Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-08

Miscellaneous.

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"A San Francisco vitriol-thrower has
got thirteen years in the State prison.
"A Maryland young lady has recovered
$4,000 for breach of promise
The new St. James Hotel, Boston,
boasts sixteen miles of bell wire.t 2
There are 100000 Jews in the world,
one-half of whom live in Europe.
A Canadian at South Vernon, Vt, re-
Gently ate three and half pounds of
maple sugar in twenty-five minutes.
Near Talladega, Ala, mail agent
opened all the registered letters and made
off with 81 900. -.--.---.-.-.- ----
= The buffalo gnats have appeared in
Northern Mississippi, and are doing great
damage to the live stock.
9 "A young lady, twenty three years old,
six feet two inches high, weighing 1928
pounds, is among the curiosities Of Chey-
enne CITY, T sH "a
The average age of the men who mar
ried in New York city last year was 31.3
years; the average age of the women was
1856 years. s7assg IS q IsaoFs g's't
Five thousand dollars, Mexican, were
lately unearthed on the San Jacinto, Texas,
supposed to have been buried by Gonzales,
in 1925 ~ ~ IL # -
Miss Nellie De Mare, of New York,
has agreed to walk from Jersey City to
Philadelphia, in 36 hours, for 81 1000. The
task to be performed between the 18th and
22d of May. as 3e3 taten -
The New York Nail says that not a
single instance occurred at the Dickens
dinner of intoxication or even of undue
exhilaration by wine. .si'e .'2s '-o '@
Governor Bullock, in message to the
Massachusetts Legislature, declined sign
ing the Liquor License law recently
passed, but did not veto it, hence it be-
came a law. al Is a59g ag& = Sf3 Uses
Judge Straub, in the Cincinnati Police
Court, has prohibited the use of the
words lady and gentleman in allusion to
culprits and their colleagues, before that
Court. aaw 88i a sa s5iT @a.g
.a Charles Bertel has been arrested in
Baltimore, charged with poisoning a boy
four years old; making him drink the pois-
on out of bottle; telling his victim that
it was something good. ans b
Recent advices from the Atlantic
Base Ball club of Brooklyn, render it prob
able that they will visit Rockford, ILL.,,
about the first of July, to play game with
the Forest City club. re asssa V 81
During the last twelve months more
than 300 cases of whooping cough have
visited the Hartford gas house to inhale its
odors, experiencing great benefit and fire.
quent cures ai.aa~v & Ii aSfas+5s 81 GE
The playbills of Fords Theatre, in
Washington, on the night of the assassi-
nation Of President Lincoln, now COM
mand $40 each, and are purchased at that
price by, /" collectors in New York city.
The end of the universe positively
announced, by an Eastern philosopher
and prophet, for October 2, 1868. This
will preclude the necessity of nomi-
mating candidates for the November cleo
tions. %'
"A National Temperance Convention
is. to be held at Cleveland on the Goth OF
July. All religious and temperance, State
and national organizations are entitled to
send seven delegates. As'ii% A - -
"A first case in litigation from Alaska
has recently been, brought to Washington
and committed to the care of Robert J.
Walker. Itinvolves certain claims to land
in the city of Sitka.
The Buffalo Express says: The Nor
mon problem is solved-Paris fashions are
finding foothold in Utah, and every Ell
der will be ruined in six months. Think
of one man dressing twenty women.
The national debt was reduced the
other day to the extent of $4,000, which
amount was paid into the New York Sub
Treasury, it having been bequeathed to
the nation by the late Ralph S. Fretz, OF
San Francisco.
in gambling saloon in Chicago, on
the night of the oath, man named Joseph
Bruce was shot and killed by Theodore
Cameron, one of the saloon proprietors.
During the affray a man named Patrick
Daley was MORALLY wounded.
A bold robbery was lately committed
on the Hudson River Railroad. The door
of an ernigrant baggage car was forced
open, the patent brakes applied, and the
thief got off with considerable booty ere
any one knew why the train stopped.
East Canaan, N. H., sent man to
Jail three years ago, because he refused to
pay tax of three dollars. After paying
$400 for his three years support in Jail
they have concluded not to undertake to
collect the claim and have released the de-
linquent. .t.....fs.a..
Under the new State Constitution,
Louisiana is to have 101 Representatives
and thirty-six Senators in its Legislature.
The Governor is to receive salary of 49,
600 per annum, to hold Office four years,
and to be ineligible for the succeeding four
years.
Spring Grove, the cemetery of Cincin-
natl, at present contains four hundred and
forty-two acres, including recent pur-
chase of one hundred and thirty acres.
By this acquisition it has become fifty
acres larger than any other cemetery in the
Omitted States.
1t is officially announced that since
the opening of the New York State Inc
briate Asylum at Binghamton, there have
been applications for admission from 30
clergymen, $40 merchants, 226 physicians,
240 gentlemen, 80 judges, and 1900 rich
mems daughters is 54 -. svas
An ill-natured editor of Hudson, N.
Y, says that the ladies of that place are
opposed to improvements in the city. They
object to have the street lamps placed in
front of their residences, for the reason
that under the full glare of them they can
not part with their beaux at night with a
kiss s8 .saalsr1 9tpa "a no7i g
"A circus and menagerie company,
travelling through Pennsylvania not long
since, mystified everybody in the various
towns by negotiating with the boys for
all the cats said boys could get. After a
while it leaked out that the cats were fed
to the lions! Cheaper and better than
beef.
Mr.. Upton, of Withingham, Vt, re-
Gently found mammoth owl stealing his
hens, and fed to the rescue of his poultry