Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-23
CURRENT NEWS BREyITIES.
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domestic Pnragraphs.
White silk umbrellas as the latest nov
city in "gcntlemen's attire"
"A boarding house bureau, which
promises to furnish people with first class
board at all prices, is one of the latest
novelties in the way Of New York insti-
tuition
They are making rum in Louisiana
out of sweet potatoes Seven barrels
of potatoes yield barrel of rum. What
the rum will yield when drank is not
stated.
The American Screw Company, of
Providence, r. l., has reduced the price of
its screws forty per cent. 1t is their inten-
ton, says the Hartford Times, to ruin the
other companies.
The tenement house system of New
York, when taken in the aggregate is
frightful to contemplate. There are IL, 511
tenement houses, the population of which
is sol ,224. Over $1,000 people live under
ground.
ST. Louis having triumphed over the
street railway corporations in the cone
cent war;" the Democrat directs attention
to the city bakers, who are charging last
winters prices for bread, when flour was
$4,000 per barrel.
"A composition in the Office of the
Union Mills (Pa.) Star set nine thousand
ems in six hours, on Monday, and got mar
ried on the next day. The Girard SpectG-
tor claims to have "jour" that can do
the same, provided somebody will furnish
the bride. ,,-
"A leading cotton factor in New Or
leans gives the most encouraging assuran-
ces concerning the crop on the Mississippi.
On the lower Mississippi the prospect is
improving daily, and nobody has seen a
cotton worm. On the Yazoo the same is
The conversion of August seven-thir-
ties is going forward at the average rate
of something over one million per day, at
the Sub Treasury, and to similar amount
at Washington. 1t is estimated in official
quarters that about $50, 100000 of the issue
remain uncOnyerted.
John III. Evans, of De Soto county,
Miss, a returned Brazil emigrant publish
es card in which he SAYS that the move
ment to Brazil is gotten up for specu-
lation; and that Goacyra, the Brazilian
agent in New York is thief and scoun-
drel.
New Workers are much shocked at the
story that certain prominent milk dealer
allows the ladies Of his family to battle in
the milk for the improvement of their COM
plexions before it is dispensed to custom
ers Consumers naturally dislike to have
the cream taken off the fluid in this man
nor. -
There is a place near Boston usually
regarded as in rather decaying condition.
A gentleman spending the summer there
recently said to visitor: III don't know
what people mean by calling H a slow
town. hire this house of a man who
has gone west on wedding tour. He is
eighty-seven years old, and his bride is
the second wife he has had since he was
eighty. ~
1t is said the Indians on the Plains
have an ingenious way of setting fire to
houses with their arrows. They wrap
with rag some powder on the heads of
their arrows, and on the tip of their arrow
head place percussion cap. When the
arrow strikes the object to be fired, the
cap is exploded and the powder and rag
ignited. The rag burns long enough to set
any combustible with which it may come
in contact on fire.
"A Philadelphia paper publishes an ar
ticle showing the great financial success oil
vendors of quack medicines. A manufac-
turer of syrup warranted to cure every
thing died a few years ago, leaving his
heirs more than million of dollars. A
Philadelphia pill, balsam, worm medicine
and expectorant operator, who began as 8
poor youth thirty-five years ago, left be
hind him stately monument in the shape
of three million dollars. Another Phila
delphian who pretends to cure consump
ton, estimates his gains at hundreds 0
thousands. A well-known New York pill
preparer owns many squares of valuable
property in that city. Another pill per
son, who is or was heavy stakeholder in
the Tribune Association, is worth millions
The list might be extended. In all cases
liberal advertising did the business.