Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-12-17
CURRENT ITEMS.

Olive Logan's name is Mrs Henry A.
Deille.
"A Writ Of Attachment--A Marriage
Certificate.
old men are moved down, but babies
are Graded.
The Peabody school in Augusta Ga,
has $50 pupils.
If love is blind, how can there be any
love at first sight? -...
THE Washington Life is governed by
the laws of New York.
The potatoes are rotting badly in
many parts of Vermont.
An interior county of New York
raised this year 100000 worth of pepper
mint.
"A married woman in Baltimore
charged a girl with stealing dress, and
pays 5000 for SANDER.
The New York Leader estimates that
no less than 30, 900 New Workers are living
above their means. -...-..f ..s.r...
Miss Mollie Stacy, of Navasoto, Texas,
won Sunday school prize by commit
ting to memory $50 verses.
The Coates thread company are erect
ing buildings at a cost of $250,000, at Paw
tucket, for the American branch of their
business.
Providence, r. l., real and personal
estate is now valued at $03,0SS, 800, and
the amount of tax to be raised is 81 1885,
664.
The recent seizure of the Spanish
gunboats at New York threw four hun
dred men out of employment at the Del
ameter Works.
"A young man has been excommuni-
Gated from st. Louis church for stealing
its funds, he being clerk to the treasurer.
There is an evening school for Chi
nesc in New York, which is generally at
tended by ten or twenty young men.
The first provision for free school,
in the colony of New York was made in
1882, and placed under the care of Alex
ander Malcolm, Scotchman.
Over sixty Indians-men, women and
children-of the Yankton Band of Dako-
tas, were recently burned to death in a
prairie fire. ~
Near Zanesville,; Ohio, young man
recently gorged himself with chestnuts
and cider until he was taken with the
cramps and died.
The schooner J B. Martin, from Mil
waukee, was lost in Lake Huron during a
late gale She had ON board ten persons
from Milwaukee. t.:'a ..
An idiotic boy, named Joseph Fallgate,
unearthed from the Berks county, Pa,
Jail by the Grand Jury, has been chained
in dark cell for several wears.
More than q hundred hay growers in
New England indorse the report of the
Board of Agriculture that the time to cut
hay is when it is Towering, and not when
the flower is dying, as formerly practioed.
Smith and Jones were talking about
fencing, the art of self-defense and the
like. Smith remarked that he had seen a
rail fence. "Pooh!" said Jones, "that is
nothing--I have seen hat-box."
"A popular French author writes in
his last novel; "The Countess fell back
in q deadly sWOon. When she revived
her spirit had fled" How disappointed
the poor creature must have felt!
The Thanksgiving dinner Of each
prisoner in the Albany Penitentiary con-
sisted of four pounds of roast beef, a loaf
of white bread fresh crackers, apples, and
other luXuries, eaten in the loneliness of
cell.
"A little boy was thrown from run
away horse in Leavenworth, Kansas,
few days ago, and, his foot catching in the
stirrup, was dragged considerable dis
lance and dashed to death.
AT Frazeysburg, Ohio, few NORM
ings ago, boy, twelve years old, while'
riding one horse and leading another, was
thrown, and, his foot remaining in the
stirrup, dragged at full speed more than
three-quarters of mile, and killed.
1t was recently announced in Phila-
delphia churches that "coal collections"
would be made A German who did not
understand that the collection was to be
made in money, trundled a hand cart full
of coal to a church, but found no one
there to receive it.
AN English paper announces the death
of the Vice-President of the Equitable Life
Insurance Company Of London, Mr..
Ralph Price, himself remarkable in
stance of the benefits of Life Assurance.
His own policy, originally effected for Co.
600 ($25,000), at his death amounted to
$4,000, (say $125,O0O) Similar results
are being attained by the Washington
Life.