Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-18
(" These molasses is sweeter than any ma

These molasses is sweeter than any ma
pie molasses ever seen"
This unique use of the national saccha-
| rine only in the plural, not uncommon in
| the Southwest, originated in Pennsylvania.
heard another Mlssourian reply 10 inuui-
ries touching his health.
81 had the shakes last week, but now I
got shat of them"
A third asking concerning his crop of
corn, responded:
Eyes, / raised power of it. have
fed heap to. my cattle, and got right
smart chance Left
Rural MissOurians never carried bur-
dens, but always packed or "toted"
them. Among other provincialisms
through the Southwest, the use Of crap
ped" Ia corruption of cropped) is some
times droll and startling. General Marcy
tells of an Arkansan who pointing to
little man with huge wife, inquired
"Cap, don't you reckon that thar little
man has bit ooer c7apped his self?" a. ~
The use of " beef" as the singular Of
"beeves," obsolete through the East, is
common-the western farmer usually say
ing, =" have just sold beef"
The New Englan der shouts to distant
| friend: !" Hallo-a, joint" The southern
er or westerner cries: 10000, joint"
Immigrants from the East were very
merry at the expense Of their Missouri
| neighbors. In street discussion a loung-
er was defending as correct the rural south
ern phrases" We 'uns" and "You 'uns."
One OF the bystanders asked him: 'A'- ''
care you grammarian?" aoifaa
(which" was his bewildered inquiry,
care you grammarian?" :"
"Why, no, I'm Missourian"
1t is a distinction aoith a difference But
| the fun is not all on one side.a remember
an old Missourian who was brought in con-
tact with many Eastern men by 1.-THE estab-
lishment of a new stage line through his
| neighborhood. Said he: ii}iil ~ ''.-N =
Give lived on the frontier all my life.
L know English and the sign-language,
| and have picked up srnattering Of French,
language can't understand, and that is
this Internal New York language :" 0''"'
7 3eYl9al HOUSE ON WHEELS e
In most land offices a man cannot pre-
empt unless he has house at least twelve
feet square. / have a known witness to
swear that the house in question was
twelve by fourteen" when actually the
only building upon the claim was one
whitfield out with a pen knife, twelve inch
es by fourteen.
Some offices require that the house must
have a glass window. q While travelling in
the interior, stopped at a little slab cabin
where l noticed window-sash without
| lights, hanging on nail. AS had seen
similar frames in other cabins, / asked the
owner what it was for. -.
To pre- empt with, was the reply, +.
"How?" 49,. -r,ffyzF,, , =, 1otas.s
Z "Why, don't you understand? To en-
able my witness to swear that there is a
window in my housew A-4ar 2
Sometimes the same cabin is moved from
| claim to claim, until halfa-dozen different
persons have pre-empted with it,. In Me-
braska little frame house, like a country
| daguerrean Car, was built for this purpose
on wheels, and drawn by oxen. 1t enabled
them to pre-empt whit The discovery. Of
any such malpractice and perjury would
invalidate the title. But never knew of
an instance where the pre-emptor was de-
| prived of mis- land after receiving his title.
| No woman can pre-empt unless she is
widow or the" head of the family, But
sometimes an ambitious maiden who wish
es to secure one hundred and sixty acres
| of land; borrows child, signs letters of
adoption, swears that she is the head of the
family, and pre- -empts her claim, then an
| nuls the papers and returns her, temporal
offspring to its parents with an appropri-
ate gift. 81 q []f ,55oIJLdo%i
IMPROVED LEGISLATORS. 81.
| The territorial legislature of 1859 was
more reputable body than that of the pre-
vious year. Still one of the representa-
tives, originally from Indiana, in recording
himself a physician, transcribed very
promptly the letters P-h-i-s-i," then hest
tated moment, and at last, turning to a
bystander, asked HIM in all seriousness: j.
"Do you spell physician 't-i-o-n,' or
| ss-i-o-n'?" 81" re-
| AN INFINITE DEAL OF SACK. lisse2
Alta creek crossing, little tent beside
our road is labeled Grosery vi in enormous
letters. With keen appetites we awake
the melancholy merchant, who in green
spectacles is sleeping soundly between two
| whisky barrels. E
r" Have you any crackers?" cd 70 8
"Nary cracker"
"Any bread ?"
"Any what?"
/ '"Bread.n dY0s div nov II
"No, sir, saya he, indignantly ;'f don't
keep bakery dOMlf0D0k Hd
Any ham ga % iQ39J034
"Any fgs?" PIT
"No." sI@L4
"Well, what have your" -
"'tWhy, L have Isardines, picked oysters,
smoking tobacco, and, stranger, / have got
some of the best whisky you ever seen
since you was bornw
A GOVERNMENT WITHOUT LAWS. W g
The Chickasaws have separate gov
eminent. A few years ago their legisla-