Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-13
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THE Chinese Emperor, aged Is, is soor
to be married sst* aHa2 at
CLEVELAND has a White-Stocking Clut
OF croquet girls. l,. i.a bsl~l
THERE are seventy-fve elementary
schools in Sierra Leone. -.
Mrs. SToNEwALL Jackson has lately
received bequest of 100000 j
A GLOVER down East has hung up
sign, "Ten thousand hands wanted Inn
mediately."
A LADY at Newport has ring cut out
of solid diamond, and said to be the only
one IN the country .iam aaii.
AT the Kansas State Agricultural Col
lege, at Manhattan, there were 121 stu
dents enrolled last year t'i| 4'l 4sg,u
Mr.. JOHN BIeELow, for many years con-
nected with the New York Euenamq Post,
and latterly Minister to France, is now
chief editor of the New York Times giuD
MAJOR GENERAL Wool prepared a
speech of welcome for the 7th regiment
at Troy, N. T., recently. He was too fee
BILE to read it, and had it read by another
AVERY LESTER, of Ledyard, Conn,
seventy eight years of age, and infrm, has
read the Bible through seventy-four times
since his confinement to the house. ="
THE New. York World pronounces the
notion that oysters are not good to eat in
the summer months a perverse Whim.
The deep-sea oyster is said to be the best
in July. .9aa. 3
A RECENT cyclone at Calcutta did an
awful piece of work in blowing off the roof
of the hospital and killing several patients,
blowing down trees and houses and play
ing the mischief with the crops 5.8oYe
THERE are 500 Young Mems Christian
Associations in the United States. Many
of these own, and more of them are erect
ing buildings for their special use. The
actual membership of all classes will reach
about 10000. aa1 3it5f 20 zu',sis
In New York, the other day, brute
undertook to make horse draw load Of
iron, weighing about ton. The driver
cursed and cudgeled. The horse pulled
and struggled, until finally, with one des-
perate leap, the animal fell dead in the
harness. .; f. ..9.,, -,.tt 3t ,5i.g
A LITTLE girl, eight years of age, died
at Pittsburgh few days ago, from lock-
jaw, the result, it is alleged, of an opera.
ton performed at dentists office, in ex-
tracing a tooth. 1t is claimed that the op-
Grafton was performed in such rough
manner as to cause lockjaw.
A LONDON letter states that the Prince
of Wales lately visited the Earlsworth.
idiot Asylum, made a speech, laid the
corner stone of new building, and then
received four hundred scarlet leathern
purses, each containing a check for one
hundred guineas, handed to him by pro-
cession of four hundred young ladies'"
THE Board Of Trade of st. Louis has ap-
subscription $120, 1000 to build an iron sea-
between st. Louis and foreign ports. The
vessel will be of 1000 tons capacity, and
will not draw over six feet when light. a
REV. DIR. JOHN ToDD, of Pittsfield,
Massachusetts,, recently returned from a
two months trip to California. During
his absence he travelled about 1000 miles
each week, and on his way home stopped
at Salt Lake City and preached in the Tab
ernacle to 1000 Mormons.
THE famous haunted house " in Water
town, Mass, of which highly sensational
account, with illustrations, was given in a.
magazine year or more ago, has been
transformed into quiet, pleasant home,
gentleman who was not afraid of /" ghosts"
having purchased it at a bargain and i'm
proved it's surroundings.
THERE is mechanic in Jefferson coun-
ty, Miss, who with $500, in 1867, pur-
chased sixty-two acres of land, made last
year enough out Of it to pay for his place,
and made good living out of his crop be-
sides. This year he rents it for one-third
of the gross crop, and his tenants have
nearly thirty acres in cotton, and ten to
twelve in corn. iitsN 9aF
8 The Opinion Nationdle publishes that
France employs 502,812 public filnctiona-
ries, whose united salaries amount to $685.
2S3, 3,555. The Emperor and the Imperial
family enjoy an income of $5,300,000. The
Senate costs 81 ,020,0 900, the ministers take
about 100000, the projects fully $800,000,
the Generals and officers of the staff some
$1,600,000, etc. ...f ..g
In recent debate in the Spanish
Cortes, very active and intelligent work
ingman, M. Alsina, deputy for Barcelona,
took an important part, his speech attract
ing great attention and being much ap-
plauded This was the first time that
Spanish Parliament has seen working
man debating, on terms of equality, public
affairs witha Spanish grandee and a Min
lister of Finance. Nt a4a =
. IDA LEWIS, the Lime Rock heroine,
don't like her pictures. She says " that
picture in Harper's is awful, cannot bear
to look at it. She and her sister, who is
very handsome and bashful and afraid of
the water, are to marry brothers, and Ida's
wedding, which was to have been this
month, has been postponed for year A
humane society in London has voted Ida
gold medal.
JoHNsTowN, Pa, has musical curiosity
in the person of Eddie Hohmann, who is
six and half years old, and can play skill
fully by note several airs on the violin.
When six years old he could play Yankee
Doodle from the notes What renders his
musical precocity all the more remarkable
is the fact that he has not yet mastered the
alphabet. 4e3
THERE are said to be in our country
total of six millions two hundred thousand |
members of Evangelical churches, including
one hundred thousand Quakers. If we
reckon three persons to each church mem
Der, which is a low estimate, there will be |
about nineteen millions of our population |
directly and indirectly connected with the |
churches. The Roman Catho- |
lie population is reckoned at five millions