Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-06-04
FACTS AND FIGURES.

has = $400, 900 income.
| A FAMILY of garbage pickers in New
York report $4,000 in bank.
| CALIFORNIA shipped $4,000,0O0 worth
OF wheat and flour last year.
AN English exchange heads its financial
column: :"Other Peoples Money"
THE number of students at the Cont
mental Universities is estimated at $4,000.
The New York Citizen has passed into
the exclusive control of r. B. Roosevelt
THE State of Massachusetts, paid $3,-
$50, 7S2 for educational purposes last year.
JOHN G. HEENAN, the pugilist, keeps q
liquor store on Union Square, New York.
A MAN in Portland, Me-, has package
of Continental money, containing $14,-
500, par value.
/ A CLAIM against the Mexican govern
ment for $185, 900 was sold in New York
recently for $l9.
1855 births. and 4S0,677 deaths in England
and Wales.
Mr. WHITING, of Springfield. Mass,
has nine sons, and the initials of all their
names are 81. l.. w.
| JAMES WEBB, JR., one of the shoe
kings of Portland, Me, began business
fl We years ago on capital of $3.50.
THE great Melbourne telescope, recent
ly purchased by the Colony of Victoria,
Australia, cost $25, 900 in gold.
RoCHEFoRT, the Lanterne man, it is
said, has secretly visited Paris nearly
every week since his first departure for
Belgium.
THE editor of the Willimantic (Conn.)
Sentinel is only fifteen years old, and
his only editorial assistant is a younger
| brother.
THE receipts of the American Tract So
ciety of Boston for the past year were
$131, 900 The publishing business pays
all expenses.
NASHUA, N. Y, has $500 volumes in
its public library, and 1896 persons take
out books. AS yet only one book has
been lost, and that was destroyed in
burning house. t-e. 3--o.
THE use of gas has been discontinued at
New London, Conn, being found too ex-
pensive, and the streets will hereafter be
lighted by kerosene.
THE German pictorial papers have
wide circulation, one Leipsic publication
issuing 100000 copies, of which $4,000
copies come to the United States.
A MAN in Newburyport, Mass, has ten
give eighty miles of onions, and in plant
ing, hoeing, wedding and gathering require
thousand miles travel.
In New York, the other day, Judge
Dowling discharged two men, captured
with carpet bags full of burglars tools, on
the ground that it was no otfense, legally,
to carry such implements iii the day time.
THE number of paupers receiving relief
in England and Wales at the close of Jam
uary, 1869. was 1,O20,97 ,977-being an in
crease of per cent. on the number at the
corresponding period of 1868.
Col CHAFF1N, Virginia dwarf, 43 years
old, twenty-five inches high and weighing
twenty-five pounds is accompanied in bis
exhibitions by his brother, who is six feet
four inches high.
THERE is nothing like sticking to one
branch of business, however small. A
man has peddled popcorn on the Fitch
burg Mass road, till he is worth upward
of one hundred thousand dollars. And
he still keeps at it.
} THE school children of the Quaker
City have, by penny contributions, raised
; sufficient money to pay for monument
to Washington, which is to be placed in
front of independence Hall on the COM
ing Fourth Of July.
THE dead body of an old negro was
found near New Orleans, the other day,
hanging by one foot in the crotch of a
mulberry tree. The old man had climbed
after fruit, slipped and stuck there, head
downwards, until he died.
THERE is conductor on the Fitchburg
Railroad in Massachusetts who always
carries in his mouth or about his person q
blossom, fresh and perfumed. The spir-
its told him that was the only condition by
which he could expect to meet his wife in
heaven. h
WITHIN mile of Elko, on the road to
White Pine, is large natural swimming
bath, where visitors can choose their tenn
perature, from tepid to boiling. The
depth is said to be very great, and some
say that at 200 feet no bottom has been
found.
THE New England Agricultural Society
will hold its annual fair in Portland, Me,
from the 7th to the 10th of September
Ten thousand dollars are offered as regular
premiums, besides outside purses for
horses. The Maine State Society will ex-
hibit at the same time and place.
THE New York Legislature, at its recent
session, passed an act which provides that
on the trial of indictments and in all
criminal proceedings, the defendant shall,
at his own request, be deemed a compe-
tent witness, but that his neglect or re.
fusal to testify shall not create any pre-
sumption against him.
SOME one has collected the items of ex-
pense for music in nine churches of
San Francisco, and finds that it averages
$2,750 in gold-considerabl more than in
nine leading Congregational churches
OF Boston, which average 81 900 in cur
rency. Three Unitarian churches Of Bos-
ton pay from $4,000 to $4,000 for music.
WHEN the Emperor Alexander the Sec
ond was in Paris in 1867, there were ad-
dressed to him 80 many begging letters
that they had to be sent every morning
on four small hand carts to the hotel
, where he stopped. The Czar is said to
have wondered greatly at these manifesto
tions of devotion and respect, all the let.
tiers which were opened alluding in the
, most pathetic terms to his magnarimity,
nis humanity, &c.
The White Pine Nsws says: "Down
, on Chloride Flat there is miners cabin
built out of chunks of pieces of high grade
chloride ore, estimated to be worth over
$4,000 per ton. The house is 16 feet
square, and the rock in its walls, if crushed,
! would perhaps yield in the neighborhood
of $3.50 The miners who own and oc-
} cupy this valuable building, of course are
) doing 30 temporarily, and will have the
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