Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

The first ten locomotives ever built in
Russia have lately been completed at Col
omna, near Moscow. .g.
THE Boston Society for the prevention
of cruelty to animals has prosecuted ia
aggravated cases nas5E G,ari ..ci jaak
THE Newburyport (Mass) Herald boasts
of subscriber who has taken the paper
| for fifty-two years -
A WOMAN in Massachusetts, has been
sentenced to two months Imprisonment
for maltreating her husband ,..,.,.7 d. -.y.,-
THEY have a Chinese Sunday School in
Oregon, where the Celestials are taught
theology and English. 9a ''a eva 1,as ~
"A UTAH correspondent says that (" Brig
ham Young is losing his power over, the
people-and very perceptibly." .......;.
SEVEN thousand five hundred pounds of
sweet potatoes were raised on ene-eighth of
an acre of land in California. -rF a.. e.
THE Postmaster at Norfolk, Conn, upon
opening New York mail bag, the other
day, found in it live kitten. '''
PUBLIC lamps in Independence Square,
Philadelphia were recently lighted and
extinguished by electricity. 4......-.-.
A WOMAN in Philadelphia has obtained
verdict of $4,000 damages for malicious
prOsecution.1i3 JTo2 7Gl G-l1 na,8ni sos,
EIGHT female convicts, were in the, Mis-
souri, State Penitentiary on the 1st instant,
the greatest number ever known there.
a MAN in Chester county, Pa, has been
fined for allowing weedstOr grow on his
farm, to- the damage of his, neighbors. r,5l
A MAN in New Orleans avoids his cred
itors by walking on the sunny side of the
o,,I ac,1,e 81.
winter. tJY9 iAii WoaA - t.s.1a ap tl.l "a
Two TEXAS boys were playing in a
cotton house, the game being to see who
could go head first the greatest distance
into the cotton The one who beat didn't
come out again. ay.r astsee ~ .e.
/ "A +" YOUNG and handsome lady," lately
from the East, but now a resident of Cal
ifornia, was candidate tor the office OF
engrossing clerk of the Legislature of
that State. She was not elected, however.
THE official list of persons entitled to a
seat in the Gcumenical Council contains.
the names of SO cardinals, II patriarchs,
927 archbishops, bishops and abbots, %
mitred abbots, and 20 generals of religious
orders. 1"'
TRAupMAN, the Paris murderer, ex-
pressed, the other day, much satisfaction
at the idea that by his eight-fold murder
he had acquired as much celebrity as Alex
ander Dumas by writing whole library
of novelist -r1 .. .ate tssif ls7-,et
A HARTFORD man, thinking he smelt
gas'in his room,a lighted match to see 1T.
He was found in the street Immediately
afterward, all ablaze, and a policeman
kindly rolled him in the gutter and put
him out. ..l....i ,.F 80.
AT a sale of old silver plate in England,
the other day, an Elizabethan stoneware
jug, dated 1895, mounted in silver gilt,
with silver-gIlt cover, and bearing what
is supposed to be the Exeter mark, brought
$3.50, gold. '.-i'7 '.'s' =
A LADY passenger, terrified by the re-
cent collision on the Pennsylvania Cen
trail Railroad, threw her child out OF the
window after the danger was entirely
over. Some one caught the child and
saved it from injury. 1:.o ai so .Joa
+ TORONTO courts are to try breach of
promise suit, the fair petitioner in which
is sixty, and the gay deceiver seventy
years of age. The latter recently married
another lady, and his first love wants
$4,000 to soothe her lacerated feelings.
GusTAvus A. STowELL, of Newbury-
port, aged II, died few days ago, and the
next day his wife, aged 70, died also.
They lived and loved together, shariI G
each others joys and sorrows, in sunshine
and storm, for half a century, and now
bid farewell to the world together.
THE Ohio Penitentiary has 900 con-
victs in confinement At the close of the
fiscal year ending October 81, 1868, there
were i,041. The number received during
the year ending November 10, 1869
was 347, decrease of 30 on the preceding
year. q f@f '" ~ @'!
A YOUNG man in North Adams, Mass,
died recently in consequence of domes-
tic affiiction. About two weeks before it
came to his knowledge that the woman he
lived with as his wife, for four years, was
the wife of another man. He immediate
ly left her for his parental roof, where he
soon sickened and died of grief. +f,..
| AS New Haven horse, driven by a boy,
was drawing some long planks, one of the
planks struck tree and was crowded over
upon the horse. The boys strength was
not sufficient to remove it; the horse,
however, graspedi the end of the plank
near his mead with his Eteeth and shifted
it beyond his body, and then moved on
with his load $3.50 stj - .- 'tt
| A BOY has been abandoned by his father
| in Chicago under the following circun-
stances: IA cancer has eaten away his en-
tire nose, lips. and part of the chin, and
his face, what little remains, is one fearful.
sore. 1o Owing to the absence of his lips he
is unable to articu1ate and consequently
can give mo information that will lead to
his identity. s- a.. ,a,.4..e7a III. ri. sl-i
| a wATcHMAN in mill at Perryville,
Mass, has made friends with large rat
and his numerous family. At the mid
| night lunch hour, the watchman gives a
| light rap on the wall, which brings out
the rats to share his hospitality, and, after
finishing their meal, the pets play around
! their beIiefactor in the most sportiye,
/ trusting manner" -h-31 .tt'iE .h"f' 1l#
| AT Albany, N. Y, the other night, a
youn gsyoman, whose husband had recent
" died, was missed from home after mid
| night, having retired as usual, and on
! search being made was found In the
cemetery, on the grave of her husband,
1 praying and crying, almost dead with
| cold, and had to be taken home.by force.
A MERCHANT, in Lewiston, Me-, was in
| The habit of removing the nut from one OF
bis buggy wheels in order to give the
| thieves a smash up in case his vehicle
] should be stolen. One morning recently
he forgot to replace the nut, and In COM
pany with, a friend he went for drive.
! A. general smash up was the result. lie
leaves the nut on the wheel now. ..~-
SANpERsoN, a professor Of mathematics
at Cambridge, England, blind from two
years old, could distinguish genuine medals
] from counterfeit better :han many good
! :.,,l l-oe ,1b,> ,,ocoacoad thoir oioht Manu-