Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02

The transit by rail between Mobile
and Louisville is now made In thlrty-siX
hours. &e
Propositions of Lake Park" are be-
ing discussed both in Cleveland and Mill
waukee
z. .-Rumors! of the cholera 2t Memphis
and ST. Louis are baseless, ii not ma
licious. -,
There is talk Of using the waters at the
falls of the Ohio, at Louisville, for extern
siye cotton mills.
There is many slip between the cup
se and the lip, but more slips after the cup
has been drained by the lips
~ oii-zInvitations to wooden wedding cele.
bration in Boston were engraved in old
English on thin pieces Of chip about eight
inches square
The rent of the late New York dry
q goods, house which failed is said to have
been 81. 900 per week, and the Brooklyn
linton adds that it is no wonder 1t failed!
In a game of billiards in New York
- on tlie 18th, McDevitt made run of BOO
points on two red balls--the largest run
on record without getting them into the
The great tabernacle of The Saints at
Salt Lake City is now finished. 1t is two
hundred and fifty feet wide, and furnishes
comfortable sitting room for ten thousand
= persona f~
Chicago eats yearly 100000 pairs OF
frops LEGS; in other words, 100000 frogs
die annually for our good. They enter
life as tadpoles, and depart from 1t fried In
Sfa-LAA Dubuque gentleman advertlses tor
wife "who wears her own hair, her own
teeth, her own cheeks, her own bosom, and
her own calves, without having gone and
bought them"
~. 1t is stated that excavations for the
new suspension bridge across the Niagara
river have been begun on both sides. The
talk is that the bridge will be ready fol
foot passengers before the year is out. +
-~w-TheT application to Congress by Elias
Howe, IT., for an extension of his sewing
machine patents has created quite fluttel
amonst the sewing machine men. The
different opposing companies, all OF whom
haze. to pay royalty for the use of his
> patents, represents some $3O,O00, 600 Of
capital.
-The,Pittsburgh petroleum market is
again excited, and the Sales Tuesday and
,uW6dnesday reached about 10000 barrels
Oneparty sold a 5000 barrel contract, fol
all this year, on which he realized prof
of $4,000, having bought at eight cents
and sold at thirteen cents, or two dollars
profit per barlel. Erft
From the commencement OF the Chris
Ian era to the discovery of this country
'1sestimated that gold had been taken fron
the surface and mined to the amount 0
S3.SOO600,O00; from that date to the clos
adds $746, O0,0OO, and California AM
Australia $4,000, DOC, 900 more
The enormous consumption of bake
beans in Boston every Sabbath is illustra
y. ed by the fact that one baker at the Sout
End who sells these edibles by the quar-
already cooked, disposed of no less tina
six bushels of baked beans on Sunda
morning, or about 300 quarts, at sixtee
cents aquart, and this in a vicinity wher
cooking stoves are abundant, and man
people bake their own beans.
Rivalry is hot on the Hudson rive
and the,stealnboat boilers are hotter Fo
Twenty-Five cents, or even q less sum,
person may take passage through, incluG
ing possible landing in eternity. The RVS
boats lie side by side to solicit passenger
and they run as near together as the pow
ers of their machinery will permit then
loaded down with humanity, and enlivene
with flame. Look out for q blowup abel
these times. s.t ss 'a&
a New, York paper makes the follo'
ing estimate gof the number OF perso
concerned in the sports of the metropoll
Men connected with hos sas Semorsic ook
avs stablemeD, etc.,) abolt., ....:,.: 10,
Men connected with dogs--dog traders, hght-
Ama}eur and professional fishermen. 49,. 3!
Owners Of fine birds and patrons oil the
cock-ps I'D c - -, yachts t