Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-10-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

NEARLY a cart load of bats was taken
from garret in New Orleans, the other
day. III
| THE total value of cotton produced this
year in Italy is estimated to be about e12,-
100000.
A TRUNK passed over the Boston & Al
bany Railroad, the other day, directed to
"11worth, Kansas"
A SUMMER visitor at North Conway, N.
| H., claims to have caught IL, 900 troutdur-
| ing the last three months.
| Mr.. KoOPMANsCHAAP has contracted
with the Texas Land Company for the in
PRODUCTION of 5000 Chinese laborers.
A COPY of Shakspeare's comedies, his
| tories and tragedies, printed in London
in the year 1923, was recently sold for ST.
| 800.
| AGAssIz told a pompous money-bagger
that he too might have been a banker, but
for the urgent demands of science, and the
banker was silent
A Miss LUCY LEE advertises in Missis-
sippi paper that she :" is of good birth and
education, and is willing to marry an edi-
tor, believing herself able to support one"
AN infant died in Westport, Conn, re-
Gently, from the poison taken into its
stomach by sucking a green veil which the
nurse had thrown over it's face to keep the
flies Off
THE New York State homeopathic
Medical Society have inaugurated move
ment for the erection of a monument to
H. B. Gram, M. D., father of homeopathy
in America.
A CHILD in Hartford fell out of third
story window, and was picked up unhurt
from the pavement. The next morning it
fell from the bed to the floor and broke its
neck
THE Charleston O0urier's cotton state
ment for the year places the total product
at 2,35S, 1863 bales It's estimate of the rice
crop in South Carolina, Georgia, North
Carolina and Louisiana, is 81, ,915 tierces.
A THUNDERSTORM and tempest visited
Guadalajara, Mexico, on the 18th ult. I'M
mense volumes of hail fell Over two hun
dred buildings were struck by lightning,
and five persons were killed by the subtle
fluid during the storm.
A JAPANESE step-mother, at Asaka,
boiled down her husband S two children in
a hot bath Her punishment was to be
slowly boiled in cauldron of oil, to which
each step-mother in Asaka contributed
portion.
A NEW YORK letter to St. Louis paper
mentions the name of woman in that
city who derives $4,000 annually from her
medical practice, which is represented to
be as respectable as her income.
A WEALTHY and beautiful young lady in
Erie, Pa, recently married an uncOuth and
crippled journeyman shoemaker, who was
already married and possessed of a family
of children, on the supposition that he
was wealthy, and an agent of A. L.
Stewart.
A. T. STEWART, in recording his deed of
the Hampstead Plains property, put stamps
to the value of 1894 on the deed. After
the stamps were cancelled, it was dis
covered that he was only compelled to use
1894 in stamps.
Mr. AND Mrs. WILLIAM HALE, of Upton,
Mass, celebrated their golden wedding re-
Gently, and among the guests were three
sisters and two brothers of the bride, who
attended the wedding fifty years ago.
This must indeed be Hale and hearty
couple.
Two hundred dollars worth of postage
stamps, which it was supposed had been
stolen from the Covington PostOffice, have
been recovered. One hundred dollars
worth of postage stamps had been sold to
| Il RCUulCllldll, Uub OuC ClCIh3 LII
them, made mistake, and gave him $500
worth.
HEREAFTER the English Baptist Mis-
sonary Society will not send out any
married missionaries. The men who go
must prove their fitness in bodily vigor
and mental aptitude by trial of two
wears. At the end of that time they may
return and marry, or wife may be sent
out to them.
"old miner" at Avondale proposes
that hereafter all the miners give one days
nav every year toward the fund for the
benefit of the widows and orphans. BY
this means, he says, they can raise $4,000,
and for himself he counts the first days
work that he has done since the catastro-
phe sacred for this purpose.
NELLIE CARPENTER, 13 years of age,
of Bridgewater, vt, is heroine: On the
27th ult., while playing on the bank of
pond, with three other little girls one of
them fell in. Nellie first directed the two
girls with her to run for some men, and
then waded into the pond up to her chin,
but, failing in that way to get at the
drowning girl, she procured long pole,
and, after much exertion, succeeded, just
as the girl was sinking the third time, in
rescuing her.
A YOUNG lady in Auburn, N. Y, refused
to marry her sweetheart unless he stopped
chewing tobacco He agreed, and the
wedding came off in due season. Return
ing from the bridal tour, in the cars, the
other day, he pulled a roll of something
from his pocket. She thought it was to-
bacco, and therefore clutched it and threw
it out of the window. Alas it was roll
of money, $4,000 in all, and it has not
been recoveredi
A PARTY of eight persons, consisting of
G. T. Chaffee, wife and wife's sister, and
five children, the youngest 12 weeks old,
were recently found on the road, near Bal
timore, Md, in most destitute condition:
They were without money, starving, and
almost naked. Chaffee stated that they
, left home, in Leavenworth County, Kan
sas, in February last, for Philadelphia,
where they have friends, and had Travelled
the entire distance on foot, living by char
ity on the way. They were provided for
and liberal subscription in money was
raised for them, and they resumed their
Journey to Phila4elphia, BY boat.
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