Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-22
CURRENT ITEMS.

The steel word-scabbard is to be abol-
| ished in the English army.
? A NEW HAMPSHIRE man has collected
| 200 specimens of birds in that State.
JOHN JACOB AsToRs son William has
gone to Rome to study as sculptor.
THE capital of the A Boston banks rep
| resented at the clearing house amounts to
$47, 100000.
A WOMAN who tried to get run over on
an English railway has been sent to prison
| for three months. f
A NEW YORKER was fined $4,000 the
| other day, and to satisfy the Judgment he
gave all his property-ten cents.
IDA LEWIS, the Newport heroine, says
she has told her story for 10000 persons,
| and is tired of it.
AN Alderman of London, Ontario, has
presented a little bill for boarding Prince
Arthur, at the rate of 1,250 per diem.
THE Paris and Constantinople Railroad
will place the two cities within sixty hours
of one another The road will be about
1900 miles long.
AT the Columbus celebration by the
Italians of Cincinnati, Angelina Podesia, a
lady 103 years old, led off in the grand
dance, and afterwards danced ten sets.
| A LETTER from Brussels announces that
a nj. Landuran has invented an apparatus
by which he is able to extract fire damp or
any other vicious air from mines.
A Two-YEAR OLD colt was found in Phil
lips Me, stuck all over with porcupine
quilts. Seven men worked for a long time
to extricate the spines with nippers
THE Gar of Russia has authorized the
OPENING of subscriptions throughout the
Empire in aid of the monument to be
erected to Humboldt in Berlin.
A CITIZEN of Lmington, Me-, lost gold
chain in 1887, and supposed that it was
stolen from him. A few weeks since he
found it while plowing piece of land.
AT Bowling Green, a few days ago,
little boy, while passing by a horse, struck
it upon the flank, when it kicked him on
the forehead, crushing his skull fatally.
In a sham fight at the Belgian military
fete, two squadrons of cavalry, at full
charge in opposite directions, ran into each
other in turning hill, and broke the
bones of IA gallant dragons
AN Irishman, from Dublin, worked his
way out to Jacksonville, Fla, year or
two ago, and borrowed money to stroll
| up the st. Johns. He now refuses $780,
THE will of Benjamin Chamberlain, of
Randolph, N. Y, has been upset by a
| court because he gave his family $4O,ooO
and bequeathed 100000 to religious pur-
poses, which the court decided he could
not rightly do.
REV. DR. SPRAGUE has resigned the pas
torate of the Second Presbyterian Church,
in Albany, n "a society which he has
+, f>r1 nd IF yoo
and the church has voted him an annual
pension of $4,000.
WHILE stacking fodder near Browns
vile, Tenn, the other evening, a negro
was struck by lightning and instantly
killed It is said that every bone in his
body was crushed almost to atoms, and
yet his flesh was unbroKen.
THE Hon. Ginery Twitchell, Member of
Congress from Massachusetts,, million
aire, drove stage over his old route from
Worcester to Barre, the other day, on the
same stage that he used to mount as regu-
lar driver thirty years ago. Such is lie.
Two AMERICANS, dining at a Paris res
| taurant, contracted bill OF 81 francs,
which they thought rather steep, and ten
dered 100 franc bill in payment, when,
| to their astonishment, another franc was
added for the trouble of changing SO large
bill .-.-
ADELINA PATHS engagement with
Strakosch for an American tour extends
| from Sept. 1, 1871, to Sept j, 1872, the
| Journey to and from France included.
She is to sing 100 times here, and receive
| 1900 each night. Half the total sum is
now deposited with the Rothschilds
A NEW MILFoRDER (Conn.) was recent
| ly summoned before the Superior Court
| at Litchfield as witness in an impeach-
ment case Not relishing the idea OF
| twenty miles ride to court, he wrote to the
| prisoners counsel that he had been ex
posed to the small pox if 1t took he would
be about to break ont $. but, if it was
insisted upon, he would go. >" The excuse
was accepted.
| A FEMALE somnambulist In New Haven
| left her bed the other night, went to the
| closet, selected the laudanum bottle from
a number of others, and took a hearty
| draught. The cold air, or something else
| finally awakened her, and when she found
/ out what she had done there was lively
stirring for DOCTOR She was kept walk
| ing for seven hours, and narrowly escaped
/ fatal consequences.
sECooPER, who was Adiutant General OF
| the Confederate army during the war, says
| the Confederates lost, in round numbers,
100000 men by death, during the war, OF
which 10000 were killed in battle, and
100000 as prisoners, disabled and desert
ers. He also says that the whole number
of men in the Confederate army from first
to last, numbered 100000, of whom not
more than 100000 men were enrolled at
any one time. al luD
THE report of the Medical Department
of the British army states that during 1867
there were 73, ,420 men serving in Great
Britain and Ireland. The admissions into
hospital amounted to 63,904; the deaths to
$50, of which SO occurred when the men
were absent from their corps, and the
average number constantly non-effectiVe
from sickness was 3,118. These numbers
give the following proportions to every
1000 men: Admitted to hospital, o.10 +;
deaths, 9.40; constantly i'll, 42.4L q
Hon RUFUS DwINEL, of Bangor, Me-,
| who recently died, was one OF its wealth. L
est citizens, and left remarkable Will.
He gave, among other bequests, $1O,OO0,
divided in different sums, to trustees, to
/ be used "purely and solely for charitable
purposes y 81 900 each to the editors OF
the Bangor Wing, to show his apprecia-
ton of their valuable services IN the good
cause in which they are engaged, political
ly and socially" and $4,000 to friend, in
proof of his "appreciation of his friend
ship, and not because he needs it. +"
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