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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

shnel Yoonyun Club wuz then in session
and wuz jest debatin the question whether
to change the name of the Club to the
Ekal Rites Assosiashen," the "Imparshel
Suffrage League" or the Radikle
Brotherhood! Third, that the oonserva-
tive clerks in the Departments wuz all
organizin themselves in Grant and Wade
clubs, and that already one Nv the Depart
ment clubs he'd ordered 1000 Grant med
ais, turnin in the old johnson medals they
he'd bin wearin as part pay. @a
:" Good Heayens!" sed His Eggslency.
swat else Good 700 expectY retOrtid
Randall, "we bot EN- cheep and they are
cheep men. may do the same thing afore
mite. The experiment Nv buyin up party
at SO much a he'd hez been tried afore, and
heZ alluz failed afore, very much like the
lice Nv perpetooal moshen. 700 ken git
considerable enthoosiasm ez long ez yOor
provender holds out, but then. The fact
is yoo didn't get no Republicans worth
hevin, and you amt Nv yoose to the Democ-
racy, be coz you coodent carry enuff NV
them Republicans over to do EN- any good.
My deer sir, yoor in title place. We're
retired physicians whose sands Nv life hev
neerly run out. | see afore me long vista
Nv privit life. sold myself ruther cheep,
and I don't complain. l hev about filled
the measure Nv my ambishen--people for
get in few yeers, and eff they didn't, the
Amerikin people won't be crooel enough
to hold my children responsible for wat /
hev done. Some Nv em-I hev keerfully
KEEP EN- away from Washington for neerly
three years-may yet redeem the name Nv
Randall, even ez worthy men by the name
Nv Arnold hev managed to live and be re-
spected-their virchoos more than balancin
the unfortunit name they wuz Gust with.
But, A. Johnson, yoor time is short. The
Republicans is furious, and the Dimocrisy
he'd ruther see it than not. /, too, will
visit 700 in yoor retirement in Tennessee"
&C More COY A. johnson in his eggsile feels,
Than fore the SENT laid him BY the heels"
By the time he wuz done talkin, the bal
ance Nv EN- he'd all left the room, and when
he wuz done he went too, leavin no one
but me. The sceen wuz efectin. Droppin
his he'd onto my buzzum, the scaldin teers
runnin down his cheeks, he exclaimed in
a heller voice, One by one they go. Mrs.
Cobb first and the balance immejitly after.
Oh, wat world is this!" 2AAsN7
draw the curtin over his greet. / may
hev to inanceer somewhat to hold my
place, but alluz respeck manly emoshn.
PETROLEUM ". Massey, p. M,
@ i. (Which is POstmaster)
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

4 HOME PICTURE-AGE.
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BIZ MRS. ANN r. PORTER.


I29 w 9flT 10 &c - 1lt@ %
BIZ MRS. ANN r. PORTER.
ss..-W -.ff
20 An old man sat by the chimney side tf
dis face was wrinkled and wan -, 90
o' And he leaned both hands on his stout OAK Ca
As II all his work was done. 4
.aa His coat was OF good old-fashioned grey,
"a - With pockets both deep and VIDE, Sass
.ioTa Where his specks and steel tobacco oCx tsl
Lay snugly side by side. @sa
On The old man liked to stir the fire,
-- So near him the tongs were KEPT ;.,s-.u.,-
~ Sometimes he unused as he gazed at the Goals
III 81 Sometimes he sat and slept N+
What did he see in the embers theres
Ali pictures of other years;
And now and then they awakened smiles
But oftener they started tears.
b. His good wife sat on the other side, se
1i"i In the high-back cane-seat chair, .5I,'gFlE
You see meath the frll Of her muslin cap
The sheen OF her si-very hair.
She wears blue checked apron now, ,s Z
nTA And is knitting sock for him ts3l5lA
- Her pale blue eyes have gentle look,
Vie And she ays-ssthey are growing DIM
Ike to call and tell the news,
And chat an hour each day, -
For it stirs the blood of the old mans heart
ams5sTo hear of the world away. ~, 1900
Be kind unto the old, my friends, +
They're worn with this worlds strife, "A
Though bravely once, perchance, they fought 4
The battle erst with life.
They Taught our youthful feet to climb
. Upward LIES rugged steep;
Then let us lead them gently down
To where the weary sleep.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
Foreign Gossip.

-Disraeli will he sixty three next Sep
TENDER. 81 81
1t took, four days to elect Mayor in
Montreal. ~ &F
Paris has now twenty-three horse
flesh markets.
Paris owes $175,OoO,0OO for Napoleon's
improvements.
Punch calls badly told anecdote a
"poor relation" a
"A Canadian recently ran q snow-shoe
race against an Indian and made two miles
in fourteen minutes.
Every line of railway in France pays
well, but in few years all of them revert
to the government
"A woman in England was recently
sent to prison because she went ever
bridge without paying toll.
BY the birth of son to the Crown
Princess of Prussia, Queen Victoria has
now twelve grandchildren.
The Protestant population in Italy
now amounts to thirty-three thousand.
They have been increasing very rapidly
of late. N N
"A man in Bradford, England, is
matched for e200 against e1OO to
jump over fnll-sized billiard table length
wise. II
* society of contractors and builders
has purchased the iron frame work OF the
Exhibition building in Paris for l,5oO,OOO
francs.
The London Times advertises TIC
invalid, hard worked and young clergy
mer., six hundred manuscript church ser
mf)ns."
Earl Derby, the late British Premier
is SO years old, and is the foruetn person
;, of his family who has borne the title o.
Earl OF Derby.
Turkish baths have been introduced
into the insane asylums OF lreiano, VIII
great benefit to the patients. The effect o.
bath is very soothing.
| Last year $4,000 letters, containing al
aggregate of $4,000 cash. were deposited
in the Postoffice at Gre.st Britain without
a word or letter of address.
"A literary society of Paris has raised
1 fund of 10000 francs, to take young au
| thors out of the hands of publishers, anf
enable them to publish works on tnelr OWL
account.
AT London, recently, two boys aget
eleven and twelve years wele Kineo py al
elder brother, whose object was 70 oecreas
the expenses of the households that hls IN
heritance might be the larger.
An English comic journal represent
"a gentleman at dinper, ladling up horse
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20


The direct results of Christian mis-
sions in India are of the most gratifying
character. There are now in India some
$4,000 communicates of all churches.
There are congregations of $4,000 people,
together with 200 clergy.
"A missionary among the freedmen In
Tennessee. after relating to some little
colored children the story of Ananias and
Saphira, asked them why God does not
strike everybody dead who tells lie |;
when one of the least in the room quickly
answered: Because there wouldn't be
anybody left"
Members of the Methodist Episcopal
Church in Indiana, favoring the admission
of laymen into the Conferences of the
Church, are to meet in mass convention
at Indianapolis, on March "a, to consult
upon the best means of advancing the
interests of the Church in that behalf.
The call is signed by 176 prominent citi-
zens, lay and clerical
IA Southern clergyman who off1ciated
at Cincinnati church two Sundays ago,
stopped in the middle of long and tedious
discourse, and raised his hands as if to
pronounce the benediction, to which the
congregation responded by rising, kneel-
ing, &c. But the motion was made only
to adjust his surplice, which being done
he resumed his discourse, and the congre-
cation, with general giggle, resumed its
position for listening. % 8@i%t
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

tell you. Der reason we call our boy Hans tina
ish his Nance ,.t ftas egas aed {15fis@
9 ADVICE is like snow the setter it falls,
the longer it dwells upon and the deeper 1t sinks
into, the mind 0teridQe. > 500 Ia .fssg
con, THAT my father was seized with
remittent fever!" sighed young spendthrift at
college. 5
A FROG does not remember when he
was tadpole, but others do.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
TO CONSERVATIVES.

The Rev. ED WARD A. WILSON will serd Gree
charge) to all who desire it. the prescription with the
directions for making and using the simple remedy By
which he was cured OF lung affection and that dread
disease Consumption His only object is to benefit the
afflicted and he hopes every sufferer will try his pre-
scrpton, it will cost them nothing and may prove
blessing. Please address REV. EDWARD A. WILSON,
No. l65 South Second street Wiiamsburgh, New York
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

The systems of signaling and tele-
graphing adopted by Government are now
uniform in both our army and navy. The
cadets at West Point and the midshipmen
at Annapolis receive tie same instructions,
so that when they become officers in any
conting ency Of land or naval service, they
will be able to open and maintain comnu-
nication, by codes of signaling and electric
telegraphy identical in their operation.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINes.
PersonuI and LIterary.

Personal and Literary.
BAREUM lost 100000 clear by the late
| fire. e ata
GEORGE ToPLEY, the English pedestrian,
has arrived in America. ~
| THE gossips announce that Miss Mary
| McVicker is soon to become Mrs. Edwin
Booth. #
A "BoY" in Brattleboro', VT, has at
| tended the same Sabbath school for fifty
years.
MR.. JONES, a promising sculptor, has
been engaged to carve statue OF Lincoln
for the Capitol of Ohio. -.....,-
THE estate Of Elias Howe, Jr, of
! Bridgeport, the great machine inventor, is
It ported to be insolvent.
| CRvILLE, OR "AwFUL" GARDNER, the
con verted prize fighter, is living in shanty
on tie shore of Cayuga lake.
IT is stated as a simple matter of statis-
tics thai Mr.. Sylvanus Cobb has written
over so miles of stories for the New York
| Ledger. aS
In Syracuse, N. Y, Charles Ogden won
5000 by jumping IL feet 1917 inches, and
turning and jumping the same distance
| back again. ~ aiaz
| VIM. B. AsToR has two sons, VIM. B.
| and John Jacob. They both work like
beavers in their fathers little Office on
Prince street. 9lkl E&tJlAfA b
EDWARD JUDsoN, son of the great
missionary, has been appointed Professor
of Latin and Modern Languages in Madi-
son University. sa.ss -es
PRINCE ITURBIDE, the heir of the un-
fortunate Macmillan, lives on George
town Heights. He is now between six
ard seven years of age.
A BosroN paper irreverently says that in
his photographs, Mr.. Dickens looked as if
he had been first put under an exhausted
receiver and had his soul pumped out of
him. - st6fH tkTsIYa
ONE of the postmasters in Chautauqua
county, New York, received his first
commission under the administration of
John Quincy Adams, and has held the
Office ever since.
PAIRING p. LANE, who now resides
with his family at Belvidere, ILL.,, is 101
years Of age, and is active and lively. His
wife is 81 years old. This. couple have
had twenty-three children, all of whom
are living, and in the enjoyment of good
uOoAVAs sss
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

The Patent Brass Metallic parts which last lifetime,
sent (wnere we have Agents with full insructions
agents complete OUTFIT by express, for S. An Agent
wanted in every county. Last year $50 agents were
selling It, making S. to SIS per day. AT our REDUCED
PRICES. every agent can do as well this year.
For full particulars send for rev Illustrated cir
culars naming the first, second and third choice of
counties. to CLEGG CO.. 207 Fulton street. (P. o.
Box $3.50 New York. Fe Ss 9ke @asWf
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
INFORMATION.

Information guaranteed to produce luxuiian
growth OF hair upon bald head beardess face,
recipe for the removal of Pimples, Blotches, Erup.
tons ETC., the skim leaving the same soft, clear and
ing THOS. F. CHAPMAN. CHEMIST. 1923 Broadway. N
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

TOGETHER, and the brush is SO
elastic that 1t wears twice as
long as the fashioned tied
brooms, sweeps with half the
effort, and does not wear the
carpet one-iourth as fast, thus
SAVING MONEY AND TIME.
Hon. Horace Greeley says !:
"I predict its success" The
American Agriculturist says
They are adopted rs a fami-
ly institution" The American
Institute Farmers Club says:
With Silver's Patent, a child
ten years old Can make a
,,arr hrnn m in ton anin11tan !,
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
HOGS ELEcTROlzED!

WEBSTER'S PLANS FOR LAYING 4
w Out and Beautifying Gardens and General
Catalogues of Shrubs Roses, Ornamental Plants, and
Seeds for the Spring OF 1865 now ready for mailing
to customers free md to all others receipt OF ten
cents. Address WM. WEBSTER. LAG State St., Roch-
ester. N, z. .......-.,~ tsslsf 64sas s5ft n
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
SIMPSONS SCIENTIFIC PEN.
SAVE MONEY AND TIME

By using the IMPROVED SILvER'S PATENT BROOM
Adapted to city country and warranted the CHEAP
EST, BEST, and MOST BEAUTIFUL BROOM in
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
Religious and Educational.

ReIigfOus and Educational.
The actors of San Francisco protest
against the repeal of the Sunday law.
in the Greek Church, none but wild
overs are eligible to the office of Bishop.
"A young man, discharged from the
Ohio Penitentiary, went to bookstore
and bought Bible and hymn book. ee.5
The BARRIERS of Des Moines, Iowa,
yielding to the wishes of religious people
there, have agreed to close their shops on
Sunday.
The Brandon, VT, billiard saloon has
been converted into place of prayer, and
the proprietor has fled the town for fear Of
conversion.
"A clergyman in town near Quebec,
whose congregation were lax in the pay
ment of his salary, struck, the other Sun
day, and brought them to terms. ~.
Cleveland has 43 Protestant churches,
with an average attendance of $4,000; Z
Roman churches, with $4,000 attendance,
and synagogues, with $50 attendance.
- 1t is proposed by some OF the Jews OF
New York to hold service on Sundays,
instead of Saturdays, in the new syna-
gogus which is being erected on Fifth
avenue. fft Efs.t 56A H 1
Bishop James asserts that the Meth
odists of the United States paid last year
So 100000 tax on the tobacco used by
them, while their missionary treasury is
$4,000 in debt. 9di to ~
lin the city of Lisbon there is a Portu-
guese congregation of sixty Protestant
members, who meet secretly for divine
Worship on SUNDAYS. They are mostly
poor, and are exposed to great persecu-
The Moravian Missions in North
America ere extending their efforts to the
far North, through two Esquimaux
brethren, in the hope Of bringing the
heather living there to the knowledge of
the Gospel. Ioi3 gita 10 "
The Chicago Adoance says Z" Among
the thirty thousand people in the four
southeast counties of Kansas, there are
but three ministers, one a Congregations
alist, one Methodist, and one OF the
United Brethren"
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20
FARMS {. FRUIT LANDS.

The Illinois Central Railroad Company have for sale
in tracts of 40 and upwards acres of choice
farming and fruit lands, all lying adjacent TO their road
For grain-growing. raising, and every purpose
profitable agriculture, these lands possess every re-
0usite OF soil and climate
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-20

-Disraeli will he sixty-three next Sep
TENDER. 81
1t took four days to elect Mayor in
Montreal. ~
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
Especial to the Evansville journaI.I

Especial to the Evansville JournaLI
INDIANAPOLIS, April 3-Articles
OF Association were filed this morn
ing of the Preston Lode Gold Mining
Company, with a capital stock of one
million dollars. The object is the
mining of gold in Parke County, Col
erado; the term of existence, twenty
FIVE years; the principal Office, Terre
Haute, and the stockholders are
Robert s. Cox, John S. Beach, 10
seph L. Boyd, James Q. Allen, james
Elliott and Holiday P. Newlin, the
first five being the Directors.
A meeting of the business men of
the city was held last night, which
was addressed by Henry @. Lord and
Gen. Burnside, on the subject of tho
Vincennes Railroad. The speeches
were well received, the explanations
seemed to be satisfactory to all, and
the proposed donation by the city will
probably be given.
A Grand Republican Rally will be
held tomorrow night in front of the
Central Committee Headquarters.
The Wide -Awakes will be out in pro-
cession, thirty-seven guns will be
fred, and speeches will be made by
Gen. Burnside, Gen. Kimball, Gen.
Harrison, and others.
Twelve large mail sacks full of the
La Crosse Democrat went through
here yesterday, bound for Georgia.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04

uOies OF the sn0rt-hand writer OF the
/ Whole speech and Of nfs transcript made
therefrom. and sworn to by him@Of the
| ~dostIt ution for that evidence of the state-
nant Of MIR. udson, as testihed to BY himA
/ ~ against the first principles Of justice or
/ OF evldencr He mas not testified now
/ much-of the report Is his and how much
lie reporter Johnson's; besides, 10 Is for
the greater part condensed statement,
directed By ircumstauces. The same OBJ
lection may be made to this second Herald
report Of McEwin, but to put in all the
others.
After considerable argument. Butler ask
ed for the decision of the question.
me Cn1ef Justice then said he could not
put all three OF the questions at once.
Butler then said-I Will first offer the
Leader report.
Chief Justice-It appears from the state
ment Of the witness, that the report was
not made by himself, but with the assist
ance Of another person, whose notes are
not produce !, or who is not himself -Dro-
duced as witness. The Chief Justice
thinks that the paper is inadmissable.
The yeas agqd nays were demanded on
the adfnissabilitY OF the report, and IL was
admitted-yeAs IS, nays 81. Howe and
Trumbull voting with the Democrats, in
the negative.
Butler then offered the report prepared
by Melvin.
Evarts objected.
Butler offered the report OF the Cleveland
Herald sa.
On motion OF Edmunds, the Court ad-
Joarned till tomorrow noon. The Chair
was vacated by the Chief Justice and as
sumed by the President pro tenn.
anthony called mp the resolution to as
sign place on the floor OF the senate To
Press.
A debate OF some length followed, in
which several Senators warmly advocated
the resolution as in the interest OF the
public, while opposition was shown by
some members on the ground that agents
OF the Association at the South had sys-
tematically libelled the Reconstruction
Conventions, and by others tecause the
Association did not furnish news to allpa-
pers IN the country.
. Without reaching vote the Senate ad-
JOurned TIL tomorrow.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
NEW YORK.
card of Daniel Drew.

New YcRK, April 3-Daniel Drew,
IN a card to the Tribune, says:
As for the recent issue Of bonds, it
was made by the Directors under the
very same law as that under which
the Central Road issued some mil
lions Of bonds few years ago. Their
right they believe to be unquestion-
able, aud they will continue so to be-
lieve until the courts decide other
wise. All the questions at issue will
shortly come before competent courts
Of jurisdiction. Should they decide
that the money intrusted to me as
Treasurer Of the Erie Railway is not
to be used fer improving the road and
extending its connections with the
Great West, but is to be paid over to
the receiver, / shall so payBit; if, on
the other hand, the courts decide in
favor of the Erie Railroad, its Direct
OTIS will endeavor, so far at least as
my influence goes, to make the Erie
what it ought to be, and what It's
managers have been for years seek
%g, under enormous difficulties, to
make 1.-THE best, safest, and cheap
est channel of communication be-
tween the West and East"
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04

CHICAGO, April 3.-This evenings
journal says: Reports from South
ern and Central Illinois are, almost
without exception, that the Winter
wheat passed through the cold weather
successfully, and promises an unpre-
cedented harvest. The farmers all
over the West are taking advantage
Of the unusually early opening of the
season to SOW their grain. If the
Summer will be anything like as favor
able for farmers as the Spring is, the
Northwest will astonlsh the world
with the extent of its crops this year.
The difficulty between the grain
shippers and vessel owners, in re-
gard to the question Of responsibility
for deficiencies on cargoes of grain,
is becoming more serious. At their
last meeting, the vessel men resolved
MOTTO take any cargOes Of grain under
the newly adopted bill of lading,
which required them to account for
the full amount of grain mentioned
in the bill. Shippers on the. other
hand stand firm, and insist on an ac-
ceptance of the new bill, and one
hundred and one of the principal COM
mission and shipping firms have
signed an agreement not to have no
dealings with vessel owners who will
not adoptft
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
MEMPHIS.
Meeting or the Arkansas Legislature
Organization or The House Ef-
fected-RepOrt that the COnstltu-
tlOn Is Lost.

MEMPHIS, April 3.-The AppeaPs
Little Rock special, Of the Sd, says
The Arkansas Legislature, newly
elected, met and organized to day at
the Capital. Jones ~ Sander, Of
Pope, was elected President Of the
Senate, and j G.. Price, Of Little
Rock, Speaker Of the House. The
result Of the voting on the Constitu-
ton, at the military polls. has not
been announced, yet there is no doubt
but the State has gone against the
Constitution by at least five thousand.
The Radicals, however, claim a ma
jority of several thousand The Leg
islature adjourned until tomorrow.
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
SCRANTON, PENN.
Burial OF the Victims Of the Coal
Nine DisasteF-StFlke By Railroad
Employees - Coal Miners on
Strike.

SCRANTON, Pa, April 3.-The six
Irish miners, the victims Of the Dia-
mond Mine disaster Of Tuesday, were
buried from the CATHEDRAL to-day.
Six hundred machinists, black
smiths, car builders. turner's, &c. in
the employ of the Delaware, Lacka-'
wanna & Western Railroad Company,
turned out to-day, demanding a re-
turn to the old wages, reduction Of
ten per cent. having been made on
the first Of January.
The men at Fuller's Mines turned
out to-day. A strike is expected at
Parish & Cunningham s Mine
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04
Brick Machine

Is guaranteed, with eight men and tive
horses, TO make $500 to $500 drst-clas
Bricks per hour; and by steam. 1000 Il
= 100 per hour, according to the facilities
for removing them. offer to demonstrate
these facts by machines constantly work
ing in this city. 5. W. W.JOHSSONt Agent,
81 woodward Avenue, Detroit, Mich.
fe90 d2pl ID
The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1868-04-04

AUGUSTA, Ca, April g. = Hon.
Linton Stephens and Gen. John B.
Gordon addressed the Democracy of
Richmond County last night, adYis-
ing the people to vote against the re-
construction constitution.
The contest for Governor Is becom-
ing excited. The friends Of Irwin,
the Independent candidate, are work.
ing hard.