Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-16
The great Sewing -sisterhood and dry

lag7!The great sewing rsisterhood and dry
| goods fraternity have been brought to tue
depth OF despair by the abolition of crino
line, which has now been worn for many
| years. z The present styleAof dress re
quires only eight yards of material, instead
| of twelve-a reduction of thirty three pei
cent.
| "A deed was filed April oath, in the
| ty, California, by the Quicksilver Mining
Company of Pennsylvania, conveying t6
the Quicksilver Mining Company of New
York the New Almaden quicksilver
/ mine. The consideration was $3,500,000
A new house is to be erected on Mount
| Holyoke, of peculiar form and construc-
ton. The structure is to be cylindrical in
| form, $50 feet in diameter, inclosing within
| its interior walls court of 100 feet diam
eter. 1t is to be four stories high, and each
floor will contain twenty-eight suites Of
| rooms.
Captain VIM. w. Clark, of New
Haven, an old, successful and intelligent
whaler, who has spent years on the coast
| OF Russian America, declares that the
country is worth ten times what we paid
for it. Its fisheries are apparently mex
haustible, its harbors frequent and safe, its
climate comparatively mild, and its land
rich in valuable ores. ~ nn
>o--Caivin Barber and wife are wealthy
! farmers residing in Norwich, Chenango
county, n. Y. This worthy couple are
the parents of % intelligent and healthy
children, a portion of them grown up and
having families of their own Seventeen
of the family are girls, and all of the
family meet once year at the old home
| stead.
Two little travellers, boy and a girl,
| aged only six and eight years, who had
| come alone all The way from Shasta, Cali
tornla, made their appearance at hotel III
Troy, a few evenings since, where they
stayed over night, en- route for New Hamp-
shire. They seemed perfectly al taH, tray
cling by steamer and railroad without as
sistance.
Judge Force, of the Common Pleas
Court, Cincinnati, has decided in a case
involving inheritance, that marriage in
OHIO without statutory ceremony is legal
and binding. 1t seems that James Paylor
(Geceased) had lived with a, woman fifteen
years, and by herhad sevenchildren; but,
holding that marriage was not q sacred
thing, and that the ceremony of jumping
over broomstick was as good as any,"
the parties had never been formally mar
ried. The decision of Judge Force entities
the widow to dover, and the children to
inheritance -
With regard to the general distribu-
ton of the sexes, the census of 1860 shows
in all the United States an excess of about
100000 males. 1t is remarkable fact that
of 4,441, $3.50 slaves and free colOrcd persons,
there were only S,342 more males than fe-
males, or only about two in thousand.
The large excess in California is partly
owing to, the immigration from China, be-
ing 81, 149 men to 1884 women of Asiatic
birth. OF course in the new States and
Territories women are scarce ); Illinois has
male excess Of $4,000; Michigan, 10000;
Wisconsin, $4,000; Texas, $4,000 In the
old States the preponderance is the other
way, Massachusetts, leading off lin 1860
with female excess of S6700, &c. In
Great Britain and Ireland, in population
of 100000, there is an excess Of S77,0C0
females.