Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-15

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GARIBALDI has five grand children liv-..
ing with him at Caprera, named respect.
lively, Mameli, Anzani, Lincoln, Arieta and
/ John Brown-the latter still "mewing in
his nurses arms. '---
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES has taken
up his abode in Montreal. He is to wait
there until, his S Guardian Angel appears
from London. He does this to secure the
English copyright
EARL P. MASON, of Providence, r. l..
presented to his daughter on the day Of
her nuptials, $780, O00 and to his son-in
law 1926, 900, to pay the expenses Of two
years. tour, in Europe. 81
JEROME lost twenty thousand dollars on
the race of "Kentucky" against time
John Hunter won five Thousand dollars,
and one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
changed hands IDS on Wall street. =z=-
Miscellaneous Etems. h,
/ Austria hes had no metallic currency
since 1913. -- -------.
The Indiana State Fair left 100000
The first postofice in Alaska has been
established at Sitka.
"A prize fight for $500 side has been
arranged between two Cleveland negroes.
Wood, along the Pacific Railroad, sells
at from twenty-five to q hundred dollars
per cord. ----i --------------------
TWENTY-FIVE doctors, all Of whom have
some time practiced medicine, are connect
| edWith the. New York press. /,
A1'he house In which General Zachary
Taylor was born, near Orange Court
House, Virginia, Is now used as barn.
! THE present number of tenements in
Portland, Me.,is equal that before the
| fire in July, 1866, but rents are still very
high. .,
The horse on, which Sheridan rode
from /" Winchester, twenty miles away"
to CedarI Creek, is Tusticating at Fort
LeavenWorth. ---1------------.-
THE counties OF Polk, Newton and
| Searcy, Ark, have but one registered ne
gro voter each. The white majority in
the State is ~ $50. S@%ass y
A New York gymnast has challenged
Ambrose Butts, of Ohio, who claims to be the
strongest man in. the country, to lift with
him for 81 200 side
Lawrence county, Ohio, with its Dem
Ocfatic gain of l ,221 votes in one year, is
declared the banner Democratic county,
and the Central Committee has award ed it
the silk flag sR -
The Grand Division of the New Jer-
sey Sons of Temperance has, decided not
to allow ladies to become full members of
the Order, as is permitted in New York
and other States. s1oAos as o72T .s2isMbRs
Five hundred n1ilessof the Union
Pacific Railroad, west of Omaha, have now
been finished. Seventeen miles further
will carry the track to Cheyenne, at the
EASTERN base of the Rocky Mountains. ,ssIa
THE French railways have profted by
the Exhibition. Five lines, show an in
crease Of receipts for the summer, ranging
from $250O00 to $4000O0, as compared
with the corresponding period of 1861
The suit of John Smith against the
Broadway Horse Railroad Company, of
Boston, to recover $4,000 for injuries re-
ceiEed throughsthe carelessness of a con-
ductor, has been, decided in favor Of the
company. ~
The coal trade of Pennsy lvania in
creases largely each year. 1t is stated that
five hundred and fifty thousand tons more
of anthracite coal have been sent to mar
ket this year than during the correspond
ing period Of lastsyear!9Toi le79q9E 5x,lar
.---The Washington Star has been sold
by its proprietors to three young men
two Of them now in the blishment-
for $780, 00-one-third each The net
earnings of the concern for ten years
range from $4,000 to $4,000 per annum.
The Commissioner of Internal Reve-.
niue has decided That selling or offering to
sell distilled spirits at less than two dollars
per wine gallon does not raise any pre-
sumption in law that the tax has not been
paid, because the spirits may have been
II ~ 1frd --ssf
Massachusetts has now a very eff
cient system, of aid to invalid soldiers and
their families. Each disabled soldier re-
ceives six dollars q month, and the fami-
lies ofadead and disabled soldiers get al
lowances of various amounts, not exceed
ing eight dollars a, month.
The overland railway route to China
has been proven practicable. 1t will be
five hundred miles long from Rangoon to
Kiang Hung, ON the Cambodia river. This
route avoids the dangers and piracies of
the China and Indian Oceans, and taps the
rich, tea-growing districts = of Western
China. "a
"A lady advertises in Southern paper
that she has for sale one baboon, three
tabby cats and a parrot. She says that,
being married, she has no further use for
them, as her husband more than supplies
their aces--requiring1 more attention
than the whole lot, and giving her less
pleasure in return. f4,b-t. .,.s..-...
Freight may, now be shipped from
Minneapolis direct to New York, Boston
and all points East and South, without
breaking bulk. The only, interruption in
the line is at Prairie du Chen, where the
Mississippi is crossed by means of a ferry
boat built for the express purpose,
upon which six loaded cars can be taken
over at one time. ~
The total vote Of louisiana, by official
count, was 70, 174 The vote for conven-
ton was 1908 3 against convention,
4006; blank, SO. !. The, delegates elected
are notified to assemble in convention at
the Mechanics Institute, in New Orleans,
Saturday, the 23d, for the purpose of
framing State constitution and civil gov
eminent in accordance with the terms pre-
scribed by Congress. sm 9i 7si7s -5
THE experiment of steam passenger
coaches in the streets Of Lyons, France,
has been unsuccessful. About sixty of the
prominent citizens Of the place, accom-