Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-11

Franklin county, Pa, has a rich and
novel breach of promise case. Both par
ties are deaf mutes The affection, We
suppose, was not deaf muteual.
n lit is 20 Mountainous in the chill coun.
. try 1Gof Colorado that many persons have
to look up through their chimneys to see
who is knocking at their next neighbor's
door
AT a dinner party given last week by
wealthy New Yorker, the walters were
dressed in scarlet coats, knee breeches, SILK
stockings and powdered wigs, the Old Eng
lish fashion,. EE43 ss Fry w. w
JEFF. Davis plantation, with that Of
his brother Joe, have been sold to former
slave of Jeff's for 100000, on ten years
lease, and the colored man, it is said, Will
make $4,000 this year.
"A Pixies Peaker, writing to the Min
nesota Jouq1aal, says the miners are very
much discouraged in that region; they
have to dig though d s0lidveinof sIoer tost'
feet thick before they reach the gold.
"A Cincinnati firm has obtained the ex.
elusive right of taking views in the Mann
moth Cave of Kentucky for five years,
The pictures are to be taken by the use Of
powerful ret1ectors and the magnesium
light, ,-, .,,-,.,-~y, - ,9rvr
4 : Several San Francisco Jews were
taken in-and done for, lately, by'a pretend
cd alchemst, who piled his trade by melt
ing gold coin, and the "salting" of mining
claims He had pocketed $685. before
his swin1le was discovered. He was then
arrested.
The Martinsburg tVa.1r Men" Era says
that one day last week, Mr. Thornton Hen
shaw, residing short distance from that
town, killed fifteen foxes, and it wasn't a
good day>for foxes, either. He discovered
La hole and dug them out. i ETeA E'so
"A mean thief has been detected in
Brooklyn. He has been in tho habit Of
visiting poor families as a pretended agent
of the Young Mems Christian Association,
giving bogus orders for groceries, WOOD
coal, etc, and then demanding seventy-five
cents for carriage. - Il.
Has anybodya nickel penny.of 1852
The Washington Star says there's an active
search for, them, and that they are con-
sidered worth twenty five cents each, be-
cause they have been almost wholly with
drawn from circulation, and will be very
valuable byand-by in completing collec-
tions.
1t is now proposed to open canal for
shipping through the St. Clair flats, which
so greatly -obstructs navigation between
the upper and lower lakes. Such canal,
ample for all purposes, it is stated by Gen.
Cram, Of the Engineer Department, can be
opened for less than half million of dol
lars
The time occupied in trip from the
Missouri river to Salt Lake City now is
only eight days. Three, of them are oceu,
pied in the trip from Omaha to Denver,
and the remaining five from Denver to Salt
Lake,. In this eight days travel there are
800 miles of railroad and 900 miles of
stage.
--"Sing song ware" is the Eanciful name
given to the deliberately designed and high
ly col@red Chinese ware which is coming
so generally into fashion. Just lnow por-
celain from China is becoming very fash
ionable- in New York. Dinner sets cost
from $500 to 81 ,000 and contain perhaps
some $50 pieces.
Illinois furnishes New York city with
more live stock than all the other States
combined. During 1866 the total number
of cattle was 299,982. OF this number
165,297 were received from Illinois, alone
| The aggregate value Of all this live stock
was $50, 223, 1872 10, and of the shipments
from the State of Illinois was $19,372
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The latest culinary novelty is alpha
bette soup. Instead of the usual cylindrc
and star shaped morsels of maccaroni which
have heretofore given body to our broth,
the letters of the alphabet have been SUBJ
stituted. AS these letters of paste preserve
their forms in passing through the pot,
their appearance in the plate is capital, to
say nothing of their whimsicality.
Hartford has another case of whole
sale poisoning. The four children, between
six and twelve years of age, of Nathan
Lazarus were taken seriously i'll, on Friday
| night, and medical examination showed
| that corrosive sublimate had been taken by
them in food. None have yet died, but the
| sufferings of all are terrible, and two are
not expected to live. There is no doubt.
the poison was administered Intentionally
though it is not known by whom !.
In the Marion county (Illinois) Circuit
Court, a jury has given a verdict of $1,000
in favor of Nathan Homer, formerly d
merchant of Lebanon, ILL.,, and against the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, for
damages received by the plaintiff in being
put off the train on a dark, stormy night,
because he could not find his ticket 1t is
due to the company to say that the offend
ing conductor was promptly discharged.
| The grasshopper invasion of Kansas
and western Missouri, last, fall, will be re-
membered The St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald
now saysssthe farmers in that vicinity are
7 living in dread Of return, or rather re-
currence of the invasion. They are dis
| pirited, dare not trade, incur any expense,
or act upon the idea that they are this fall
| to. reap. the reward of their spring labors.
This, fear actually has very depressing in
! tluence upon business.
| 1t is reported that Chinese lad who
has been for some time engaged in pho
tographic establishment in San Francisco,
has occupied his leisure in translating Web
sters dictionary into Chinese. Probably
the effort is rather a literary curiosity than
a literary event. But fact of real i'm
portance is that Wheaton's standard work
on international law is about to be placed
in the hands of the Chinese in their own
language. y-TI= "a <*fl ri
i Competition in insurance grows more
lively every day. A company has Just
been started~in Chicago, that offers heavy
inducements. 1t will take small cigar
stocks at minimum of four times their
value !; and it presents, along with each
policy, barrel of shavings, bottle of
turpentine, and box of matches. This
last-named feature lessons considerably the
expenses of a certain class of economical
dealers.
The Rock Island Qll) Union is in
formed by gentleman from the lower end
of that county, that some apprehension is
felt lest disease, Familiarity known as the
mad itch" may become prevalent among