Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-29
CURRENT ITEMS.

SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, claims population
of $4,000. -: ..s+ XXX, ....s-.s..
BRIGHAM YOUNG is > asserted to be the
richest man in America. tsfg
A STATUE of Mr.. Peabody is to be
erected at Rome 10y order of the Pope. 81.
THE Portland (Me) tailoresses have
lately had their wages increased twenty
five per cent. vr.,.s... .,i 4o L..s !" e
DR.. HAYES brought over 400 photo
graphs of Arctic scenery from. his last
cruise iceWard. ..r4 Is ~, f-.f3 .op
THE male pupils of the Dayton (Ohio)
Deaf and Dumb Asylum have formed
themselves into base ball club.
THE Hoosac Tunnel was damaged to the
amount of $4,000 or $4,000 by the re-
cent flood in Massachusetts,.
| THE Hon. Amos Kendall has recently
contributed $4,000 for the endowment
and erection of mission schools in Wash
ington. o."
MARK TWAIN was told by the publisher
to whom he offered his first article, that
he hadn't " enough brains to drive mule
across ten-acre lot
A CITIZEN in Cheshire, Conn, recently
shot an American eagle in the act of
carrying off lamb which weighed forty
pounds. E'r-r ,a,.s
MIR. BERGH attempted to prevent q
pigeon shooting match in New York the
other day, on the ground of cruelty, but
was unsuccessful nt 4'yiii5N tt..
A DRUNKEN man was picked up by a To-
comotive going through Rochester, the
other day, carried some distance and rolled
off without serious injury. ~
AT Chateau Thierry, France, man en-
deavored to commit suicide by crucifying
himself When discovered his two feet
and one hand weresnailed to the wood, and
the other hand pierced, h fs;d 3
DIR. PETERS, of Hamilton College, has
discovered another asteroid-No. 100 of
the list, and No. 8 of DR.. P's own list.
The new member has the appearance of a
star of the tenth magnitude. 80
WILLIAM KNAPP's house in Woodford
Hollow, Va, was swept away during the
great freshet, and Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Potter, Lyman Knapp and Louis Rivers
were drowned. t3C9
REV. ORANGE CLARK, D. d., the oldest
Episcopal minister on the Pacific coast,
died in San Francisco on the 9th of Octo-
ber, aged ~. He went to California from
his native State, Massachusetts, in 1851.
THE Commissioner of the Internal Rev
enue holds that lawyer having two dis
tinct offices or placesof business, must pay
a special tax for each office or place at
which he does business. 81 2uh III,
A CHINAMAN in California thinks that
when one man is hit by another, and the
assailant is fined $40, the money ought to
90 to the. hit man instead of the govern
ment. This is the way they do things in
China. ~ lgs
A " MERCHANT prince" lost gold check
for $500 in Boston. An honest youth
working on a small salary found it, over
hauled the owner on Central wharf, and
restored it. M. ?. gave him thirty cents!
THERE is in London large balloon on
exhibition which makes short ascents for
the convenience of the public. 1t is con-
fined and hauled down by rope which is
attached, and the charge is from three to
five dollars each for ascending 1000 feet.
THE Norfolk Journal states the receipts
of peanuts in that city, from the 1st of
September, 1868, to the 1st of September,
1869, were 423, 1868 bushels, which, at $2.75
per bushel, would yield in money $1,164,-
248.25. His
IMMEDIATELY after the news of the re-
turn of DR.. Hall, the Arctic explorer, to
the United States, Lady Franklin sent a
cable dispatch to Mr.. Grinnell to inquire
whether he brought any journals or writ
ings, but received negative reply.
AT Mareuil, France, the remains of 230
Gallo warriors have been found, with
quite an arsenal of lances, javelins, and
axes, besides buckles, earrings bearing
traces of enamel, glass and copper bowls,
and quantity of hair pins.
THE missionaries of some of the stations
in Central China are assuming the cos
tunes and customs Of the natives, in SO
far as they can without compromising
themselves. Their object is thus to win
the good will of those to whom they
preach.
ONE of the Sandwich Islands claims
the biggest apple orchard in the world,
having one that is twenty miles long, and
from five to ten miles wide. The fruit is
the native wild apple, very delicious, but
very rapid in decay. Some OF the trees
bear fifty barrels apiece.
AT New Hampshire Teachers Jnsti-
| tute, recently in session, Professor Crut-
tenden, of New York, took strong ground
against the premature development of the
memorizing faculty, and affirmed his belize
| that "mental arithmetics" killed off more