Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-20
miscellaneous Efesais.

The new postofice at Boston is to
cost $450,0O0.
Ohio has three thousand one luadred
and eighty'three bridges an i4a(l8
The first newspaper ia Virginia was
printed In 1880, at $50 per annum.
There were recently 1918 convicts in
the Penitentiary at Columbus, Ohio.
The largest cotton mandatory In the
world Is building at Huntsville, Conn. q
One clergyman in Boston lately took
$60o in marriage fees during two days.
Pencil directions will hereafter cause
letters to BIS sent tothe Dead Letter Off1ce.
There are 1891 dogs taxed In Yer
mont this year-an increase of sO2 over
1866. Il
] The oIiiee of Chief-J ustice,. ia New
Hampshire, cannot be retained after the
age of seventy. D. =
/ The number of letters returned to the
Dead Letter Office In Washington, for the
last fiscal year, was 4,3O6,50o. ~ &
The gross receipts at the principal
places OF amusement In Chicago during
hemonth of November were S67. 1853 40
Money packages containing $3,794
were recently stolen from messenger OF
the Adams Express Company, at Paducah,
Kentucky. @ 8
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has woolen-mill
that turns out $4,000 yards of cloth per
annlm, and grist-mill that converts
100000 bushels of wheat into flour
yearly. "a \
Tho Merrimack Manufacturing Com
pany at Lowell, Mass, have just built
chimney two hundred and two feet high,
and added wing to their factory seven
stories In height. 50 - ~ &
| "A few days ago, near Kingston, @. WI
| John Waller shot Mrs. Woodland, his OWL
| sister, because che had married the hus
band of a deceased sister, and then sho
himself both shots proving almost imme
diately fatal.
| --Leayenworth, Kansas. is moving for {
| bridge across the Missouri. Two goot
boats ferryirg freight across the river ar
entirely Inadequate to do the work, ane
sixty car loads of lumber, and warehouse
| full of freight await the movement OF thes'
boats. - E $50 @ 3
Railroad companies are not compelled
| to pay for stock killed on public crossing
| or within corporate limits, neither fo
| bulls, stations, Jacks, rams or hogs
| None Of these classes having rights a.
| large which railroad companies are bount
to respect. 4'@ a., se.
/ --Han's Journal of Health advises skat
ers, before starting for the ice, to batht
their feet In cold water, dry them, and rut
them briskly with a coarse towel. Their
put on wooden or heavy cotton stockings
4 and your feet are good for four hours o
the coolest weather. 49,
! The largest income returned by Mas
sachusetts shoe manufacturer is that o
Francis Done,of Boston, $72, 728, and In
largest after him that of Joseph II. Walk
er, Of Worcester, $87,266. A good many
l people stand In their shoes, and o goot
many more would like to.
"A young man Of great gallantry re
Gently rescued beautiful woman who wa
In danger of drowning. She stood In hgl
tied shoes, surrounded by forty spring
under a watered silk, with cataract IL
her eye, a waterfall on the back Of hel
head and a notion in her brain.
! Tho e. P. r. r. Company recently
sunk a shaft $40 feet deep OF Julesburg
but failed to find water and abandoned it
i while O lucky saloon keeper found goot
4 well at ths depth of twenty ak feet, Wit
Ia now filing his purse by retailing tn
water at fifteen cents per bucket full
/ There IL more general demand TO
diamonds in New York this Ecason thai
has existed for many seasons previously
and this winter Ia likely to prove remark
able for the splendor and costliness Of thu
Jewels and ornaments worn. The displa
Of precious stones at the Broadway jewel
/ ry stores is said to be exceedingly brilliani
William Long, near Rutland, VT,
few days ago used insulting language i
conversation with a girl of fifteen years
] when she called him q liar, and dared hir
to repeat his remarks. he did so, sh
. slapped him in the face, and he drew
pistol and fired at her, inficting probs
: bly, fatal wound The cowardly ruf1a
/ fed, but was subc aquently captured.
The Fairfield (Iowa) Home Vssitor tel
: Of woman in that town who receatl
, voluntarily planted herself In dentist
.. chair, and submitted TO the extraction, {
one sitting, of twenty-four frmly-roote
teeth, and did 1t, TOO, without the use {
ether, ehiorofolm, or any other NEEDLES
.. ment of that sort. Eight teeth were take
, out without her mouth being closed.
Foreign Gossip.
Il Sweden boasts FIVE hundred iro
mines. 4t1f -4g4 -f5etfs. sara u3e