Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-07
THE Galveston Bu,lstiu announc


"A near-sighted gentleman paid Gin
cinnaJi shop-keeper fifty dollars for a hat.
He mistook it for a five, and so did the
halter, for he said nothing about it.
-Dissipated New Workers go over to
New Jersey to get intoxicated as matter
of economy. In the latter place the fine is
two dollars, and in the former ten.
The Spring field (O.) Republican, tells a
story of a COW being killed in theyicinity of
that city, from whose paunch large jack
knife, with the blade open, was extracted.
One of the largest real estate owners
in Mobile has deducted One-third of the
amounts due from his tenants on notes
given last year, and receipted them in
full.
Sister Eliza Jones, of the fEbenezer
negro church, at Richmond, drew revol-
yer on steward who accused her OF
robbery, and CLEANED out the congre-
cation.
Mrs. julia Jones, a married woman,
and the mother of three children, blew out
her brains in New Orleans recently, be-
cause her sister had gone to live in the
North
B ION an average thirty students gradu-
ate annually from the College of the City
OF New York formerly the Free Academy.
The College receives from the State $685.
600 every year.
The schooner Fleece, which arrived at
Pensacola from Havana, Cuba, with cargo
of West India fruit, presented an anomaly,
in having acolored captain and crew, who
own the vesselA~ e1 ..sls4 ss-assals~ ~ -a&s 81
"A shoemaker in Richmond finished
pair of shoes seventeen and half inches
long, ,and five inches and halfwide, for a
negro man. He will have to go to the forks
Of a road TO find a boot Jack. : = =
"A member OF the Kansas Senate, who
had been pretty strongly advocating female
suffrage, got a letter from his wife the other
day. Said his tender spouse, "Sam, don't
make fool of yourselfp
MIR. Joseph Shcthen, of Clinton county,
mixed preparation ofwhiskY land arsehiG
to cure the ague. His son James, a lad Of
"A, took a dose of theamedicine Saturday,
night, and was found dead on Sunday lhornS
ing.
@"Old George" d well known bay
horse which ad'been in the service ofthe
Michigan Central Railway at Galesburg,
Mich, for. over twenty yearsO died there
last week. The horse was forty -four years
The Canadian Gosernmene despite)ih,
promises, has decided not to enlarge the
locks or deepen the Grenyille canal The
work is really necessary one, when COM
sidered in relation with the lumber
'eN5Gov. Humphreys, IF Mississippi, ina
special message communicating to the Leg,
islature the southern plan for reconstruction
said 81 have no recommendation to make
on these propositions, as disappreve them
entirelyJ 6AQ4 Oh Cd III
"A New York dog fancler has been ar
rested on thelsuit of the, American, Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,
for cruelty to dog in training the animal
for a fight by forcing him to keepa wheel
in motion with his feet.
"A Clevelander, of statistical turn of
mind, says that over two hundred people
have been burned to death from kerosene
lamp explosions within the past two years,
and property valued at $6,000000 de-
stroyed by the same means. -,rr.s c~Tr~Y-7
From report recently presented to the
Massachusetts Legislature we CLEAN the fol-
lowing satisfies Whole number of towns
in the State, 1885, population, 1,266,699
soldiers and sailors. 146, 866 total State tax,
$2999,0 900; State aid 1886 1866
The ST. Louis Board of Trade invites
the Government to distribute from fifty to
one hundred million dollarsSworth of pro-
visions to the suffering poor of the South,
the same to be repaid whenithe) next cote
ton crop comes to market
The San Francisco Bulletin says that
there are facts enough to provenf" that
California is no longer devoted mainly to
digging gold, but can claim to have en-
gagged successfully in a greater variety of
industries than almost any other State in
the Union"
Lindsey, the child-whipper has been
decided to be of unsound mind by the ply
stefan at the Auburn N. Y. State Prison,
and will be placed at an avOcatiOn that is
not laborious. His counsel have made o.
motion for q new trial at the general term
of the Supreme Court, Buffalo. eg--s-- s7-=-
the jealous young man at Man
chester, N. H., who shot a milliner named
Bell, but injured only her steel corset
frames, then shot himself and was report
ed dead, is now said to be recovering, and
regaining his health under the nursing of
the woman whom he attempted to, kill.
MIR. Youatt, a famous veterinary sur
geon, who has been bitten eight or ten
times by rabid animals, relates that crystals
ofnitrate of silver, rubbed intothe, wound,
will positively prevent hydrophobia in the
bitten. True or not it iseasily tried, and
s>notqangerous. 81
"A gentleman in Oswego advertised a
lost dog, and the next day the animal came,
home of his own accord. And to come
nearer home, a shoemaker near the same
city, finding custom scarce, stuck up some
DOStors around town q few davs apO and
now his lapstone is red-hot by reason of
continual hammering.
"A singular accident happened at Ma
lone, New York, last week. A boy named
Hastings, who was sitting ona fence watch
ing freight train pass, lost his balance
and fell off; he struck his face down in the
snow, and slid head forward down the en-
bankment, under the wheels Of the train,
and was instantly crushed.
/ The Philadelphia Fleming 7s5egraph
says '"Jhe Fourth District of Connecticut
| is fated to be- represented by Barnum.
| The Republicans have nominated Phineas
T. Barnum, OF woolly horse memory, while
the Democrats have nominated William
/ Henry Barnum, an iron merchant.
81 IA gentleman was arrested and put in
the guard house of Savannah, afew days
ago, upon the charge of drunkenness. In
the morning it was discovered that the
prisoner had been suffering from an attack
Of apoplexy, and was not drunk when ar.
rested, and that he had died during the
night.
The Blackwell's, the Doctor and his
wife better known as Llicy Stone, attempt
ed to address public meeting in Princeton
New Jersey, recently, butwere silenced by