Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-10
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ANEwpoRT head-waiter makes 800 a
day in fees. t1fHi
PRUSSIA has seven hundred cloisters
with six thousand inmates.
AoCHILD in Ohio died recently from the
effects of a rat-bite on the nose.
GONE Night in Ten Bar Rooms" is
forthcoming drama by Mark Twain. Il
THERE are twenty-five American stu
dents at the University of France. il ..-ao.
IND1ANAPoL1s claims to be the greatest
walnut lumber market in the world.
The Southern Illinois Normal Univer-
sity has been located at Carbondale, Jack
son county. - 80. .75t2a l1anod
TWELVE hundred persons were last year
summoned before London courts Tor for
cruelty to animals. ''''
MORE diamonds have been discovered
at the Cape of Good Hope, aone of which
is said to be worth eS0,000.. .fe Wi,
WILMINGTON, North Carolina, dressed
the lamp posts in mourning on the death
of a late popular lamplighter @
The Masonic fraternity of Louisville
are about erecting Widows and Orphans
Home, to cost 100000, on ground donated.
DIR. F. A! MITCHELL, one of Mr.. Gree
ley's sschoolsteachers, who taught him writ
ing. died recently in Manchester, N. H.,
at eighty. I, go ~
"a LADY in Swampscott, Mass, has Sc
cured a nail recently made in q New
Hampshire blacksmith shop by Robert
Collyer. s,,s...,s
JENNY LIND has become quite poor.
Her husband has squandered most of her
money. tits thought that she will open a,
school for opera singers in Paris.
"A MAN. recently died at Parkersburg,
West Virginia, of cancer in the face, caused
by piece of wood accidentally. striking
his lips. s1T.} .aH0f 70 .ag'lfq .t..:.,.s.,,.
The Pennsylvania State Fair has,
among other premiums, prize of fifty
dollars to the reporter who writes the best
and fullest account of the show. *,
IRA MOUNTAIN range of iron ore has been
discovered in Alaska, The range has an
altitude Of 1900 feet, and causesa deviation
OF ten degrees in the magentic needle.
THE Bishop of Wisconsin recently held
a confirmation among the Oneida Indians
at Green Bay. The. service was in the
Mohawk language, and seven persons were
Confirmed. - !" 37".Eo' fe aai.ip = isn
|snsAN apothecary's clerk, in Boston, who
recently sold laudanum forrhubarb, there
by causing the death of a Mrs. Norton,
has been admitted to bail in $4,000, to an
swer to the charge of manslaughter, oa,
The hull of a buried vessel was found
lately eleven feet under ground in digging
a sewer in the streets of Stockholm. 1t is
supposed to have been there more than
three hundred years. 4. a.ir a 4
~ BENJAMIN BROWN, of Stapleton, Staten
Island, graduate of Harvard, offers to
give $4,000 to the Oxford crew, if they
will consent to row the Harvards, on either
the Hudson or Charles river next autumn.
THE Sisters of Mercy in a Durham
(England) convent lately struck and de-
parted from the establishment without
leave from their superiors, on account OF
the insufficient allowance of food.
A CLEVELAND surgeon was sent for hur
rie6ly by wealthy family the other day,
to set a fractured limb, and, making great
haste to the house, a pet poodle which
had met with an accident was borne in
with household lamentations by adomes-
tic. cj9iai is,aaH .efa5t;.5as,,,, ,tt,s,.f
d AT recent meeting of the Ladies' SAM.
tary Association of London, at which q
number of prominent surgeons and physi-
clans were present taking part i'll the pro-
ceedings, it was decided that there are
not at present sufficient data to warrant
the present law compelling. vaccination.
Two noted Saratoga bellies got into a
dispute on the piazza Of tile Clarendon the
E0ther day. about which had the longest
tTail-each one stOutly claiming to have
the longest IT was finally settled by
measurement, when the difference was
found'to be just 1hafzan inch, the longest
abeingi13 feet 6112a inches. ,.pr
DR. ,MOOERs, much respected and be-
nevolent physician of Plattsburg, N. Y,
/ died some weeks since. While the funeral
was being attended at the Presbyterian
Church, OF which he was member, mass
was being recited in both the Catholic
Churches for the repose of his soul. The
Irish and French residents, whose poor he
had attended without charge, desired this
done. ~ = ~ tf''ss =
"a A CALL1FoRNrA letter of the a4th of Au-
: gust says: g" Eight car loads of butter and.
cheese just arrived, and seventeen NOR,
expected, from the Eastern States, for Cali
fornia 'Wny is this thus, and what is the
cause of this thus-ness?': California is
sadly behind in dairy farms, yet has any
quantity of land suitable for them. Here
/ is magnificent opening for those under
standing the business"igGo8 hG i.aG 5s|
A PRESIDENT of Birmingham Connecti-
cut, recently accidentally shot himselfin the
hand with a pistol, the ball passing through
the bones of the little finger of his left
hand. j 4He1rsfused to have,,it amputated,
and in few days modification set in. =. The
finger, with portion of the left hand, was
then removed, but lockjawR set in, from
the effects of which he died. Wollta y sH
1.-The N Newark Aduertise,, tells how a Jer-
seyman's life was. saved, the other day,
by kick. He was attempting to get upon
d moving train, with a pail of butter in
one hand andsa basket of eggs in the, other,
and was in danger of losing his life, when
the conductor gave him a vigorous kick,
which sent him flying with heels in the
air, and scattering his eggs and butter in
promiscuous directions but preserving
him from injury. - sl
A LARGE body Of black ants were seen
on the highway between Concord and
London, N. H., a few days since. They
were formed in two lines, extending en-
tirely across the road to the bank opposite.
Persons who saw them estimated their
number blythe million A severe battle
was fought, which lasted nearly an hour,
after which both sides were occupied in
tburying their dead Their weapons were
their teeth, and they destroyed each other
by biting their bodies open in the middle.
AN eminent writer on finance and
economy, M. Eugene Forecade, became in
sane two years ago His friends applied
to have the care of his property, but
apparently left the invalid to take care of
himself However strange ladv f q