Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

FIFTY-oNE of the III students at Hei-
delberg are Americans
PARAMOUNT PARK, at Philadelphia, is to
have mile drive.
THE Chinese have earned $68,000,000
in California since 1856.
Mr.. SEWARD is said to be looking ten
years younger, after his travels
KANSAS CrTY has man in Jail who has
married six females since last August.
THE Chaplain of the California Senate
has been dismissed for reporting for
sporting paper.
PARIS is going to have a gigantic gym
nasium and swimming school, which will
cost 100000.
A New ORLEANS man painted his
neighbor's door with tar, and paid 500
for the joke.
THE religious papers report extraordi-
the various churches.
A SPIRITED San Francisco girl broke
her parasol over the head Of man who
insulted her the other day.
THE large organ used in the Boston
Coliseum has been sold to the Central
Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn.
The Post Office London Directory is
volume of 1864 pages, and contains 1,6t0
Smiths, Smyths and Smythes.
A GOOSE in Fairfield County, Conn,
has laid an egg nine inches round and
twelve inches long, weighing five ounces.
A POOR widow in Dedham, Mass, ar
raigned for liquor selling, brought her
five young children into court as her
plea, and the justice let her off unpun-
ished
A HARD drinker in Louisiana furnished
party of congenial spirits with bril-
liant pyrotechnical exhibition, his breath
taking fire from the stove and burning
with blush flame.
AT the recent farewell concert of Ole
Bull at San Francisco he was presented,
in the name of his Scandinavian and
other friends, with costly wreath of solid
gold.
A SIGN 170 feet long and wide, con-
taing 1858 feet of lumber, is about to be
put up on machine shop in Worcester.
1t is heralded as the champion sign Of
New England.
A BERKSHIRE, Mass, divine recently
deducted ninety cents from the wages of
a servant girl who was working at $3.50
girl lodge with her one night.
AN elopement in Hannibal Mo-, was
frustrated the other day by the cruel
parent, who disguised himself and ofic-
ated as hackman to the pair, driving
them home instead Of to the railroad
station.
SAYS the Matteawan On. ~ Herald
"Miss P, of this place, made an offer
to young halter. She claims women
have as good right to make an offer of
marriage as man has"
GENERAL WALKER reports that the
Chinese imported by him to work on the
Texas Central Railroad labor steadily with
docility, and evince not the slightest in
clination to strike. He is about to send
for more.
A BOY, IA or Is years of age, accidental
ly shot himself at Belvidere, ILL.,, a few
days ago, while carelessly handling gun,
tearing away the whole left side Of his
face and killing him instantly.
The Hamilton Times thinks the pro-
posed Canadian shinplasters will be g
greater nuisance than the despised Ameri-
can coin, and that the time is not far dis
tant when the Canadians will wish the
American silver back again.
At Stralsund two schoolboys quarreled
lately, and fought duel with pistols at
fifteen PAGES. One had bullet through
his jacket, and the other would have been
killed but for cigar-case that he carried
in his breast.
ANONYMOUS proclamations, threatening
the French Emperor and Empress with
| death by the guillotine, were posted the
other night.on the portal of the Tuileries
The police did not remove them until 10
o'clock on the following morning.
AN English burlesque actress has re-
/ covered $4,250 from railway company,
| having been present at a railway accident
the conclusion of which prevented her
from learning the clog dance, and general
| ly disabled her for work in her profess
sion.
THE New York Sun pertinently asks
"Why shouldn't people have more sense
than to use tobacco in theatres, churches,
and other public places? The world is all
before them where to chew, and they
might be a little more delicate in the mat
! ter"
THE Richmond State Journal says
"We see it stated that the grave of the
wife of James Monroe, twice President of
the United Stytes, is situated in q retired
spot in Loudon county, Va, unmarked
by even an ordinary stone to designate
the last resting place of the honored
1 dead"
a PENNSYLVANIA man ordered $10C
worth of goods from Melodeon Compa.
ny in Hartford. He seems to be very
suspicious chap, for instead of sending a
draft, he cut 800 blu in two and en-