Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-06
7 CURRENT ITEMS.

Ex-Gov. FENToN has gone to Europe.
A. I. STEWART has purchased the Soutl
Side Railway on Long Island.
PROVIDENCE, R. l., refuses to licens,
any liquor shops this year. @
THREE thousand five hundred papers
are published in the United States.
FIVE women carried off prizes for shoot
ing at recent shooting festival in New
Jersey. ia .aHs4 II : 90 4,
THE Ohio Woman's Suffrage convention
will be held at Columbus, Sept. 20 and 30
A COUPLE of men have been fined TO-
agitating strike among the coal miner
in Pennsylvania. ab l3so
AT Middletown, Conn, an undertaken
sign, recently erected, reads: "Coffin
made and repaired" 4i.
OXFORD UNIVERSITY, England, has in
vested Henry w. Longfellow with tn,
honorary degree of Doctor of Laws.
THE Rev. Miss Olympia Brown, o
Weymouth, has accepted call from the
Universalist church at Bridgeport. s
The first exclamation of little boy
just rescued from drowning at New Lon
don, recently, was to ask if he was dead
AMONG the many lodges to elude the
Massachusetts liquor law, is that of a
woman in Taunton, who keeps her whisky
in a tea kettle on the stove.
AT Stratford, Conn, few days ago, as a
farmer was sharpening his scythe with a
rifle, a swallow flew between the rifle and
the blade, and his head was severed from
his body 'Ht '' 2"}
THE Italian Government has, by a
recent decree, called out the young men
born in 1848, for all the provinces of the
kingdom The contingent of the first
category is fixed at 10000. f5a -ti.
The Rev. Samuel Register, DID,, of the
NJ. E. Church South, has been appointed
to the Presidency of the Maryland Agri-
cultural College, vacated by Commodore
Buchanan. .. ..-
The Vermont State Geologist is about
to place several hundred young salmon in
the tributaries of the WinoOski River,
near Montpelier, as the beginning of an
attempt to restock the river with that fish.
AN action of law in England has devel-
'oped the fact that picture dealers in that
country are in the habit Of fixing the
names Of eminent artists to pictures not
painted by them, by way of description. I"
THE other day, child aged seventeen
months, the son of Samuel F. 'Cromer, re-
siding in Detroit, was almost fatally pois-
oned from eating " fly paper . used to
destroy flies about the house.
EDWARD HALPIAN, an elderly man from
Black Rock, fell over an embankment at
Niagara, near Table Rock, a few days ago,
a distance of 180 feet, and was instantly
killed. The body was mangled in dread
full manner. - 4ai 7H1a' l15i rs q
THE Times Of India reports the cheerful
news that, owing to the frequency of
deaths among travellers by the East India
Railway, the Board of Directors have re-
solved to lay in supply of collins at every
station along the line. p.,a i-aa alu. =.
IT is estimated that 5000 women in
New York are employed in the manufac-
ture of linen and muslin goods, for both
male and female wear, and that 500 are
engaged on collars and cuffs at from So to
$25 week. 90 =
A COMPANY has been formed in New
York to bring fresh meat to that market
from Texas. The entire hold of the YES
sci is lined with non conducting felt; and
by chemical means cold below the freeZ-
ing point will be kept up. j." tn-
DURING gale in Springfield, Bucks
county, Pa, the roof of a barn which had
been lifted by the wind, came down on a
funeral procession, instantly killing q mar
named Sales, a resident of Berks county
and injuring several other persons.
AUBER recently attended the funeral Of
friend in Paris, and was going away
after the ceremonies in church were over
when some one asked, Do you not &C.
company us to the cemetery?" ".No,'
was the reply, 81 go no further than this
for other peoples funerals; it will be time
enough for the churchyard on my own
account"
The Boston Traveller says that it ap-
pears from the Gubernatorial history OF
Massachusetts, now. covering a period OF
almost ninety years, that only one of her
Governors was not nominated for re-elec-
ton, and the exception helps sustain the
rule, as Governor Clifford would not allow
himself to be put in nomination for a
second term.
1T is believed that the fire in the Yellow
Jacket and Crown Point mines, at Virginia
City, Nevada, which proved fatal to sc
many of the miners last fall, has never
been entirely extinguished, as great vol
umes OF gas and smoke filled the 900 feet
level in the Yellow Jacket mine, few
days ago, and necessitated the closing Of
all the avenues. .-ease ~
THE Illinois State camp meeting will be
held on the grounds of Aurora Morgan
twelve miles east of Springfield, on the
Springfield and Mechanicsburg road, three
miles from Dawson station, on the Toledo
Wabash and Western Railroad, commenc
ing on Thursday, August 10, and closing
Friday, August 20. -. aaa -
"THE Dictionary of Useful Knowledge ,
published in London, and dated Ammo
Domini, 1S67," says of Philadelphia "a
city of the American Union, Capitol Of
the State of the same namer' Also, g il
has circumference of about eight miles ,
It's circumference is really eighty miles
Valuable dictionary that. i.I 5@I 'a
DAVID GRIFFITH and wife, of Cambria
Mass, had occasion to leave home on 9
recent Sunday, leaving four little children
at the house During their absence the
children accidentally set fire to a shed
and, to escape punishment, two of them
ran into the woods and hid themselves
and the other two, incredible as it may
seem, ran to the river and drowned them
| selves
WILLIAM CARROLL, convict in the
| Ohio Penitentiary under sentence for life
| for the murder of the Treasurer of Brown
county, the other morning attacked 6
prisoner named Frank Rauth, striking hin
on the head with one ofthe huge iron ladies
used in one of the shops, breaking hi
skull, infiicting injuries that would proba
| bly, prove fatal.
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