Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-17
Il r. 6 TAYLOR isned BENJAMIN Raw

| and which, he claimed, had the cholera
when he purchased them, and subsequently
died
Charles M. Barras expects to make
fifty thousand dollars this season out OF
his BLACK Crook" He has the e3clu-
sive right to produce it outside of New
York, and has already bagged fifteen
thousand dollars at Buffalo, and Philadel-
phia. r
"A correspondent of the Springfield
Union, writing of the life in the Lowell
factories, says that, of the eight or ten
thousand operatives in that city, scarcely
more than 1000 are regular church attend
ants. Of the males the proportion is fear
fully small.
| Deceased Chinese, it is said will be
the chief article of export from California
when the new steamship line between San
Francisco and China is in operation. The
| Celestials cannot bear to be buried in for
eign country.
"A young man who had previously
| borne respectable character, few nights
since robbed sick man at Terre Haute,
| Indiana, whom he had been engaged
to sit up with, of 81 ,020 He was arrested
and allsthe money, except five dollars re-
covered Gt
The total number of deaths in the city
of Louisville, during the month of Decem-
Der last was only one hundred and thirty
six certainly very small mortality in a
city of 125000 inhabitants. Of these, near
ly one-half were children under five years
of age.
Brothers Hazelton, Wagstaff and Muir
ply belong to an organization called the
"Praying Band" of Troy, New York
They and some forty others hold them
selves in readiness to go into the country
whenever and wherever they may be in
vited to pray. .aa3 ING :as3
Edwin G. Litchfield, ESQ.,, of Brooklyn,
who graduated in Hamilton, 1882, with one
of the honored of his class, has just made
generous return to his alma mater, In
giving the sum Of $4,000 for the perma-
nent endowment Of the Professorship of
Astronomy and the Astronomical Observ-
atory s.T,- aa,t -.-u II .rs1aj.
Governor Fentonr recommends the
enlargement Of the locks Of the Erie Canal
so as to permit steam vessels of six hun
dred tons burden to pass. He does not IA
vor the construction of ship canal around
Niagara Falls, lest it carry commerce from
the State by the St Lawrence.
The Mormon leaders are inclined to
exaggerate their numbers, and set down the
population of Salt Lake City at $4,000
but the Gentiles, pointing to the census of
1860, which gave but 1926 in all Utah,
say there cannot be over $4,000 now in
the entire Territory, and 900 or 16, 900 in
the city.
In Boston a lady expected the return
of her husband, thought she heard him,
rushed down stairs in the dark, saw man,
embraced him, Rugged him, kissed him, a
light was brought and he wasn't her hus-
band He was John, Mary AIMS, the hired
girls own young man. Mary Ann wasn't
pleased, neither was her mistress jf
in ten years, from 1S45to 1856, intern
perance in the United States killed 100000
drunkards, besides tens of, thousands slain
by accidents caused by rum. tsent $780,
900 persons to State prisons, and 100, 900
children to poOr-houses. 1t caused 1900
murders and 1000 suicides, and bequeathed
to our country. 1900, 900 orphan children.
"A Jew, named Simon S. Barry, keeper
of cigar store, was tried and acquitted
in the Supreme Court Of Massachusetts,,
the other day, on charge of violating
the Sunday law, by keeping his shop open.
The Court decided that he was not amena-
BILE for doing business on the Christian
Sabbath when he had already kept the
Jewish Sabbath. 4 AANjt'E-i -
The bank stock case now, before
the Supreme Court in Washington, in.
wolves more money than any case ever
5adjudicated in the country The exemp-
ton from or the subsection to, State or
local taxation of 100000, 900 and that an
nually, for all time, at, say, to average two
per cent per annum is about the amount
involved. ,5 GId0AI IL II AA&N&h
"A man named John Reilly, went into
a BARRIERS shop in Franklin street, New
York. to prepare. for attending his wife's
funeral-her dead body lying in his house.
While in the BARRIERS chair, he suddenly
died from an aneurism of the aorta, but so
quietly did dissolution take place that the
barber who was shaving him did not know
Of it till he had finished hs task. =
An editor undertook to count the
drunken men in Huntsville, Missouri,
few days ago. Having reached the num-
Der of thirty-one who were so drunk they
didn't know high-noon from midnight, he
was brought up by a drunken fellew who
reeled and staggered so he couldn't count
him. There seems to have been good
deal of drunk in Huntsville on that day.
Peter Marie, about 10 years of age,
an old and much respected citizen of La
vaca, Texas, died recently at that place
The Commercial says: "While sleeping in
the daytime, he was flyblown about the
nose, which resulted in the introduction
of the screw Worm They penetrated the
head so as to cause his death. This is the
first human death we have ever seen re-
corded from this cause; but it is not at all
incredible" gsa saso a,,s5a sfl oa
Nine theaters were burned IN 1865,
which is nearly double the loss of 1888,
that year standing second The following
is a list of theaters burned last year :
Pixies Opera House, Cincinnati; Academy
of Music, New York Metropolitan Thea
ter, ST. Louis : Academy of Music, Cincin-
natl; Louisville Theater; Broadway Va
rieties, Nashville Phoenix Theater, Pc
tersburg, Va Orleans Theater, New Or
leans; New Bowery, New York
"A New York dispatch says the numer-
Gus fires in that city at present are gener-
ally the result of incendiarisn, as some
merchants usually find it more profitable
| to burn stocks that are insured, than to sell
at deprecated figures. Fires are proper
| Tomato to dizziness of trade, and the insur-
ance companies already suffer during a
| period Of stagnation like the present. Great
fires may be expected during the remainder
| Of the season.
The principal colleges.of the East have
| recently chosen each its own college
| color" The selection is as follows Har-
yard, red; Yale, blue; Dartsmouth, green !;
Amherst, yellow; Brown, brown; Williams,
| purple; Hamilton, orange; Columbia, blue
and white Bodoin,o white. The under
graduate members Of the, several institu-