died of fright occasioned by
severe thunder, in Salem, Mass She had
been for years seriously affected during the
prevalence of thunder storms, and ON this
occasion, as usual, called for help, but ex-
PRED before her friends could reach her
room. ~ ~A---
"A tragedy occurred on board the Mes
torian, during her voyage to Montreal A
lady. name unknown, embarked at Liver
pool, and between that port and Derry dis
covered her former husband on board, and
was so seized by remorse that she sprang
over the side Of the vessel and was
drowned. !t IL fGtt3#s /!
AT Waterford, N H., it rained twenty
seven times on Saturday. One gentleman
was working on the west side of the street
when a shower came up which, in three
minutes wet him to the skin. Another man,
working directly opposite, did not get wet
at all, nor was he aware that any RAIN had
fallen in the vicinity.
Sophia Keikley, black eyed little
French girl of Fort Wayne, Ind, on the
10Th ult., hunted down Samuel Quicksell
with revolver; drove him to a magistrates
office, and compelled him to marry her
then and there, under penalty of having
his calls brains blown out Samuel's Ca
reer as gay deceiver is closed at Fort
Wayne.
A terrible affair occurred on the Goth
in Madison, Ind. Preston Christie and
James McClelland, two well known citi-
zens of the place, being involved in law
suit, the latter sought Christie and asked
for private settlement of TIE matter
Christie made an evasive answer, when
McClelland drew his revolvel, and shot the
former through the breast, inflcting a
wound which caused his death in less than
forty eight hours. McClelland, on return
ing home after the fatal encounter, seemed
SO overcome by remOrse that he shot HIM
self through the breast with the same
pistol. sHis wound also was a mortallone,
and he died the following day. Both
old men.
1t has been noticed with surprise,
within a few days, that the Forrest di-
vorce case" was still drawing its slow
length along; but 1t is hoped that its last
appearance was made on Monday, May
9th, when a motion was made and denied,
in the United States Circuit Court at New
York, to restrain Mrs Forrest from col
lecting alimony. Forrest, in the fifteen
y 4lSUOly VI CtoC, Ids lColStCN dIu
evaded the laws and courts In all the forms
going on at the rate of $4,000 year from
the date of the divorce, amounted, in 1860,
to $4,000. Subsequently his sureties
were prosecuted to judgment, when the
amount had swelled to $4,000. Now it
has reached the round sum of $4,000,
with reasonable prospect that it must be
paid, unless, as the New York Times init
mates an appeal is taken to the Constitu-
tional Convention, all the other avenues
have been closed. , 81
The Dayton (Ohio) Journal of the 25th
ult relates the following singular incident:
!" One of the saddest condolences we re-
member to have heard for years occurred
the other day in this vicinity A young
man named Enkeberger, who had for
long while kept the oll-house on the Day
ton and Springfield pike, few miles north
east of this city, recently died after sud-
den illness. Soon after his death mes
senger was dispatched with the sad intel
ligence to his father, whose residence was
in Midway, Clarke county. When the
messenger reached a point half way be-
tween the dollhouse and Midway, he met
another messenger who bore tIdingS of the
death of the elder Enkelberger to his son.
1t appears that father and son had taken
sick about the same time, died in the same
hour and the messengers were dispatched
from either house of death with the mourn
full intelligence at precisely the same mo-
ment; and the funeral and interment of
father ano son were on the same day and
hour" t..
Some time ago there was a dancing
party given in Wisconsin Most of the
ladies present had babies, whose noisy per-
versity required too much attendance. A
number of gallant men volunteered to mind
the young ones while the parents INDUCED
in "break down." No sooner had the
women left their babies in charge of the
mischievous devils than they stripped the
infants, changed their Clothes giving the
apparel of one to another. The dance over
it was time to go home, and the mothers
hurriedly took each baby in the dress of
their own, and started to their homes some
Is miles distant, and were far On their way
before daylight. But the day following
there was a tremendous row in the settle
ment; mothers discovered that single
night had changed the sex of their babies,
observations disclosed ply sical phenomena,
and then commenced some of the tallest fe-
male pedestrianism living miles apart, it
required two days to unmix the babies and
as many months to restore the women to
their natural sweet disposition. To this
day it is unsafe for any of the baby mixers
to venture into the territory.