Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-02-07
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They have shad and strawberries in
Savannah, Ga. t
The Sitkans are rapidly learning to
swear in English. ~ ~
They arrest boys in Harrisburg, Pa,
for playing truapt.
Visitors are now forbidden to enter
the Hoosac tunnel.
There is but one white female in the
Kentucky Penitentiary.
h -NewgO rleans was recently reveling in
her first fresh strawberries.
Toledo claims population of twenty
seyengthousand five hundred. ~ rvfFt
The number of conviets now in the
Michigan State Prison is, 3d.
--Leavenworth has been mulct in 81 200
damages for detective sidewalk T64
The newspaper mortality in the
United States averages one a week. "a
"A Connecticut infant was SO unfor-
tunate as to be born with three noses.
4--4A man in New Orleans is under arrest
for assault and battery upon an elephant
"A lady of Chelsea, Mass, recently
gave birthdto a. triplet, one boy and two
thousand Odd Fellows in the United
States. .smqal ai1ie1q 1870 HR
Thirty thousand people are, said to
have persisted of yellow fever in New
Orleans. 81 itse biYon r}auo9 adl nj f:Uoj
The Pioneer thinks that there have
been 800 children born in ST. Paul during
the past year. i''a ett e-e FL na
"A lady in Minneapolis tumbled from
a second story window INTO snow bank,
without damage az sf,i Bow on
A wretched California miner, who has
hardly subsisted for years, has lately dug
out $4,000 in gold. f9q oaHsoaai ''it'7
Charles Dickens has given 1t as his
| opinion that the New York theaters are
superior to those of London. e
"A snake with "thirty-two rattles and q
button" has been killed near the line of
Adair and Sullivan counties, Mo. 'e'i
Judge Delahay recently admitted lot
of Delaware Indians to the full rights of
| American citizenship, in Kansas. ,.,t
A Mississippi paper estimates that one
| hundred thousand persons have been mar
ried in that State in the last two years.
John Schafer, the Parkersburg, Va,
murderer, had the heartlessness to act as
pail bearer at the funeral of his victims.
An Indian came into Cheyenne the
other day who had nine wives in four
weeks. He was supposed to be en- route to
Utah. ld1id 4rgg 1ea iaAIls dT segfa
| THE shooting of man (" carrying of
a rope having horse attached to the
end " is quietly recorded by Missouri
paper. ..4..-..5...f.-..fr. n
-Four feet of snow has fallen in the
| valleys of Southern Kansas, where it is
rarely seen to the depth of over four
| inches.
The Prince of Wales said Miss
| Schaumburg, of ii Philadelphia, was the
most beautiful woman he had seen in
| America.
"A Wisconsin girl, who became crazy
at the death of her mother, was immedi'
ately restored to reason when matrimony
was proposed.
"A few weeks ago five centenarians
died IN New Orleans, the eldest being one
| hundred and eleven, and the youngest one
hundred and one. 3s 7F
The Madison Qnd) Courier gravely
announces thai "a man in Indianapolis
has procured divorce by the payment of
a bushel of apples"
Three highwaymen recently "col-
Jared a man in st. Louis, late at night,
and got from him one comb, one pocket
knife, and forty cents. .f
"A State reform school is about to be
started at St. Paul, two miles and half
north of the city. The building is to be of
stone, and will cost about $11, GOO. :
"A school teacher out in Kansas re-
Gently got married, and very affectionately
presented the pastor with a Webster's
Unabridged Dictionary as marriage fee
An old Roman coin of the time of
Trajan has been found among the Macki-
nav Indians, who say they dug it up.
The coin is in q good state of preservation.
james Mathews died recently in the
State Prison Of Maine at the age Of sixty
eight years. Hewas committed August 8,
1854, under sentence of death for murder.
A Mississippi editor has been furnished
with an album quilt by the women of
his county, each one of them contributing
q part and inseribing her name on her
work. ya..i,.. s,s-,..,
"A man In Albany used kerosene in
lieu Of vinegar upon dozen oysters, and
tie "mouth" made after swallowing one
of the fbivalves is described as painfully
ludlcroQs.O1 lao 5jsr n d-ie Hf' i0aUi
Paul NJ. Burke shot his wife, in the
village Of bennington VT, firing five shots
at her, four of which took effect. He was
enraged at her for procuring q divorce
from him. fi.s,,, ...9.f az .oeca9ij
"A young girl named Jagepisky, com
pleted lately feat of skating thirty hours,
with but thirty minutes rest, at one of the
Skating parks She was not harmed by
her effort. so U0fi bl1Im3Z2 ~ 81 def
ba THE elephant Romeo, which recently
killed his keeper at Harrisburg, Pa, has
not been paciied. He is confined in q pen
of stout tiinbers and win allow no one to
approach hinsfl u o. sw9ss % iUd .T9i
A midnight elopenent in New York
was frustrated by q cat who frightened the
young lady into q fainting fit as she was
going down stairs to- meet the expected
lover at the door. a. j8,.fv r sed 1-,1.t1f
"A negro who brutslly outraged Mrs.
Brown in the town of Chenille, Science
tady county, NJ Y, a few days ago, has
been sentenced to twenty years imprison-
nlent IN The State Prison.
d The Columbus co.. Jomrna. says q
Miss Susan Trout came to her death by
over-exertion in skating. After cry Sc
we're exercise on the ice she fell into
spasms, suffering terribly until her death.
Several cases OF illness have occurred i'll
Columbus, owing to skaters sitting
down in the open air after being heated
by skating. 'o9 22a' i31H si- l2'
Foreign Gossip. ee.ss
Carlyle has been made Justice OF
the Peace. 1'i ''o ''