Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-28

a DllnC man near Boston has tniTseS
blind children.
Central Park, New York city, has al.
ready cost over ten million dollars.
There IS considerable restitution in
Pittsburgh among the unemployed.
One Myers has sued the Cincinnati
Commercial for calling him gas-ppe.
"A total of 1899 families are furnished
by the Cleveland Poor Relief Committee.
There were recently forty patients at
the Binghampton IN. " Inebriate Asy-
lum.
"A divorce was granted at Terre Haute
in less than minute from Its commence
ment
"A seven months old baby fell out of
bed in New York, and was instantly
killed.
Illinois has 1924 miles of railroad,
built and equipped at q cost of $149. 540,-
$50.
Alaska is the name recently given to
a ship-of-war building at the Charleston
Navy Yard.
When the Pacific Railroad is complet-
ed, traveller may go round the world in
three months.
"A brook trout, nearly 1e inches in
length, and weighing ~ pounds, is said to
have been caught near MiddletOwn, Ct
The proprietor of skating rink in
Cambridge, Mass, was fined $50 and costs
for refusing to admit two colOred men to
the rink.
There Is said to be man in New
York city who has expended $4,000 on
tickets of Havana lotteries without receiv-
ing cent of return.
The revenue cutter Nemaha was
lately destroyed by fire while off Wicomico
river, in Chesapeake Bay. Two of the
crew were drowned.
"A New York paper says: cat ball
up town, few evenings ago, some of the
ladies had three servants to hold up the
train Of their dresses"
The mother of family in New York
city, unable to pay her rent, had her hair
cut Off, and sold it to produce the means
of satisfying the debt.
Young Steele, the oil millionaire,
VIII ose income three years ago was $4,000
q day, is now said to be teamster at the
oil works he once owned.
There is young woman in Batavia,
n. Y, who can play two airs on the piano
with her right hand, one with her left, and
sing fourth, all at the same time.
"A New York letter writer says there
are fully ten thousand young men in that
city between the ages of 20 and IS, who
remain bachelors because they can't afford
| to marry.
"A newly welded pair arrived On the
! Lafayette train at Indianapolis the other
| night, Of which the husband had, as judge,
| sentenced former husband Of his wife to
the penitentiary.
i'm Tuscarawas county, Ohio, few
| days ago, Solomon Bulrier, boy of sew
enteen, shot his head to pieces with mus
| ket, because his father and mother had re.
preached him for not assisting in the farm
work.
AS clerk in Syracuse drug store re-
Gently entered the liquor cellar for the pur-
pose of drawing some liquor, he discovered
large rat standing on his hind legs drink
ing whisky as it dropped from faucet,
that had not beer properly closed. As he
| neared the rat, he made q very awkward
effort to escape, but he reeled and stag
gered like drunken man. The clerk,
pleased with the comical predicament OF
the unfortunate "animal," allowed him,
after several zigzag movements, to enter
his hole.
AT donation party at the house of
Rev. A. P. Field, in Russellville, Boone
county, ILL.,, while party of fifty or sixty
were gathered in a single room listening to
music, the floor gave away, precipitating
the whole crowd into the cellar below and
enjoying out the burning contents of q
large-sized stove. Every mode of egress
from this unpleasant predicament was
shut off, and to add to the horror, blaze
soon became visible, caused by the fire in
the stove. Luckily, that portion of the
party which escaped, obtained water and
quenched the fire, SO that the others were
released without any serious injury