Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-08-27
CURRENT ITEMS.

phia, has an income of $39, 1870. ~
| JOHN GULL is the oldest; prisoner il
the Ohio Penitentiary. He has been ther
thirty three years ~ r..s
THE San Francisco druggists are abou
| to form an association for protecting tn
| profession from abuses.
| AN American has received $4,000 il
gold from a German railroad company
having had his ankle broken by al
accident.
TWELVE hundred rag-pickers attended
the funeral of prominent member of th,
profession in Paris, and three speeche
| were made. .-,.a
A GEORGIA paper makes mention o
having seen bunch of grapes upor
which were at least 1000 fully developed
and perfectly ripe grapes.
GEORGE PEABoDY has given 100000 tt
the Trustees OF Washington, Va, Col
lege, to establish the addi jionaI professor
ship proposed by General Lee
HON.. HARRISON REED, Governor Of
Florida, was recently married at Syracuse,
N. Y, to Miss Chloe Merrick, for several
years teacher of freedmen in Florida.
THERE are thirty seven firms engaged in
the carriage business in Amesburg and
Salisbury, Mass, and the sales for the last
quarter reached the sum of $413,313 i
Upon a restaurant at Amsterdam, near
the great exhibition now in progress there,
lis placard which says "Customers are
not robbed here as at Paris during the Ex-
hibition of 1867" ~ '.a.+ #-13
A WOMAN has been arrested in Vienna
for decoying young girls into her house
and then bleeding them. The blood was
used by this female fiend to wash herself
with in order to preserve her beauty.
IT has been definitely ascertained that
the total loss by the Crimean struggle was
as follows: French army, 95,615; English
army, 22,102; Piedmontese, 1874 !;
Turkish, $4,000; Russian, 63O,0OO-total,
84,991. ..s.r' l.,. ..t,4.
DURING, the year 1868 the number of
letters delivered in Great Britain and Ire
land was 80S, ,118,000, or an average of 26
letters to each person. There are a million
of depositors in the postoffice savings
banks of the United Kingdom. rs I
Rev. DIR. TODD, of Pittsfeld, Mass, has
been presented with ring made from one
of the golden spikes used in laying the last
rail of the Union Pacific Railroad. The
ring bears these words: "The Mountain
Wedding" at which, it will be remem-
bered, DR.. Todd was the officiating clergy
man.
CARLoTTA's hatred of the French EN-
peror is so great that, when she saw his
marble bust the other day in one of the
corridors of the palace of Lacken, she
rushed toward it, seized it and threw it to
the ground, breaking it into thousand
pieces. That bust had been sent by Napo-
leon III. as present to Carlotta's father
Leopold l., when the latter notified him of
the betrothal of his only daughter to the
Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Aus
tria. srE u EEt-.
A MAD dog entered the house of General
M. M. Trumbull, in Dubuque, and created
considerable excitement by swapping at
the children Mr. T's mother-in-law sue
ceeded in cornering the brute between the
wall and sewing machine, and with a
chair held him there until the children got
out of the way The animal was finally
secured by two men, who, instead of kill
ing it, procured bucket of water and
dashed some of it down the dogs throat
until the paroXysms ceased, when they
picked it up in their arms and carried it
away.
AT recent meeting of the Poor Board
of Paddington, England, the Chairman re-
marked that in a recent visit to the infirm-
ary he was accosted by pauper inmate
who few years ago possessed a fortune
Of $250,000 to 100000, was blood rela-
tive to one of the highest Peers of the
realm and had lost all his property by the
failure of Overend & Gurney. The rules
Of hn "Nr.Iy oil + !,
master of the guardians to draw any dis
tinction between paupers, and the only
thing that could be done was to write to
the noble Lord and inform him of the des-
titute circumstances of his poor relative.
A YOUNG lady of Memphis, Tenn, made
practical illustration of the theory which
has been quite warmly advocated in the
columns Of the Revolution, that ladies
should have the same privilege as men in
making love and proposals Of marriage.
The young woman in question hearing
that a certain young man wanted to get
married, dressed up in her tidiest and
called upon him. Though they had never
met before, she Immediately made known
her errand. Being assured that he was
indeed desirous of companion, she, with
out further preliminaries, offered heart
and hand. The next day they were
married.
A CORRESPONDENT writing from Deco
rah to the Davenport Qowa) ,Jo1r7aal, tells
the following horrible story of death: "A
little. lad, Robert Clark, aged ten years,
ran out in the field near his father home,
in Franklin, in this county, when he was
bitten by one Of the thrusts Of a rattle
snake. He started to run, but the snake
hung to him. In the struggle the little
fellow was bitten ele0en times on the leg
below the ankle--the snake, hung to the
last bite, and the frightened child climbed
a fence and kicked the snake off with his
other foot. He then started for home,
and before he reached home he had fit.
His parents did everything that could be
done to save him. Medical aid was sum-
moned and exhausted The child died.
In the last hours of his suffering he would
run his tongue out at his mother, spit at
the attendants, and hiss like snake, be-
sides having awful convulsions and heart
rending delirium.
AN archaeological investigation of the
country around Gettysburg, conducted by
a learned antiquarian, has proved the truth
of q belief long entertained by residents,
that the battlefield of Gettysburg had, in
the distant past, been the scene of bloody
struggle between the Indians or some un-
known or long extinct race This fact is
attested by the exhumation of the military
implements of the combatants and the re-
mains of the dead in what is known as the
Indian Field, about a mile southwest OF
Round Top and of the National Cemetery.
These relics are found thickly imbedded
in the soil over the whole area of territory
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