Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-11
FACTS AND FIGURES.

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CALIFORNIA has raised q sun-fower
weighing 81 pounds.
ABOUT $4,000 dead letters are opened
and disposed of daily.
THE Leipzig publishers sold, in 1868,
$1O,OOO,000 worth of books.
THE new French twenty-five franc gold
pieces will be called Empereurs.
ONE of the Austrian Archdukes is said
to be kleptomaniac-in plain English
thief
THE French Post office confscates nine
out of ten newspapers sent from this coun-
try.
BURT HARRISON, Private Secretary to
jeff. Davis during the war, is practising
law in New York.
THERE are said to be $4,000 communi-
eants to the various religious churches on
the western coast of Africa.
THERE are 800 Protestant Sunday
Schools in France, 150 in Germany, $50 in
Switzerland and $50 in Holland.
| A wDowER went to Manchester, N. e.,
one day recently, buried his wife and left
town with new-made bride on the day
following.
THE Canadian Rifle Association will dis
| tribute 81, 500 worth of prizes at the an
nual tournament, at Halafax, in August.
A SERVANT girl at Newberg, N. Y, was
recently too much for a burglar. She
poured gallon of hot water over him,
and he left the premises in hurry.
A LONDON clergyman advertises that he
will "lend his weekly sermons for half-a-
crown apiece, or four for los, warranted
Original, earnest and evangelical"
| SIX churches have been organized in
Mexico on the basis of the Bible as the
word of Coda spontaneous movement,
without any foreign intervention, the sac
raments administered without any Or
| dalned minister.
GEORGE PEABODY has written to the
town of Georgetown, Mass, stating that
it is his intention to supply all the funds
needed to sustain the public library which
he has given to the town, and also pre-
senting $4,000 toward the permanent
fund.
THE New York Express has heard of
one American woman in Europe, "wh"
turned up her aristocratic nose at pockt
handkerchief costing 1000 francs, d.
manding one which had to be fabricated,
and which was not to cost less than 10,-
0O0"
ACCORDING to an estimate made by
well-informed traveller, the Chinese expend
annually over $20,000,000 TO appease and
propitiate the souls of the dead. About
$30,O00,000 are annually expended in
worship of the Foo gods, and 800, 1000
in the worship of family ancestors.
A YOUTH of 1S, in New Bedford, who
determined to marry against his fathers
will, was recently complained of as a dis
obedient child, and the case continued for
sentence, so that he could be shut up for
want of bail till his father gets ready to
take him on whaling voyage
IT was stated at the National Sunday
School Convention that the Sunday School
| Union has established 6,346 schools, into
which 393, SOB children have been gathered,
and 45,070 teachers are employed. The
union has also aided %, 900 other schools,
and over 400 churches have been estab-
LIED as the results of its efforts.
| DIR. WIEGAND, of Halle, Germany,
after extensive investigation and collation.
of statistics, concludes that employment
on railway trains is not more than usually
dangerous or unhealthy. Reports of
thirty-eight companies showed that in
1868, 1.072 per cent. of the engineers, fire.
men and other employees on the trains
died, while of the employees not travelling
the mortality was 0.931 per cent.
THE report of Baptist progress in
Great Britain for the last year
shows that forty-nine churches have
been organized, making an aggre-
gate of 2,447. The increase in mem
bership has been 9,982, larger accession
| AZ nd I,rsr, r,rrsvr f1n
total to 251, 500 members. There are
S67, ,39e scholars in the Sabbath Schools,
and no doubt, over million of the Brit
ish population dependent on the Baptists
| for religious instruction.
AT Rutland, Vt, which has been scant-
| lily supplied with water for many years,
the discovery has just been made that an
obstruction in q joint in the main supply
reduced the calibre from three inches to
one and half inches diameter. The OBJ
struction consisted of lead, which was run
into Joint when the pipe was laid, fifteen
years ago. 1t cost them $4,000 to make
the discovery, besides the loss of many
buildings by fire, which would have been
saved but for the lack of water.
| FROM an old advertisement published in
the GeorgiG Journal, Milledgeville, ip
| 1919. it is found that the Hon. VIM. FL.
| Seward, late Secretary of State, was
at that time Georgia schoolmaster. He
is therein announced as late from Union
College, N. Y, from which institution he
comes highly recommended as young
gentleman of good moral character and
distinguished industry and literary &C
quirements" He taught Latin, Greek, tho
oretical and practical mathematics, logic,
chemistry, geography, English grammar,
and other branches too numerous to
mention.
THE pews of the Centre Church, New
Haven, Conn, lately rented for $1S, 600.
On subsequent Sabbath the pastor, Rev.
G. L. Walker, took occasion to express, in
decided terms, his regret at the result.
The prices paid, he said, could not but ne
regarded as extravagant, ana the gross
amount received was larger than the exi-
gencies of the church demanded. Ii the
| debt of the church was alleged as an eA~
cuse. the speaker thought that in a church
embracing 80 much wealth, many of
whose members were individually able to
pay it without embarrassment, and who,
unitedly, could expunge it at once without
a twinge, the debt could not but be consid-
cred as, in measure, a disgrace.
THE Secretary of the Treasury is 80
much annoyed by the constant receipt of
letters from persons who have lost by
burning or otherwise bonds of the United
States and who wish new bonds, that he