Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-12-27
miscellaneous Etensns.

Dickens took $4,000 from Boston
The Ministries in New York are bur
lesquing Norwood" asA a
Ten thousand emigrsnts from Hol-
land have arrived in New York during the
past year.
The Commissioner of Pensions, in a
report, announces the death of the last
Revolutionary soldier. -s. t..t .
The lumber business of Dubuque,
Iowa, during the year has aggregated
about forty million feet.
The bridge over the Mississippi at
Quincy will cost 81 100000, and will not
be ready for use until next August.
The first number of the Shanghai Neacs
Letter, the first American paper published
in China, reached Boston on the 18th.
The President recently gave $50 to a
man who represented himself as agent of
the Tailors' Association of London. 1t
turns out that the fellow was an imposter.
Some one has taken the trouble to
count the number of battles that were
fought during the late war, and the figures
are 252. Of these 16 were naval engage
ments. .,t
The New York EUenia1g Post states
pairing, for his own use and that of the
Government, complete maps of his cam
paigns. afs.4 rsa
Working hours in the Augusta, Maine,
railroad shops have been reduced to eight
day, and wages cut down in proportion.
Both will probably be restored to their
former standard in the spring.
The duties received at New York for
the first eleven months of 1867 were $685.
809,6S9,02 for the corresponding period
of 1868, 1892, 572, 231. 81 for corresponding
period of 1865, 500, 424,155.63.
Some of the Boston people are dissat-
isfied with the statue of the late Mr.. Ever
EFT in that city, and says he does not look
at all like the distinguished literary man
he was, but like butcher or somebody of
that sort.
New York now has city telegraph,
with forty stations. There are to be one
hundred stations 10 all, and when fully in
operation a message can be sent to any
part Of the city in fifteen minutes and for
twenty cents. n191 .rt
Now the snow has come it is well to
make boots water-tight, and this Is said to
be the way: Boil one quart of linseed
oil with half pound OF turpentine, with
which paint the leather frequently while
warm, but not hot, till the leather will alb
sorb no more ...-.--.f
Mot long since young Kentuckian
paid his undivided attention to one of the
fair sex, and dead in earnest, concluded to
pop the question. After much stammering
and hesitation, the young lady exclaimed,
~ am partially engaged, but mother
wants to marry p'
"A special dispatch from Mount Yer
non, Ohio, to Pittsburgh paper, amour
ces that recently the wife OF Aaron Rowe,
Of that place, presented her husband with
five children at one birth--three boys and
two girls. The dispatch adds: 1.-THE
mother and children are doing as well as
If nothing extraordinary had taken place !"
Mr.. Rowe lives about three miles south Of
Mount Vernon. .#1 u. =ma..s t.
Let those who complain of the irreg-
ularity of the mails find some ground for
sympathy for postoffice clerks in the state
ment made by the Postmaster General in
his recent report, that not less than mil
lion letters were mailed last year on
which the address was utterly iIlegible,
and that more than a million and half
other letters were returned to their wri-
tiers through the Dead Letter Office
These contained nearly five and quarter
millions in money, besides jewelry and
other valuables. Many of the blunders
hastily attributed to the Postoff1ce Depart
ment should be justly shouldered by the
letter writers themselves. a# -