Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE new Vienna Opera House cos,
three million dollars.
SPRINGFIELD, the capital of Illinois, has
now population of $4,000.
The Canadian salmon fisheries have
never been known to be so productive as
they have proved this year.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, Jr, was married
in Cambridge, Mass, few days ago to
Miss Virginia L. M. Hewlett, Of thai
place.
MAJOR HoUGHTON, a distinguished di
minutive at Newport, is 20 years old, 81
inches high, and weighs 40 pounds.
A SON Of Garibaldi recently graduated
from the Episcopal Seminary in Boston
He intends to 60 back as missionary in
Italy.
THE Crown Princess of Prussia is
praised for having with her own hands
nursed poor old woman, the victim of a
late fire in Berlin
NINETEEN millions of dollars is the sum
OF money to which a young milliner in
Fort Edward, N. Y, is reported to have
fallen heir. a
PRUSSIA alone, of all foreign Govern
ments with which we have relations, owns
house in Washington for the use of its
legation.
AFTER reaching depth of 3,8431s feet,
| the County Court has ordered the final
| stOppage of boring the artesian well at the
St. Louis Insane Asylum.
LORD CLARENDON has instructed the
British fleet in Chinese waters to CO.
operate with the American fleet in running
telegraphic cable along the coast OF
| China
A FRENCH company has offered to con-
struct a telegraph line from Lisbon and
| Gibraltar to England and America, on a
twenty years concession, without sub
| sidy.
A LONDON girl bought chignon which
contained the taints Of a leprous disease,
| which entered her system so that she
shortly afterwards died in great agony.
The few sparrows imported to the New
York parks in 1866 have increased to sew
| eral thousands, and are of great service in
| clearing the trees of catterpillars and other
vermin
A BRIDGEPORT, Conn, Oysterman re-
| Gently had strange haul. He fished up
| one hundred knives and twenty five pairs
of scissors. What caused the strange de-
post is not known.
THE contract for the consolidation of the
Lake Shore g. Michigan Southern with the
Buffalo g. Erie Railroad Company, has
| been ratified almost unanimously, by a
| vote of the stockholders of both roads.
| THE tariff on messages through the At
lantic cable was recently reduced to the
following rates: Thirty shillings sterling,
or $3.50 gold, for ten words; three shil-
lings sterling, or rs cents gold, for each
extra word Press messages half of the
| above rates.
| A YOUNG girl of Norwichtown, Conn,
named Louisa Dowdall, found spotted
adder coiled upon the floor at the foot of
her bed on arising few mornings since.
Instead of shrieking and fainting away, she
coolly went down stairs, got an axe, and
killed the reptile.
THERE were granted one hundred and
| two cases of ofdivOrce in Cincinnati last year,
and one hundred and nineteen were left
undecided. OF the whole number Ofappli-
cations, fifty four were made by husbands
] and one hundred and sixty-seven by
| wives. aa s -tfs
MUCILAGE of remarkably adhesive prop
critics is taken from the leaves of New Zea-
land flax 1t is to be largely used in Eng
| opes." When two pieces of paper are
united by means of this gum, no steaming
nor soaking will separate them
| PHILADELPHIA is to try to have a big
ger musical jubilee than Boston. 1t is pro-
posed to celebrate the centennial anniver-
| sary of the signing of the Declaration of
| Independence, on the Fourth of uly, 1876,
| by a gigantic music festival, in building
especially erected in FairmOunt park, ca
pable of accommodating 100, 900 spectators
and 1900 performers
AN immense block of granite has recent
| ly been quarried at MOnsOn, Mass. 1t is
| $50 feet long, II feet wide and feet thick,
| containing 15,400 cubic feet, and weighing
| 1,2S3h TONS To cut it from the rocks, 1,
| 104 holes were drilled on line parallel
| with the front edge. This ponderous
piece of granite will be cut and sent to
| Albany, to be used in the construction OF
the new Capitol buildings. >e
FRENCH and English engineers have
pronounced against the proposed tunnel
under the Straits of Dover. They all
agree that the work is quite feasible, but
they add that the cost of it would be ElO,
100000, which puts it quite out of the ques-
| ton, unless the governments of France
and England should, in the interest of in
ternational amity, think itright to proceed
with the work regardless of expense.
| ONE day recently two railroad accidents
occurred in New England-the first to a
| Connecticut River and the second to a Rut-
| land train. In one case jammed brake
man, hanging by the knob of car door,
said to the brother-brakeman who came to
his assistance: "Dick, if any one else is
hurt worse than am, help him first" In
the other case, the first words of severe
ly injured engineer were: Are any OF
the passengers hurt ?"
The London Times of August 10th, in
an article on the relations of Spain and
| Cuba, says that if it can be proved that the
separation of the colony from the mother
country is an unavoidable and not remote
contingency, it seems the height of mad
ness to carry on hostilities fraught with
ruin to either side. Were Spain quit ol
the colony without compensation, it says
thanksgiving for the happy riddance nigh,
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