Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-10
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"A church In Trenton has Just had q husband
milk festival "a & ii
The Maine State Prison was managed at a prof
1t of 800 last year.
Pure salt can be shoveled up by carloads in
Southwestern Kansas.
There are one hundred and fifteen miles of
paved streets in Cincinnati. 70 &&&
"A Louisville boot-black sued merchant for
ten cents, and got his money.
AT Hartford, Connecticut, Government is man
ufacturing one hundred battery guns of new in
vention.
All doors of public buildings in New York
State must open outwardly now, or five hundred
dollars fine
The gift jewelry stores of Cincinnati, and other
swinding establishments of similar character, are
| being closed up by the police.
The ship David Crockett made the passage
from San Francisco to Philadelphia in ninety-four
days-the quickest trip on record.
"A man was lately found in the streets of Louis
vile frozen 10 death, with nothing on his person
but pair of stockings and a neck-tie.
Judge McCunn, at New York, has decided
substantially that person losiAe money at gamb-
| ling is not entitled to recover by law.
Twenty tons or, by the superficial measure
ment, rtyeight and half square miles of postage
stamps have been used during the year.
"A young Wisconsin farmer and his bride, driv-
| ing home just after their marriage, were both
thrown from the wagon and instantly killed.
"A couple of Hartford doctors, both sover sew
enty, had astreet fight all to themselves the other
day, in which canes and fists were freely used.
There is a salt well in Tuscarswas county, Ohio,
which yields 600 barrels of water in twenty-four
hours, 35 gallons of the water making bushel of
salt. .'.l ft4 .ai- tis.ft ii'.i't-tt'- 3''
AT Fort Smith, on the 1st inst., a boy sixteen
years old was killed by an Indian for defending
his sister whom the Indian was attempting to out
| rage. II, at f:. gst sa.tse Hf.n (
"A young Baltimorean, on bender, was taken
| from Detroit bagno, one day last week, and
| shipped home in charge of the Merchants Union
Express. '.e
The Metropolitan Police of New York and
Brooklyn cost about two millions and a half dol
lars for the year just closing, and they made 81 5s7
| arrests. y
Said poor little girl in the Fourth Ward, New
York, as she was dying: g am glad am going to
die; because now my brothers and sisters will
have enough to eat!'
"A story is told of a young man in Freeport,
H. who was crossedn love, and attempted sui
eide recently by taking dose of yeast powder.
He Immediately rose above his troubles
The Fremont Ohio Journal "spots' a Profess
sor j. III. Van Cleve, who formed classes in that
place to give instructions in "rapid calculation
collected the pay in advance, and then left
The result of the bank-tax contest in New York
city is that the county is to return to the banks the
taxes collected during the past three years The
amount thus refunded is over two million dollars.
Samuel Reardon, a thief, was discovered few
days ago comfortably domiciled in the spre OF the
Louisville Catholic Cathedral. He had two weeks
rations on hand, and got in and out by means of
false keys.
In the execution of two negroes for highway
robbery at Wilmington, North Carolina, on Friday
week, the rope on the neck of one became mis-
placed, and he struggled through gradual sufoca-
ton for half an hour. t
"A member of theatrical company playing at
Albion, N. Y, last week. accidently shot himself
through the hand, SCATTERING it badly. He contin-
ued to the end of his part without betraying to the
audience that he was hurt.
1t is said there are fifteen thousand working
men idle in New York, most of them ship-carpcn-
tiers, ship-joiners, riggers saimakers &C. Besides
these, there are large number of common labor
ers wanting employment.
An old gentleman living in Crockett Texas, is
the father of five children, four daughters and
son, who have all married in twelvemonth. The
old man himself has just obtained divorce from
his third wife, and is on the lookout for the fourth
The Musical Sengerfest to be held in Philade-
phia next July, will probably be the largest ever
gathered in this country. The printed music is
now being distributed gratuitousy and about 5000
singers in various cities have already sent in their
Names I
There occurred in New York, during the year
just closed, thirty-five homcides thirtyseven in
fanticides and sixty-one suicides. OF the latter
class twelve died by the rope, twelve used pistol
five took Paris green, and one Costar's Rat Exter-
mnator.
-Barstow & Edison, the runaway Boston mer-
chants whose creditors bleed to the tune of $15,
1000, are living comfortably at st. Lawrence Hall,
Montreal and have been joined by their families,
and under existing treaties defy arrest prosecu
ton for their swindles. n -I Ell e r SCI
Competence money flows in. Five different
comm nicatons, accompanied by money, from
anonymous persons who desire to relieve their
consciences, were received at the Treasury De-
partment on the 10Th ult. One person in Indiana
polls sent two thousand dollars.
The Richmond Dispatch says that the owner of
the farm known as Dutch Gap, finding that the
island made by the cutting of Buffers canal could
not conveniently be put to use without some means
of communication with the main land, is filling up
end of the canal, in order to create cause
way, and the canal will soon be among the things
that were. tl#
Fifteen years ago Judge Bryan Muanphy be-
queathed one third of his property in trust to the
city Of ST. Louis for the relief of poor emigrants
and travellers passing through the city on their way
to settle in the West. The present value of the
property is $3.50 00 but according to the ST. Louis
papers, the 'poor emigrants have not yet re-
ceiyed one penny from the fund. 4
On Friday evening last as the train from Rich
mond reached Petersburg, small boy jumped from
the truck under car, covered with frozen mud
from head to foot Aninquiry revealed that he had
slipped under the train when it started from Rich
mond, and getting upon the rcd which the brakes
are attached, had placed his arms through the
truck and in this position rode the whole distance
On Saturday morning as the eastern train on
the Shore Line from Providence Rhode Island, was
about mile from that city, the engineer discovered
| the body of man lying between the rails. Owing
to the icy state of the track, the train about
mile before it could be stopped when twas backed
| down, and it was found that the man was unin-
| jured. He was dead drunk, and the whole train
| passed over him without waking him from his
| stupor
| DIR. Whitbeck, of Hudson, New York, recently
| slipped upon the icy sidewalk, and, rolling down.
| disocated his ankle. He could not get up again,
and would probably have lain there all night, had
| OF horse which had got loose from astabe came
| nosing around where Dr. w. laid Selling the an
imal by the head, he was enabled to raise himself
| to his feet, and he then managed TO get on the
| horses back and ride him down to his Office with
out saddle or bride. ~
1 An Engshman idea OF America was well ex-