Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-04
Domestic Paragraphs.

Pipes made OF grass nave made their
appearance in New York. Quite Area
dian.
Champaign county, Illinois, is great
strawberry bed, with fifty bushels of ber-
ries to the acre.
The total Indian population of the
United States consists of between 100000
and $4,000 souls.
The waters of Lake Ontario are high
er than they have been known before for
years-fully four feet above last years
mark.
There are two sisters and brother
named Fisher, in Memphis Tenn, whose
united ages amount to three hundred and
ten years. ...-..
If you cannot have what you ike, it
Is best, in finite world, to like what you
have says wise and witty divine in the
July nun her Of the Atlantic Monthly.
-Delmoni, -. who addresses the palate
of New York. re. 'urns an income OF $780,
5O4; Dr. Bushnell W addresses the in
tellect of the country, re- ufnS an income
of.$4o0, ~, ~, Ia ~y.-, ss ~
"A spring Of clear, cold and :'oarlding g
water burst up i'll one OF the stro"'s ol
Paterson, N. j., lately, and still contin t'es
to flow away in limpid stream down the
cutters.
AT Winchester, Va, few days since,
some workmen engaged III tearing down q
building came upon bottle upon which
was written with a diamond, Bottle of
whisky-buried in 1921
1t turns, out that the drummer boy
ofthe Rappahannock never crossed the
Rappahannockyab all sate the time of the
seqpeptly- ran away with the rich young
woihsn nder false pretenses. - q ~ q a
All Eastern exchange sayss:l =" iFhe
Athens cutoff is in the full tide of sue
cessful experiment. at least two thirds of
the passengers arriving at Schenectady
from the West take the train for Athens
The other third about equally divide them
selves. between Albany and Troy.
- The electric submarine cable for the
contemplated line to Cuba from the coast
of Florida is now complete, and will leave
England ON the goth inst July 10 it is
expected to be in full working order. Gen.
w. F. Smith, of New York, is now in Ha-
vana, in furtheranCe of this imp ortant en-
Tsince the war a strong Catholic kehti
ment has been growing up in New Orleans
Hundreds who attended the Episcopal
church before the war are now Catholics
in sentiment, if not regular COMMITMENTS
and many attend the Catholic churches
who were mildly opposed to them, by force
of habit and education, six years ago.
Its stated that a large business is done
in selling revenue and postage stamps
which have been already once used, tn,
cancellation of them being washed off il
some way. An Individual who had Offered
a stamp of this kind for sale, was brought
before the United States Supreme Court IL
New York a few days ago, and pleading
guilty, was fined fifty dollars.
During May, the aggregate losses il
the United States, caused by fire, each IN
volving loss of at least $4,000, were 81,
100000 The aggregate losses during th'
wear. thus far, have been i6,52o,O0O From
1859 to 1864, inclusive, the average losse
by fire in the United States were aoou
eighteen millions of dollars per annum
while in 1865 they rose to $45.UO0,oOo, an
in 1866 to $100O00,000. 1t IS suppose
that $50,000,000 insurance was PAID dunn
the last year for incendiary fires.
The Pensacola, Fla, Disorder says tia
she report that $4,000 had been dug u
from the graveyard of that city, where
had been buried during the war, and II
moved to parts unknown, came near tel
minating in tragedy. Some fifty c
sixty negroes, who claimed their share
the plunder, attacked the negro drayma
who is said to have spirited the treasnl
away and would have lynohed nun OF
for the interference OF the sheriff Al
city. at last accounts, WIS filled VII
gangs of idle negroes discussing the gres
issue"