Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-31
CURRENT ITEMS IN BRIEF,
Miscellaneous Items.

| meuIS laSt year.
The first Virginia newspaper was i
sued in 1880. at $50 per annum.
The colored population in and aroun
Indianapolis is estimated at 5000.
Troy, New York, has accepted plan
for soldiers monument, to cost $50, 600
The Mississippi threatens TO destro
Napoleon, Arkansas, by washing it away
Minnesota had four postofices i
| 1853, but now has five hundred and thirty
eight.
The assessed valuation of real estat
in New York City for 1868 amounts t
1861, 497, $50.
There is floating bridge at Lynn
Mass, which is sixty-seven years old, an,
still serviceable. asi gT I.ifv -.s
| Cheyenne and Salt Lake CITY are fire.
| from rats, and probably the only cities il
the world that can make that boast.
By a recent Tennessee Dog law, eacl
family in the State is allowed one free O
tax, but all above that number must pa,
So each.
In Georgia, N. H., there is a pork tut
which has been used for packing porl
every year since the Revolution, and it is
good yet.
"A husband, on being told, the othel
evening, that his wife had lost her te uper
replied that he was glad of it, for it was
very bad one.
In the city of Boston there are 507
streets, and 499 courts and places. The
newly acquired Roxbury adds 107 streets,
and 101 courts and places.
"A new style of veil has been invented
,Itallows the lady to see, the covering fol-
the eyes being of different material from
the portion which covers the face. VI
Charles Francis Adams, Jr., styles
Boston, in the North American Re0Seso,
ga great satellite of New York; and" an
outlying province of Wall street." ~
The New York Typographical Socie-
ty own the identical press which was
pulled by Benjamin Franklin when earn
ing his bread as a journeyman printer.
A Cleveland clothesdealer has been as
sessed in $500 damages for locking one of
his customers in his store and refusing to
let him out without making purchase.
There is living in the sixteenth ward,
in Cincinnati, an old Frenchman who
stood near the scaffold where the great
French tyrant, Robespierre, was guillo-
tined, the blood of the victim actually
spouting in his face.
"A lady entered train at country
station, sat down with her back to the To-
connective. Finding her mistake, and not
wishing to ride Backward, she asked the
conductor if he would be SO kind as to
turn the car" He did not do it.. ,5E
Dickens writes home in his private
letters that his greeting in this country
has been surprisingly cordial and satisfac-
tory. At Boston it was magnificent"
and at New York splendid the audi
ences bright and perceptive; the general
delight was most enthusiastic"
"A farmer and his wife who live lust
out of Lee, Mass, have some queer no.
tons about life. They occupy separate
divisions of the house keep house" on
their own hook; purchase farm and dairy
products from each other as from strangers,
and exact the highest market prices
Commodore Vanderbilt, it is said, is
seeking to obtain the ownership or control
of the New Haven Road. He doubtless
hopes in time to acquire the whole road
between New York and Boston, and thus
own through route between the Hub"
and Chicago, ola the New York Central.
The emigrant ship Liebnitz, whose
passengers were almost decimated by
cholera, bad no surgeon on board, and
when the ,pestilence made its appearance,
It's poor v'ctlms could get no medical re-
lief other than that which was afforded at
,he unskillful hands of the officers and,
crew.
The Newark Sheriff gives as his rea-
ION for excluding New York reporters
rom the recent execution that, on pre-
yious occasion of that sort, when the re-
)orters were admitted before the prepare
ions had been made, one of the more en-
erpriSing woke the prisoner from sound
leep. and underworld to get his confession
Exclusively for his paper. ~
If you are weak, you ought not to
rink, for your own sake. If you are
trong, you ought not, by drinking, to be-
ONE stumbling block for those who are
weak. In either case young men do not
iced whisky. If they think that they do
hey ought to turn into hospital and have
administered under medical prescrip-
ion at the hands of a nurse - Henry Ward
3eecher. = '---
What do you think is the latest paper
evice? You know there arc paper Shirt
osoms, collars and cuffs; paper slippers
nd hats; paper water-pipes, well-walls, |
hip cabin panels; but the latest adapta- |
ion OF paper, however, comes from Maine,
nd is specially addressed to the ladies' It |
J hoped there may be no indelicacy in a |
nipple mention OF this new manufacture,
Which is announced in the local papers as
he product of Paper Pantalette Com
any"
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher says of the
item column " in the newspapers, "that
, is worth more than all the small fry of |
with an editor thrown in
D boot Like caravan, it stretches
long its columns, with packages and par
els, spices and gems, bits of fragrance or
wrought metals, gathered from
ne Orient and from the whole world be-
ldes The items of the paper, like the
tuffing of Thanksgiving turkey, repre-
emit everything in the house, crusts of
read, crackers and all spices."l
One of the japanese now performing
q Norwich, who belongs to religious
sct in his native country that obliges him
D indulge in meal of live Goals twice o
veek Thursdays and Sundays--enter-
aimed small party at the Wauregan
louise on late Sunday evening by the
erformance of this religious rite. He
ut up some pine wood and put it in the
sove, and, after it was well charred, took
out in pieces of about half an inch square
nd two inches long, and ate it down as
lough it had been confectionery.
The Boston Journal tells singular
DRY of one Henry Bowman, twenty-one
ears of age, five feet five inches in height,
nd weighing about one hundred and forty
We pounds, light complexion and beard,