Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-10-02
VARIOUS ITEMS.
Ill "posted THE telegraph.

aye IuGIu.
PAUL MoRPHY has arrived home from
Europe.
ENGLISH papers call Reverdy johnson
" His Excellency."
THE Austrian Crown Prince is learning
the trade of blacksmith.
THE London post-office delivers 1, $780,
600 letters per week.
LoTTA's father has started a LIQUOR
store on Broadway, New York.
VIM. LLOYD GARRISON is writing his
tory of the United States.
ANY man would like to turn apothecary
when money becomes drug.
THE prize wheat crop in Georgia was
forty-three bushels to the acre.
ONE Troy druggist sold, during July,
over 10000 glasses of soda-water.
A LIVE Lord and member of Parliament
has been playing or the London stage.
THE Ohio wheat, corn and cat crop for
1868 is estimated at 141, 900, 900 bushels.
ONE of Landseer's pictures lately sold
at auction in London for 100000.
1T is not strange that when a man is
very fond of his glass he becomes
tumbler.
OOMhCDOhE 1NUlI dlu nluulG w
are to be married. Together they are
worth $250,000.
THE potato crop of the State of New
York this year is about 25,000,00O bushels.
THE New York Shipping List gives the
cotton crop for 1867-68 at 2,450,893 bales,
against 1851, 1888 bales last year.
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT keeps bank
account of over million dollars, which
he can check out at any moment.
SEPTEMBER 10, 1868, Chicago had on
hand 104, ,103 barrels of flour and 1 1,093, ,270
bushels of grain more than on September
10, 1867.
A CITIZEN of Brunswick, Maine, has
within three years taken 5000 worth of
squashes from little more than an acre
of land.
A JEW in wilma has been fined twenty
| five roubles for crying fire in Polish instead
Of in Russian when his house was burn
| ing.
A NEGRO, after gazing at the Chinese,
exclaimed, Z" If de white folks is dark as
dat out dare, I wonder what's de color of
de niggers?"
THE story is current in New York that
George w. Childs, of the Philadelphia
Ledger, has offered j. G.. B. $1,0000 900 in
gold for the New York Herald.
THE aggregate income of Adelina Patti,
from July 1, 1867, to June 80, 1868, was
5000 francs Her whole fortune is estl-
mated at $130,000.
A NAN in Cincinnati enjoyed himself
immeasurably on a terrible spree, and
shot himself dead in brothel at the pros
poets of being obliged to get sober.
BRIDGET O'TooLE, a servant girl, who
swan from Nahant and saved two ladies
from drowing the other day, will receive
gold medal from the Humane Society.
REV. DIR. BOND, of Baltimore, reports
that when in Boston he went to church
where he heard music which made him
wonder he got in without ticket.
A BRUTE in New York recently burned
three kittens to death, building a fire ex
pressly for that purpose. He was arrested
and committed for cruelty to animals.
JOSEPH LIvTcHAK, Russian editor,
claims to have solved the problem of nav
igating the air. The motive force is steam,
and the rate of speed. eighty miles per
hour.
A CUBAN vessel at Boston, the other
day, had on board several rough sticks of
wood, which on investigation turned out
to be nicely contrived boxes, containing in
all 1900 cigars.
DIR. HOLLAND writes concerning the
death of Adah Isaacs Menken "a story
is current, which / give for what it is
worth, that she laid wager that she
could drink given quantity of whisky;
won her bet and died."
DURING thunder storm in France,
gentleman who had gold and silver coins
in his pocket had the former electro-plated
with silver by natural causes-a phenom-
enon never before witnessed, we believe.
TEN employees of the New York firm
of w. & j. Sloane, carpet dealers, have
been arrested for extensive frauds on GUS
toners and the firm, by which they have
stolen 100000 worth of carpeting in the
last seven years.
In the Toledo Directory of 1853 there
were 5000 names. In the Directory of
1868 there are 22,500, an increase in ten
years of $50 per cent. The increase of
streets and avenues during the same period
was IA per cent.
SAVANNAH has erjoyed a haunted house,
in one chamber of which three raps re-
sounded every midnight. Nobody dared
to inhabit it until the mysterious sounds
were traced to next-door neighbor, who
always smoked late pipe and knocked
the ashes out against the chimney.
THERE is but one nobleman with title
in Norway. Years ago all titles were
abolished. That is, the possessors of them
could keep them, but their children could
not inherit them so the old gel-oration is
now all dead but one, and he lives at
Christiania, much beloved.
A WOMAN named Bridget Dunkley, prin-
cipal of Public School, No. 9, of Brook
lyn, has been arrested for brutally and in
humanity beating little scholar-a girl of
less than eight years-to such horrible
degree that the little sufferer died in con-
vuIsions few hours after.
THE inhabitants of two villages near
Acqui, Italy, having been on bad terms
for some time, recently delegated ten
champions each, in order to fight the mat
ter out, who met, well armed with pistols
and knives. Before the police could sepa-
rate them several were killed, one man
having twepty-seven knife wounds.
WHEN Jones was at Oxford he was a
most excellent fellow, and only had one
enemy-soap. He was called Dirty Jones'
One day the wag, Brown, went into his
room, and demonstrating with him on the
untidy, slovenly, and dirty etate of every
thing, said, "Upon my word, Dirty, it's
too bad, the only clean thing in your room
is your towelr'
THE clerk who could not afford to
marry had third larger salary than the