Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-20

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tiers of second. The quarter mile was
made in 36% seconds, the half in 111I
the three-quarters in 1:47 and the mile
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Incidents and Accidents.
"A fourteen year old canary bird has
just died in Boston. II sang well until it
was thirteen.
Although theEtown Of You Bet in Cal
ifornia has voted to keep Sunday hereafter,
Yuba Dam declines to follow suit.
fuckers large warehouse in Charles
town, Mass, fell to the ground with a ter
ribe crash on the It'll Three men were
severely injured.
-Muzzy, the man at Dana, Maine, whose
| flesh began TO drop from his feet about a
| fortnight ago, can find nothing to stop the
| disease, and is now skeleton as far up as
| the knee.
The New York Gazette says that the
statement recently published bylTsome
sensation scribbler, purporting to give the
income of New York journalists are utter
| ly incorsect and false.
In a case before the United States Dis
| triet Court, Judge Bryan, oiS Charleston,
has decided that7a telegraph company is
bound TO exhibit private messages in
evidence when required, kilograms not be-
| ing within the class, Of, privileged. commu-
nicatiors.e1 "A 1 fhA 1yNPID
| "A new patent marble cutter has excit
| ed considerable feeling among the laborers
| I'M Vermont "a uarfies.s An Irishman, re-
Gently, after watching its w orkiugs intent-
ly exclaimed, "Be iabers, we can cheat six
or eight honest Irishmen out of their wages,
but We can tHeote for John CAIN Ga
| Adam Goodson, Of Wayne county, Ind
loved fair maiden, and wanted to marry
| her.,1 The maiden had asneaking kindness
| for better looking and richer "feller, = and
lltold Adam Goodson to go aud hang himself.
Adam couldn't see the hang, but he loaded
his gun and.blewT out what little brains he
had.
/ "A woman dressed in male attire, and
calling herself Albert Gardiner, shipped
on asvessel at Mobile for 3Philadelphia as
steward, but proving bad cook, was trans
ferred to the forecastle, where her sex was
discovered The captain refused to pay
her wages, and she brought suit in
Philadelphia on Wednesday to recover
them. ~ - ~g ~v~vvv - ~
| "A clergyman's mode Of rat catching as
described in an exchange, is worthy the at
tention of Mr.. Henry Bergh. He uses q
| wire cage trap, and when a rat is caught,
instead of continently killing him, he treats
his prisoner literally with food and drink,
until he is fat, tame and contented. Others
will then crowd in to share his good fortune,
| Gf he is not large enough to drive them
away and may be removed at leisure and
despatched.
in the days of the patriarchs, wo-
mans conduct was an index to her heart.
When, for example, the father of IleIekah
asked her if she would go with the ser want
of Isaac, she replied at once, Il will go!"
Had she been daughter OF the nineteenth
century, she would have answered, "Oh,
pshaw go with him? why, Mr.. Isaac
must be sick! Go with him?ll OF course
l won't !" And then-she would have
| gone with hinli %ES8 ri % SA 2
/ aA9nelday last week woman living five
limiles southwest OF Litchtield, Kentucky,
with hoe and basket in hand, went into the
woods to dig for ginseng, and made very
profitablesday work Of tim She dug and
| gathered ten pounds of ginseng, worth
| $3.50; caught a young spotted fawn, which
| shesold today in Litchfield for 3 TO-, caught
and killed five young gray foxes, for which
the State pays her S.. and killed two black
snakes and one rattle snake. Can any
hunter beat that?@ r III DIX bs
| "A little child in Beaver Dam, Wis,
| fell down stairs and was knocked senseless
by the fall, but nobody knew it but the
cat. The creature IAN to another part OF
the house, where the child's mother was at
work, and mewed vigorously, at the same
time running back and forth from the room
| to the stairway. This strange conduct at
| o4oJ l. mo nff or6
| to see what was the matter, she found her
little one lying senselessI at the foot of the
! stairs.
| "A young man at Bridgeport, whose in
tended had set the day." went to the
church the other Sunday to hear the bans
read, but was Mortified to hear the name Of
another where his should have been. In 9
frenzy he rushed to the fair one for an ex
PLANTATION, when she coolly Informed hin
] that he had affronted her sense of proprie
ty by boasting of his conquest and she hac
accordingly thrown him overheard, bu
rather than be disappointed in becoming
a bride she had taken up with tresl
lover.
Charles Mix, one of the Oldest ant
most respectable residents of Barre, Or
leans county, New Jersey, came to hi
II death last week in a nguiar,manner. IL
was removing potatoes from an under t.
: an upper bin in his cellar, and while stoop
ing in the under bin, the upper one CAV
way, precipitating the accumulated weigh
upon him, and breaking his neck, Tn
; family were absent at the time and he wa
f not found until the day after the fatal ot
2 currence Mr.. Mix had lived in the tow
over fifty years.
'-SoLle negro men were digging we
, recently on lot in the upper part of Pen
/ sacola, Florida, belonging to the estate c
Joseph Sierra, deceased, they encountere
f a brick vault, and breaking through i
foudd chest with the key in it, so rust
that it broke in the attempt to turn it. Al
tached .oa ring on the door of the ches
by wire was brass plate so marked as
indicate the amount of SPECIAL deposi
This was copied by one of the negroes VIII
: participated in unearthing the chest, an
| has been dealt unfairly with by his con
rades. His figures are almost in hierC
/ glypics, but parties who have examine
: them say that the sum is $50, 600 &c
! ..... Foreign Gossip. ,s
. London has 81 daily papers. a
!. st. Petersburg has $4,000 inhabitant
They say in Paris that the Prince In
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