Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-06
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4 tAA Domestic EsarasrapIis..
Augusta, Ga, has floating debt of
$4,000, and $40 with which to pay it.
Atlanta is described by an Illinois edi-
tor as a 9, Young Chicago dropped down
in Georgia.
J. 1T creates no surprise that most of the
large incomes in Washington are reported
by hotel keepers.
The Ben Butler Club in New Orleans,
carries transparency with taoo crossed
spoons painted on it, la'e
The Pennsylvania oil regions have
lost fully ,-one-third of their population,
and the number is lessening every day.
"A certain coachman of Pouehkeepsie,
on Saturday, ate Al eggs, and boasted mat,
by taking glass Of whisky, he could eat
% more
The aristocratic colored ladies Of the
South do not condescend to speak the word
white now They say, Was she colored
or plain ?''.A FIJI IGIHTtEfrtft
| The Italian plaster image makers have
become almost extinct. The cheapness Of
engravlngs has driven plaster casts out Of
the market.
There is a child in Montgomery coun-
ty, Va, which was christened Andrew
Jackson-Gordon-J s-Buchanan-Raiser
/ the Flag and Fire the-C Cannon Dobyns.
"A Philadelphia paper publishes an adj
vertiseme Wanted-A first class sales
lady," We may expect to see among the
+" wants" an application for journey gen
tleman tailor. -
The Boston Journal says, that in that
city an egg was recently placed in vessel
| which was revolving 232 times minute,
and in six minutes it was cooked by the
heat of friction.
"A tobacco firm in New York has adopt
ed the old trick ofplacinga 800 greenback
in certain paper of chewing tobacco, and
consequently there is an unusual demand
for the brands" of this house.
"A whist club in Western city once
| lost one of its members, and at the next
meeting the cards had mourning border
around them. That was playing the point
of respect for the dead rather too fine.
An ingenious person in the town of
Lee lately suggested as means to paint
one of the tall church spires there, "that
the paint be mixed in one of the tanks, and
the fire engines be got out to squirt it up"
An Iowa exchange says 1t has tried
the use of common salt in lamps, and recon-
mends it. Fill the lamp half full of salt,
then fill it up with oil. The light will be
greatly improved, and twenty five per cent.
saved in oil.
"A few days since person in New
bern, N c., who had purchased all old
army mattress, ripped it open, and discov-
cred, much to his SURPRISE a big roll of
greenbacks in it. Now don't go and buy
all the old mattresses you can hear of
Joel Lindsay, who beat his child to
death because it would not say its prayers
| to suit its step mother, and who was tried,
convicted and sent to Auburn prison for
the crime, has been released on bail, his
counsel having secured for him a new
trial.
r "A "tin" wedding was observed after
an unusual manner, in Vermont, the other
day. The wife eloped with a young fell
low, taking with her all the "tin" her
husband had saved for ten years. The dis
covery of her absence of course closed the
festival.
"A Mobile paper says to the citizens
ode while YOU can die cheap" and says.
of the city sexton: sour old friend Be-
Broujon will bury any one--friend or foe
at twenty per cent reduction on former
prices. Here's your time! !"
"A paper bonnet IS mentioned as the
latest novelty in millinereom. This prec-
ious head ornament costs but 81, and the
great advantage it has is said to be that 1t
will keep its dear wearers from catching
cold, as they will probably stay at home in
damp weather. ,t
Divers at work in Boston Harbor to
get the sunken yacht Wave out of the
channel, found two of the women who
were drowned when she went down, cling
ing to the rigging, holding on with death
grip Had they let go they would have
come to the surface, and might haYe been
saved. ~-H -4
They have musical prodigy in Lafay
ette Ind A boy named Parsons has ex-
hausted all the instructors in that region,
and is now about starting for Leipsc, in
Germany, to finish his education He is
said to have played on the piano, at sight,
fifty pages of Beethoven's compositions, full
of difficult passages, without a single mis-
take. ~
The Fort Wayne Democrat tells of a
beautiful, intelligent, amiable, fascinating,
and immensely wealthy young lady in that
city, who carefully conceals the knowl-
edge of her wealth, wears cheap clothes,
anu WOTkS Ill u ulIlllHCly 9hopj WdioinS WI
an interesting young man to WOO and win
her :" for herself alone" There will not
be milliner left in Fort Wayne in three
months. III
The Postoffice is doing banking bust
ness in very quiet way. Few are aware
of the extent of what is known as the
money order system, and many are entire
ly unacquainted with the way In which
business is conducted under it. A money
order can be obtained at any post office in
the United States, made payable at any
other post office in the Uniled States, for
any sum not exceeding fifty dollars. Ten
cents is charged for any order not exceed
ing twenty dollars, and twenty-five cents
for all larger sums Only three orders for
fifty dollars each will be issued to any one
person at one time.
Incidents and Accidents.
tits estimated that 1900 lambs persisted
in Walworth county, Wisconsin, during
single storm in May.
A theological student in the Capitol
University, at Columbus, Ohio, namedJ. H.
Fritz, was killed ON the gath ult., while at
tempting to get on a train Id motion. He
was on his way to Fort Wayne to preach
his trial sermon.
Edwin B. Hunter, of New York, has
just had to pay $4,000 for suffocating the
tenants of one of his houses. He stopped |
the chimney fiue without their knowledge,
,x,t,;ob oaneoJ tbo;~ roor,1c tn he fillad with