Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
CURRENT ITEMS.

DICKENS readings bring him $4,000 a
winter
THERE are thirty-fve Americans in the
French penitentiary.
THE Oregon wheat crop will prove
larger in yield than was expected.
QUINCY, ILL.,, has population of about
$4,000. Her directory contains 1881
names aD
THE Government stamps on the will of
the late John A. Roebling amount to
$637.
A GOLD crown coin of the time of
Cromwell recently brought $27 at sale
of rare coins in England.
TEN men assembled recently in hotel
in California who count up among them
seventy-three million dollars
THE Russian Minister of War lately
tried to commit suicide because his only
daughter had eloped with a French actor
JEFF DAVIS attended an agricultural
fair in Glasgow. He was driven through
the grounds by the Marquis of Tweeddale
THE North German merchant fleet
numbers 6,057 vessels, with an aggregate
tonnage of 316,374 TONS
BOSTON expended $1,329,2S7 on her
y
items was one of $4,000 to furnish books
to INDECENT children.
THEY say, in Berlin, that King William
is always under the influence of strong
doses of morphine when he appears on
parade, or on other public occasions.
A Spaniard, who recently won 100000
francs at Spa, has since been kept under
lock and key by his wife, who is deter
mined not to give him an opportunity to
spend his money.
A YOUNG man Of sixteen, the son of
Cincinnati lawyer, is writing a tragedy
founded on the subject of the st. Barthol-
omew massacre. 1t will be brought out in
| Cincinnati next winter.
IDA LEWIS has accepted an invitation to
| attend a series of memorial exercises to be
held in October under the direction of the
Pennsylvania Seamen's Friend Society in
Philadelphia.
THE New York Tribune doubts the
| truth of the confession of John Bowen in
the matter Of the Carr's Rock tragedy, be-
| lieving it to be concocted by wild de-
sire for notoriety.
THE Howard University at Washington
has been presented with a copy Of Bun
yan's "Pilgrims' Progress complete,
printed in the Chinese language 1t was
brought from China by negro sailor.
IT is said to be common practice in Paris
to hire poor people to attend fashionable
churches so that the preachers may say
that they always have crowded houses.
Two or three sous pay for worshipper.
THE famous old Waterloo drummer boy
at the Hotel des Invalides in Paris, died
there on the 9th of July. He lost both
his feet at Waterloo by spent cannon ball,
and lived for over fifty years. at the Hotel
DIES Invalides.
Mr. EDEs, the editor of the Dover (Me.)
| Observer, is eighty years old, has never
seen train of cars, and but two steam
boats, one of them being Fultons original,
| the other little pleasure boat on the Sebec
| Lake.
| TIE fat men had clam bake at Nor
walk. Conn, a few days ago. One hundred
and twenty-six fat men were present,
weighing in the aggregate 27,949 pounds.
| The most of them were prominent mer-
chants from New York city.
A PROMINENT minister, who went to
| Greenwich, Ct, lately, to make pulpit
exchange with brother minister, was, by
some blunder, arrested at the station, un-
der suspicion of being implicated in the
robbery of grocery store some ten miles
distant.
THE parents of Hebrew maiden of the
Rhine having withheld their permission
to her marrying young Christian, she
drowned herself and her lover blew his
brains out This tragedy occurred near
Caub, picturesque locality well known to
tourists.
THE Perry Monument Association pro-
poses grand meeting at Put Bay, on
the 10th of September, the anniversary OF
the battle of Lake Erie, the primary OBJ
iect of which is to raise additional funds
for the monument One of the survivors
of the battle will deliver an oration.
AN English firm is manufacturing for
the Russian government huge steam
hammer, which will weigh in all about one
thousand TONS The hammer head alone
| weighs forty-two tons, and the anvil block
five hundred tons. The hammer, which
is believed to be the heaviest in the world
is to be used in forging steel guns.
THE owners of the Baden gaming estab
lishments spend great SENS in advertising
their hells, by having inserted in the
papers wonderful accounts of how large
sums are won One can hardly take up
German paper without reading how thi
duke or that baron has broke the bank by
his lucky gains.
A SARATOGA jeweler recently sold dia
mond ring for 81, 800. The weight Of tn
, magnificent jewel is 1019 carats, and it i
said to be the largest diamond now in tn
United States Fisk, Jr., Of Erie Railroa
fame, owns the next largest, The pun