Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-23
CURRENT ITEMS.

for two days, in a trance.
THE American colony in Dresden now
numbers 400 families.
Mrs. JOE JEFFERSON recently presented
her husband with little Grip"
HENRY WARD BEECHER announces that
he will not lecture during the coming
season.
SAKE is going to California with new
lecture, entitled "French Folks at Home.
A woMEN's suffrage convention has
been called to meet at St. Louis, Mo-, on
the 9Th of October
M. M. BALLoU and Moses A. Dow,
both publishers of story papers, have built
magnificent hotels out of the profits.
THE mother-in-law of General Rose
Grams died in Mexico on the 17th ult., and
was buried in the American cemetery, a,
the capital.
A LADY in st. Louis has promised q
gentleman that if she does not marry
some one else within nine months she will
accept him.
Bishop LINs has been sentenced, In an
Austrian civil court, to three months i'm
prisonment, for uttering doctrines sub
versive of public order.
A WESTERN writer says if as much at
tention was paid to improving corn as is
given to grapes, 100, 100000 bushels might
be added to the annual crop.
THE Daily R0p1oeZ and Receiz, the two
Radical papers of Paris, have been merged
into one, and are now called La Refornae
E0I6tGQate ct SOcSdJe"
THERE is lady in Sutton, N. Y, who
was married at IL years of age, who is the
mother of sixteen children, weighs 210
pounds, and is fair, fat and forty"
THE latest new State scheme is to sepa
rate the two western tiers of counties from
Arkansas, join them to the Indian Terri
tory and form new State with the capi-
tai at Fort Smith.
THE tt tai shipment of strawberries
from Centralia, ILL.,, this season was 497 ,875
pounds. About 5000 bushels were retain
ed by the producers for home use.
SwAMPs containing much vegetable
matter and lying generally level, with a
good outlet for drainage, and water above
them for flowage, are usually selected for
cranberry culture.
THE principal gamblers at Monaco are
Russians and Americans. Among the lat
ter are several ladies, who may be seen,
morning and evening, at the rouge ct 7aoSq.
tables.
AT the Berlin Lunatic Asylum are four
unfortunate men who believe themselves
to be Andrew Johnson, ex. President of the
United States None of them speak a
word of English.
THE leader of the rioters during the re-
cent terrible outbreak at st. Etienne, in
France, was woman, the widow of q
.workingman who had been killed by the
police few weeks before
AN abandoned city with fine buildings,
evidences of high agricultural prosperity
and extensive facilities for mining, has
been found on the northern border of the
State of Sonora
THE food given to the political prison
ers arrested during the late riots In Paris,
consisted of small plate of thin broth
and thin slice of bread daily Several
of these prisoners were Americans.
AT Manitowoc, Wis, few days ago,
Mrs. Gilbert W. Burnett had been making
soft soap, and left cup of lye on the
floor. Her little boy swallowed a mouth
full of it, and died the next day.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Montgomery,
Ala, Mail asserts that the cotton crop of
1869 will be one-third less than that of
1868. He gives reasons for this belief,
discussing the question at length.
OF the European sovereigns, King
William, of Prussia, is the best marksmaD.
King Victor Emanuel and Napoleon the
Third are said never to have hit an animal
while out on hunting excursion.
AT the Camp of Chalons, the Prince
Imperial fell the other day from his horse,
in the presence of the whole army The
Emperor, who was halting at his sons
side, seemed seriously annoyed at the ac
cident.
THE value of Canadian cattle exported
into the United States during the first
three months of 1869, was 1896 252 nearly
double the value of those exported during
the same period of 1868. "'~
THE St. Paul (Minn) Dispatch says
we will sen! to any address, without a
stamp for return postage, the art of max
lag money. To save trouble, we will state
it right here 1t is ad0ertising."
DURING the three months ending June
30, 7,542 arrests were made in Chicago, of
which 6, ,39l were males, and ISL females
1874 married, and 5,568 single The
amount of fines collected reached $47, ,870
THE convicts in the Connecticut State
Prison, at Wethersfeld, were furnished