Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

CURRENT ITEMS.
CAIRO, ILL.,, now claims 10000 inhabit
ally.
sEAsoNABLE ADv1cz-Have your cen.
sus about you. nsA
r BASEBALL tournament Ia projected
ID Des Moines, Iowa, September /.
No Notes are deducted from the policies
at maturity in the Washington.
Two men have been arrested in New.
port, r. L, for stealing Grape from door.
DR.. SHELTON MACKENZIE, of the Phil
adelphia Ryss,is writing a life of Charles
THE city fathers of Camden, N. j.,
have interdicted baseball playing in that
town. ,&sstess ~
THERE is poor fellow at Bangor who
says "itls working between meals that's
killing him r. n sEEA sAA~A F@-AA-NA =
A WOMAN in New York sswed up a
child's nostrils because it wouldn't use a
handkerchief. - g..
ONE Of the tallest horses in the world,
standing nineteen hands high, is owned
in st. John, N. B. t'."-s - - N
Tom THUMB has his life insured, and
many greater than he are insured in the
Washington. --,--,..-.-
IT is announced that false chignons,
plaits and curls can be, and have been,
made of spun glass. m
ONE Of Dickens's sons is in literature,
one in Australia, one in the British navy,
and fourth at university. q
A PROVIDENCE undertaken has d pleas
ant habit OF sending his card tofall the
sick persons he can hear Of
A FRENCH merchant in an Eastern city
pleads that he cannot meet his engage
ments because the moaey market is 50
tipsy--he means g fighf. y IS. IS.
THE real and personal property Of CALI
forniaisreturned by the Assessors. at an
aggregate not exceeding $780, 100000 81
A DECEASED Bostonian left by his will
$1,000 to be divided among the clerks of
the bank that had the care of his fortune.
A MASSACHUSETTS man, who has for
months sold patent medicine, has just in
the nick of time turned undertaken.
A VERMONT deacon. hitched an orphan
boy beside his team and dashed him all
the way home, as a punishment for rum
ming away to the village sy.-x.rr
AIN envious rival says that a New Jer-
sey editor has prevailed on Miss Kate
Field to devote herself exclusively to cur
taln lectures.sggss nasapsss 10 aussiash scaaEag
THE taxable property of ST.. Louis has
just been assessed at $147, f4,42o The
liabilities of the city are $1S, 634, 467, and
the assets $9,125,808. =
Miss AMY M. BRADY 18th first woman
Office holder in North Carolina. She has
been appointed Examiner of Schools in.
New Hanover county. w.
A HIGHMNDEp Connecticut man took
noble way to vent his malice againsta
clergyman. He went into his garden and
pulled up all his Vegetables <k1
A FOUR year old boy in Hartford took
such dislike to the baby of the house,
that, in the absence of the mother, he took
poker and killed her by striking her on
the head. - assAss& ~ @S%@S@s%sN9esS
EvANDER ySPEHcER, of. Lenox, Ohio,
has recently been fined one hundred and
fifty dollars foraviolstion oflthe postal
laws, in forwarding through the mail a
letter inclosed ina newspaper sNls
THE Bangor Wing says a thrifty house
wife in that city recently sent word to the
grocer who delivered her some eggs the
other day, to either come and take the
eggs away or send up some chicken
coops. s.>x.,os7ya
"IF put my money in the savings
bank, when cansI get it out again % asked
one of the newly arrived. "Och," says
his friend, sure an if you put it in to-
day, you can draw it out again tomorrow,
by giving fortnight's notice." s aso
TEE Glen's Falls M W Republican,
describes a gigantic fossil tooth, which it
says was recently dug up in that town.
1t weighs eight and a half pounds, and
measures eleven inches by six and half
DICKENS is said to have given in Mr.
Wilkins Micawber playful and extrava-
CANT portrait of his father, Mr. John
Dickens, animpecuni GUS clerk init enavy
pay office, hose overdue notes Charles
collected and paid.
ONE of the Reecher girls used to say
that she had three rules to guide her ia
copying her fathers MSS. IF a letter was
dotted it was not an / If letter was
crossed it wasn't t; and if a, word began
with capital letter it didn't begin a SEN
tence." sEeg Tf
A WRITER says that he has mo hesita-
ton in saying, from his experience in the
matter, that the. American thorn, from it's
hardness and perfect ,adaptability to the
purposes required, must become the hedge
plant for AElerican farmers
AFTER the passengers had been taken
from the wrecked car IN the recent Yer
mont railroad disaster, one of them was
seen rushing about in very excited man.
ner, and being asked il he was much in.
lured, replied that he wasn't hurt much
but wantedlto find hislumbrella.n ullc1S
A GENTLEMAN sent a lad with,a letter
to the post-of1ce, and money to pay the
postage. Having returned with the
money, he said, g Guess I've done, the
thing slick . see a good many folks put.
ting letters in the post Office through q
hole, and so watched my chance, an6
got mine in for nothing. 'assasEosse
AN attorney presenting a copy ofawrit
to an auctioneer apologized for his I'M
friendly visit, as he was merely perform
ing an unpleasant duty Of his profession
Certainly onot,"h said the auctioneer
"you must attend to the duties of youi
profession, and so must I to mine, y and
instantly knocked him down. gasisaa ssssseg !
TIE Rockford (Texas) transcript, aoi
the 4th, says: "There is a field OF corn
in the near vicinity of, this place which
has not received drop of rain since il
WAS four inches hiob--it NOW has roo AZ