Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-29
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Omaha has population estimated at
$4,000.
An Iowa orchard contains sixty thous-
and bearing apple trees.
Dexter is so named from his habit OF
putting the right foot foremost.
Some one calculates that an acre OF
buckwheat yields fourteen pounds OF money
daily.
There is a school teacher in the employ
of the city of Boston who has served 1or
over 40 years.
More than sos, 900, 900 worth OF boots
and shoes will be manufactured III MasSa-
chusetts the present year.
"A lad died in Albany few days since
from paralysis caused by dose OF WHISKY
given to stimulate him while i'll.
"A temperance lecturer has started rom
Kansas with the declared intention OF walk
ing to Augusta, Me-, and delivering a lee
ture on temperance every evening while on
his way.
Judge Sawyer, of the District Court OF
California has decided that Chinese testl-
mony is admissible against white men un-
der the fourteenth amendment to the Fed
eral Constitution.
"A single st. Joseph firm has sold dur
ING the season 650,000 quart berry boxes,
80, 900 half bushel berry cases, and their
sales of peach packings will amount 10 &c.
900 baskets and 80, 900 boxes
"A child three years old, of A. T. Sedg-
wick, of Weymouth, Medina county, Ohio,
swallowed single nail which lodged in
it's throat, and remained there for thirty
two days In an effort of coughing the
nail was thrown out
A Chicago paper says: ga promi nent
actor who is not married, and an equally
prominent actress who is married, last Sun
dav evening, terminated a short though tol
erably brilliant western season by uniting
baggage and eloping."
in Boston, the other day, girl dashed
vitriol in young mans face and complete
lv destroyed his eyes Che is now an inmate
of an asylum for the blindl, because he re-
fused to acknowledge himself the father of
her illegitImate child
Recently two-year old colt, in Phil
lips, Me-, was found literally stuck full OF
porcupine quilts. He was caught, and
seven men with nippers worked upon him
considerable portion of the day to free
him from his torment.
Rich placer diggings have recently
been discovered northwest of Helena, Mon
tana, but the Indians were SO troublesome
that the miners have thus far been unable
to work the new mines, which are said to
be of surprising richness.
Louisa Muhlbach, the novelist, is COM
ing to America next spring, with her daugh-
tiers, Theodore and Fredrika Mundt, the
former of whom is an actress of repute and
has been for some time studying English
with the purpose of appearing on ourstage
The Troy Wing has made a calculation
from which it appears that enough rain
fell in Rensselaer, and Albany counties on
Sunday and Monday of last week to supply
every man, woman and child upon the face
of the earth with two and half gallons OF
water per day for year.
Its dangerous business sparkling the
Maplewood Institute girls at Pittstield,
Mass, this fall. Rev. G. V. Spear, the
Principal, advertises that his grounds are
ssprotected with powder and ball, and ex-
poets the "cousins" of his fair pupils to
take due warning.
"A party which recently went to the up
per waters of the Yuba on a fishing excur-
sion, not finding the sport with hook and
line sufficiently exciting, exploded small
charge of giant powder in the water. The
effect was astonishing the fish in the
immediate vicinity, large and small, being
instantly killed.
-"Sim," the Chief of the Washoe In
dams, is dead. A newspaper published
among the Rocky Mountains says of him
obituarily: "He was a good, though very
dirty red man. He possessed we'll
balanced head of hair. and stomach enough
for all he could get to eat. His regard for
the truth was notable he never meddled
with it. He left no will, and his estate
consisted of a pair of boots. :"
The New York Tribune of the 9th
says: sit is said that during the past six
weeks 500 head of cattle which arrived in
Jersey City from Texas. and which were af-
fiicted with the Spanish fever, have been
sold to farmers throughout the State at 81
head, and are now spreading the pesti-
lence among all the cattle in their different
localities The State Society holds Colonel
Black, State Inspector, responsible"
Prince Arthur was, on Friday, made a
Chief of the Mohawks, at their village near
Brantford, Canada. He was indicted into
the honor by one of the Chiefs of the Six
Nations, descendant of the celebrated
made Chiefs of this tribe. He was named
''The Flying Sum-" because, ''like the sun,
he is flying from East to West over the vast
dominions of his mother"
The following personal" advertise
ment appears in a New York paper
Should this notice meet the eye of any
person who has recently been bereaved by
stock speculatiops and is tainted with pugil-
istic ability, who feels that his life is moth
ing to him, and is willing to scalp any one,
in hopes of retrieving his losses, end If
necessary enter the prize-ring (as has been
done as last resort to raise the wind),
he will learn something to his advantage by
addressing j. Mace"
An Adirondack correspondent tells o
good story illustrative of the responsibility
of travellers in that region for introducing
the vices of civilization. Agentleman who
had a good supply of liquor in his camp
was generous enough to treat his guide.
This unsophisticated forester got SO furi-
ously drunk that his employer was afraid
to stay in camp with him, and essayed to
get away; but his guide intercepted him,
and forced him at the point of the pistol to
row the boat, with the guide as passenger,
all the way to the next inn.