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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-19
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.


The "Big Injin" of America -Inge-
nuity. .....
"CoURT'-1NG after marriage-Getting a
divorce.
A HUoKsTER in Reading recently sold
wooden imitation eggs.
A TEACHER in Lawrence Furnishes
scholars by putting q spoonful of cayenne
pepper in their mouths.
THE English Judges promptly rebuke
any journal of eminence which presumes
to offer an opinion ON an unfinished law
suit.
AN officer of an English regiment in
Quebec, who insulted young lady at the
skating rink the other night was imme-
diately shot by the girls brother "a mere
LADY and fatally wounded.
VELocIPEDEs, says the Shanghai Neacs
Letter, have ceased to be novelty in the
streets of that city, and even the untaught
Chinese ponies have become so used TO
them that they are no longer frightened.
AN old lady who died in London, in
1894, bequeashed 8 considerable sum to
one church on condition that her coffin
anniversary of her birth. The conditions
heFS 0CNA NtSASiAlly ODGOA fSN'
Two LITTLE girlish book -peddlers in
Philadelphia make q neat living by So
Letting gentlemen to purchase volume
Gas this is my birthday, please" They
tried a charitable newspaper man once too
often in the same week.
+ DIR. J. T. DYER's family, in Gloucester,
Mass, after recent dinner of partridges
were all taken ill with dizziness, fainting
and other symptoms of narcotic poisoning.
It is supposed the birds had eaten some
poisonous berries.
DURING the recent drawing for the mill
tary conscription at Marseilles, young
man drew lucky number, which caused
him such joyful emotion that on reaching
home he could not. embrace his mother,
when he fell dead at her feet.
JUDY represents young lady, who has
been taken half mile beyond her desti-
nation in an omnibus as addressing the
conductor cts really too bad ! L told
you, when l first got in, where l wished
to be set down.! Conductor" Well,
Miss, let you out as soon as ever could
find it In my art to part with you"
A LITTLE four year old girl, who recent
ly visited Boston with her mother, was
greatly disturbed by the difficulty she ex.
perlenced in perambulating Washington
street. Finally, in despair, she exclaimed,
81 do hope before l come to Boston
again that a good many Of these folks will
be dead, for they do knock my new hat
round so.p
THE French chemist, Tardieu, extracted
the coloring matter from some imported
English red stockings, and introduced a
quantity thereof beneath the skin Of a dog.
The animal died within twelve hours. a
rabbit similarly treated died in eight hours,
and frog in four. II. Tardieu advises
the absolute prohibition Of the importa.
ton of red stockings.
AN American confidence man, pretend
ing to be the youngest son Of Secretary
| Seward, mas victimized certain good people
Of the Austrian capital to the tune OF
several thousand forms, The bogus
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-19

termined, nor do we know exactly aoben !;
but, though we are not quite so precipi-
lately fast in the matter of public improve
ments as some of your Western cities, we
DO not allow ourselves to suffer long over
want which money can supply, and a
tunnel Is certainly a most important need
to the crowded island of Manhattan. Now
that Chicago has demonstrated show not
to do 1t" Gotham will be warned and pro-
ceed with caution and discretion; and
when you hear, one of these days, of oar
tunnel as an established fact, you will not
be panied to hear, at the same time, that
it has been converted into shower-bath.
A prominent metropolitan hotel keeper
is already turning speculative eye
towards the deep Yo Semitic Valley Of
California, which he foresees is destined 10
become the fashionable watering place of
this continent. 1t has falls rivaling Mag
ara and such virtues in the way of scenery
and climate that our long-headed land
lord shifts great things in the net very dis
tant future. E-I.t
Horace Greeley, whom we met in Print
ing House Square the other day, is said to
be developing new and strange traits, in
his old age, which both friends and ene-
mics will regard with something of inter
est or sympathy. His growing petulance
is leading him into a world of trouble and
his bland, tranquil, almost child like face
is beginning to wrinkle up in most un-
becoming manner Mr.. Greeley's life, even
according to his own estimate of it, has
been grand success; and we write this
in ignorance of what the new Administra-
tion is going to do for him-if anything;
but to read his features as we recently be-
held them, one must come inevitably to
the conclusion that he was sorrowful
and disappointed man. What has wrought
this miraculous change in our veteran
journalist, whether the outward attraction
is evidence of an inward revolution, and
whether it be only temporary or the re-
suit OF illness--are questions we cannot
answer. In this regard we speak alone
from what we saw. It comes to us from
others, who know him better than we can
claim to, that the old mans temper is COM
pletely broken, and that he occasional ex-
hibits other and alarming symptoms of in
cipieDt mental decay.
Great preparations are making through
out this city to celebrated st. Patrick's day
in an unusually brilliant and impressive
manner, some fifty Irish temperance socie-
ties being announced as participants there
in. Every one possessing any knowledge
of New York, or who has CHANGED to wit
ness the finale of one of these Celtic festi-
walls in the metropolis, must be aware that
strict temperance is not feature of the
occasion, and can therefore judge how i'm
posing in numbers this demonstration. is
TO be, when so small division as its cold
water drinkers is estimated at fifty full So
cieties.
There is trouble in Wall street, and the
bears in that region give evidence, by
their expectant growls, that some down
ward tendency Of the money market is at
hand. .i.g
Our amusement world is busy and bril-
liant but "gossip of the green-rooms !"
must lay over for the present. e.aa3
WILD EDGERToN.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-19

| when they saw that the Fugitive Slave
law, the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise, the assault upon Kansas, and the
| Dred Scott decision, which were the last
| great Democratic measures, had not only
awakened the conscience of the country,
| but that It's self interest felt the blighting
hand Of slavery, they foresaw the end and
broke I'D the Charleston Convention. But
| if Mr.. Douglas had been elected, they
would have gained four years in which to
perfect their plan to the least detail. They
would have aimed to force the Republi-
cans into a revolutionary position, or
have combined to make the demand of
secession SO peremptory and conclusive
that the country could not have seriously
struggled.
In the situation of this country nine
years ago, amidst the Vaccinations of the
| Democratic leaders, Slidell, Davis, Mason,
| Wigfall, Benjamin, and the rest, with the
enormous moral lethargy, constitutional
| ignorance, and universal timiditY Of trade,
and following Presidents like Pierce and
Buchanan, the figure of Abraham Lin
coin seems no less remarkable and Provi-
Dental, and much more contrasted with
| those around him than that of Washing
ton in the earlier day. Had he been de-
feated, it is hard to believe that this Gov
ernment would to-day exist; and if it did,
it would only have been with the domi.
nance of slavery more supreme than ever.
There was, indeed, no hope for the pro-
gressive civilization of this country, and
none for the development of liberty else
where, but in the defeat Of the Democratic
party.
In the eight years Of Republican su-
premacy the Union has been not only
saved, but restored to its great purpose ;
slavery has been abolished; the equal
civil rights of all citizens have been es-
tablished; the oligarchy that ruled the
Government has been overthrown; the
admiration, respect, and confidence of the
world have been deserved and rendered
as they never were before and for the
first time since we were nation an Amer
ican citizen, while fully conscious of the
dangers that still threaten us, may feel
that the necessary idea of free popular
government, the equality Of the citizen, is
now the fundamental law. The recent at
tempt of the Democratic party to recover
power was defeated by its own frank state
ment of its hostility both to the Demo
cratic principle and to common honesty,
as we'll as by the instictive distrust of the
country of a party which has so fearfully
betrayed it. General Grant takes his seat
with the sympathy and confidence of the
great mass of his fellow citizens, and with
less actual opposition than any President
since Monroe; and the same sagacity, te-
nacity and honesty that his career hither-
to has revealed will give long and pros
porous supremacy to the party whose best
principles he represents. - HGrper's s
WeekLV
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The Future of the Bicycle.

Space has been sort of enemy to en-
terprise, and great part of our energies
has been devoted to what is called the an
initiation of space, and to this end steam
boats have been invented, railroads have
been projected, which answer very well
for longer distances where many miles
have to be traversed, but for the shorter
distances, up to the invention of the velo-
cipe6e, we have had nothing adequate to
our wants. Cars and stages are always
disagreeably crowded, and filed with i'm.
pure air from the breaths OF some two
score passengers, besides that you always
have the agreeable reflection that you may
be seated next to person in the catching
stage of the measles or tt small pox; OF
that he may be thief or pick pocket, and
find on getting out your pocket book and
temper gone at the same time. Besides
that, cars and stages never take you exact
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-03-19

arms just as I passed them on rapid re
treat, terribly ashamed of not having gon,
in the first place.
| do not know what took place after
| left, but so far as dinner was concerned
! Lib might as well have gone to church.
| Bridget got it all right, however, and
think it was about the happiest one We
ever did eat
Happiness is contagious, and there
was enough of it in Lizzie's eyes alone
to have inoculated whole regiment with
joy.
| believe Clara saw the state of affairs
at once, and shared Lizzie's Joy to the
greatest possible degree
Father and mother seemed to accept the
"era of good feeling" without explana
ton, while Bob was insane
He asked father about the sermon
and on being assured that it was an
excellent one, said he would take little
of it.
Father asked him, "What?" and he
said "potatoes."
He helped himself to spoonful, and
then deliberately took spoonful of but
ter.
Mother significantly asked him if be
thought smoking agreed with him, and
he told her yes, he considered it delight
ful exercise; and as he gave her this
novel assurance, he reached for the mo-
lasses and poured it over his potatoes and
butter.
This was too much for Clara and me,
and we burst into an uncomfortable fit
of laughter, which recalled Bob to his
senses; and, blushing crimson, he con-
fessed that he was absent-minded, as he
had just been able to see his way clear in
a matter which had troubled him for
months.
He then heartily joined in the general
laugh at his mistakes; Lizzie also Joining
in, and blushing pink accompaniment to
his deep crimson flush.
Bob and father took a smoke in the of
flee that afternoon, and mother and the
girls held conference in the parlor; |
took a walk.
When I came back Clara said, "You're
gump."
Without any idea of what that might
be, meekly assented, and said, had no
idea of what vas coming thought Bob
wanted you instead of Lib"
"You're all the worse gump for that"
said she; "and for fear you can't see
something else in time, I'll tell you now
that I'm engaged to Mr.. Bayne"
I thought the marrying days of the year
had come, and went off to my room to
indulge in delightful dream of my own
marriage, in the far-off future, with Mag
gle CranstOn.
x Il x y
Five years have passed since then.
Clara and Lizzie got married, of course,
and | stood up at their weddings. Clara
keeps house. Bob and Lizzie still live at
our house, and father insists that they al
ways shall.
I do not think Jim Bayne so stupid as I
once did. Three years in the fish and oil
business, as junior member of the firm of
Martin & Son, have damaged my poetic
enthusiasm, while Bayne's seems, some
how or other, on the increase.
/ have not married Maggie Cranston. In
fact, do not know her. We did not keep
up our acquaintance long after she left the
boarding-school where she was when I so
fully expected to marry her, and thought
I could not get along without her
am still a youthful bachelor, awaiting
an opportunity to quarrel with some
young lady, as Bob Carver did with our
Lizzie; but 1 don't want any nineteen
year-old brothers on hand at the reconcil-
iation.
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Gelerteo mtseelIanp.
A FAMILY JAR, AND WHAT CAME
OF 1T.

IREMEMBER it as though it had happen
ed yesterday. 1t was the biggest row we
ever had in our family.
1t was one cold rainy evening in the
early part of December. We all sat down
to the supper table as usual, but not ap-
parently, in our usual good humor
BY call" mean our family, which con-
sisted of father, mother, my two sisters
Clara and Lizzie, Bob and myself.
Bob Carver was one of our family, as he
said, "by brevet' His mother and my
mother had been friends in girlhood, and
hal never outgrown their intimacy. Ever
since Bob had lived in the city he had
boarded at our house, and he seemed like
one of u.s.
He was a jolly good fellow, and appear
ed to think good deal of us all, espe-
cially Clara, who, by the way, did not seem
to care particularly for him, though, of
course, she liked him "well enough" as
we all did.
The relations between these two had
caused me some painful consideration.
liked Bob very much, and would have been
glad to have him in the family more fully
than by brevet." Beside this my regard
for him made me feel warm sympathy
for his unreciprocated affection for Clara.
/ was in love myself, and thought that if
Maggie Cranston showed as much in1if
ference to me as Clara did sometimes to-
ward Bob, that should have been mex
pressibly miserable.
Beside this, Clara seemed to take good
deal of pleasure in the company of that
stupid Jim Bayne, whose chief delight
seemed to consist in talking about relig-
ion, politics and other subjects, which
bored NE intolerably. I was nineteen,
and poetical.
1t always seemed to me that Lizzie
would have suited Bob better than Clara,
anyhow. They were both fond of music,
and often played and sang together; but
they never got along smoothly together.
They did not appear to agree about any
thing but music, and they quarreled about
that. Yet they would still practice to-
gether. Their voices harmonized well,
and supposed they tolerated each other
for the sake of the music.
could never understand Lizzie's con-
duct toward Bob. 1t was absurd. Some
of his ideas that she argued against with
all her might, when he stated them, she
as warmly defended in conversation with
the rest of us. I believe she delighted in
being contrary.
Mother sometimes rebuked her for her
petulance to Bob, but father said IL made
no difference,-it was customary for musi-
cal people to quarrel. He was quick
tempered himself, and Lib was more like
him than any of the rest of US were.
But to return to that December even
ing. As / have said, the weather was bad.
For that reason, suppose, the boy had
failed to leave the evening paper.
When father came in, he asked for the
paper, and said, "Confound the boy"
When Bob came in, he asked for she
paper, and went up stairs to change his
boots, grumbling out something about
hanging the boy to the nearest lamp
post.
The girls were in bad humor, because
hey had been unable to get out shopping
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BEA UITFUL HANDS.

Such beautiful, beautiful hands!
They're neither white nor small;
And you, know, would scarcely think
That they were fair at all.
I've looked on hands whose form and hue
A sculptor's dream might be;
Yet are these aged, wrinkled hands
Most beautiful to me.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands
Though heart were weary and sad;
These patient hands kept toiling on,
That children might be glad.
/ almost weep, as looking back
To childhood's distant day.
think how these hands rested not,
When mine were ct their play.
Such beautiful, beautiful hands :
They re growing feeble now;
For time and pain have left their work
On hand, and heart, and brow.
Alas alas the nearing time,
And the sad, sad day to me,
When meath the daisies, out Of sight,
These hands will folded be.
But oh beyond this shadow lamp,
Where all is bright and fair,
l know full we'll these dear old hands
Will palms of victory bear.
Where crystal streams, through endless years
Flow over golden sands,
And where the old grow young again,
I'll clasp my mothers hands.
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1Doetrp.
IN -M&MORLAM.

BY STANLEY WATERLOO.
Here lies Andrew Johnson,
A strange combination
OF nonsense and wisdom,
OF vice and religion;
With some notions of goodness
So dimly defined
That they scarce had place
In his wavering mind;
In conflict delightiDg,
Dissension e'er making,
And stubborn resistance
For frmness mistaking;
Ever prating of good,
Ever practising evil,
He talked like a saint
While he acted the devil.
Every patriot feeling
That DER him might come
Was absorbed and destroyed
In the great ego sum.
No malice we cherish,
No ill-will we bear him,
Yet, calmly we say it,
Tie country can spare him!
Alas, for poor A1dyl
The terrible hour
Could not be deferred
BY the yetoing power"
He's gone from among us,
Resigned his high station,
Left, forlorn and bereaved,
Mrs. Cobb and the nation.
Yet, for those in whom anguish
And sorrow may rage,
"There is balm found in Gilead,"
Their grief will assuage;
Though death of this model
Of Wisdom's bereft us,
From sheer habit, the great
Constitution he's left us -
Fatn would we go farther,
And ope the dark portals,
Revealing the wonders
Forbidden to mortals,
Observing his status,
His plight and position,
Aud disclose to the world
His post naOTten condition.
Are the spirits around him
OF different birth
From the spirits that formed
His chief solace on earth?
Does he rest in that haven
No Butler invades,
Or swing round the circle
BY Dante portrayed
But vain are our longings
To know where his shade is,
If his present abode be
Elysium or Hades;
His future condition
No mortal can tell;
He may be in HeG0e7a--
More likely in -.
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A Hard Winter Impending.

Without claiming to be especially wealth
erwise ourselves, although we have some
views of our own, on the subject of the
seasons, dedueed from observation, expert.
ence and study, we cannot but attach suiii
Gent credit TO the signs and tokens which
old hunters and woodmen on this Continent,
and scientific calculaiors in Europe, are ad.
.ducing to sustain the prediction that we are
10 have an early and severe winter through.
out the Northern Hemisphere.
The beavers and prairie dogs in the West
and the Northwest of America, along with
many other animals that house themselves
away in the cold season, have greatly ad.
yanced their preparations for the frost this
year, and on the Atlantic coast, the StorIr
King sends us no equivocal or infrequent
warning
In Europe, no less important an organ OF
learned opinion than the Bulletin de lSso.
citation Scientitique, bulletin of the Scien-
tiic Society, announces that the winter of
IS6970 will be exceptionally severe on the
Eastern Hemisphere. 1t reminds its read.
ers Of the fact that the Winter of lS6S-69
was very remarkable for its mildness, its
mean temperature not having exceeded Il
deg. Com. The three most moderate pre-
ceding winters Of the century had been those
of 1922, 1923, and 1884, when the mean
temperatures were o deg, deg, and G
deg. 27m., respectively.
Previous to our century, the only winter
among those of which the temperature was
calculated that approached 1868 60 in mild.
ness, was 1897. The severe cold snap that
came in January last was another point OF
resemblance between those two seasonI fnr
there was no such lowering of the temper.
AZURE in the mild winters that we have men.
toned. The other singular accompani
ments of this similarity will attrnct the
notice Of any close observer.
NJ. Renou, writing in the Bulletin above
mentioned, tells the world that since the
atmospheric perturbations of lS59.60, the
years have been warmer, clearer and driver.
and barometer pressure lighter than before.
These anomalies, he thinks cannot fail to
lind their compensation ere long, the win.
ter before last closely corresponding with
that OF 1868, and everything betokening that
about 1870 we shall have a great winter like
that of lS2930.
The sGrdnts are not invariably right, but
there is accumulated evidence in their ia p.
yor TO show that on general indications, and
by careful comparisons kept up for years
past, they can make some fair predictiony
concerning the year to come. At all events
Thrift and wise precaution never do ans
harm, and should the phenomenally severe
season thus predicted ensue, our friends
may not blame us for having given them
this hint in good time.-N T. Mercantile
Journal.
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Plans have been submitted for new Hin.
podrome 10 Paris, to take the place of the
ugly wooden structure recently, happily,
destroyed by fire. The new building Is to
be made entirely Of iron and stone, and is
70 De adapted not only TO exhibitions Of
wild animals, to tournaments and acrobatic
performances, but also to sea pieces. A
spectacle called The Isthmps of Suez. p
which has long been in preparation, viii
probably be the first of he pieces in which
water will be introduced. 1t is hoped that
the building may even be so far advanced by
the middle of November as to admit Of the
hrst performance Of this spectacle taking
place on the same day with the opening Of
the canal. A series Of tableaux is coniem.
plated, all relating TO Egypt, and calling for
the introduction Of water in large quaint.
ties, We are to be shown the destruction
OF fharaohs army in the Red Sea; the cat.
aracts Of the Nile and the inundation oftbe
Nile. " ''''
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A SHARP SwiNDLE.-A few DAYS moo n
well dressed person called at the establish.
ment OF Messrs. Browne, Spauldinp & Co.
jewellers, and selected watch and chain
valued at s?6s, directing them to be marked
"C. o. D. and forwarded to G. II. sloan,
Adams, Jefferson county. N. Y. The firm
did as desired, and yesterday morning re.
eeived from the Express Company a Motif.
cation requesting them to pay the express
charges, and assigning as roson that their
agents in Adams had delivered the package
upon the receipt Of the following note from
the hrm: Agent Merchants Union Ex.
press Company. Adams, n. Y.-Packare
for George II. Sloan, marked C. o. D.. Won
will please deliver it to him, as we have re
ceived payment for the same since forward.
ing, and ohige b. 5. N. Co. p. S. Please
take receipt and return to u.s. The Ex.
press Company officers upon being informed
that the note had not been sent BY the firm
we're rather disconnected, and came 10 Inc
conclusion that their agent had been very
eSleyerly duPed by a sharper.-N. Y. Tri.
daae, October 30.