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

accommodated itself to the use of dimes,
but the man who should endeavor to make
| a purchase with smaller coin would have
the article presented to him, and be imme-
diately asked Just from the States,
aren't you ?" At fruit stand, recently,
Emet new conner trying to induce the pro-
| prietor to part with one orange for filthy
iucre. No, no-keep yonr money was
the persistent reply; 1--WE never sell an
orange. Eli gSge you one-pick it out"
Amazed at such an element in trade, the
stranger, finding the man in earnest, felt
| bound to purchase enough to pay for in
| the coin of the country.
"A letter from Wiesbaden gives some
details of singular calamity that has be-
| fallen that town. A water spout, greater
than those of 1910 and 1882, broke over
the place, causing incalculable damage.
The Kursaal had been all but destroyed.
Enormous stones and articles of furniture
were carried along the streets by the tor
rent which in one place made channel
for itself nearly six metres deep. Three
houses are said to have fallen, and the cele-
brated Neroberg vine, belonging to the
Duke of Noyan, is totally ruined. Two
women and three children are reported to
| have persisted. In the evening the mud
and the deed fish--several carp had been
caught at an earlier hour in the Place du
Theatre-exhaled so bad an odor that an
epidemic is feared. Some persons say
that they felt the shock of an earthquake.
| "A balloon party of nine persons went
| up from Boston, July 9th, and landed the
same evening in New Salem, Franklin
county, seventy miles distant. Next
morning the party (reduced to five) con-
! tinued the voyage back to Worcester. On
4 the return voyage, the balloon was allowed
toascend to a height of about mile and
ahalf, going up with considerable rapidity,
and finding difference of thirty three de-
| grees in temperature in the course OF about
five minutes, at the highest altitude at
tanned, it was quite chilly. In ascending
through one of the clouds encountered on
the way5up momentary glimpse was had
of a parhelion-the balloon being reflected
on the mist below, surrounded by halo
of rainbow tlnts. For some time 1t sailed
along at a greater altitude than the clouds
/ which were scattered about the heavens
At no time, however was the view of the
earth obscured. If The scene presented al
this height was very fine, the view extend
ing far beyond the Connecticut River or
the west, into Connecticut on the south, tC
the mountains of Vermont and New Hamp
shire on the north, and some of the time
to the ocean eastwardly.
Three brothers. the eldest of whom is
not over twelve years old, living near Har-
mons Station, on the Cincinnati and In
dianapolis Railroad, have been in the habit
of lying between tho ties of the road and
mourning the terrible risk of having a
train pass over them at full speed. They
repeated this recently, at sad cost, with
the passenger train run by Conductor
George Drain This train, out from Gin,
cinnati, was running along at the usual
speed, when the engineer happened te
discover three little human forms curleo
up in holes between the ties, just as the
engine was within a few yards of them
There was no chance to stop the train I'm
it had passed over them, and proceeded
some distance further. The officers of the
train then returned. to the spot and found
the three children terribly bruised. AL
had broken limbs and one of them had hi
head mashed in such terrible manner al
to make his recovery matter of doubt
It seems that in selecting their nests they
had not calculated correctly as to depth
and that the break-box had caught them
They are children of Mr.. John Bouse.