Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-05
CURRENT ITEMS.

New YORK killed $4,000 dogs last sum-
| mer.
A CHURCH exclusively for deafmute
| services is to be built in Berlin
/! A MUSCULAR North Carolina negro was
| fatally stung i'll the temple by hornet.
! THERE are $1,000 young people in Gin
| cinnati who ought to, but do not, go to
school,
THE six months revival at Richmond,
Ind, has resulted in nine hundred con-
versions. fis,e.
Mr.. SEwARD's speeches in Alaska, Vic
toria, and Oregon have been collected and
published in pamphlet form.
IT is considered certain in medical cir
cles in Brussels that poor Carlotta will
not outlive the present year.
| HENDERSON GAYLORD, of Plymouth,
Pa reports that he has received 1885
| for the Avondale sufferers fund.
A PETITION to Congress favoring the
abolition of the coal duty has been signed
by 1000 voters in Rochester, N. Y; the
petition is fifty y-siX feet long.
THREE hundred and fifty Mormons
the last instalment from Europe this sea-
son, passed through Omaha few days
ago, en- route to Utah.
THE suicide of the Lord Chief Justice
| Clerk of Scotland was caused by chagrin
at the discovery that he owed his seat in
Parliament to bribery. ,r.t-...s... 81
| The professors of the Columbia Law
College decline to admit ladies as students,
on the ground that their presence would
distract the attention of both pupils and
| professors.
A UTAH paper says that the whole nu m
Der of missionaries called in Utah to go
| forth and preach the Mormon Gospel to
the people of the United States is about
two hundred.
| A NORTHUMBERLAND woman looked
through key-hole, and some one on the
other side thrust a piece of wire through
into her eye. "Death by misadventure y
was the coroner's verdict
No LESS than 100 persons have been
converted through the open-air sermons
of the Young Mems Christian Association
of Washington City, during the past sum-
mer. ii
THE Prussian executioner will soon have
to behead, at Goerlitz, a young girl of
| eighteen, who murdered her parents be-
cause they would not allow her to marry
the man of her heart.
1T turns out that +" the watch presented
to Lafayette by Washington" is among
the relatives of the French patriot at
home, and never knew Nashville pawn
brokers' shop. -
DURING the first nine months Of the
present year there were exported from the
port of New York 1851 ,916 bushels OF
wheat; 1,572,70 of corn, and 1,0S1 1926 OF
wheat flour.
THE inhabitants of Basket Valley, Sulli-
van county, N. Y, suffered so severely by
the late flood, that they have been obliged
to appeal for help to the charitable of New
! York city.
SCIENTISTS say 1t is not true, as general
ly supposed, that the act of freezing
eliminates from water all impure matter.
1t generally does extrude coloring matter,
but not organic impurities.
FRENCH taste for horsefesh is on the
increase. In 1867 the quantity consumed
in Paris was $4,000 pounds, and in 1868,
96S, 400 pounds, being an increase of 1872
400 pounds in the year.
THERE are at present $50 pupils in the
Deaf and Dumb Asylum in Jacksonville,
Ill, so of whom have entered on their
first term this fall, and 60 in the Asylum
for Idiot; and Imbeciles.
IT has been suggested that young Kits
of Baltimore, (aged 100, who has been
petitioned the Council for fees due since
the Revolutionary war, should put the
sum into bank, for use when he grows old
The Massachusetts Supreme Court, at
it's recent term in Worcester, unmarried
fourteen couples, ten of the petitioners
being the wives A Maine Court, recently,
in one county, divorced sixteen married
couples.
A CoLoRED woman of Rockford, ILL.,,
recently gained suit against the Chicago
and Northwestern Railway Company, for
having refused her seat in ladies' car.
The Winnebago Circuit Court awarded
her 5000 damages.
A YOUNG man in Napa county, Cal,
went to sleep, leaving his candle in the
bung hole of powder keg, which he sup
posed was nail keg. His dreams were
troubled by an explosion, and he was
blown all over the ranch.
IT is estimated that 10000 persons at
tended the Ontario Provincial Exhibition
at London. in September. The number
of entries was 1858. There were COS en-
tries of grain 702 of roots and other field
crops; 756 of garden vegetables, and 503
of fruit.
THE Canadians are erecting at Quebec
monument to bear the inscription
"Canada erected this monument as me-
mortal of her brave sons, the volunteers
who fell at Lime Ridge, and died from
wounds received in action while defending
her frontier in June, 1885,"
THREE consecutive decisions in the
Massachusetts Courts in the same case
seem to make the law pretty clear, that ii
the owner of horse with the glanders
permits him to range SO as to infect other
horses, the owner of the diseased horse is
liable for the damages that may ensue.
THE King of Prussia is said to be great
ly afraid of thunder storms Whenever a
thunder storm overtakes him in the open
air, he commences praying, and hastens
into the first house he reaches, and as long
as the thunder storm rolls he does not
permit any one to speak to him. His
father, Frederick William Ill, had the
same dread of thunder-storms.
STREET music in London is said to be
improving in character, chiefly on account
of the arrival of real wandering Ministries
from Germany. These bands often include
from ten to sixteen instruments and
sometimes they play admired overtures
from Rossini, Auber and Herold. These
bands are regularly organized, the leader
being the proprietor and paymaster
SINCE the organization of the order OF
Odd Fellows in this country, in 1880, uI
to and including 1869, the amount of rev
| enr1e received by the order has been x3l,