Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

CANADIAN Indians prophecy an early
spring.
THERE are 600 newspapers in France,
and 5000 in Europe. bao
A cred HEADED MANS BALL" is to
shortly come off at Bridgeport, Conn.
THE Chinese in Texas are thinning out
the dogs. At Calvert fat cur is worth
IS for his meat. lo
THE California Legislature has repealed
the act prohibiting the carrying of cen-
cealed weapons.
SWITZERLAND has three hundred and
nlnety-four newspapers, of which forty-six
ere dsilies.
IT cost Boston at the rate of nearly $4,-
600 per hour to receive and entertain the
President at the Jubilee in June.
DURING the Peabody obsequies in Port
land, one of the citizens made $1,000
from the sale of gingerbread.
TEHRE is colored child in Wilmington,
N. c., five years old, which is deaf and
dumb and blind, an idiot and a cripple.
SoLoN D. HUNaERFoRD, of Jefferson
county, has been elected President of the
New York State Agricultural Society,"
Philadelphia has executed twenty five
",
two for piracy, and the remainder for
murder.
A BOY who was, and whose name was,
Smart, escaped from Cincinnati House
of Refuge nailed up in q shoe box.
Two men were recently arrested in the
Yosemite Valley for cutting down trees,
and were fined twenty dollars each.
BLIaHTKD affection has caused Yer
mont youth of fifty to sell his house, live
in a hay-mow in his barn, and never have
his clothes washed.
At Norwich, Conn, some friends of
| a minister surprised him with present of
$3.50, and then hung about his house and
stole his silverware, worth over $500.
TIE Kennebec (Me.) Journal says that
all but five of the one hundred and nine
paupers in that city owe their present
position directly to the use of intoxicating
liquors.
| A MATRIMONIAL advertisement in Paris
paper reads: "A single gentleman,
| Protestant, and possessed of rentes, wishes
to marry a Protestant lady, very distin-
| guished, and possessed of more rentes."
DORSEY, "the prisoners friend" paid
for the dinners of 3,100 convicts, on the
31st ult, his birthday anniversary. His
bounty extended to the prisons of New
England, Virginia and Kentucky.
| AN Amsterdam On. " man has in.
vented patent glass coffin, which can be
Theoretically sealed after the air is ex.
hausted, thus preserving bodies perfectly
without embalming.
JOHN GooLD was recently released from
the State Prison at Thomaston, Maine,
on account of the dying confession of q
man who, years before, had committed a
murder for which Goold suffered imprison.
ment.
A PAPER in Augusta, Me-, reports that
at one of the residences in that city q
lady sits at an open window even during
the coolest days of winter. This suggests
that there is probably young man over
the way.
THERE are sixty four prisoners in the
Ohio Penitentiary under sentence for life
The veteran is John Gull, from Stark
county, thirty three years convict, nov
70; mind long since gone, and wanderel
about the yard.
A CONDUCTOR on the Detroit g. Mil
waukee Railroad, accused of " knockinf
down fares, has been held to trial in So,
900 after preliminary examination at De
troit, and two other conductors, waving
examination, are also bound over.
A MAN in Hampshire county, Mass, re