Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-15
CURRENT ITEMS.

DICuICb d w lIbCl VI uHuoudl oCfCllCy.
VINEYARD owners in Yolo county, CAL,
claim that they clear 500 per acre on the
grapes
|. ONE firm in Montreal has sold this year
more than two million glass jars to hold
preserved fruit.
The Queen of Prussia offers $500 to
every woman in the kingdom who has
given birth to twelve children.
A FRENCH expedition is to go to the
Mediterranean to observe the meteoric
showers in November. a~aaE
CHAMBERLAIN, the Labor Convention
candidate for Governor of Massachusetts,
is hotel keeper, and only thirty years
old.
THE largest gold brick cast in Montana
was made at Helena, September 20. Its
weight was twenty y-eight hundred ounces,
coin value oyer. $4,000.
A BERLIN medical journal mentions the
death of two men from trichinasis, after
eating raw pork. The butcher who sold
the meat was sentenced to four months
imprisonment.
AT recent funeral in Ceylon of an off,
Ger melancholy incident occurred. There
was no clergyman at hand, and the service
was performed by one of the officers of the
brigade. The young widow buried her
head in the earth, and cut off all her beau
tiful golden hair and placed it in the
grave.
A POOR couple in London, taking coun-
sci with each other how to retrench their
expenses, decided to drown their dog, a
great pet, but costing seven pence week.
The wife herself threw the animal from
the bridge, but his loss preyed upon her
mind till she went crazy and drowned
herself also in the Thames week later.
A DEPLoRABLE event occurred at the
recent cattle fair of Roche-Posay (Vienna).
The oxen, to the number of six hundred,
irritated by the stings of insects, broke
| loose and rushed in all directions; more
than one hundred and thirty persons were
knocked down and trampled on, and al
though no lives were lost, in many cases
the injuries received were of serious ma
ture.
UNDER the reign of Isabella Protest
ant clergyman had many thousand Bibles
printed at Madrid, but was obliged to send
| them out of the country. They would
| have been destroyed but for the interven-
ton of the English Minister. They have
recently been sent back to Spain, and the
| Custom House at Barcelona has been in
structed to let them pass.
THERE is horrible story to the effect
that when the Cuban rebels came near
capturing Las Tunas the Spanish garrison
set fire to the quartrel or prison, contain
ing 130 prisoners of war. The quartrel
was wooden building, situated apart
from the city, but surrounded by wooden
slave pens, and the Spaniards are said to
have bolted its heavy doors and burned it
to the ground with its 130 human victims.
Two POLISH ladies were recently whip
ped, savagely, at the Warsaw Police Of
| flee. Letters written by Langiewicz were
| found in their possession, and the Cover
nor General of Poland ordered them to be
fiogged as warning to other correspond
ents of the famous leader of the insurrec-
ton of 1868. Despite the pain inflicted
on these poor ladies, they did not utter a
single. cry. One of them, however, the
| Countess Drynatzka, tainted away after
she received the thirtieth stroke.
| IT is limited that the japanese colony at
Gold Hill, Cal, is much less successful
than has been claimed. A correspondent
reports that there are but eight Japanese
there; that the t40 "soon to arrive" never
have embarked from their native land !;
that from the several million tea seed
brought by the colony, less than 100 plants
have been produced, and these in puny
condition; and that only two of the
several hundred mulberry trees brought
are alive, the dry summer having killed
the remainder.
| DIo LEWIS plan for temperance reform,
as laid down in lecture at Boston, is as
follows: Organize at public meeting
for example, in town of five thousand
inhabitants-a committe of fifty or one
hundred women, who, through sub-com-
mittee, will prepare an appeal from the
women of the town to the dealers of in
toxicating drinks. Appeal in hand, the
committe will call upon each of the rum
sellers, read their earnest, womanly paper,
sing verse, join in brief prayer, and so
pass on to the next. Ten such visits, on
ten successive days, will generally leave
nothing to be done.
THE Jsaoish Messenger avows the belief
that the establishment of the Suez Canal
| is another step toward the fulfillment of the
Divine prophecy that the Jews shall return
to the land of Palestine. II concludes thus
"In spite of the Indifference and lethargy
of very many Israelites, and the tendency
toward materialism displayed by others,
| there is still an undertone of love for the
Holy Land which, dormant to-day, needs
but the impulse to be aroused into action.
That impetus may be given much sooner
than the skeptics of to-day would credit.
Events are pointing toward it. This gene
ration may not participate in the return to
Palestine, and yet it is possible"
The disappearance of the star Tau
Coron2 has excited considerable discussion
on the point whether this heavenly body
has been consumed by fire, OF, by increas-
ing its distance from the earth, has only
vanished from the sight of terrestrial OBJ
servers. On the latter point it is stated
| that recent calculations show that the sun
and the star Sirius are receding from each
other at the rate of 29.4 miles per second,
and it is asserted that this famous star will
gradually become DINNER and DINNER,
and will eventually entirely vanish from
human sight, unless the power in the
lenses of telescopes in time will have been
so greatly increased that astronomers will
be able to investigate more minutely into
the now distant and invisible stellar sys-
| TENS.
In recent address at fair, Governor
Hoffman, of New York, narrated his agri-
cultural experience as follows: "Once,
when in early life, health seemed failing, a
learned doctor advised me to leave nv
DOCKS, go upon farm and follow the plow.
LII was much easier to follow his advice to
| go upon farm than to follow the plow
after getting there. 1 tried it. however
| My agricultural labor continued for half
an hour. Having put my hand to the
plow did not look nor turn hack bnt
pushed forward to the shade of the nearest