Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-11-19
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| THERE wasn't bucket or any vessel of
the kind on board the ill-fated Stonewall
| TEXAS has more than three million
head OF cattle, and can export annually,
100000 beeves.
HERMANN, the prestidigitator, lately
had his watch stolen in New York, being
beaten at sleight Of hand.
A BURLINGTON (Vt.) paper thus closes
a marriage notice: No cards; no cake !;
no Western paper need copy"
TWENTY years ago Pennsylvania was
the largest wheat producing State in the
Union; now it is about the twelfth On the
list.
A RESTAURANT keeper has been arrest
ed in Washington for issuing cards in
imitation of the currency notes of the
United States.
The average home production of wheat
| in England for the three past years is
stated at 12, ,27S, ,666. and the importation
at s, S,413,312 quarters.
A GERMAN who survived the Stonewall
disaster grieved over the loss of life so
much that he jumped overheard from
another steamer and was drowned.
AT New England county fair the re-
ceipts were SO much below the expenses
that only sixty cents on the dollar will be
paid on the premiums 'e3 ie4asH
A WOMAN recently died at Cory, Penn,
from the effects of chloroform given for
the purpose of extracting teeth without
| pain.
THE employees of the Portsmouth(N.H .H.9
Navy Yard have given $1,000 to the wi
dow of one of their number, who was re-
| nootIxy liI1aH hxrf ho avY,loCio11 nf
| ter. .,-." 'f
ACCORDING to the assessment returns
| for 1869, the total number of hogs in Hi
nois is 2,036,304; in 1868 the number was
| 1882, 1928, being decrease of 256,524.
| DoN'T put your pens in your mouths,
girls. A Cincinnati school girl has been
in the habit of doing so, and was recently
nearly poisoned to death by the ink.
CURTIS L. NORTH, an insurance agent
of Brooklyn, N. Y, gave his beloved pas
tor raw potato the other evening. The
beloved pastor opened the potato and
found a $500 bill inside.
1T has been estimated that genteel
farming in the country out from large
cities costs about $4,000 year, unless an
attempt is made to raise something, and
then it goes as high as $4,000.
| AN English paper says that photographs
can now be printed with printers ink.
| They are as permanent as printed text,
and so easy of production that 10000 may
be produced from a single plate in one
day.
THE duration of human life in the prin-
cipal countries of Europe has recently
been estimated as follows: Prussia, al 2
years Belgium, Ais; France, 442; Eng
land and Wales, 454; Sweden, 495 Den
mark, 52:5; Schleswig- -Holstein, 52.7.
A MORMON temple is to be erected in
| New York city within the coming year.
The building will cost $500060, and is to
be house of reception for Mormon emil
grants from Europe, and resting place for
travelling brethren Of the United States.
ATCalvert, Nd, a few days ago, while
a young man was trying to drive an OK,
the animal grew angry and struck him in
the neck with it's horn, severing the iugu-
lar vein, and causing his death in a few
minutes.
ANNA GAREsHNA, young girl at Kieff,
in Russia, rescued, recently seven children
from burning house, which none of the
firemen dared to enter The Emperor,
upon hearing Of her heroism, sent her
thousand silver roubles, and the Empress
presented her with valuable necklace.
FROM letters found on the body of John
Barber, wood chopper, murdered at
Eureka, Mo, a few days ago, it appears
| that he was, with one brother and his
mother, heir to an estate, in Bombay, val
ued at $10,000,000. The letter had just
been received, and was still unopened
On the day of election at Worcester,
Mass, woman's ticket was put in the
field, headed by Ann Shaw Green, of West
Roxbury for Governor. Several women
insisted on their privilege to vote under
the Fifteenth Amendment, and one ticket
was actually deposited in spite Of the
officers. ri. 'y'i iai +
AT Milford, N. H., the other day,
painter fell from scaffolding. Although
he broke fagstone an inch thick upon
which he fell, his skull was fractured, both
legs were broken above the knees, one hip
was dislocated, and the bones of one
elbow were shivered to atoms-he talked
nationally when picked up, and bids fair
to recover! ".'
A coLoRED girl, aged fifteen years, en-
plOyed as nurse in family named Morgan,
residing in Bedford county, Va, to crafty
spite against her mistress, threw babe, of
| which she had charge, into the fire, and
| let it remain until both of it's legs were
| burned off above the ankle, causing its
| death. The girl was committed to Jail for
trial.
| A Mr.. PAGET, in England, has been
gathering some statistics as to the careers
of medical students. He has collected par
ticnlars If 1000 students. and finds that
"23 achieved distinguished success, 66 con
siderable success, 507 fair success, and 1874
very limited success; 56 failed entirely, 90
left the profession, 81 died within twelve
years of commencing practice, and Al died
during pupilage.' -
In Bangor, Me, few days ago, a man
noticed large and small spider in pursuit
! of fly. The small one caught the fly and
was carrying him off, when the large one
attacked him, took possession of the fly
and marched off. The little one crept up
| behind the large one, bit him on the leg,
and ran away for dear life. Instantly the
| large spider commenced swelling, and in
five minutes was dead.
WHEN the military fired upon the riot
Gus striking miners of Aubin, France, a
woman, who had her child in her arms,
turned to fly, pressing the baby to her
breast the child was struck by several
balls in the head, and the furious mother,
turning back and seeing an officer, hurled
her child in his face, exclaiming, Take
it, ruffian! You want our blood Take
it, then--drink It'll"
In 1841, ]. Ross Browne mailed letter
from Louisville, KY, weighing one ounce,
upon which the unpaid postage was 81,
to Mr.. VIM. w. Snowdon, editor Of the