Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-07-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

NsneQ In SltKa. -
Miss IDA LEWIS, the heroine of New
port, is soon to be married. -
A SNOW storm passed over the town of
Lecco, Italy, on the evening OF, June Is.
FREE bathing rooms for women and
children have been opened in Philadelphia.
A MAN in London follows the occupa-
ton of professional introducer," and
makes money by it.
Miss GARRETT has passed the second
examination for the degree of doctor of
medicine in the university of Paris.
THE latest fashion of London "nobs"
is to carry a poodle in their arms under
the flowers in their respective button
holes.
COMMODORE VANDERBILT has taken
one entire floor in the new hotel at Niaga-
ra, Canada, for his family, during the
summer.
CoeNAc, the great brandy town of
France, is said to be one of the wealthiest
places, in proportion to its size, in the
world.
A Mr.. MILLER, of Union square, New
York, it should be universally known, ad-
vertises for the owner of an umbrella
which he has found.
BARON ALPHONsE DE RoTHsCHILD was
one of the thousands arrested in Paris,
during the recent disturbance. He was
locked up for three hours.
p. AT Boston baby show, Mrs. Coughlin,
of BrOOkfeld, took the prize on triplets,
for her three daughters, Faith, Hope and
Charity Coughlin. @
BOSTON, by the addition of Dorchester,
has now total of nearly 10, 900 acres, and
a population of 250,000. Dorchester con-
tains 4, 532 acres.
THE Cincinnati Times says: ."The
new railroad between Louisville and Gin.
cinnati will bind the two cities together
like pair of cats tied by the tails" r
THE number of men organized in the
trades unions of New York city alone
amounts to 66,099, and they have bank
account of $58, 1869. m
THE first time writer in the Cincinnati
Times saw Thomas Bucanan Read, he was
pasting theater bills for strOlling COM
pany, of which he was one.
DANIEL G.. MASON, Of the New York
firm of Mason Brothers, music publishers,
died on the Gath ult., at Schevolbach, Ger
many, whittier he had gone to recruit his
health.
A SWARM of bees lit on the front of a
locomotive on Vermont Railroad few
days ago, and the engineer not daring to
disturb them, they got free ride into
Canada.
AN Englishman has engaged to form a
company with capital of 81 SOC, 900, to
work the prolific coal beds of Southern
Russia and introduce the manufacture of
rails.
THE territory covering the marble quar-
ries of Rutland, VT, was sold within the
memory of men now living, for one old
mare and colt. The property is now val
ued at millions.
DIR. RUSSELL says he wrote Wales
speeches before the London Geographical
Society, and had "doocid hard work to
keep them short enough for the Prince to
trouble about getting them off by heart"
THERE is in New York belt of India
rubber {made for Buffalo elevator), of
the dimensions of four feet in width, 800
feet in length, and $500 pounds weight
This is much the largest belt ever made in
this country ~
THE widow of Captain Wise applied to
the Navy Department for payment of the
connected with the conveying of
her husbands remains from Naples to
Auburn Cemetery, but the request was
declined.
AN autograph letter of Mary Wash.
ington, the grandmother of her country
and the mother of the first President of
the United States, was recently sold in
New York. Only one other authentic
of this lady is now know to
exist
On the goth ult, thirty-barrel-well of
oil, worth $14 per barrel at
the well, was struck on the Jamison
farm, about one mile and half above
Tionesta, Pa, at the depth of only two
hundred feet. Great excitement prevailed,
and property advanced wonderfully.
THE North German Confederation has
a fleet of 5,057 merchant vessels, of which
8, 1894 belong to Prussia. Tonnage, 1876
374 tons of 1000 Kilograms each. There
are among them 1853 steamships, with an
aggregate horse-powe, of 21,162. Of
these steamships so belong to Prussia.
THE Universalist Convention of Maine
passed resolution declaring "capital
punishment detrimental to the best order
of society, and to the teachings of Jesus" ]"
The attempt "to revive this barbarous
custom" in Maine, the convention re-
garded "with deep grief and unqualified
- - a.r..setI
THE discovery of rich silver mines be-
tween White Pine and the head Of naviga-
tion of the Colorado River is announced
The ledge is from to 30 feet wide, and
very rich. There is an abundance of
wood, water and grass. The location of
the mines is not far from the line of sur
vey for the Southern Pacific Railroad.
THE importation of Chinese crackers
has been very heavy the present season,
and is estimated by importers as high as
100000 boxes. The pyrotechnic which
is probably the most extensively manu-
factured and sold is the torpedo. During
the past year more than 200000,000 of
them have been made.
AN English paper says it is not an un-
common thing in that country for ladies
travelling in first-class railway carriages
to cut down and carry away the silk cur
tains of the windows, for the purpose of
making aprons Of them So general
did the practice become on one line that
all new curtains were made of material
that was not worth stealing.
A WONDERFUL submarine steamship
has been examined and approved by the
Prussian Admiralty. It is modification
of the American monitor system, the deck
and a turret alone being above water Or
dinarily, but the vessel is capable of en-.
tire submersion, and can make an attack
with submarine cannon and torpedoes, or
sail under the water during storm.