Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-17
CLIPPINGS AND DRGrpENgs.
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Only 5000, 900 out of &c, GOO, 600 acres
OF land in Michigan are improved.
There are bogus Macmillan Mexican
dollars in circulation in New York.
"A Burglar Insurance Company has
been started in New York.
During the four months ending last
September, Boston bathed 007,201 people
gratis.
An American Eronautic Society is to
be established shortly, as a branch of the
English one.
A California Chinaman is doing a
profitable business in fattening rats
The Mormons expect to bring at least
10000 Immigrants from Europe this
twenty-five hundred gallons of nina
eral water are Slipped from st. Adams,
VT, weekly. -s.s
Indictments have been found at Rich
mond, Va, against thirty revenue officers,
for fraud. ssl3 81 st1s' g8ss73a K ssas8 gflT
Estimates of the amount required for
river and harbor Improvements for 1868
are $4,012, $780, sjsss sBtoY ieasaiN sag
d 1t is contemplated to reduce the force
of the New York State militia to $4,000
men. It's present number is $4,000.
ai Jefferson Davis and wife have gone
to Canada, there to await the next call for
his trialasls .essH .iirs6 IL &ss ssE3 10
Isl The Maryland Legislature has passed
the law fixing ten hours as days labor In
the factories in the State. 81 so aYs hiss
Two large ships are loading at Norfolk,
Va, for Liverpool, being the first instance
of direct trade since the war; ss@issalh
so-4Thes Maryland sPenitentiary being
crowded, Governor Swami recently par
doned SO of the most deserving conyicts.
-P ennsylvaaia has 542 lodges of Good
Templars with an aggregate membership
OF 30,000. 8 fs8 agss 4 sfa4aI4 frab
il IT twenty thousand Norwegians, Danes
and Swedes are to arrive in this country
this spring, whose destination will be
chiefly to the West. o,sgs sarFi re
Robinson, the circus rider, has been
sued ia Cincinnati by a mother to recover
possession of her children, boy and a
girl, who were being trained for the circus.
MIR. Greeley says he could not be pro-
vOked into suing man for libel he
thinks libel suits do not pay to either party.
This is the verdict Of common sense and
common experience. 80 .,st
"A Kentucky statute gives to the widow
and minor children of a person killed by
the careless, wanton or malicious use OF
deadly weapons, an action against the per
son committing the killing.
Prom statistics carefully prepared
from authentic sources, and reliable as any
other public documents, it has been ascer-
tanned that the average cost of strong
drink for each man, woman, and child in
the United States is taoe'aty dollars. % tgaq
90 "A "brilliant and lovely" young mar
ried woman in New York, aged twenty
five, now sports her fourth husband, hav-
ing sought relief through the divorce
courts from conjugal unpleasantnesses
three times since her first marriage, In
1860. b fsta.asa - {eysngy gd 5fdatsl
q, There is little town in Vermont
where the people have considerable fun
with their fence viewers" One of the
officers weighs three hundred pounds,
another is six feet three inches tall, and
the third is extremely small. 1t was re-
Gently voted that all fences on which the
fat man could sit, which the tall man
couldn't straddle, nor the little one crawl
through, should be deemed legal fences.
People who receive circulars from
New York or elsewhere containing sam
Piles of prints of which twelve yards will
be sent for a dollar, or ten yards for eighty
five cents, are advised to suspect a swim
de- The address of one concern issuing
such circulars was visited in New York
the other day, and it was found that the
place was in. charge of boy, and that no
business was transacted there beyond re-
ceiving letters, which usually numbered
from thirty-fve to fifty. a day. !. aa:t .e
The ratio of persons entitled to vote
to the whole population in Iowa, as per
last census, is 1 to 493; the ratio of actual
voters to population, 1 to 500; the ratio
Of persons between the ages of five and
twenty -one years of age to total popula
ton, to 2.65; number OF colored peo-
pie, 4,715; number of deaf and dumb, 1858 !;
number of blind, Ill number of insane,
GA number of foreigners net naturalized,
1860; excess of white males over fe-
males, 30,221; number of dwelling houses,
155, 758, for a total population of 902, 040,
or an average of nearly six persons to q
dwelling. y.Isb d Is sass8 aa loo a
- ass Foreign Gossip. m
as-Carlotta has sent Victoria lock of
her hair. sag aNgsaa E.lgats4i1s alaf
Drumming out is Established in the Brit
ish army. s9 4lgek sg;A aa sahf 81 leas
European physicians have decided
that, in many cases, consumption is con-
tagious. a8 q Naa Ei 2o &ff
~ ---Itis said more books are now pub.
lished in Germany than in any other
country. ~ b gsHss1s 90 q isvfs
There is laboring in China about one
ordained missionary to every four million
Inhabitants. 10 6L q ,saD6a Htss 81 "a
Mr.. Spurgeon's Tabernacle in London
now numbers 3, 634 members, the increase
for the year having been 224. haa.ss ss
--Of twenty thousand children annual
ly sent out of Paris in charge of hired
nurses, not less than fifteen thousand per-
ish. ss ssar nsat+ssaal ssssa -
An Edinburgh newspaper contains the
following advertisement Young lady
wanted, about seventeen or eighteen, to
go to a, ball on the 18th"
Mr.. Carlyle says of Disraeli, that T" on
the whole he is the flttest man for the place
because he is the honestest. He is scoun-
drel, tits true, but he never pretended to
be anything else. =
The Imperial library of Paris con-
tains ], 100000 volumes and $4,000 manu-
scripts In ali France there are 6,233, 600
volu mes. In England there are only l.
772, 600. In all Europe there are 20,O00,-
900 volumes.
Z In January last, Mr.. Maynard, while
crossing the ice at Quebec, broke through
and lost his DOrtmanteau containing ST.