Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-17
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| 5it GiH3!1 OC1SSLNI l1LNAcsN1 ~ ~,
IDA LEWIS is to have a homestead joi"
ROSE SADNEAU, Hungarian girl, has
murdered 40 Austrian officers. g 3la i!;g
| 4. It is said that Victoria can run "a sewing
machine as well as. an Empire.
GEO. PEABODY has gone to Salem, Mass.
His health is very much Improved @sis
| MARRIAGE of first cousins Willgbe ine-
gal in New Hampshire on Christmas and
| Iithereafter. yqe.., ia -a,f H..
| MORE deaths by drowning from surf
| bathing have been reported this year than
| during any previous one. Eo5G ;ehiT1 i1
iaa IT is libelous in England to call a man
" no gentleman, with intent to bring him
into contempt.
THE University of Deseret, in Salt Lake
City, contains 1923 students, offwhom 100
are males ds103 females. 1,sfsn.., avn.
IT is said by California paper that
General Rosecfans will make five millions
out of his mining speculations. Z
IS Rev. OLYMPIA Brown has commenced
her labors as settled pastor of the Univer
salist Church at Bridgeport, Conn., 9di
THE water power of Niagara Falls is
/ said to be sufficient to perform all the
manual labor of the State of iNew'Yor
The Revenue Bureau publishes an iesti-
mate that there are c79, ,000000 'gallons Of
whisky in the bonded warehouses of the
country. hag ~ 'aoj e1"i 5a5 ,eiTA
+ The Mount Gents tunnel will be coms
pleted, it is now confidently asserted, in
1879, when trains will pass through the
zAlps direct from Paris toiTurin. "a: lob
MANY of the fashionable churches in
New York have been newly frescoed and
fitted up during the summer vacation, and
all of them. opened ON Sunday, Septem-
ber 5.98,, =; n,j;.4.tg s;ff min 9.;ds,..i
BEN PERLEY PooRE! lately gave. his
daughter, aged fifteen, a birthday party, at
;whichTwere 200 guests They danced in
the barn, which was carpeted Tor :. the oc-
,casion. eaa t,..l :; ,..,..,.t.,,. go,fac,.,.,
/ The State of Iowa, according to q cen-
esus recently taken by, the. Town Assessors,
contains population of 1,O11,952, being
an increase of 100 900 in two years '''.,5 81
A FEW, days ago. the lightning struck
the track of the, New, York and New
Haven Railroad, about three hundred.
yards in the rear of a train, and the. shock
was distinctly felt by the passengers
: THE average time required for a finger
mail to attain its full length (from the
root to the corDmencement of theG free
iedge),,%is about four andsa half calendar
months The toe nails grow much more
slowly. .ta hyH.# oi sa'g@f @aiso'2 "
THE production of beet-root sugar. in
Europe last year was as follows 100000
tons in France, 165, 900 tons in Germany,
97,50O in Russia, $4,000 in Austria, $4,000
I'M Belgium, $4,000 in Poland and Sweden ,
and 1900 tons in Holland. is,.! o. cs9d
ARCHBISHOP PURCELL, of Ohio, issthe
oldest prelate in the Catholic church,
having served since 1882, and now being
over 70 years of, age, although still hale
and active in mind and body. In his time
he has consecrated more than 40 bishops.
THE Passagassawaugee are set of
cruel desperadoes who .under the pretense
of being baseball club, are driving the
compositOrs of Main into early but hos
pitable graves. 1t is fiendishly proposed
to drown them in the Chinquassabam
took.
JUDGE JERE S. BLACK, of Pennsylvania,
has sued the Louisville 65a,Nashville Rail
road Company for injuries sustained on
their road some months ago. The. refusal
of the company to pay the Judges physI-
clans $4,000 is the reason for the present
suit. :.fiiGG3 9GE io oval 10 Ju0 3lH 'se
A YOUNG physician sin 9Meklenburg,
Germany, claims to have discovered a spe-l
cific remedy for consumption. He has
communicated his discovery to the Berlin
Academy of Sciences, whose report on the
same, is eagerly looked for by the medical
fraternity. ,.},cg,.5,....... of,..yf b.
. A FRENCHMAN, near Chalons, recently
died oe hydrophobia from the bite of d dog
I received six months before. He yofuntari-
ly went into close room, from which he.
warned his friends, and received the con-
solations of religion through hole lin the
window GUS d9Cjs b950o'd 2Gisiar go
EI9A Mrs. WILL reached New York a. short
time ago, in. pursuit Of her runaway hus-
band, having followed him from England
to Australia, Shanghai aud Cape. Good
Hope, and clearned that he had Just left
New York for. China. Where there's "a
Will there's way. She started imnedi-
ately foli China i7'ah 2hJ et b2nol '''
AZ CRETIN recently murdered three
small children at tMurzsteg, Germany. The
children hadteased him for some days past.E
One morning when he found them alone,
lie cut their fhroats. When the 'unfortu-
nate mother lof the little ones. returned
home, and found them weltering, in their
| blood she went mad.
| A GERMAN lady who has recently re-
sided in Troy, and is 81 years of age, set
| out alone, a few days ago, on the long
! journey to tatherland. On the day before,
She visited her friends, walking at least ten
miles, safid paid visit tothe grave of her
| husband 2 tits understood. that, she is to
| be married during the passage over to q
gentleman about twenty years Her junior.
Two boys in Springfield, Mass, neither
| of them over 10 years old, resolved to
commence life oon their own account, and
on a,recent Thursday took their guns and
a small wagon and struck out. One of
4 the boys left a note for his parents to the
effect that " We shan't drink and can take
care of our selves all right; don't worry
about us" On the following Saturday
night, Their courage and provisions having
given out, they returned home, stating
that they, had passed the time in the
woods H7s3iH H8q2I 9di ~ F9h. sfa3< i7ft
/ A STORY is told in Paris paper Of a
new method for recovering ones debts.
| The other day a crowd gathered in the
vicinity of the Odeon round a girl with a
] wooden leg whom a gentleman at an adj
| joining window was apostrophizing with
loud cries and gesticulations. III turned
| out that the girl was washerwoman, who
| had gone to the gentleman to ask for pay
| ment of her bill- and finding that the
| money was notforthcoming, she had seized
her customers wooden leg, which was ly7
| ing in the corner, and had walked of, de-