Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1868-01-10

The total loss of lives On the lakes
during the past year is reported to be
211--an increase Of just 100 over those OF
1866. "a
"A Georgian sold his cotton, put the
money in his pocket, and lying down by a
lire to sleep, awoke to find his money and
clothes burned off him. Eel
"A young wife in northern New York
threw bonnet and shawl into the river,
left suicidal note for her husband, and
eloped with another man.
"A deaf mute in Amherst, n. Il, has
during the past season, caught 1 ,128 trout
and 125 pickerel, with a single line, in
the ponds and streams of that neighbor-
hood. A GEIBFIC y E.EGI
"A partner in an eminent Boston com.
mercial firm, on looking into news
paper suddenly inquired, Who is this
Dickens they are making such a fuss
about?"
The glass works at Kent, Ohio, lost
ST 500 recently, through curious mistake.
A barrel of white sugar, supposed to be
its entire contents.
Mrs. Kitty Barrett, of Indianapolis,
filed kerosene lamp too full, and upon
lighting it the oil around the burner ignit-
ed and exploded the lamp, burning Mrs.
Barrett to death 2G"
An affectionate wife In New York
sweetened her husbands cup of coffee
with arsenic and eloped with his partner
The "pizen didn't take, and the lady Is
likely to come to grief. +r
One Hanson, clerk at the Trade
Palace, Louisville, was arrested, recently,
for attempted bigamy. He had wife In
Chicago but was about to marry another
at Louisville, o young lady of good fam
lily and fortune He had also family
in New York. He was quite a lady's
man. s.E. .,5.-.l. -.. s ...t......
"A boy in bt. Louis was carrying home
tumbler OF molasses, when he fell, break
ing the tumbler, a piece of which entered
into his abdomen, making very CHASTITY
wound, from which the entrails protruded
The attending surgeon said the boy would
live if he could prevent Inflammation, which
was very doubtful.
"A young lady, Miss Mary Grant, sit.
ting by the window of q school room, in
Mount Vernon, Ohio, few days ago, was
looking at game of base ball, when the
ball, by an unlucky stroke, was sent
through the glass, driving splinter of ii
into her eye. The teacher drew the glass
out, but the eye was sightless.
Henry Morrison, a laborer at the New
Jersey freight depot, while moving some
bars of iron, on late cold morning, took
up one so cold that it adhered to two OF
the fingers of the right hand, and when
he threw it down, 1t stripped the flesh en-
tirely from the first joints, leaving the
bones bare and rendering amputation ne
ccssary.
When Richard Pierce, printer, OF
Boston, worked off upon his hand-press
on the 25th of September, 1890, the first
newspaper ever published in America,
the General Court took the sheet in Gus.
tody, held solemn debate over the daring
disturber of the quiet, and voted that 1t
contained reflections Of very high ma
ture," and its publication was contrary
to law 1t was not allowed to appear
again. rgt- I4
"A lady not long since visiting GENE
terry, in Gardiner, Me, with her little
daughter, observed on one Of the stones a
neatly cut figure of horse. Wondering
why such an emblem should be used, they
examined the inscription closely, but could
find no clue to its appropriateness, when
died of nightmare" Notwithstanding the
solemn surroundings, the lady could but
laugh at the comicality of the idea.
james E. Engley, Of Providence, r.
l., and @. Dean, of Boston, have been ar
rested for attempting to defraud the Mer-
chants Union Express Co. of 100000, by
stealing from The safe, at Providence, a
package fraudulently represented to contain
that amount The package was sent by
confederates in New York, one of whom
betrayed the scheme. Engley was largely
interested in the Neptune Express Co., Of
Providence, which the Merchants Union
bought Out. He stipulated that he should
be retained in the employment of the
latter company, and at once laid plans
to rob his employers.
"A scribbler who is rambling around
in Minnesota, writes the Pittsburgh Osron-
acze the following description OF. the man
ner in which the Indians in that section
catch ducks: Get a large sized pumpkin,
cut hole in one side, disemboWel it, then
stick the hunters head into it, be careful
to have eylet holes to see out of it; then
take bag and wade out into the lake so
that nothing appears above the surface of
the lake except the pumpkin, stand still,
soon the ducks will gather around the
pumpkin, and they peck slyly take them
by. the legs and pull them under and
bag them, The bag full, make your way
to shore. Some may laugh and think this
smacks of hoax. Slightly mistaken my
friends. 1t only exemplities the cunning
of the Indian, and the Stiffness of the
ducks.
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