Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-06-24
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS
| A NEPHEW of Douglas Jerrold is MAX
ing wood-cuts in New Orleans.
TIE American game Of baseball has
been introduced into Scotland.
| THE way to treat man of doubtful
credit is to take no note of him.
THERE are 597 convicts in the Massa.
chusetts State Prison.
THE Washington Life avoids the faults
of both mutual and stock companies.
THE tickets for the grand ball given the
Boston excursionists in San Francisco
were $25 each. ,
BRIGHAM You've has announced that
he has but sixteen wives and only forty
nine children. al 354ag 9Htl s4 hsGs
THERE are 10000 Americans residing
in Paris, and they are about to establish
an American paper.
/ ABOUT one million dollars worth of
Chinese fireworks are used in this coun-
try every Fourth of July. ass. sgs
THE President of the Oldest Life Insur-
ance Company in New York is insured in
the Washington Life.
ROBERT RANKIN, one of the three origi-
nal founders of Sabbath-schools, died re-
Gently in Liverpool
THE Agricultural Society of England,
composed of the ablest and most impor-
tant men in the kingdom, has 5,438 mem
bers.
THE degree of Bachelor of Arts was
lately conferred upon ten young ladies of
the graduating class at Rutgers College,
New York.
| IT has been curiously shown in the
: French Academy that certain plants are
a as sensitive to the influence of chloroform
as animals. es.a .4s ~ 7oi
/ A SMART old lady of seventy-two years,
in Decatur county, Ind, recently walked
, thirty miles in one day, to pay her taxes
and buy "a new spring bonnet. ea
Il :. THE Bath Times says that the town OF
Westport, Me-, containing over 1900 in
habitants, has neither a grog shop, law
f | yer, minister, nor doctor.
r Two girls, aged nine and thirteen, re-
e spectively, were recently sentenced in
y Trenton, N. j., to one years imprison-
= ment each, for theft. -aa.,~-a
: A LADY is now studying divinity al
e Harvard and pursuing the same course
with the male students, though her name
# is not admitted to the catalogue.
A COURT in Indiana has decided that a
y person who accepts q "pass" to travel
/ free on railroad, cannot recover dam
) ages of the company if he encounters an
: accident. 80
ONE of the latest notions is the birth
Z card, resembling wedding card, but bear
. ing the name of the new conner and the
= date of its advent, with the initials of its
= parents. 49, :"
CHARLES Brown, for burglary and as.
/, sault and battery upon an aged couple al
f Germantown, Pa, in April last, has been
9 sentenced to an Imprisonment OF taoenty,
/ foaJr ye07'S!. g ~ -.i4 r'fs @-t4~
s ACCOMPANY of young banditti, of ages
8 ranging from ten to twelve years, were
discovered a fesS days since at Rockport,
, Me. They had camp from which they
4 would make raids for plumber. @
A YOUNG lady at Cambridge, Mass, for
l several years leading clerk in the Middlesex
Registry of Deed office, has opened an office
in Boston for the purpose of carrying on
? the business of conveyance of real estate
ONE of the gifts of Charles Dickens
! which will always reflect credit upon him,
!. was donation Of $1.700 sent to DR.. s.
G.. Howe of Boston, to be expended In
printing for the blind, copies of the Old
Curiosity Shop"
A FARMER near Upton, Iowa, was
} recently drinking out of a brook when
water snake over foot long went
, down his throat as quick as lightning.
VI The farmer experienced no bad eHects,
= and the next day the snake left his stom-
J ach.;. ;,7e ara.t; .s.,sa ~ .a3
: Two boys, aged respectively 10 and IL
years, started from Cedar Falls, Iowa,
: few DAYS ago. for the plains to hunt
} bears and Indians. They were over
taken about twelve miles from home, tax
en- back to their mammas, and spanked.
81 A WOMAN offered the customary prayer
!, at the opening of the Connecticut House,
; a few days ago, for the first time IN the
! history of the State, and one OF the New
, Haven papers states that she made most
, commendable invocation.
! JUDGE DEADY, of Oregon, has decided
: | that a marriage celebrated at sea, or With
f in the jurisdiction of another State, be-
+ tween persons leaving that State for the
| purpose, is a fraudulent evasion OF the
laws of Oregon, and, therefore, null and
void. .,.5 s4sr,gl
FL A CHINAMAN was arrested in San Fran.
! cisco for shooting and nearly killing his
, wife, and plead that he accidentally ex-
, plodcd the pistol. The woman was
+ brought on the stand and sWore that she
i | shot herself. The Justice dismissed the
case in disgust.
II ELRvaN Pittsburgh jurymen greatly
ANNOYED the twelfth, a staid and respected
: citizen, who, after stating his opinion,
} lighted his pipe and refused to listen to
, what they called reason. On returning
t into court he informed the Judge that
they would not give in, and even his Hon
, or couldn't beat brains into their heads
THE Washington correspondent OF the
Boston AdDertiser says: "The champion
census taker is w. ID. Dempster, assistant
; marshal of the Fourteenth Ward OF Gin
. cinnati, whose returns were to day Dune
J 1Oth) received by Gen. Walker. He had
1,440 names on his list, did bus. WoIk IN
: three days and half, and sends in papers
every way satisfactory to the superlntend-
emit. H Do ea
| Ia LYNN, Mass, correspondent men
lions little incident of D. f. and Bob q.