Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-29

The entire number of clerks, messen-
gers, and laborers employed in the Treas
ury Department and the various bureaus
thereof in Washington, is 2,541. q
i -Muscatine, Iowa, is building q reaper
factory, 100 by 20 feet, with large foun
/ dry attached, which will employ one hun.
/ dred workmen. 1t will be ready fol
business by the first of January.
"A cooperative iron rolling mill which
started at Alliance, Ohio, a year ago, with
! 100000 capital, has since doubled it. One
hundred and fifty men are employed.
--Philadelphia claims to be the greatest
manufacturing city in the world, excep,
London. In 1866, the factories there pro
duced over 100000 worth of staple
goods. --.------ ---
Pittsburgh, Pa, has two hundred and
one firms, principally manufacturers OF
iron, steel and glass, who did business
last year of over one hundred thousand
dollars each. y g az EgFA n ~ rgv
The coinage of the United States
Branch Mint at San Francisco, for Sep
TENDER, was $1,9S0,000, and for the quar-
ter IS, 52l 900, against $4,673,0 900 for the
same time last year.
The porgy oil manufacture In Maine
last year amounted to 80, 600, 600 in value.
and the guano to- 100000. This years
production will be only about one, half as
large, and the price is much less than last
year. suas H ze3 as s}rr afTre I
i Ohio Is now the chief wool growing
State, having 9,508, 052 sheep, out of So.
| 605,797 in the whole United States. In
| 1866 the live stock of Ohio was valued at
| $151, 100000, which is greater than any
other State except New York. a7et2 70 /
"a The Marquette (Lake SUPERIOR Mn
ing Journal, Of the I'd, states that ledge
of slate rock on the line of the Marquette
and Ontonagon railroad, near Negaunee,
situated IA miles east of Marquette, has
been found to contain quartz with gold
in it. lia.2.f gs3.l za5 I.o9fla-} liz
Building statistics show that three
hundred and forty-tbree buildings have
| been erected in St. Paul, Minnesota, DUR
| ing the past season, at a cost of 100000.
Among the number are forty eight business
blocks and two hundred and sixty -four
dwellings. 9niaaa8 5sest- bsass5sac,la se1 /
n The Yantic mills, and number of
others in the vicinity of Yantic, Conn,
are about running on half time. The
Phoenix wooden mills, at Seneca Falls, N
y, are to be closed. The operatives are
| unwilling to work for the wages the man
ayers pay. Ea3iaos eg1ai - sAa9a- !
"A youngster of nine years of age late
ly started from Pennington, Me-, for Bos-
ton on foot with his shoes slung over his
back. He was pursued, and found some
| fifteen miles off husking corn in barn in
order to raise money for his expenses. His
widowed mother resides in Boston, and he
was bound to see her. That boy will make
| his way. aH gab E8igf4sbga2sI |
H. al
| OF WoonsOcket, R. l., has Just completed
| a model boarding house for its operatives,
which has comfortable and spacious Sleep
| and full and complete arrangements for
| providing genial, healthy home for its
hundred and fifty occupants The mills
of the company produced last year
| 100000 yards OF cloth, and 1t deserves
success for the humanity and considera-
| ton with which it treats its employees.
Religious and Educational.
Rev Mr.. Walk, of Bourbon, Kentucky,
has preached sermon ON the exceeding
sinfulness of Agricultural Fairs.
Rev. Dr. Magoon has resigned the
charge of the Hudson Street Baptist
Church, in Albany, New York. ''
~OlAty pOuuuS vi CcubS WtIt UtpOSIteu
in the contribution boxes of Massachu-
sets church a few Sundays ago. There
were over three thousand of them A
sensible proceeding -tt
"A New York paper says the services
at Trinity Church on q recent Sunday
were performed by two clergymen, eight
choir boys, one organist and two sections.
The congregation numbered fifteen. m
| 1t may not be known to all readers
that the first message sent by the inventor
of the recording telegraph, through his
first telegraph line, on its completion from
| Washington to Baltimore, in 1914, was,
"What hath God wrought |"
The rector of church in England,
who was not partial to music, announced
to his congregation that the singing had
taken up SO much time that he would not
preach sermon. 1t is said his hearers
rather liked the arrangement. 80
Rev. Jedediah Morse, of Charlestown,
Mass was the father of s. F. B. Morse, the
inventor of the telegraph, and of Sidney
| E. Morse, Of the New York O6ser0er. The
| first Sunday school ever organized in this
| country is stated to have been founded at
| Charlestown, Massachusetts, in the church
OF which Rev. Jedediab Morse was pastor.
L L AC III Wtbo LIE cOu, ~. Il .
| B. Morse. @t
Such has been the demand upon the
American Bible Society for Bibles and
Testaments, to supply destitute places,
that they have added seven new power
| presses, and a steam engine of thirty six
| horse power has been exchanged for one
of sixty. With the twenty-three power
| presses, besides one hand press, the Soci-
ETY. can now make five thousand, or, if
| necessary, six thousand volumes day
Since the war the Society have expended
in the South not less than one hundred
and sixty-four thousand dollars. Besides
the demand from The South, the Bible
work is charging in foreign lands.
| Incidents and Accidents.
"A locomotive boiler recently exploded
in Binghanpton, New York, tearing the
engine to fragments, and instantly killing
the engineer and fireman. Iaari aalsr6
"A large cave has been discovered In