Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-09-04
VARIOUS ITEMS.
VEsUvIUs is active again.

PRUSSIA mas l44 milllOudlToS.
RUSSIA boasts of more than 10000 pic
MICS
IT is now five days journey from Paris
TO Constantinople.
New YORK city consumes 2o,OOO,ooo
gallons of milk yearly.
MOUNT HOOP, Oregon, is said TO snow
symptoms of an eruption.
WISCONSIN has 600 Good Templar lodges
and 10000 members.
AN Episcopal church has been consecra-
ted at Cheyenne.
A TELEGRAPH cable is to be laid between
Denmark and Russia.
BAsLE, in Switzerland, boasts OF news
paper nearly 200 years old.
THE Rothschilds have come into pos
session of the finest blue diamond in
Europe.
FIVE hundred lawyers have been added
to the list in New York city within year.
No LIGHT is allowed to be carried in the
British Museum on any pretense what
ever
A WEALTHY New York gentleman is
going to get up banquet of horsefiesh
this fall.
THERE is in Paris one dry goods firm
that spends 100000 francs year for adj
vertising.
A RAKE factory in Massachusetts, estab-
lished last fall, has manufactured 100000
rakes.
ORANGES and lemons keep best wrapped
close in soft paper, and laid in drawer of
linen.
THE richest man in Manchester, N. H.,
twenty-five years ago, is now saving
wood for a living.
STAGE coaches are about to be started
by an American, between Yeddo and Yo,
kohama. in Japan.
A PRIZE-FIGHT for the championship of
England has been arranged between Harry
Allen and Joe Goss.
FORTY bears were penned into the Cal
edonian Swamp, G. W., by the recent for
est fires, and destroyed
OUT of the 100000 inhabitants of
Egypt, only ne-tenth are descendants of
the Egyptian race.
tirely destroyed by ball struck from a
bat, at Hoboken, the other day.
AT a ball given recently at Bath, L. l.,
Mrs. Barney Williams, the actress, wore
$4,000 worth of diamonds.
BRIGANDs lately seized an Italian tax
collector and obtained sixteen hundred
dollars ransom from his family.
EAST Bridgeport, Conn, has q miss
eleven years of age, shorter than Tom
Thumb, and weighing 65 pounds.
A MOBILE paper says of guitarist in
that city that his playing would give any
well-conducted saw-mill the toothache.
THE State system of education in New
Jersey is supported by direct tax of one
dollar a head on children under fifteen
years of age
THE terrible effects of absinthe, as used
by the officers of the French army, has
melted the government to place an inter
dict upon it.
REUBEN SKIES, of Bennington, Vt, in
recent fit of delirium tremens, chopped
off the hands and feet of his infant child
In single day lately ten children lay
dead in the vicinity of Corn Hill, suburb
of Utica, NY, from eating unripe fruit
THE Manchester Unity of Odd Fellows
numbered at their last meeting no less
than 100000 members, with a capital of
100000 sterling.
ACCORDING to La France, there is pro-
ject for marriage between the King of
Bavaria and the only daughter of the En-
peror of Russia
OSCAR BECKER, who, in 1851, tried to
shoot the King of Prussia, at Baden Baden,
died recently, at Alexandria. The poor
fellow was insane.
Two men in Kansas have paid $500 in
nnctc Of o,H 10
they could get Judgment on the ownership
of a calf worth seven dollars.
CINCINNATI pays very nearly million
dollars in salaries to the eleven hundred
and seventy-ive employees, from Mayor
down to sewer cleaners. 1-
THERE is an oak tree on the border of
Lee, NH, which stands in two counties
Rockingham and Staford-and three
towns-Lee, Epping and Nottingham.
A COUPLE of young ladies were arrested
in Leavenworth the other day for wearing
old-fashioned bonnets." The policeman
thought they were disguised.
A GOLD mine is reported to have been
! discovered in Tippah county, Miss, which
yields the fifty men who are working it an
average of So day each.
THE Legislature of Tennessee has
passed an act making habitual drunken
ness, on the part of either husband or wife,
sufficient cause for divorce.
New BEDFORD, Mass, in proportion to
its population, claims to be the wealthiest
| city in the country. One of it's churches
represent $7000,0O0 worth of property.
| AN examining officer proposes to SUBJ
stltute velocipedes in the army for horses.
He argues that they are much better than
the living animal for military purposes
TIN mines have been discovered in the
Pollock district, Summit county, Colorado.
There are two mines of great strength, the
ore testing, so report says, seventv-five
per cent. of metal.
THE Springfield CO., Republic says a
little child fell into well in that city a
few days ago, and sick man near, hearing
the noise, sprang out Of bed, descended the
rope, and brought the child up in safety.
A CONNECTICUT sportsman, who is adj
dicted to shooting out of season, says he
does not violate the game law. He only
goes out with his gun, and discharges it ;
when, if the birds fly up just in time to get
hit, they virtually commit suicide. 80.
ADUTcHEss county dairyman continued
to send milk to New York for several DAYS
after the Texas epidemic showed itself
among his cows, and even sent it from
some seven of them on the days they died.
He has been prohibited from sending any
more milk to the metropolis.
A GENTLEMAN was about completing
a co. 10 of 1,