Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-12

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e" ht4"' - "A society LOT the suppression Oh gain
bling is being privately organized in New
TH8 York.
"A she Blondn, who calls herself Rosa
Celeste, is going to walk across Niagara on
.,,....a y, q tight rope next month. ~
TO the neglect of crop, nearly
l.~-'i" every farmer around Lynchburg, Va, is
afflicted with tobacco on the BRAIN
- ii II The Mount Holly IN ~ Msrror
speaks of strawberry, raised somewhere
,,,,ra near that place. measuring seven and
L. half inches in circumference.
The largest hat manufacturing estab
lishn1ent in the world is located in Brook
Ign, N. Y. 1t employs 1900 hands; makes
s~GTE 1900 hats per day; its payroll, per day,
is $4,000; and its sales are $3,O0O,OOO per
year cIrEf - -
.roLThere is an apple tree on the premises
of Sohn Kohler, in North Whitehall town
= ITO ship, Lehigh county, Penn. which is over
CIt{ 100 years old. Last year this tree bore
over 100 bushels of apples. 1t is 60 feetI
y~c7o high, and 81 feet inF diameter two feet
al II above the gronnd-lI VI :i IL t,.ft. OF
The Portland argus says there has
7, - meyer been a season when salmon were so
e. - - plenty as the present There were three
thousand five hundred pounds taken in one.
&@ day last: week Lncolnville. They
sold for 81 ,750 Some of the salmon weigh
ed over thirty pounds ssT
80 The Union Pacific Railroad is now
open to Julesburg, 376 miles west of that
= point, and two daily trains will commence
~ running each way Immediately. There
are 100000 pounds of freight there which
rvs has been awaiting this event 1t will now
sX.b , - beforwarded at once. -
THE New, Yer. papers are going off in
mild transports Of delight over the fact
" that the last novelty in the West End,
,uAAG London, Theatres is to leto carrer-doves
.dlo to the stage, with bouquets for the singers.
If the New Workers had been in Chicago
during the Parepa season, they might have
seen the same novelty there.
10 ''oia "'eA The Japanese Commissioners, lately
in this country, purchased large quantity
- X of books through Messrs. Putnam & Son.
49, who started about two thousand volumes
Wednesday.
in sixty cases. and weighing in all about
ten tons. The invoice included!two thou
sand five hundred Websters Dictionaries
~ Cipcinnai has several furniture fac
tories on the cooperative principle The
Cabnetmakers Union, established IN 1852,
y,1 u paid in 1866 $43 900 fprohts, and $13 900
in interest The Queen City Company
was established in 1864 with capital of
$4,000; the Cincinnati Association start
eG in 1868, has capital of $4,000; the
~ &. Central Association, incorporated in 1866,
has $4,000 capital. KS
The Milwaukee Daily Wisconsin, thinks
milwaukee should be called Digger City
.r~y,r For twenty years large class of our pop
~ III 4ulaton have had no other employment
than digging down portion to fill up
another. We believe that two miles square
of our city limits have been subjected to
, this process of digging and filling to the
extent of three feet for the whole surface,
ta at a cost of five million dollars"
On the anniversary of the arrival in
San Francisco of the Rev. DR.. Stone, of
,.' Boston, q number fhs congregation visit
ed him. and he was presented with a purse
n of $3.50 in gold, and letter announcing
that the church had voted to pay his house
rent for him hereafter, amounting to 500
per month Mrs. Stone presented
with silver service of cream and sugar
for fruit gold lined, and California manu-
facture DR. Stones salary is now 5000 in
gold per month, or $1,000 per annum. ID.
A correspondent writing from Indian
apolis, Ind, says: While passing through
the Union Depot few days ago, was &C
's costed by onearmed man in faded army
VIVA blue Fourteen years ago first saw him
at a windlass in the gold diggngs of Aus
tralia He and his three partners hoisted
rt. by that wndlass, from single shaft, more
-t' than 100000. A few months later babe
him good bye, as he sailed from Melbourne
for New York with 100000 in bills Of ex
an change in his pocket. I next saw him a
wounded rebe! soldier, lying on the field Of