Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-03
Miscellaneous Kfemns. 8


ba8 ,3gGR.i9 lsf--od t9A6' sos
8 nj miscellaneous Kfems. SO
lone Thousand Indians still reside in
Massachusetts. esiaof ln29i Tas liag43 da
/ Strawberries cost ten dollars perq quart
in Washington City. Iw .19Gf@ T39
ia colony of one-wife Mormons areset-i
ting near Otter Tail Lake, in Minnesota.
& The proposed National Charity Fair
will be held in New York early in the
summer. g5a94seTg 10 ogaB4 9al ~
@ Counterfeit los on the Marine Ma
tional Bank, of New York city, are in cir
culation. s Mit ,s3 la sgoletY 81
The Fenian organization in California
is said to be now on a war footing, in funds,
arms and men. Il laat V3ai ds.fiH =,
a--Pennsylvania prisons are 80 full that
in all of them it is the rule to confine three
or four convicts in each cell. Fa
The Albany Journal states that Gov
ernor Fenton has finally decided to refuse
pardon toyoung Ketchum. ~p52 Isl
-Barnum's giraffe is not dead, as has
been reported, but is living and recovering
from its injuries at the Veterinary Hospi7
tai on Twentieth street. e laaff
The Connecticut election takes place
on Monday, April g. The vote last year
was for English, Democrat, 1855; for
Hawley, Republican, 46, 579. Majority for
English, 9S7. +, r1.r 81 E9e4 h.afr Of
The two early New England books
which now command the highest price
somewhere in the vicinity of thousand
dollars each-are the Bay Psalm Book,
1910, and Elliot's Indian Bible, 1868.
-" Jennie June" says the bills for car
rage hire for some of the New York
young ladies who go to ball or party, or
a reception every day or two, is often $50
per month, and she does not wonder that
pater fdnGlSas wishes them married, or at
least engaged.
The Cleveland papers mention an
alarming prevalence of insanity there.
The number of maniacs belonging to
Cleveland and Cuyahoga county, in the
asylum at Newburgh, the county Jail, and
known to be at home in the care of tLeir
friends, isreported at 100.
The Centerville (Md) Observer says
that thisis the year forthe temperance Of
These insects made their first chronicled
appearance in Maryland in 1899, and re-
turned every seventeen years after that
time. They last appeared in 1851. %.
The valuable sword presented to Com
modore Biddle by the Peruvian Govern
ment, which was stolen from the Patent
Office short time since, has been recov
cred by detectives. The diamonds, five
or six in number, were removed by the
thief Two of them have been recovered.
"A recent decision by Judge Treat, in
the United States District Court at st.
Louis, recognizes as valid the supposition
that the western boundary of Illinois is on
the west side of the Mississippi river, and
that the waters of that stream are wholly
within the State of Illinois, t'Ae =.
The jury, at Cincinnati, in the libel
suit, brought by M. w. Myers, claiming
$4,000 damages, against M. Halsted, one
of the proprietors of the CoDsnaercial failed
to agree and were discharged. 1t is un-
derstood that the jury stood eight for the
defendant, two for one cent, damages, and
one for larger amount. 4 zoe rvs 51 81
The new base ball rules for 1868 re-
quire that all balls used in a match must
be stamped with the size, weight, and
makers name, and il any other is used the
game played will be g null and void. !" The
new ball is smaller and lighter than the
old one, being but nine inches in circum-
ference, and weighing five and quarter
ounces.
-Grasshoppers have made their appear
ance. The Des Moines (Iowa) Register
says that they have already come out of
the ground in the meadows around Saylor-
vile by brigade millions-the surface of
the ground literally crawling with the
young insects. The cold nights do not af-
feet them any more than to make them sort
of " limp and stupid. roe 5l as7df
81 I'm Florida, near Ocola. there is q
spring of water that covers more than an
acre Of ground and is thirty seven feet deep.
A stream more than fifty feet wide flows
from it. The water is SO clear that the
form and color of pebbles and leaves
on the bottom can be distinctly observed
Steamboats, of light draught can go up the
stream fed by this source alone, and a feet
could lie at anchor in the spring itself.
2 An "extra was circulated in Hous-
ton, Texas, on the morning of February
25, which had been surreptiously issued
from the Telegraph Office during the pre-
vious night, with highly imaginative and
sensational headings, announcing the COM
mencement of civil war, the killing of Gen
eral Thomas, the captivity of the PresiFf
dent, Grant proclaimed dictator, men and
women killed and wounded, etc. In the
dead hours of the night it was gotten up
by printer named King. 49,. w.,
The demand for cheap shoes has been
SO pressing of late years, says the Lynn Re-
porter, that it has induced the most rigid
economy il the manufacture. Hardly a
scrap of leather is allowed to 90 to waste
The wagon loads of odds and ends made
in cutting, the refuse of splitting machines
are all worked up again into that kind OF
leather known as :" pancake This is
made by FASTING and pressing together the
scraps of which we have spoken. cd This
being rolled and dried, is made to do SER
vice, in the cheapest grades of shoes. as
inner sole leather, or as 9 lifts 2 for heels.
So skillful are these operations performed
that sometimes the substitute is, for some
purposes, almost as good as the genuinn
article. Some firms do large business IN
the manufacture of pancake" which is
accomplished by powerful machinery driv-
en- by steam. r.ea
"a "A report was published a short time
since that the wife of the magician, Ander-
son, had eloped with j John Norris, the magi-
clans agent, and taken with her about
So, 500 of her husbands funds. 1t was
added that the abandoned magician had
killed his child and committed suicide.
This part of the story, the Meadville pa
Republican says, was neat piece of sleight-
of-hand out of Anderson 8 usual line, but
quite as successful as any he practices in
his sale dia6olique.r Its object was to en-
trap the fugitives, which it did They,
reading the report of the murder and sui \
rJd 10 h h. horEx fro kr ND rof