Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-03

were married In Uhlo county, N.Y., tno o'noA
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A Nashville dispatch says that hum
dreds of horses and mules are being
shipped South through that city every
week.
There is a gang of villains in New Or
leans who kidnap little children on the
streets, and thon obtain reward By re-
turning them.
An avalanche of snow from the roof OF
house, in Boston. fell upon two young Ia
dies who were passing, and almost killed
one of them.
1t is somewhat startling fact that
within the last two years majority OF our
State Penitentiaries have nearly doubled the
number of their inmates
Negotiations are in progress for the
introduction of large force OF Chinese
laborers TO be employed in the construction
of the Central Pacific railroad.
The Secret Service Division have made
| q large haul of counterfeiters near Niagara
| Falls. A large quantity OF counterfeit cur
rency was found in their possession
A fellow in the neighborbood Of Dur
ham, Me, is engaged in the pleasant busl-
ness of disemboweling farmers horses he
has been at it long time, and they cannot
find out who he is.
Ada Adams, notorious couriezan OF
Louisville. was shot on Tuesday night by
ruffian Mile Adams has figured ina num-
| Der of characters, having served in the army
for two years.
| Fulton launched the fret steamboat in
| 1907 Now there are over three thousand
| steamboats, traversing the waters of Amer
| ica. Nearly all the rivers Of the world are
traversed by steamboats,.
| There was en- elopement in Eredonia,
| New Hampshire, the other day the date IS
not given, but it was the day after the
young lady concerned had been whipped by
her father for ''1itiing up nights with her
lover
On Saturday, o young lady belonging
TO respectable family in Nashville, donned
male attire, and attempted to leave on q
steamer in search of adventure. Her flight
was soon discovered, and she was arrested
and returned TO her friends.
They are going to make o hash Of
"Othello " in New York, according to the
papers Edwin Booth is to do The Moor in
English while Dawson, the great German
trsgedian, is to give Iago in that language.
We do not know how it will work
"A rich man in New York, few days
ago. presented to ten female friends-por-
ticuldr friends-each piece of cake. On
dssecting the cake it was found that each
piece contained diamond jewelry to the
value of $1,000.
Broad street. in Philadelphia, is des-
tined to be the finest street in any American
city. It has been extended from Nicetown
Lane to Fishers Lane. 1t is now ten miles
long, with width of one hundred and thir-
teen feet, and as straight as an arrow.
Dramatic clubs have been formed at
Franklin, KY, Murfreesboro and Columbia,
Tenn. and Huntsville, Ala, with the OBJ
jeet of raising money for the purpose of
re-int erring the Confederate dead who lie
ON various battle fields throughout the
South
The Catholic Church in The United
States is said to have 1854 churches and
chapels, IA theological seminaries, and
4O4 academies and schools containing
10000 pupils. The Catholic population of
the United States is estimated at from A.
600, 900 to 100000
Rev Dr. Edwin r Webb's Shawmut
church at Boston has just received q new
$50, 900 organ, the largest instrument of
its kind in the country, except the ''great
organ at Music Hall. A stream of
Cochitlate water will aid in divine service
by working the bellows Of the machine.
"A gentleman of Philadelphia, named
Hayden, while rapidly turning the corner
of Union square and Broadway, in New
York, the other day, caught his foot in the
hoop skirt of young lady, and was thrown
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knock ont all his front teeth and injure his
face very severely.
"A lady living in the North Ward Of De-
troit recently gave birth to four children at
one time. The same lady, on former oc
casion, gave birth to triplets, and on still
former occasion presented her husband
with twins. First of all she started with
one. The pair have been married about
seven years.
Some months since an organ was pur-
chased and used in the Methodist church at
College Corner, Franklin county, Ind.
Many members Of the church were strongly
opposed to its introduction, and much ILL
feeling was the result. The organ was
finally carried out of the church one night
by unknown parties, and destroyed by fire.
Recently another Organ was procured and
placed in the church, but a few days after
wards it was also destroyed, the vandals
using piece of railroad iron to accomplish
their purpose.
"A New York Times Washington dis
| patch says: "An investigation into the cir
cumstances of an alleged loss of $4,000 on
| a New York train last week, by Caleb Lyon,
Governor of Idaho, will take place in few
days. Governor Lyon asserts that it be
| longed to the Government, and that he was
bringing it here to deliver to the Secretary
of the Treasury as the balance due from
him to the United States. Why he should
have carried the funds about his person,
and especially why he should have taken
the belt containing the money from his per-
son in the cars, as he says he did, requires
explanation"
| AT New Orleans, recently, Shreve
port merchant was passing an unfinished
building, when block of granite fell upon
him, crushing him to the earth. He uttered
cry OF pain, and never afterward spoke
A singular fact in connection with the &C
cident is, that q young man who was in ad
vance Of him yielded the way for him to
pass as the stone fell, end thus saved his
own life The accident is the second of the
same kind which mas occurred beneath the
same building, and in this case, it is thought
will cost the builders, and perhaps the city,
q heavy suit.
The Alta California says: "There is
scarcely branch of business in the State
in which the Chinese are not found com
peting with Americans and Europeans.
Many of Our most prosperous manufacto-
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