Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-01-08
FACTS AND FIGURES.

FACTS AND FIGURES
RoTHsCHILD left a ton of deeds.
CANADA has 104,43s Sunday-schoolA
scholars. .......,q ..-.sI - if- &,
EPISCOPAL bishops now get $4,000 per
annum. ''''
In Great Britain 10000 of the people are
blind. t2l st % y
No STONE marks the grave of Sam
Houston, at Huntsville, Texas. IS 45Iaas
Mr.. PEABoDY's donations to the poor of
London amount to e350,000. I.
A MAN in st. Louis has been sued for
$4,000, for chastising married daughter,
RICHMOND, Va, supports ninety-one
doctors, seventy-three lawyers and ons
pawnbroker. n 1s l 5eTa,}.f +. sfeat Ers
A FACTORY in Pittsfeld has three female
operatives who have been there over 3S
years each. ts@st W Ete@ tta3sh
A VEST made for one of the solid men of
New Haven, Ct, measured four feet four
inches around the breast.
OF 23,345 emigrants who arrived in
Canada during the past season, 1874
passed through to the Western States.
On Christmas eve the General Council
of Louisville donated 10000 bushels of
coal to the suffering poor of the city.
THE English cruiser Nymph has cap
tured eight slavers off the African coast
during the past season. 1'asm oap
| CoMMoDoRE VANDERBILT, with his
| family, owns over $15,000,000 of the $685.
| 100000 stock of the New York Central
Railroad .ei34 44i8 hyf9sstEi 99i
MERRITT SANFORD, who died at Beth
any, Conn.,, a few days ago, at the age of
II, had worn no hat or cap for forty
years. s' 98aa @3# a2t8 E6
Gently offered the judge, in open court, a
sealed envelope full of notes, as a bribe.
The sentence was doubled.
THE city of Liverpool has debt of
about $20,000, 900, and it is on the increase.
The interest now amounts to over 81 ,00O,-
000pe annum.
In his address to the Fenians in this
country, George Francis Train announces
that James Stephens has been restoredto
full control of the Fenian organization.
In 1886, Wisconsin Territory cast 2.462
votes; in 1858 the State of Wisconsin
cast 193,642. Milwaukee county cast 781
votes in 1885, and 10000 in 1868. afpos
THE Boston IT0oezler says that, at about
10 o'clock the other evening, there was a
fall of light snow without cloud to be
seen in the sky, and the stars shining.
ENGLAND now has an army of 177,000
men, of which 70,292 are garrisoned in
the British Isles, $4,000 in India, and the
remainder in her other dependencies a'2s
CALIFORNIA proper produces about half
| I.1TI 4, Il IL
but the total product OF gold and silver
| for the Pacific coast at the present time is
estimated to be about $60000,000 per an
mum. M 7gl gr
JOSH BILLINGS recently wroteto lee
ture committe that the price of one of
his lectures was 5000; that he had in
some instances been careless enough to
/ throw off the 500, but the 40 cents he
must have to maintain his reputation.
A SINGLE firm at Boston, engaged in
the manufacture of clothing, employs 80
cutters and $500 sewers, and they are
sending out every week 300 huge cases of
| cut garments to be made up in Maine,
| New Hampshire and the interior of Mas
4 sachusetts. ~ 9HaI
DURING the last summer fox in Meri-
4 den, CT, killed 50 turkeys at one place.
He was driven away, and went to another
place and killed nine. He was again
driven away, but managed to kill Is more
at another place, making 80 in all, He
still lives.
THE full pardon and amnesty proclama.
ton issued by President Johnson includes
jeff. Davis, Breckenridge, Jacob Thomp-
son, Mason, Slidell, and all others who
were directly or indirectly er gagged in the
late insurrection or rebellion. The par
ties named above are now in foreign coun-
tries.
In pegging boots, by steam, 20 cases, or
240 pairs of boots, is a usual days work.
4 One man in Hopkinton, Massachusetts,
has pegged 83 cases, ,982 boots, in two
days He once pegged AS boots, twice
round, in fourteen minutes and did one
boot, in trial of speed, in thirteen sec
onds g
CARL VoGT, the German psychologist,
who is soon to come to this country, and
to deliver course of lectures on his fa-
vorite subject, believes that the brain of
man is growing from generation to gene
ration. He fixes the rate at 700 cubic
centimetres for the last seven hundred
years. aaa sfas 5es8 is
SIX SMITHS, brothers, of .Middlefield,
Mass, and thereabouts, killed their rival
pigs of the Northampton breed, recently,
and Mr.. Lawrence Smith, the owner of
the smallest, paid the supper previously
agreed upon as the stakes to be forfeited
by "the hindermost in this race for fat
ness. This smallest porker kicked the
beam at five hundred pounds, and the
largest tailed six hundred and eightv-four.
The losers house was beautifully decora-
ted on the occasion of the supper, and
l.; IT, NJ Hi of 10
hospitality.