Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-24
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINeS.


Ray; VIM r. Alien Is writing the Els.
tory OF the DevilI" - W S
A BOSTON rubber house has offered
Weston $4,000 year 70 travel for them.
PETER CARTWRIGHT ID 80 years Of sge,
and still hale and hearty.
ANDRE JEM Kiosk, o pole 1O7 years old,
lately died In Hudson, MINI.
THE Albany gossips have engaged Gen.
eral Sheridan to daughter Of Governor
Fenton.
The Webb sisters are to play one hun
dred nights on the Pat i6c coast for $40, 900
In gold. - TN n ne q
THE Congressions : library contains
165, 457 Volumes, exc Gaive of pamphlets
and periodicals.
ELADsIT iTIsDALE recently died at
I Ridgefeld, Ct. His lame, spelled back
ward or forward, was ths saine. suf 49,
ROBERT TYLER, son of ex-Presidsnt
John, is editing the Montgomery (Ala.)
Adosrtiser, in which cGacs his daughter
Letitia Is setting type. .t... ..t.7. .,.
DICKENS has been invited to read at
Cairo, Ill, the pee. 10 of which city
propose to show q B "a that the Eden
Of Martin Chuzzlswit has got out Of the
swamp.
THE Daily Star mada It's appearance in
New York on the MOI Glng OF the 9th inst.
All Its editors, reporte "a, and printers, are
employees Of the old 8 }sass Il 10 "a tho In
terest Of the worlzingr en-,
A LITERARY being in Boston made pro-
| fuse preparations to dine Dickens and
made ready gorgeous viands and many
guests, but had his nose disarticulated by
regret at the last moment. 90 ~ sdlao.
| On the 18th inst, at meeting of the
New York Tribune Associations Trus-
tees, Horace Greeley was chosen editor for
the ensuing year. The Post Association
| has chosen William Cullen Bryant. sias
| COLONEL THOMAS Fl. RueER, whom
General Meade has appointed Governor
| Of Georgia, was formerly resident Of
Janesville, Wisconsin, and entered the
military service as Lieutenant Colonel Of
the Third Wisconsin Regiment. ',4us
PRESIDENT DAY, recently deceased, was
President Of Yale College 90 years DR..
Holyoke was President of Harvard 80
years DIR. Wheelock was President Of
| Dartmouth 86 years DR.. Lord, Of the
same Institution, was in Office SO years !;
DR.. Hopkins, Of Williams, has held his
present position 81 years. '''' 1d-'a sa
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/ PEsscellaneeMs ESe.as.
-Eighty-two suicides In New York in
1867. .4diezfi i1I t-|
The Pittsburgh Gazette is eighty.three
| years old. 'o - .'''' 81 o.
Maine makes $50 600 worth Of spruce
gum yearly. 3fo5ru 9.ao- truce jass
! Treasure diggers are at work in Haz.
ardville, Conn. ..-,. -. f.........,.,. ..i
The National Bank currency In cir.
culation IL $208, 82g,S1e. '''A '-.'' .' ''''
| lone firm in Castleton, VT, turns out
$4,000 slate pencils daily. & lei III
Twenty three thousand persons died
in New York city last year. ,.,l .'.s
Manufacturing towns show decrease
IN the consumption Of butter. -"'
| Three hundred million matches ere
used daily in the United States. Fl
| An Eastern railroad company adver-
tises that 1t "runs through sleeping cars"
| Mo Western State has 30 many pa.
pers, in proportion to its population, as
Kansas.
! Steel billiard balls made Of two semi
spherical pieces of hollow steel, are being
introduced .-.ga. .s t-.s.i III
Farms are renting in Bourbon coun-
ty, Kentucky, at from $4.50 to $500 an
acre per annum.
The Colorado Legislature has located
the Penitentiary at Canon City, and passed
the Registry law. l,f .s,....
Since the opening of the Iowa Insane
Hospital, LOAF patients have received Its
care and treatment t 3D.
The locomotive America, which took
| tc ri of tho EivTccifint1 q IN no
4 brought home and sold.
-Four hundred and fifty thousand tons
Of copper ore were taken from the mines
at Lake Superior last year. a.as .h. -
| Major Clobridge, at present in Gov.
I Fenton's Office, has taken the Farragut
| premium for left-h penmanship.
The New York police have orders to
arrest all persons soliciting aims in the
public thoroughfares and on ferry boate.
The Health Officer of st. Louis official.
~ reported 684 deaths from cholera, in that
city, from June 90 to December Z, 1867.
! During the day the inhabitants near
Fort Bridger, Colorado, akin the waters
of the creek and obtain kerosene for the
midnight lamp. ti tfs'# ."] r
senator Sherman has specimen of
1 It
I Professor Ruggles. On one side is stamped
"6 dollars---26 francs"
1t is now positively stated In New
York that Vanderbilt will put The express
companies off the roads which he controls
| so soon as he can complete his arrange
! rnents for SO doing. .'a~''r -.'' - 3
| Some idee1nay be formed of the mum.
Der Of our base ball players by the aot
that q single manufac.ory In Lynn, Mass,
made and sold thirty thousand pairs of
shoes for base ball players, the past sea-
! son. 63GS2 5a1 10 fasf}3& 'tbD4
Seven women in Maohias, Me-, wove
| twelve hundred and fifty-three yards of
| cloth the past season. In the same school
district, lady of seventy six wove six
yards one morning, and went visiting in
the afternoon.
The aggregate grain trade Of Buffalo
for 1867 Is 50,166,074 bushels, being very
much less than in 1852, 1863, and 1855.
The aggregate trade and commerce for the
year by canal, railroad, and lake is valued
at $3.50, 100000. m jr' Ia 81 die4. fj'
| Maine journals say manufacturing in
| that State during the past year has been
without profit. But few mills can show
new dollar for an old one as the result of
their operations Nearly all mills carried
| large stocks during the rapid decline In
cotton. 9 '''''
| The new State House of Kansas, In
process of construction at Topeka, pre-
sentg fine, appearance, and when COM
| pleted will have no superior in the West.
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