Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-08

was credited with the money, because no
other plan Of disposition presented itself.
Inc other day a person in Wisconsin IN
formed the Department that he had sent
the money to be converted into other Sc
curities, and explained the omission OF any
communication or name by stating that ne
was very sick at the time. Rather q hsnY
reason, and the Treasury officers did not
take the bait
The st. Louis Democrat has compiled
the following statement of the tobacco
crop: Missouri is reported at 12,0O0 to To-
900 hogsheads. This is far beyond an av-
erage crop, but it is said the quality of the
tobacco is unusually good. In Virginia
the crop has fallen off one-third-it is re-
ported at ~, 100000 pounds-but is the
best ever made as respects quality" In
some counties of North Carolina, lands
which had been previously devoted to to-
bacco were this year planted with cotton.
The yield of that State is 35,OO0,O00
pounds; Tennessee at 80, 100000; Ken
lucky at 81 100000; Texas at 90, 900; Ala
bama at 10000; Arkansas at ], 70oO00;
Florida and Georgia each 100000 Iloulsl-
ana at 10000; South Carolina at 35,oOO !;
Maryland, 35,000000, and the Northern
states at OF, lOO,oUO.
Considerable excitement has been oc-
casioned within the past few days on
Arbor Hill over the fact that Major VII
liam Huntley, printer, has had a legacy
of $4,000 left to him by an uncle lately
deceased in Norwich, Conn. The amount
consists of $4,000 in United States bonds,
and $4,000 in real estate. We congratu-
late the Major on his good fortune, and
hope he may live many years to enjoy It,
The Major intends to build several houses
for cheap rent to mechanics, as soon as he
comes into possession, and as the Will has
been admitted to probate it will not be
long ere he will. Mr.. Huntley is gradu-
ate of Yale College, and is an author OF
some celebrity. and writer of poetry, and
many years.-Al5Gny Erpress.;H ri q
Foreign Gossip.
Austria has had no metallic currency
since 1648. b. ihil rs iu9mys4 sd3 % =
/ I'm Europe 6,750,000 acres were last
year planted with potatoes. .,e.,,,.,rq~e, >
During the last year the tigers on the,
Island Of Java destroyed 140 persons. "
in the cotton manufactures of Great
Britain there are athirty-six million spin
dies employed. e,sr vi. i.4a sroieraa j
"A woman in France has sold her hair
fifteen times since her childhood. 1t grows
twelve inches q year, and has yielded q
profit to her of two thousand francs. &
There is new magician in London
named Rubin, one of whose tricks is to
cut off the head of a young lady and car
ry it to the back of the stage, where be
unveils it, and where, at his bidding, it adj
dresses to the audience moral and didactic
sentences. .l .,f., tf.7a Ali w y.sa..I
"A comic paper called the Phtzosophe
recently appeared on the streets OF Paris,
with large portrait of Bismark, repre-
senting him as an ogre in the act of sharp
ening knife to dev0ur little children. The
sale was prohibited and the police seized
all they could find. Bismark is not much
loved in Paris, but he is more feared than
any other man In Europe. gi 5Tase5 sod
The total cost to the French of the
usurpation in Mexico is 1926, 269, 045. This
is what is acknowledged to; but there are
other large sums about which nothing is
SAID. President Juarez stated at a public
dinner given at Durango, last January -
1--WE will never acknowledge one cent Of
this French war debt; we will fight for a
hundred years in preference" and the
whole of Mexico echoes the sentiment.
A Belgian paper, La Meuse, says that
robbery took place recently at Chenee,
under singular circumstances. The pro.
prietor of the menagerie at the fair in that
place had just sold his collection of ami
mails, and had received in part payment
about ten thousand francs This sum was
deposited in a chest, which was placed In
the den itself Notwithstanding the prox-
unity of lions, tigers, an elephant, &c, a
bold robber entered and carried off both
chest and money. '.'a = .1
Three skeletons have been given up
by glacier near Col du Mont. The bones
lay separate and complete as they had been
thrust forth by the unceasing motion Of
the ice torrent. Who were they when in
the flesh? Memory is vivid among the
sparsely peopled regions of the High Alps,
and the tradition still fingered int The coun-
try that, seventy-three years ago, an officer
Foy disappeared on the 9th cf May, 1894
Sent out to reconnoitro the frontier, they
never returned. :, {
One third Of all the inhabitants of the
French Empire are unable to either read
or write. This unwelcome fact has just
been forced upon the attention of the ems
lightened anoDgathat nation by the publ
cation of two maps entitled "France that
/ can read and France that can Write.nn In
the latter, the districts in which people
married In 1866 could not Sign the registry
I lin a proportion varying from thirty to
seventy per cent? arc marked in1black.
Fifty.five departments thus, DENOUNCED
comprise all The south, center and west Of
France. The averages OF the tHliterate
married in 1866 liz thirty three per cent
/ AS regards primary instruction France ac-
| cordingly is in the lowest rank of the Euro
mean mowers. 4gT3oW9a ,1ssq3g 9G3 f91ih
Ialo-A correspondent of the New York
I Tribune says ,"LThe most melancholy
news has reached me concerning the health
of the Empress Carlotta. There seems no
hope of her recovering her reason, qDynhe
other day the inmates of the Chateau de
Teryueren, where she has been living late
nv, were thrown into the greatest conster
nation by her sudden disapp appearance be For
long time their search was in vain. At
last they discovered the unfortunate Priri-
cess hidden in o distant wood close to o
farm, where it appeared she had offered
herself as dairy maid to the farmers wife,
who had not recognized her, What o Trieste,
terrible history is hers! Daughter of a
King, an Empress, now a widow, without
a throne, stealing away froma princely
house to become o common servant "'y.d
|. Incidents and Accidents.
Ito in Narragansett, R.gI.,o recently a
child was trampled upon and bitten p to
death by vicious donkey.
Ey IA recent fire In New Orleans cpnsum
ed five. buildings and two children, besides
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