Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

TIE Jews of Cincinnati own $1O, 600
| of property.
LAMARTINE's old buggy sold in Paris
| for sixty dollars. 80 e a3aai saa
MILWAUKEE has been importing spar
rows to clear her shade trees of worms
A CONNECTICUT man went to Ohio fifty.
| nine years ago, in AZ days. Recently he
returned in twenty-seven hours. e m
fLUcAs, the ion-tamer, who was attacked
by lioness during a performance at the
Paris Hippodrome, has died OF hls
wounds 7e2-ss es3 llii2 sta q
PROFESSOR ELTON, of Brown University
has founded thousand dollar scholarship
| in that institution in memory OF his wife
THE parties who leased the fence around
the new postoffice works in New York, for
two years at $4,000, expect to realize
$22O,00O. 30 l3 ss2 2as7aaa
| A RHEUMATIC San Franciscan, ,bathed his
aching joints in coal oil and then tried to
light his pipe. A friend put him out with
a carpet.
| AT the last meeting of the class of 1888,
Yale, fifteen were present, and OF this
number four reported ten children each.
THE Medical Faculty of Paris have re-
Gently conferred the degree of doctor OF
medicine aupon three ladies-a French
woman, Russian and an American. ra
ONE of the London papers accuses
Prince Alfred, when he was MILDLY,
with hawking photographs of his royal
mother among his fellow-midshipmen.s
A MAN in Texas being bitten on the foot
by tarrantula, his foot and leg at once
began to swell and pain him terribly, and
in five hours he died.
CALIFORNIA has also a female heroine,
who has saved nine or ten lives, but her
name will kill her prospects" Big Mouth
Moll"
THE London General Omnibus Com
pany reports that the number of passen-
gers carried during the half year ending
July 1, 1869, was 20,157, 1926, against 3d.
l313,S12 for the half year ending July 1,
1868. a
DAVIS Harris little six year old son
was run over at East Boston a few days
ago, and injured so that he died in an hour.
When his father arrived at the scene of
the disaster, the child said, "Don't whip
me, father, I'll never do SO again"
THE New York Commercial .Adyertiser
states that prominent merchant of that
city who is sane has been placed in the
Bloomingdale Asylum to prevent his re-
vealing family secret. He has since been
declared sane and released by the courts.
SINCE The government began to print
currency, Treasury detectives have cap
| tured about one hundred counterfeit plates
of all kinds. Orders have been given to
melt them, with the exception of two or
three, reserved on account of unusual fea-
lures.
A WOMAN in West Stamford, Conn, re-
Gently picked from one stalk, raised from q
single pea, one hundred and eight pods,
and there were forty five more that would
be ready to pick in day or two. Besides
these, there were numerous blossoms on
the same vine.
THE principal German watering places
have been visited during the season just
closed in numbers as follows Wildbad,
2,972; Wildungen, 640 Elms, 1896; 70
plitz, 1,1S3; Maribad, 1894 Kissengen,
4,943; Carlsbad, 11,15O, and Baden Baden,
81, 1854.
IT is said by an old trapper in the Rocky
mountains, that the winds are milder and
damper than formerly. 1t seems, too that
the fall of rain is more frequent and CO.
pious in Utah and other parts of the far
west than formerly, and the rivers have
increased in volume
A PRIVATE letter from Canadian gen.
tleman to friend in New York states
that Prince Arthur, moved by the express
sion of good will and friendship which
| the American newspapers have been
pleased to utter, has resolved upon paying
visit to the States in the course of the
winter.
| A FEW days ago little daughter of DR..
M. Bratt, Of Maysville, KY, while playing
hide-and go-seek," conceived the idea of
secreting herself in a trunk. She closed
| the lid, and, as the trunk was supplied
with spring lock, she was securely fast
ened therein. When found she was near
| ly suffocated.
A GOOD citizen of London, Ontario,
who pulled the ear of small boy in
church to keep him quiet, has been fined
ST. for the offense by a Magistrate, who
considered that an assault had been COM
mitted, in that the pulling of the boys
ear was unnecessary, and seemed to have
been done for punishment.
WATER is SO scarce in Philadelphia that
the milk is spoilt. The Philadelphians
complain that a thick yellow scum accu-
mulates on its surface, which they don't
remember to have seen when water was
| plentiful The milkmen preserve an OBJ
stinate silence, and are equally surprised
with their customers. q
A CORRESPONDENT in Japan says that
there is, a few miles from Yokohama, an
enormous bronze statue forty feet high,
of noted japanese warrior named
Diaboots. 1t was erected in the eleventh
century. 1t is formed of large plates of
bronze, skillfully joined together, and the
storms of eight centuries have made but
little impression upon it.
Mr. BENNEsoN, an Englishman, who had
padded canoe up the Rhine and down
the Danube and Volga, has started for a
similar journey from New York to New
Orleans He will go by river and canal to
Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington,
to Pittsburgh; thence by the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers to New Orleans, and
1 thence to Galveston or some other Texan
port. 1a
JEAN MATHIA, of San Francisco, met his
death in a most summary manner, a few
days ago. A very large OK was being
drawn by windlass to the ring in q
slaughter house, where Jean stood ready
to knock him down. The OK struggled
fearfully, and finally broke the rope, and
as soon as he could recover his balance he
made lunge at the butcher, pinning hin
through the heart to the wall, and killing
him instantly.
THE General Land Office IS in receipt o
| ratrrnc from tho fo1louino district lanf