Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-02

/ Charles G. Woodman, well known
| Boston lawyer, committed suicide at the
Hoffman House, New York, on the 10th,
by shooting himself through the heart, in
his room. He was forty years old, and
leaves a widow and three children, Vicis-
STUDIES of political and professional fortune
had led him to believe his life failure
AS well dressed gentleman was pass
ing through New York park, few days
ago, puffinga freshly lighted cigar, he was
| accosted by ragged urchin, who desired a
/ light for well chewed and burned "butt"
The gentleman stopped, passing the cigar
| to the boy, who lighted his relic, and quiet
ly handing the latter to the gentleman,
made off with the good cigar.
A month ago Rufus Lord, of the cele-
brated Lord bond robbery, received from
an unknown source $l,4O0,O00 of stolen
bonds sent through the firm of James G.
/ Kings Sons from the London bankers,
Barring Bros, who had received them from
a London lawyer, who had received them
from the guilty party. Who that party is
remains a secret with the English lawyer
There is a space ore hundred feet
square in a court in East Eleventh street,
between First and Second avenues New
| York, upon which there are ten houses,
occupied by eighty three families, comprls-
i ing 366 pesons, of whom 176 are children
under fourteen years OF age. Twenty
three of these persons live wholly under
ground, while 242 sleep IN rooms which
have no ventilation.
"A platform on which man was en-
gagged in gliding the spire of church in
J Cincinnati, at distance of one hundred
| FoatF ,Oy, bn Ground
=. and the man fell part of thedistance, when
| grasping the lightning rod, he stopped i'm
his descent to almost certain death. Coolly,
4 by the aid of the rod he reascended, sd-
tjusted the platform, and went to work
again as if nothing had happened.
"A Middletown (Ct) letter in the New
| Haven Palladium has the following re-
1 markable story: During a recent thun.
der storm, large tree standing twenty. five
feet from the river, just below this city,
was taken up, with its roots and at least
| thirty cart loads of earth, carried across a
road, out over the river seventy feet from
| the shore, and there set down squarely
upon its roots, in some twenty five feet of
water. I.
| --Lemuel G. Perry, a student of Brown
| Univ ersity, died at Providence, r. l., last
week, of an abscess brought on by excess
i've exercise at the time of the University
match game of ball between the students
of Harvard and Brown, some two weeks
since, in which he engaged with great
ardor He had been a remarkably healthy
and vigorous young man; but after the
day when he engaged in this game, he left
| the house no more.
| Love OF "the weed" caused the death
of w. G. Mcdowell, Leavenworth law
yer, at st. Louis, on the 23d inst He was
i riding outside on the Southern Hotel
coach to enjoy his cigar, en- route to the
depot, when, at the corner of Fifth and
Poplar streets, the coach struck rough
place in the street, and Mr.. Mcdowell was
thrown from his seat falling. upon the
ground, the wheels passed over him and
Injured him so severely that he died in q
short time.
/ The family of Mr. Belmont, Treasurer
of the New York g. New Haven Railroad,
we're recently spending the summer at
Bacon Hill, Saratoga county, N. Y, when
their little daughter and her brother were
on a lumber wagon, to which a pair Of
horses were being attached. The girl was
trying to coax her dog into the wagon,
when the horses suddenly started, turning
the wagon over upon them, killing the
| girland injuring the boy severely. The
girl was about ten years of age.
The latest sensation, at Quincy, ILL.,, is
an experiment by a, travelling pedler, who,
by putting his arms. around them'a and kiss
ing them, succeeded in so completely mag
netizing German and his wife that he
sold them two linen table cloths for five
hundred dollars. The German, not having
the money, borrowed IL from a friend and
20, ba v1nI1or yhn o11dJar, N
Camped Mr.. Otto was unconscious from
the time the pedler put his arms around
him, and knew nothing of what he did.
A Milwaukeean has sued a young mar
ried woman, who had received his atten-
tions while engaged to some one else, for
bill of SOAPS, the amount he had paid
in her behalf in taking her to concerts,
operas, picnics, rides and ice-cr saloons.
AS an offset he credited her with sundry
kisses valued at $685. an unreturned
photograph and a ring-making a total OF
$3775. He recovered the bill the judge
allowing the plaintiff the kisses at his
own valuation. The case is to be carried
up. b.F -.efa2 .1.5ITGt.
The Putnam County (Ohio) Sentinel
says that a young man named Mcclure, o.
Kalida, recently swallowed a pinching bug
while drinking, and after enduring great
, pain for several weeks, vomited it up alive
The Sentinel says The insect was taker
possession of by number of the medica
fraternity, who intend examining into the
facts relative to its longevity of life ano
!, growth in The stomach Of the young man
The young man has rapidly recovered hl
t health" The story is very buggy, 1T no
fishy. IN u ~ es7 - 1921
The Young Mems Christian Associa
ton of Peoria have been furnishing thu
u postmaster Of that city with stamps K
, forward unpaid letters. A little slip stat
L ing the fact is sent along and small dona
ton modestly requested. Among thu
letters recently thus sentwas one addressed
q to Gov. Oglesby. The Governor &C
3 knowledged the compliment by letter
/ thanking the Association for forwarding
ed very important missive from the Attorney
> 4 General of the State who had neglected tt
. pay postage, and made them a handsome
donation
The Boston 1fdoelteJ of The 10Th inst
| states that lady in Reading, Mass, whil'
I conversing with some callers, student.
9 turned pale, and sinking into chair, ex
: claimed: "Did you hear that gun! l
affected me strangely )" and wept inconsol
y ably. Her visitors had heard no report
! and it afterwards appeared that no .gul
y had been fired at that time ON the place
News came, however, that her brother
residing hundred miles away, was at tina
y very hour fatally shot by the academia
J. discharge of his fowling piece, while hunt
Q ing in grove near his house