Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE3Roman Catholics are preparing to
erect one or more free chapels in New
York city for the colored residents.
ID BONNER says that Dexter shall not race,
but that he will give 100000 for horse
who can do better than he has done.
SIXTY persons have committed suicide at
Homburg in the last five years on account
of ruinous losses at the gambling hells.
A LETTER addressed "E IS, lowhel
Neir Baston, hunted Stats merricay medel
sex TO-" has reached it destination.
Mr.. LORRuLLARD, of the yacht Meteor,
has issued challenge for an ocean race,
to take place this autumn or next spring
the stakes to be $4,000.
A BOSTON chemist advertises thus:
"The gentleman who left has stomach for
analysis will please call and get it, together
with the results -4a
THE population of the city of Roches-
ter, N. Y, is 69, 9,20S, according to recent
census taken by order of The Common
Council. V8 2
ONCE around your clinched fist over the
knuckle joints is just the length of your
| foot. So says a female clerk who sells
stockings. =
THE English papers express themselves
much gratiied at the manner in which the
defeat of the Harvard crew was received
in this country.
| Z CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE, it is reported,
has recently invested $22, 900 in tract of
land of forty acres and a handsome resi-
dence just outside of Washington.
THE annual reports of the National
Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows show that
$4,000 persons were initiated last year,
making a total membership of 100000.
A LITTLE girl in Laporte, Ind. recently
purchased copy of Webster's unabridged
pictorial dictionary, costing $12, with 240
five cent nickles which she had boarded
up for the purpose. i,
CHAMPION, of Wolfeborough, Me, bet
on the Harvards His champions lost, so
their Champion had to wheel barrow
load of potatoes to Pennington. He may
be called the Champion wheelbarrowist.
THE rising generation of Pigville, a
suburb of Hartford, have lately been dis
covered fastening cats together with fish
hooks, and allowing them to fight till one
or the other was literally torn to pieces.
A TELEGRAM from Portland, Oregon, to
the San Francisco papers, short time
since, reported that the Chinese there
were loading bark for Hong Kong with
a miscellaneous cargo of old scrap iron,
boxes of dead Celestials, broken glass,
flour, and other produce" ,
THOMAS FILLEBRowN has been clerk
in the Navy Department in Washington
for the last fifty-one years; and strange
fact it is, that for the last thirty years he
has never been to the Capitol except once,
when he accompanied his brother to wit
| tho lact nf prnci6nJ1t
Lincoln.
| A LETTER to Canadian paper says:
can amusing incident occurred at London
last night, after the ball. While Prince
Arthur was going to his carriage, a Yankee
| Prince pocket, and thrust his own into the
Princes hand. The Prince struggled for
possession for a minute, but our American
cousin carried off the royal handkerchief
as prize"
A CONVICT was recently released at Cay
enne, that had passed there twenty five
years. When he returned to France he
spent great deal of money, which at
tractcd the attention of the police He was
arrested, and it was found that he had
! found the money of the man whom he
had murdered q quarter of century ago,
in the same place where he had buried it
at that time.
AN old man, in Crawford county, Pa,
called "Crazy Odell," has for twenty
years, with necessary intervals for Sleep
ing and eating, walked in shine and storm,
| from Meadville to Penn Line, distance
of twenty miles. No matter how hard it
rains, SHOWS or blows, he continues his in
cessant tramp. The old man imagines
| himself to be the Duke of Wellington,
| and is always marching to the battle field
of Waterloo. s3f 9y3si 1aEaf5
AT Philadelphia, ON July 12, Georgiana
McCready, aged 10 years, was bitten by a
rabid dog, which was owned by man
named Helmuth. A few weeks ago she
showed symptoms of hydrophobia. A
physician was called in, butshe grew grad
| ually worse, until the night of the 22d ult,
when the paroxysms were so violent that
her parents administered poison in order
to end her sufferings. Helmuth was ar
rested. {t ~ .- t~..f,. ,.sf
THE Rev. VIM. H. Miburn, the "blind
preacher" has recently returned to New
York, after sixteen months residence
abroad, whittier he went for the purpose
of submitting to an operation for sight, by
the eminent Graeffe, of Berlin. The ex-
pertinent was not a success. Mr.. Milburn,
during his Absence has prepared two new
lectures" What Blind Man Saw in
Paris" and !" Blind Mans Experience in
Search of Sight"-which he proposes to
deliver during the coming lecture season.
THE Trustees of the Avondale relief
fund have adopted plan for the distribu
ton of the funds that reach them. The
plan of distribution for the first year is as
follows: Each widow to be paid the sum
,of 5000 in equal monthly payments. Each
male orphan child under IA years, and
each female orphan child under 16 years,
shall be paid for the same period 500, in
I the same manner Children over the ages
mentioned will be paid in full sum not
exceeding $500. Five thousand dollars
was voted to meet special cases not en-
braced in the foregoing. These provisions
are made for aid and relief till the 1st day
|, Of October, 1870, and will absorb all but
$4, 900 The remainder of the fund is to
be carefully invested in good securities,
that can be converted into cash when re-.
ltauired, and to constitute a permanent
fund.- divisible upon the following cases
| Onezthird to constitute a Widows Fund,
and the remaining two-thirds an Orphans
Fund.- From these funds widows and Or
lphans are, to receive quarterly payments
until the whole is exhausted.
| IN Paris, lately,a gentleman living in
the Faubourg Poissonere committed sui
eide by stabbing himself with a dagger
His wife, hearing him fall, jumped out of
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