Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-26
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census.
PHILADELPHIA has an estimated popu-
latlon of 7S5,000 souls.
THE ties that connect business men with
the public-adver-tise.
ST. LOUIS is to have a Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
THERE are eighty registered newspa-
pers published in New Zealand.
A CHINESE school in San Francisco has
120 pupils that learn very rapidly.
FIFTEEN hundred dogs were executed
last season under the Cleveland dog Crdi-
nance.
The BRITISH 64-gun frigate Augusta,
sunk in the Delaware in 1777, has recent
ly been raised in state Of good prese1va-
ton.
THE books of the Freedmen's Savings
Bank, In Washington, show deposit in
the institution amounting to nearly ST.
$4,000.
THE largest hotel in the country is now
being built in New York, at a.cost of ST.
100000. 1t will contain six hundred and
thirty rooms
GENERAL JORDAN, writing from Cuba,
says that full 10000 Cuban ladies were
no shelter but the forest.
THREE thousand tons of coal are used
each day in the gas works of London
The aggregate consumption per year is
100000 cubic feet.
The death of Rear Admiral Stewart
leaves Rear Admiral Shubrick the oldest
officer in either branch of the service,
having entered in 1906.
THE recent fair of the American Insti-
tute in New York was financial success.
The gross receipts amounted to $50, 300,
the net profits to $21 1,000
A WRITER in Blockw0od sets out the
theory that earthquakes and volcanoes are
electricity in the earth, and really nothing
but thunder storms going on beneath.
THE records of the United States AS
SCISSORS offices of the several districts in
Illinois show that there are upward of
five thousand practicing physicians in the
State
"UeENIE" was one of the welcoming
Inscriptions that met the eye of the EN-
press on her recent entrance to European
city, which had indulged in triumphal
arches, ETC.. in her honor.
THERE are in British India 10000
schools, attended by 100000 native chill
dren. The yield of cotton in that country
this year is estimated at $l25,000,00
against $2S, 100000 in 1861.
A SUIT for divorce has lately been sue
cessful in the Bath courts, in which the
parties separated are seventy years old,
have lived together forty seven years, and
are the parents of twenty -four children.
AT French wedding, the other day,
the ceremony was celebrated first at the
Marie, secondly at the American Lega-
ton, thirdly at the American church,
fourthly at the Madeleine. What divorce
court could break this fourfold tie?
THE Mayor of New Orleans has issued
proclamation prescribing the weight and
price Of bread sold by bakers, as we'll as
the quality of flour from which it shall be
made. He DEGREES thai 64 ounces of bread
shall be sold for 90 cents, and smaller
loaves at a corresponding rate.
THE Marietta (Ohio) Register says that
a resident of that city, in boring an oil
well on Duck Creek, near Newburg, drew
out sound butternuts from fourteen feet
below the surface, and one hundred and
ninety feet down obtained two pieces of
slate which had on them beautiful i'm
pressions of fern leaves.
AT Oakland, Ind, the other day, little
girl, named Jenkins, whose clothes had
taken fire, ran out of doors tearing them
from her body, but unable to get them all
off fell upon her knees with her face be-
tween her hands, and was found in this
position by her parents on their return,
burned to death.
PRIVATE letters report that Senator
Grimes, of Iowa, is not improved in
health by his summer sojourn in Europe.
The second paralytic stroke was not so Sc
we're as the first, but it left him in feeble
condition. AT last accounts he was get
ting ready for an extended trip on the
Mediterranean. 1t was not stated when
he thinks of returning to the United
States.
A SINGULAR accident is reported in
London. A tailor, while pressing a coat,
knelt on needle accidentally left in the
garment. 1t entered the knee, and broke
in two pieces, one of which remained in
the limb. He seems not to have taken any
alarm at the occurrence, and went about
his work as usual; but in few days
violent Inflammation set in, followed by
erysipelas, and his death was the result.
THE New York Times, commenting on
the recent rude conduct of the young men,
medical students at the clinical lectures of
the Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadel-
phia says: "The $50 medical students in
Philadelphia taunt, hiss and jeer at the
twenty-five young ladies from the
Women's Medical College who attended
the clinical lectures at the Pennsylvania
among the $50 to protest against it,
A SHORT time ago close-fsted farmer
on the Sandy river, in Maine, died, after
devising 81 to his only son. The old
gentleman was duly buried in the vener-
able churchyard, which suffered terrible
washing away by the late flood, and
short time ago his body was found oppo-
site the sons place, having been brought
down the river a long distance. When
the tenderhearted son was informed of
the fact, he made the touching remark:
"Probably come back after that dollar"
A YOUNG man and his intended present
ed themselves before the city clerk of
Davenport, Iowa, the other day, for a
marriage license. 1t was found that the
intending bridegroom was under age, and
had neither parents nor guardian. In
order to make the proceedings regular, the
lady suggested that she herself should be
appointed guardian. AS she was over
eighteen, she was eligible, was duly ap-
pointed as guardian, and then gave her
consent that her ward should marry her
self
The private life of Graves, who killed
Cilley in the duel, has hitherto been
shrouded in mystery from which the veil
has just been lifted. The last two years
of his life, Graves, it seems, lived the vic
tim of remorse and the most terrible of
horrors. For two years he passed sleep