Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-25
Incidents and Accidents.

hnCAGcmtS anu Acc1OcmGSs
An eastern paper, which has lately
exchanged presses, says: "We have sold
one OF our presses to go to India, where it
Will continue to print for the benefit of the
heathen"
| "A man in Hendricks county, Indiana,
| named James Adams, ate thirty two peach
| es. two of musk-melons, one raw sweet
| potato, and drank two quarts of butter
| milk. He leaves widow
Two nice young men of Virginia, Ill.
named Thompson, have paid $50 and costs
each, for breaking up dancing party by
sprinkling Cayenne pepper on the floor o.
the hall when the fantastic toes were trip
ping one evening last week.
On Tusday night, October Is, Mrs
| Rachel Tichenor, of Jacksonville, Ill, was
| crushed to death at the State line between
couple of freight cars, as she was passing
| between them to reach the passenger train
| Size was a relative of Mayor N. M. Broad
well, of Springfield.
| There has already been an incident &C
companied by the loss of life on the rail
road over Mount Gents The engineer put
on steam on going round a curve instead
| of shutting it off, and the whole train dis
appeared in the depths of a horrible abyss.
| Fortunately there were only three persons
on the train. ~
I'm Hartford, on Saturday, Mrs. Henri
eta Sterling, German woman, aged IS
years was instantly killed while walking
along the track of The Hartford and New
Haven Railroad. A gravel train of IA
| cars passed over her body, crushing it in a
shocking manner. No blame is attached
10 the railroad company.
"A Bridgeport paper chronicles I" sin
gular phenomenon" at the Clarke House,
Winstead, Conn. The. Rev. Mr. Williams
moved stove from his apartments to the
attic of the hotel, in April, leaving a
lot of ashes in it. When he restored it to
its place, on Monday, the ashes were warm
and contained several live Goals
"A collision occurred on the evening of
the 18th, at Albany, N. Y, just outside the
city limits, between the passenger train
west and a freight car loaded with iron
The engine and two cars were smashed,
and a passenger named Chas. I'll. Britton,
Of Chenille, N. Y, was crushed to death.
No other persons we're injured. Three
men who were on the freight Car got off
safely before the collision occurred.
On Wednesday evening, October 16,
a conductor on the passenger train OF the
Chicago, Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne Rail
road, missed, near Chicago, a passenger
whom he had shortly before seen standing
on the platform, He at once telegraphcd
back to the Junction to notify those in
charge of the next train. A lookout was
accordingly kept, and a short distance
from the Junction the body of the man was
found lying near the track. 1t was con-
veycd to Chicago. The body is that of an
old man about seventy, with gray hair and
clean shaven face. 1t was clothed in ~
black coat, light vest and blue pants, white
cotton shirt, heavy boots and felt hat
Religious and Educational.
There are over 100000 school children
in Illinois. M t-a
Baltimore has appropriated $4,000
for negro schools this year. lFk
There are fifty-four thousand places Of
worship in the United States.
Upwards of fifty new students are alrea-
dy entered in the Union Theological Sem
mary in New York. 3s.F
The second annual State prayer meet
ing of Illinois is to be held at Peoria, in
connection with the State Christian Con-
vention, Oct. 81.
The "Chicago Christian Union" is the
name of q new organization for charitable
purposes i'll the city of Chicago, under the
auspices of the Universalist and Unitarian
Societies of that city.
"A new Universalist Church edfice is
to be erected in ST. Paul, Mimi, at cost
of $4,000. The Universalist Society of
Milwaukee, Wis, has also begun the cree
ton of a church building to cost $25, 600.
Henry Ward Beecher, in his discourse
on Sunday, said that "Some men will not
shave on Sunday, and yet they spend all
the week in shaving their fellow men; and
many folks think it very wicked to black
their boots on Sunday morning, yet they
do not hesitate to black their neighbours
reputation on week days"
John Howe once observed two men
in violent passion. Their mutual ours
ing shocked his religious sensibilities He
looked at them, raised his hat, and said in
a solemn voice: ~,
pray God to bless you both p
This prayer so impressed the quarrel
some men that they ceased their strife and
thanked Mr.. Howe for his supplication.
New South Unitarian Church, aton
time the aristocratic church of Boston, has
run down to mere handful, and the
society have voted not to carry on worship
any more there. Possessed of valuable
property, the remaining members pro
posed to disband, against the earnest wish
cs of the minister, sell the property, and
divide it among themselves. This step
was resisted by process of court, and the
highest tribuna. known to the laws decided
that that the society cannot sell, cannot
pocket the proceeds, but arc merely the
Foreign eROSsEn.