Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-04-24

There is little boy ten years old in
Nashville who weighs three hundred
pounds. aaa
"A gentleman lately married in New
Orleans lady from whom he had been di.
vorced twenty years ago. .5s,s
w The women of Topeka, Kansas,
though not allowed to vote, have held a
caucus and nominated candidates for city
Reporters at New York are hereafter
to be supplied with badge to be worn
at fires, and the police and firemen are or
dered to let them pass wherever they
want to. ga ~ ,sfa a - p
"A committee of the New York Legis.
lature has examined and reports APPROX
ingly upon mechanical continuance for
taking and recording the "ay es" and
"noes" 4 r.
The Minnesota Historical Society has
come into possession OF q treasure, the
real and only scalp of Little Grow the
leader Of the indian massacre OF 1862. 1t
is tanned and will keep.
/ Two Texas negroes recently fought
duel about negress. At the first fire Elk
persons fell, one principal and four seconds
wounded, and the other principal knocked
down by the recoil of his musket. ~,
Some weeks ago, Albert Eastburn, of
Falls township, Bucks county, Pa, had
COW which gave birth to q calf entirely
devoid of fore legs. Tbs calf stands or
sits on it's hind legs like kangaroo.
BY decision lately rendered at Mont
gomery, by Judge Arlington, the State of
Alabama loses $4,000 advanced in 1862
to build an arsenal and manufacture arms
in the interests of the rebellion.
"A gang of burglars lately entered the
First National Bank, at Port Jervis, N. j !,
but notice. was instantly given of the fact
by an ingenious telegraph between the
bank and the Presidents house, and the
burglars were foiled. E 4ft r. II.
The belle of Portland, Me, does the
| cooking for her father and mother; and,
in the afternoon, drives out with the finest
span Of horses in town. A. correspondent
Gays "she thinks it an honor to be able to
prepare meal of victuals."
| "A lad of seventeen-she poor relation
of rich city people in Philadelphia-wh
/ had the misfortune to be taken sick on
their hands, died, few days ago, in the
carriage in which he was being sent from
the house of one relative to that Of another.
| "A publisher of newspaper out West,
in the first issue of his journal, returns
thanks to those who loaned him the pecu-
mary means, and gratitude to heaven that
there is no law in the State enforcing i'm
prisonment for debt.
,--Egesy afternoon says it is proposed to
have ladies' trains made separate from their
dresses, 80 that they can be removed and
hung in the hall, after being dragged
through the dirt, when the wearer wishes
to go into the clean drawing-room.
! John Magee, who died recently at his
residence in Schuyler county, N. Y, the
owner of property estimated to be worth
S40,000,0 600, commenced life without a
cent. His ownership Of Pennsylvania
coal mines and lines of transportation lead
ing directly to them, gave him the bulk OF
this great wealth.
/ The Erie Dispatch says that for the
last three or four years the water In the
lake has been gradually getting lower, and
now, at several points along the shore, the
lake is at least six inches lower than year
ago. Old inhabitants say that the water
in Lake Erie rises for seven years and then
falls seven years