Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-15
NO. 81.

ENGLAND uses 1900 tons of beeswax
per annum, valued at over $2000,OO0.
| One European palace is said to burn
| 10000 candles nightly.
| A SILK flag, SO by 20 feet, manufactured
| from cocoons raised in California has been
presented to the Governor for the new
| Capitol of that State.
| THERE is bank in Thomaston, Me-,
majority of the shares of which are owned
by women, and in the choice of officers,
recently, their vote elected the entire
| board of directors
DURING the soup dispensation in Bos-
| ton, covering a period'Of sixty-three days,
81 ,490 families, comprising 103,605 per-
sons, patronized the liberal kettles of the
city at the Station-Houses
! IL no tidings arc received of the City of
| Boston, she will be the fourth steamer
| that has vanished with all on board. The
others are the President, City of Glasgow,
and the Pacific.
A GENTLEMAN residing in New York
CITY is having made in Europe. set of
lace curtains for his Murray Hill mansion,
upon which are to be worked the por-
traits and monograms of himself and
family.
AN old lady of Stamford, Conn, while
going dawn stairs recently with lighted
| candle, fell and set fire to her dress and
house Her charred remains were found
| in the ashes. She was eighty-three years
| old.
| A COLORADO romance: Seven miners,
| exploring the mountains, found an enor-
| nous chunk of gold They fought for
| its possession till all were killed but one.
| 1t was too heavy for him to carry off, SO
| he sat down beside it and starved to
| death. GH f1tu ssrI
THE story that young woman of Fort
| Edward, N. Y, had become an heiress to
| S19,OO0,600 was started by a Brooklyn
youth who pretended to be her brother. e
He borrowed several thousand dollars on
the strength of the report and of his rela-
tionship.
THE number of sea- going monitors be-
longing to the United States navy is
eleven, costing $14, $4,000; harbor and
river monitors nine, costing $8,870000;
then there are eight harbor and river
monitors, costing $1l, ,621 600; total cost
in round numbers, $34,6o5,000.
A CORPORAL, who had murdered a pri
vate soldier under his command, was
sentenced to death by court martial,
at Nismes, in Southern France, and shot
in the presence of large crowd, twenty
four hours afterward. He himself COM
manded Fire !"
SAN JOSE, Cal, has curiosity in the
shape of chicken, which came into the
world with three bodies and five legs.
The bodies are Joined together at the back,
and two of them have perfectly formed
limbs 1t lived but a short time after
being Matched.
q THROUGH some strange freak, a enn.
svl7ania woman, while away from home.
sent a dispatch signed with fictitious
name to her son, saying that she was dead,
and he must come for the body. lie made
arrangements for the funeral, went, found
her alive, and brought her back. Mourn
ing was changed to Joy, all present scream
ing, dancing, crying and laughing in con-
cert. The grave was filled up and the
undertaken dismissed, and there was
food of indignation poured out against
the wicked perpetrator OF the terrible
Joke. the woman herself referring to the
heartless transaction with tears IN her
| eyes.
IN Roumania, persons sentenced 10
death are laid flat on their backs on
bench; their hands, feet, and breast are
securely fastened to it, and the eXecu-
toner then draws from his belt small
knife with very sharp blade, and cuts
the throat of the struggling criminal.
Sometimes, when the latter belongs to
deserving family, the executioner, before
cutting his throat, knocks him on the
forehead with wooden club, so as to stun
him. Criminals who commit offences OF
less Importance are more or less severely
cudgeled Women are whipped with
birch rod and, if they are habitual thieves,
they are, besides, branded on the right
shoulder with a red-hot iron. A very
peculiar punishment is inflicted On adui-
terers and adulteresses. They are put IN
to a pillory for three hours, and two holes
| are then cut in their noses. Ihe mans
hair is shaven off, and the woman is prana'
| ed on her left breast.