Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-12

/ Antietam. A little more than year late
I saw him a Union soldier, lying In nos
pital in Tennessee. To-day he is heip
less wanderer, dependent on public CHART.
for dinner. -
- The New York whisky dealers are
getting up grand demonstration agalns
the Sunday and Prohibitory laws, p1epa
ratory to more forcible resistance OF them
The great banner which is to go at TIT
head of the procession, and the smaller
! badges, bear a representation OF Christ
blessing the wine at Cana. This sublime
conception could only come from MT
| Wilkes. who is the head and front OF tbs
new movement, as very few of his present
followers ever heard of Christ The wins
XIV dealers of New York, carrying ban
ner with Christ blessing wine painted upon
1t. and George Wilkes riding at the head
would be a spectacle almost as imposing as
the London rioters when LORD George
| Gordon commanded. 5.ft f.s,.
| incidents and Accidents
| There are signs of prosperity South
for they begin to have their railway dis
| asters. p" 49, y
The Ienlain Gift Enterprise at Kan
kakee. has exploded and adds another to
| the long list of swindles. vl551m 9a.
"A verdict of $1,000 was recovered
against the Third Avenue Horse Railroad,
New York, for running over a boy and
making, him cripple > "
In the very heart of log which was
being sawed up at Augusta the other day.
a strip of paper was found, on which was
written in pencil, "1775, J. 3. Dunkird,
with Arnold" So .1'
The last instance Of Communication
with spirits through medium is that of
gentleman, lately deceased, who sent
word to his wife, !" | now believe oPlease
send me my thin clothes" ~ }e
"A young woman named Catharine
Ryan, eighteen years of age, committe
suicide at La Crosse, the other day. by
swallowing strychnine, which she pur-
chased ostensibly to kill gophers. with.
-Schell, the artist, is likewise punster
When with some of his brethren out
sketching one of the club proposes to re-
main and sketch another land scape. con,
no" says Scheli, "let's ketch the cars"
There is colored boy in Newport, r.
l., five, years. old, weighing only AxOeefL
pounds WheWsix pionfhs bid The child
weighed only four and aSqudrter pounds.
The boy enjoys good health, and is of good
intellect.
"A Lancaster (Pa.) paper says that a
young woman residing in the western part
of that city was so much injured, while
biting off her toe nails, few days ago,
that physician had to be called in to at
tend her. aa
Hartford, New Haven, and several
~ q,
the public use of fireworks on the; Natal
Day. The destruction of ten millions of
property at Portland last year has not been
forgotten. - -z--yli-r rs-s-rY.
!. 1 In Litchfield, Conn, on Sunday, the
23d, Captain Salmon Buel celebrated his
one hundredth birthday by attending the
Congregational Church, the congregation
rising as he came in, and the choir singing
Old Hundred.
The Hamburger, Iowa, Times tell of a
horse being killed by lightning near that
place few days ago. The horse was
standing at the time in the centre of a
group of horses, all Of which, with this
exception, escaped.
"A little son Of Charles Kinlock, in
Troy, N. Y, aged four years, drank two
ounces of spirits of peppermint, mixed
with alcohol and sweetened with sugar,
the other day, and died few hours after
wards. fa
1t is rumored that one of Chicago's
fair daughters, eighteen years of age, OF
good family and well educated, has become
smltten with Sing -Kee- Chez, the bamboo
man, and the happy pair are waiting the
consent OF the Tycoon to unite their desti-
MES. 'e
In report of one ofthe late speeches
of Secretary Seward, in Boston, he was
made to say that when the President has
served four years the people ''can turn
him out and put in saucepan they like
better" Saucepan turned out to be a
misprint for successor"
"A Portland paper says that a State
constable was noticed in one Of the churches
of that city on Sunday, with sharp eye
on the sacramental wine. Under the liquor
law Of Maine, clergymen are all liable to
Imprisonment, as the gift Of cider or wine
of any kind is as much crime as it's sale.
The premature discharge Of gun on
beard the Guerfiefe at the firing of the sa-
lutte in honor of the President, during his
visit to Boston, blew aseaman through a
portfolio, throwing him a hundred feet
from the ship. He was taken on board,
and found to have lost an arm, besides
being otherwise injured. }
The New York ladies, according to
the Home Journal (their organ), have
adopted the French fashion of washing in
wine, which is said to have peculiarly
softening effect upon the skin. One young
lady uses two or three bottles of "green
seal" every morning while performing her
ADDITIONS. Poor papat- ~
"A gentleman who recently died in
California has left legacy of $4,000 to-
the United States, the interest to be APP
piled to the reduction of the national
debt. Twelve hundred dollars a year does
not seem to be a very great sum; but
probably the testator hoped to set an ex-
ample which might be initiated by others.
THE Magnolia Star gives an account
of one man shooting another in that re-
gion, because he refused to lend him his
pipe to " take q smoke. Us At the time the
owner was using it himself, and told the
other chap he could have it when he was
done. At the refusal, the disappointed
cuss' pulled out a revolver, fired it at the
pipe man, missed him. jumped on his mule
and broke for the hills 49,,
The Winsted (Conn.) Herlzd tells of
an old landlord at Woodbury., who was
very sanctimonious, and would sit, on a
calm summer evening, on the bench, in
front of his tavern, and sing Sinners
whose love can ne'er forget the wormwood
and the gall" in Coronation, with a
touchingly sweet voice, and then step into
his den and take the last sixpence from
some poverty stricken wretch for rum. +.
THE Louisville Journal says; "One Of
the graveyard firms of Memphis a few days
80 .,,,rIc>;,,od IJ1ofJo,,d,o +huui]ar in the