Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-19
CONDENsED NEWS ITEMS.



GERRITT SMITH writes that his gen.
crosby has lefthim no longer rich man.
Z HARTFORD is making an effort to raise a
monument in memory of Mrs. L. Fl.
Sigourney.
LUCY LARCoM is not a nom de pzunze,
but the proper name of a pretty and
amiable poet, who resides IN Beverly,
Mass * Is fHi / r
"WnLY WIsP," the great rebus' maker
for Boys and Girls, Young Folks, etc, is
G. B. Jossyln, of Maiden, Mass, formerly
a Unitarian clergyman.
Mr.. GREELEY is q great talker in the
Constitutional Convention, and the World
makes the point that he has no seat in that
body, as he is on his legs all the time
SAMUEL GILBERT died recently at Bos-
ton, nearly ninety years of age. He
was formerly pinter and publisher. He
established the first public news room
in Boston, and subsequently became a
broker
NJ. DUMAS has hard work to allay the
notoriety he has caused by having his pic
ture taken with the Menken. There. is
greater demand for them than ever in Paris,
and Brady has reproduced the picture in
New York. T5;9 o1 ssaI1aa9n4 We
The New York Citizen learns that
/" Brother Ben Wood got hit with red
hot poker about ten days ago-"a draw
poker " in fact to the tune of $45 ,000-the
winner being prominent member of the
Common Council 1t was hand of three
aces against three queens that commenced
the heavy business.
PERHAPS nothing puzzles an author
more than to decide on title for his book
A taking title is certainly great desid-
eratum in these days of advertisements; ;
but the matter might be more easily settled
than most writers suppose. Some years
ago work was issued in London entitled,
at" The name was good one to adyer
tise, and for days before publication the
dead walls of the city and the columns of
the newspapers were filled with such la
comic sentences as BUY +" "Read IT. !"
! 3 orqef = v9nal Inns ni8Lq ,aqe
Domesffc Paragraphs. 81
"A lincoln monument, one hundred
and forty-fve feet high, is to be erected at
Atlanta Ga. ------
"A Presbyterian preacher in Troy has
a million and a half, his father has three
and his wife has half million.
Toledo has been sued by Nicholson
the pavement patentee, for a royalty of
sixteen cents per yard on its wooden pave
ments, amounting to $4,000. - 'a''''
Many of the handsome bridal presents
exhibited at o 80 called fashionable
wedding receptions in New York are hired
of dealer who makes quite a living out
of it. ~
AT a quarry in Massillon, Ohio, a
few days ago. q stone was taken out by
machinery weighing 1T tons 1t was
sixty feet long, seven feet wide and four
feet thick.
n "A match is on-the tapis between the
celebrated running horse Kentucky, and
the renowned trotter, Dexter, for $4,000,
the former to run four miles while the lat
ter trots three miles under saddle.
~ The order of Postmaster General
Randall directing that all railroad compa-
MES shall pay postage on all letters and
documents carried by them, it is estimated
will add over one million dollars to our
revenue.
The city of New York has to raise
for the current year the pleasant little
sum of $24,009,6 55, or about five million
dollars more than last year and considera-
bly, more than double the sum required in
1868.
The New York street cars sareifesort-
ed to after midnight by drunken men,
who sitor lie and ride back and forth till
morning or the drunk is worn out, and
pay the driver an extra fee for the prIvi-
.lege. h-@~ -- ~''.- i
Rochester, N. Y, has an organization
of wldowers One of them made up his
mind to get married again, and the rest
of them to the number of eighteen, met to
present them with a silver tea set and their
well wishes.
MIR. and Mrs e. A. Stevens, of Hobo
ken, N j., gave strawberry festival last
week, at which 1000 children were present
Five thousand baskets of strawberries,
5000 cakes, and 1870 gallons of ice cream
were consumed
While Robert Ell. Barton, of Somer
vile, Massachusetts, was being shaved in
a BARRIERS shop at Boston, last week he
suddenly jumped from the chair to secure
his horse, which was moving, when the
razor completely severed his nose from mis-
face
There is great deficiency of lime in
the soil and water of Oregon. The den
lists are frequently called on to fill the
teeth of children six and eight years of
age. The effect on the entire bone system
must be equally mischievous, though less
manifest.
Cutler Evans, the leading Shaker at
Lebanon, N Y, says that he foresaw
trouble few weeks before Mr. Lincolns
death, and wrote to him to come and
stay among the Shakers few weeks.
The letter is now on file in the State De-
partment.
The Observatory at Cincinnati, built
by the energy and influence of the late
Professor Mitchell, has fallen into a state
of decay, and it's splendid instrument
which was once the pride of the country,
serves now only to amuse idle specta,
tors, who want to look at the man in the
moon,
in some of the towns in Western
Massachusetts thriving business is car.
ried ON in the sale of cabbage plant. The
| customers are said to call at very early
hour in the morning. The most curious
part in the transaction is that theCcusto
mers bring jugs and bottles to get theil
cabbage plants in J
| 1T seems that End-ofthe- World DR.
Cummings made trifing error is his cal
| culations concerning the total destruction
to take place in 1867. In revising his worl
he found that he had overlooked figures
which add something like quintillion o
years to the race which this mundan
spbere has to run We feel relieved.