Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-05-08
Industrial.

Providence is to have an Inebriate's
Home. h'a %
A mill in Pittsfeld, Mass, turns out a
ton of collar paper daily. "a -s1
The Temple Place Savings Bank, in
Boston, has 100000 in deposits.
-Davy Crockett's farm, of 1900 acres,
in Gibson. county, Tenn, is for SALE. ~
1t is officially ascertained that one
third of the milk sold in Boston is adulter-
ated. &c. -, .,...ss....f ~ s.-s,se @9 44
"A ship to navigate the air is being
built at Bethlehem, Pa, by Professor Lem
back aasa ea faa as' %
Massachusetts has borrowed $4,000,
600 for thirty years, at four per cent, OF
Barring Brothers, of London. e8N
The tax OF one cent upon each box
of matches, produced last year throughout
the United States about 81, 100000.
The public lands in Alaska are said
to extend to 365,000,0O0 of acres. Many
of these acres are preserved in ice.
Quite large shipment Of strawber-
ries, blackberries, etc, was received in
Chicago on the 22d, from the Gulf of
Mexico region.
| "A well-known horse fancier in New
Jersey has built Turkish bath in his
stables, and the horses are much improved
in appearance and health by its use.
There is large emigration this spring
from Eastern Massachusetts to Nebraska.
Many hardy fishermen from Cape Cod
and Nantucket participate in this move
ment. zaf
The Warsaw Wooden Mill Company,
Of Warsaw, Hancock county, ILL.,, capital
stock, $4,000, have filed certificate of
organization in the office of the Secretary
of State. % a-e
In Garden, Pa, it is reported women
are now employed as telegraph operators,
post Office clerks and ticket sellers at rail
way stations, and they perform their duty
very satisfactorily:
The largest nail factory in the United
States is at Boonton, N. j., covers six acres
of ground, and consumes 1900 cords of
wood annually in kegs for packing the
products of the shop.
Philadelphia has followed the exam
pie of New York and Boston, and has pro-
cured a charter for a society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. 1t was
formally organized April Is.
The Fort Scott Monitor says the Com
missioners appointed to appraise the Chero-
kee Neutral Lands in Kansas, will finish
their work by the 10th of June, when a
final disposition Of these lands will be
made.
1t is estimated that the income for the
Dickens readings in this country has been
100000; and rumor says that the great
novelist had contracted with London
bookselling firm to give the readings for
100000 in gold and his expenses.
"A gentleman in Mississippi has flock
of Angora goats doing well. The wool is
Gas soft and fine as silk, and beautiful
article of silvery whiteness" We may
soon be able to make our own cashmeres
and other elegant fabrics of the sort, and
perhaps at profit. 81
/ The town of Fitchburg, Mass, has
voted to purchase a lot containing $4,000
square feet of land for $4,000, on which
to erect a $4,000 soldiers monument.
The lot is located in front of the lot recent
ly purchased by the county commission
ers for new court house. ft
The White Cloud chief says that never
in the history of Northern Kansas has
there been such improvements in progress
as at the present time, and that if the work
commenced, there will be more land i'm
proved this year in Northern Kansas than
in any three years heretofore.
In Connecticut the oyster beds are all
staked out to different owners, by Com
missioners elected by the. people, under
well defined laws of the State. Every
man, woman and child living in the
State is entitled to select two acres of
oyster grounds, not previously appro-
priated, anywhere within the waters of the
State 80. 8...f.ffs,ts
'es Incidents and Accidents.
HOLSTERS and milk, in unlimited guam.
titles, killed colored man in New Haven,
the other day. j 49, ssa ,s,-;.s ~ g-4.ra.
Several families in Springfield, Mass,
have recently been made seriously sick by
eating unwholesome oysters. s M
Many animals were killed by light
ming during late thunderstorm in Mas