Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-23
Notes by the Wayside.

the beautiful and thriving village OF Dodge
vile, to Avoca, fourishing village on the
Milwaukee and Prairie du Chen R. r..
we were much surprised to see the differ.
snt modes of farming along the route
For about eighteen or twenty miles the
farms are splendid, and carried on In first
rate style. But shortly after leaving the
village of Highland, the country becomes
I ff1ore rough and broken. The timber is
the redeeming feature. By the way, the
people of Iowa county need never fear a
scarcity of timber. There is wood enough
for ALL But to 60 back to farming among
the bluffs. One meets great number of
OK teams, indicating that most OF the work
was done by oxen. AT one place we
saw two men, with sticks fastened to-
gether with piece of old boot, hammering
away at some bundles of grain. We
thought perhaps they were trying to
thresh. A little farther on we saw a new
Pitts Neutrality-suspicious.. 1t was stand
ing still, but was accomplishing about as
much as the two men.
We found the people of Avoca pretty
busy. Put up at the American House,
kept by G. Zimmerman. Had a good sup.
per good feed and stabling for our horse !;
good chat, and after all first-rate bed.
Politics are having a run here as else
where. Wherever Democracy is alive. it
is kicking, and kicking with might and
main. One would almost think it is max
ing its last grand kick How anxious
they seem. The truth of the matter is,
they don't like Seymour & Blair They
are not at all suited with the look of things
as they unfold day by day, and most of
them feel and know that it is impossible
to elect their candidates.
As to our county ticket, we feel confident
of its success. The Republicans are all,
in this part, at least, going to vote the
straight ticket; and many of the more
enlightened Democrats will vote for the
same tried men, regardless of party. Our
candidates stand in great esteem. We heard
it said by disappointed candidate that it
was weak ticket; but
They don't thank so Aerei
And, judging from the feeling expressed
in regard to tive should say that it is q re-
markably strong ticket. An accident oc-
CURED at this place to-day. A young
man named FAC Barnard was out shoot
ing, and in loading his gun it went off, Sc
verely injuring his hand and face. He
had a quarter of a pound of powder in his
hand at the time, and that helped to do
the mischief.
We called on Oliver Leach, who lives a
couple of miles east of Avoca-found him
at work in his brick yard, where be has
for sale lot of the best brick we have
seen in the county. After showing us
around, he invited US to his house, where
we were well entertained, and were shown
four Hubbard squashes, raised on one
vine, and, like the pumpkins, from " one
seed'-weighing in the aggregate ia
pounds, and respectively as follows Sc,
46, AZ, and 80 pounds. Is there farmer
in Iowa county who can beat that ?
We were very much astonished while at
this place to see that there were several
who call themselves men who spend their
time reading that cowardly ,abominable,
licentious, copperhead sheet called the La
Crosse Democrat. 1t is the most foul and
damnable sheet in the United States, fit
for no place-except two: the drinking
bells and the worst of brothels. And we
venture the opinion that any man who
reads it regularly, and 5elieces IN 1t, is a
black hearted traitor and scoundrel.3 1t is.
made up of lies of the basestE sort from
beginning to end We read onecopy thro',
and found it entirely void of truth.
AvocA, Oct Is. ct. W.