Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-10
oCURRENTITEMS.


Gently died?I2 edJ 1et u 5Sa1 D9oiioH
10 PaRIsi has aiwidow who has been mar
rled9 eleven times.nsb IGaol 9dI 10 Goi3q92
ae A MASSACHUSETTS paper, heads its cor
Tespon,dence lei -, from Chicago "iThe :. Old
HI THE Boston Home for Destitute Chill
drenireadized $9,13S by the Coliseum con
| cert. ~, ,o ,...s.,. ~ N, -
In Virginia, 4 will written wholly by
the testator" requires no subscribing wit
nesses., laqgi9ai9 ,p2 9ia.ovbh 2 n ;0G
:, A; NEW, ORLEANS letter-carrier claims
to have walked 10000 miles during the
last'eight years. ~ ''aG1D'e e g =
D IF is; said that suspension bridges have
been known in China for the past two
thousand years. v3 y r..,.'or - T..
A MONTANA girl rode ,sixty-five miles
on horseback in one night to wed against
the wishes ofhersparents 6 ,tsiJD7In9lT
~ y VINCENT CeLhYER Says the islands of
| St. Paul and St. George, alone are worth
the price paid for Alaska !.
ONE hundred and fifty:six married men
and one hundred and fifty five single men
have been inmates of the Washing ngtonian
| Home, in Boston. f..-,.s -. T
| THREE fine horses, valued at $500 each.
| belonging to the Fire Department Of st,
Louis, died recently, from the effect of
overdoses Of crotun oilo,ei9 e sogssr
A wEDDNGof deaf rmutes was one of
the. novelties the other day, in New York
The ceremony was performed both audi
bly, and in pantomime, and attracted9a a
large crowd. sf.,..r f..e, = n -fl,aoIf
A WORKMAN on the new depot at Ware
house Point, CT, fell distance of thirty
feet the other day, and Immediately got
up, lighted his pipe and tooka smoke in
honor of the event. 49,. \
The illness OF the Empress of Russia,
from which she cannot recover, is the re
suit of a cold taken at charity ball, which
she gave for the relief of the poor chill
dren of st. Petersburg TIo % ii ]assafq
1ON.and after January 1,dS7O, the sexi
change OF mails between the United States
and France will cease in consequence Of
the abrogation of the present postal con.
vention between the two countries. 59c F.
AN English jour al OF recent date con.
siders that there ware. only two persons in
the United States who had not communi-
Gated their views onthe Byron question
to the newspapers, and theyare.citizenso of
Cape Cod who had gone off mackerel fish
ing ten weeks before, and had not vet re-
turnedJ JG339Tq 9l'l - .27Gt "a h18', ,(a9n
"How EASY it would be for me to kill
myself" said Samuel Jones, aged seven
teen, the other day, as he sat in,the kitchen
Of his fathers residence, at Lynchburg,
Vas fourishinga a Derringer pistol, and
pressing it against his temple. The next
instant he had blown out his brains
IN Waltham, Vt.,. recently, girl s years
OF age, finding herdre in flames, with re-
matkable presence of mindsmotlleredt the
/ fire, and cutoff her burning apron with a
pair of scissors, while her little hands
\ were being burned to bisters, and not
only saved her own life, but that of the
baby also, by keeping away from it until
| the fire was put out. o-t s;., ..t,.- s.,sf
GREAT excitement recently prevailed in
IiWabash, Ind, over the enforcement of the
Sunday law. Men,, women and children
were indicted for fishing, sewing, knitting
and backing boots on that day. About
one hundred indictments were lately re-
turned into courtfagainst the best citizens
of the town, including several ladies'
Three colored BARRIERS were in the list.
| - A NOVEL shooting match occurred at
Randolph, VT, the other day A stake
was driven in the! ground eight rods away,
fand aoWheelbarrow was the missile. The
contestants were esuccessively hoodwinked,
and with this popular vehicle started for
the stake to- win a turkey. Out of large
number not one succeeded in hitting the
mark, while, the. great majority were no
nearer TO it on stopping than when they
started, and one wheeled into the river,
which was greater distance in the oppo-
site direction. r.,-s at,t ...,7. .a..,,s,4
ANDREW j. WARREN, of Greenfield,
Mass, recently charged before the Supe-
rior Court with asingle sale of liquor to a
State Constable, was adjudged not guilty,
through a. nice little dodge. The sale was
made by a boy employed by him, who was
instructed to sell only to persons whom he
! (the boy) knew. The latter testified that
hesdid not know the constable, and the
Court instructed the jury that, this being
the case, he was not, in making that sale,
the agent of Warren, and so the verdict
7of notlguilty was inevitable a.i jaa49ia
h! 4!THEi King of Prussia has. reprieved a
murderer sentenced to death. Thereupon
the Pail 1fdJJ Gogette INDUCED in some
pleasant sarcasm at would be difficult
to imagine case in which the royal
prerogative of mercy could be exercised
with greater propriety. Mr. Whitman had
ululucICu us lOuI WIVES, OJlC dlbeI Juc
other, and his two children; and the pain
full position in which he was placed, owing
to these acts of indiscretion being brought
home to him., naturally called forth the
warInest syrnpat1ies of all who value the
sacredness'of. human ife."iH o
AN historical roll of bread has come to
lightin Vienna. In 1876 the price OF
bread had risen to it's highest, and the
"rolls of the bakers decreased in size day
by day. One day anaaetor named Scholz
appeared in the Carl Theatre in a kind OF
chemisette, which excited general hilarity,
for, instead of being fastened with the
ordinary buttons, a pair of diminutive rolls
baked at that time were used for the pur-
Il pose Scholz was punished by the city
authorities for his joke. The rolls Of 1876
1 therefore, have become historical in
/. Vienna, and one of the identical shirt but
tons has been carefully preserved by an
/ antiquarian ever since. Not long ago the
/ city authorities decided to found museum
I of antiquities relating to the history O
4 the city, and called upon the inhabitanti
! to contribute to the institutions One o
the very first " historical " objects received
was Scholz's historical bread roll shirt but
tons, which, however. the authorities re
! 4 turned with the remark that they :wer'
! not going to begin a collection OF curiosi
, ! ties, but set Of historical archives