Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-03-27
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Miscellaneous atemss
Cleveland is making iron for the
Pacific Railroad.
There were over 1900 births in
Philadelphia last year. 8 G
The Artemus Ward monument is to
be placed in Central Park.
An Albany physician says negroes
never have the deliriatna tre1aens.
The Aston estate is valued by one who
processes to know, at $144, 100000.
West Point has furnished 20 college
Presidents and 35 railroad Presidents.
The Wisconsin Fenians will hold a
State Convention at Madison, April IA.
-Arnere are IN Ohio 100000 children,
and but one-tbird of them attend Sunday
school. --
IA New York paper suggests that the
"game laws be 50 framed as to protect
Indians.
"A tax title question having been in
| litigation forty eight years in an Ohio
court, has lately been decided. ga.fw aO
An oil we'll in Pennsylvania has been
burning more than two years, all efforts to
extinguish the flames having failed.
| The Atlantic Works, at East Boston,
recently contracted to build engines and
machinery for ten steamers to run on the
| lakes. ~ K Sd
1t IS estimated that Louisville has
more attorneys-at law, according to its
population, than any other city in the
country. 1870
Georgia puts into her new Constitu-
| ton provision that no divorce shall be
| fn1 ,Nx1to so%s ~
two juries.
The business in distilling spirits COM
menced in Boston in the year 1700, when
West India molasses was converted into
New England rum.
"A man in one of the Hartford cotton
mills opened bale of cotton, the other
day, and found a wallet containing $4,000
in Confederate billsagidu0'l ts9d 9d'I
"A Cuba letter cautions American mer-
chants against Spanish doubloons of light
weight which have been sent to the United
States for circulation. = &(Ill&f
Brigham Young has advised the bish-
ops and Mormon people to lay up from
two to seven years supplies of wheat
and flour, as he expects great famine.
] Two hundred dollars year, each, is
| the. tax which Brigham Young exacts
/ from those men who prefer single blessed
ness to the state of poly gamical wretched-
j ness
1 The Internal Revenue Department
has decided that the proceeds of Mr.. Dick
| ems readings are not liable to the 3 per
cent tax which some assessors have levied
/ on them.
/ Michigan has IA newspapers, of
/ which 70 are Republican, and 81 Demo
| cratic. All are printed in English, with
| the exception of five in Dutch and three
| in German.
| Massachusetts, with $4,000 farms,
averages only "a acres to a farm, being in
this respect the most infinitely divided of
any State in the Union. Rhode Island
averages SO acres to farm. .rrr--1
"A Baltimore merchant, whose son lost
$1,370 at faro bank in Cincinnati, has
received a verdict in the Common Pleas
Court for the full amount, with interest,
against the proprietors of the gambling
house.
| "A man in San Francisco attempted to
| shoot fellow who had thrown vitriol on
q lady with whom he was walking. The
| vitriol thrower escaped, but the injured
man was fined $500 for shooting in the
4 Streets e5 7{ .Fg1FJ 1uc
During a recent food on the Moke.
lumne river in California, accurate obser-
walton showed that the water was four feet
| higher on the north than on the south bank.
An explanation of the phenomenon is re-
quested.
The consumption of manufactured
tobacco in this country last year is esti-
mated at 100000 pounds, which at
] forty cents per pound ought to have yielded
$50, 100000 revenue; but only $15,250,0 900
were collected
| No mind so bright but drink will be-
| fool it; no fortune so ample but brandy
will beggar it; the happiest it will fill with
misery; the firmest health dissipation will
shatter; no business so thriving that
whisky cannot spoil.
"A hinty critic of emo Thoroughfare y
informs the New Orleans Times that the
moon was not at the full November 80,
1885; in fact did not fill Until the 9Th of
| December. The Times thinks it is of no
use to be so particular.
| New York has Police Bureau
especially devoted to the finding of missing
| people. No less than 239 cases of lost
persons have been reported to this bureau
within the past four months. Of these, 80
were adult males, 30 adult females, SO boys,
and So girls.
The new Postofice Directory shows
that there are 25,712 Postoffices in the
United States in actual operation, besides
| over 800 in the Southern States that have
not been re-opened since the close of the
war. Of the whole number, 1925 are
money order offices, and about the first of
the coming June two hundred more of
| this class will be Opened 4
s. 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 the same instructions,
so that when they become officers in any
contingency of land or naval service, they
will be able to open and maintain commu-
nication, by codes of signaling and electric
telegraphy identical in their operation.