Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-07

Domestic ParaGraphs.

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The .Albany underwriters have
made standing offer OF reward OF Sl,oot
for the conviction of every incendiary in
that city.
A number of ladies were arrested al
Lowell, the other evening, for forging lee
ture tickets.
The Cove family are in luck Some
body in Holland has died and left them
e75,000,000.
The oil in full barrel petroleum is
now worth less than the barrel containing it.
Cause-over supply.
q An old man from Cincinnati has lately
lost in New York one million of dollars in
oil and stock speculations.
s-Awoman in gColdwater, Mich, asked
for divorce from her husband because he
refused to wear a mOustache.
"A conductor has just been discharged
from the New Haven Railroad, whose
"pickings" were never less than fifty dol
lars daily. .--rlsrr. ,-.
~ man named Race was recently fined
fifty dollars at Lafayette, Ind, for neglect
ing to affix revenue stamp to an eight dol
lar note of hand.
"A railroad conductor was arrested at
l1utioOIi, Oll JIG dlieA i1iiSN pOVN
and costs for eiecting a passenger from the
train who had refused to pay three cents. g.
"A man in Springfield, Mass, who was
seized with hiccoughing ten days since, has
not yet found any relief and the case is re-
garded as adcritical one by his physicians.
e. A-Ansoh oil well in Uniontown, Pa, one
day last week, suddenly began to throw up
stones and water to the height of more than
hundred feet. The phenomenon continued
for over an hour.
"A young .reprobate at West Windsor,
VT induced nice old lady, named Martha
Moulton, to dress a sore on his neck, and
while she was5aboutit picked her pocket
Of 1912. He went to prison.
A little boy has been sentenced to six
months imprisonment in the Montgomery,
Ind, county jail, for giving his, brother,
who was confined in the prison, a false key,
whereby he made his escape.
If each one of the twenty millions of
people in the North would destroy five
cent currency note daily, it would amount
to million ofrdollars in arday towards the
liquidation of the national debt.
Mrs Roxana, Dwight was lately fined
one cent and costs, at Providence, for strik-
ing Ellen Curtis in the face, because she put
her arms round Mr.. Dwight's neck and
asked him to got the theatre with her.
--Seabrook, n H., has girl-fogging ex-
element in the public schools. One of the
young lady pupils of graduate of Exeter
Academy was fogged On the bare hand for
over an hour, in the attemptto extort a con-
fession of an offense.
Judge Daly2ha decided that fines i'm
posed on members of trades associations
according to bylaws, for working under a
scale of prices adopted by the associations,
are legal, and can be collected by action of
law, the same, as any other debt.
Mr. Overbaugh, of the Hudson River
Railroad, is model conductor He refuses
to allow known gamblers to play cards ON
his train, thus enticing unwary passengers
into their clutches, ON the ground that he is
responsible for the persons and property of
his passengers,
4 j Ross Brown, special commissioner
to collect mining statistics in the States and
Territories west of the Rocky Mountains,
has made report, in which he estimates
the gold and silver product of Oregon, Cal
ifornia, Montana, Idaho Colorado, Nevada,
etc, at $106,000,000.- ,.svr ....
Mrs Charles Pennington, of Meade
county, Kentucky. has given birth to five
children within q year. She started off with
twins last February, and last week gave
birth to three chlldren-two boys, weigh
ing ten pounds each, and one daughter,
weighing six pounds
"A jury in a murder case in DAYTON,
Ohio, were confined seventy-two hours, de-
liberating upon verdict, without agreeing
nponsone. They had been thrust into a
small, damp room, with stone floor, and
one of the jurors had grown SO hoarse from
his sufferings that he lost his voice.
Several of the. large dry goods estab-
lishments in New York have established
detective force which is employed to look
after the clerks The detectives visit all
sorts of places, and if a clerk is seen where
he ought not to be-. a quiet dismissal and
"no reason given follows at once.
The Irish proverb "there's paraties
everywhere" will probably come to be
applied to gold. In the vicinity of Belle
vile, Ohio, gold has lately been discovered
in minute grains and flakes in the sand
The "placer" has been purchased, and
companyshas been organized to work it.
| tits reckoned that one hundred and
twenty thousand people pass the Astor
House corner, New York, in day on foot,
and sixty -ive thousand in carriages and
omnibuses, making total of one hundred
and eighty-five thousand passengers. Sixty
thousand vehicles roll by this corner in a
day.. Af 81
There have been perhaps no less than
one hundred lives lost in Vicksburg and
the vicinity since the siege, from the tam
pering of foolish people with the stray
weapons of war. The desire to find out
whether or not a shell will burst becomes
irresistible with some people when they find
one.
A petition has been presented in the
Pennsylvania Legislature from sixty wo-
enof Potter county, for the passage of an
act to enable widows, on the death of their
Husbands to control the property acquired
by their joint labors, in the same manner as
tie husband does after the death of the
wife. ~ 7s @
In. the Sank county, (Wis.) Circuit
Court the main business seems to be in
the line of divorces 1t is vouched for as
a fact that one party obtained divorce
one day, married again the next day, and
had an addition to the family on the day
thereafter. This beats the Atlantic cable
for fastness
"A farmer who lately died near Mont
pelier, Vt, left $4,000 in his will to his wife,
to be her property as long as she remains
unmarried, and after her death to be used in
erecting a monument Buff the widow gets
married she is to have only $4,000, and the
remaining $4,000 is to be expended ON the
monument.
"A device for saving people who fall
under street cars from accident was lately