Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-05-27

miscellaneous Items.


THE soldiers of the Mexican war talk of
grand reunion in st. Louis.
THE estimates for Chlcago's police ex-
penses for the current year are S616, 47O.75,
The Journal of that city says the seventy
five cents are for toothpieks.
Mr.. DE1ANo is said to be wrestling with
an internal revenue decision, which will
settle the question whether weiss beer is or
is not q fermented liquor.
Mrs. E. CADY STANTON writes from an
iowa town that, failing tocatch train, she
went back to the hotel Gin good state OF
nj nd to say damn it r ft
DEATHS from eating wild parsnips have
been unusually common at the West this
year. 8fs
THE postal carriers of Detroit delivered
210, 900 letters in April.
In a game of base ball in New Orleans,
the Chicago Nine defeated the Atlantles by
81 to O. ~
BARNEY WILLIAMS has daughter worth
$250,000.
ABUFFALo hunting excursion party will
leave Cincinnati for the plains May 10Th,
Ut-hluS Af0 pdldCO sCdios @ oiaiiAS3 cnl, ~
circus tent and band of music.
THERE are IL 900 negroes in Lexington,
and over half are members of the church.
FRANK LEE, as he was going home from
church on Sugar Creek, near st. Joseph,
Mo-, on Sunday, was shot and killed by
some person who was concealed behind q
tree.
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prosecutions of Jews are such that many of
them are leaving the country and will come
to the United States.
In New York the prima donna of the
burnt cork opera dresses as richly as many
OF the leading actresses. -if6l ~ Il.
ALT BURNETT writes from Salt Lake City
that Brigham Young paid him $40 for
s'family tickets. l."
IT is said that the reason American girls
fade so early and have such poor complex
ions naturally, is because tn, y eat late din
ners and suppers.
ALL but one of the persons engaged in
the robbery of the Lime Rock Bank, in
Rockland, Me-, have been secured, and
most of the stolen money recovered.
THE daily wages in Kansas are, of print
ers from SO to So; carpenters, SO to $3.50;
plumbers, SO. SO to 81; brickIayers and
stone-masons, 81 to $3.50, and stone-cut-
tiers. $3.50 to SIS.
NOTES falling due on Sunday can now be
paid on the succeeding Monday So a new
law of the general assembly of Louisiana
has provided. n4
In New Orleans policeman named Bib
has been dismissed from the force for hay--
ing woman in uniform doing duty for him
while he slept ~
In Saltwater, Mimi, on the I'd, some
scoundrel poisoned to death two valuable
horses belonging to. Mr.. j. G. Nay.
SOME commotion was caused in a street
car in San Francisco, the other day, by a
brawny sailor entering, with The word
Oneida" emblazoned on his cap. He was
the gunner of the workmanship.
IT is not fashionable for gentlemen to
send large baskets of flowers TO their lady
loves. but very small wicker baskets, with
delicate handles, filed with the choicest
cut flowers. are considered the correct
thing. s,.ss
THERE is said to be great deal of ex-
aggeration in the rumors of Indian hostili-
ties. f
MCLAUGHLIN won the $1,000 wrestling
match at Titusville, Pa, OH the Sd, throw
ing Dewitt easily.
THE G. A. r. department commander of
Illinois has ordered the Both inst. kept as
Decoration Day.
IMMEDIATELY after the burning of the
Richmond Theatre, in 1911, the council of
that city passed an order forbidding any
public show, assembly or dancing for the
period of four months. ~
A CHICAGO man was so insane when he
saw his wife wearing pair of sleeve but
tons which gambia had given her, that
he shot her and recovered his reason.
THE largest income return in Detroit is
that of Capt. E. B. Ward $185, 600.
THE parents of r q. Jermain, lateof the
Milwaukee Sentinel, celebrated tbei9 gold
en- wedding on the30th, at Adrian, Michi-
gan. s
CAPT. E. IL. WARD will Immediately COM
mence the erection of fifty or sixty tenant
buildings at Ludington, Mason county, de-
signed especially for the use of his en-
ployes at that place.
Some 210 pairs of twins we're born in
Michigan, in six months of 1862 A good
place for woman rig hts.
| A BELGIAN peddler was recently murder
! ed in Bruges, and, as arecompense to his
wife, the government has granted her a
permit to beg.
AN anchor that belonged to Americas
| Vespucils, and bears his name, is now one
of the sights at Brussels.
| The people who want the Capital remov-
| ed to St. Louis are not all dead. A meet
| ing on the subiectwas held in that city on
| Wednesday, and a national convention in
| Cincinnati in October is talked of.
THERE was a minor accident at the large
| fire on Canton street, Boston, recently. A
colored individual, passing along Friend
street, where the houses had taken fire in
the rear, was inst in time to receive upon
| his devoted head certain household arti-
cles thrown out of an upper window, as
| the custom is at fires Chairs, tin kettles,
cooking utensils, crockery, mirror, and
mattress are enumerated. It is said the
veil that was evoked thereby rose clear
above the din Of the fire; but the skull
was not among the sundries that were
| fractured. SSH 54g
In recent excavation of cellars, a Bos-
tonian has dug up quite number of tomb
stones bearing record of the early settlers.
Among the most interesting is one of "John
Alden, Senior, Sged rs. deceased March Ia,
17O1." Tt is believed that this was the son
of the John Alden and Priscilla, immortal
lied in the s.Courtship of Miles Standish."
These tombstpnes will be carefully presery-
ed undefacedl and placed among the other
stones of the building that is to be erected.
Tins antiouktrian reverence aud practical
usefulness will both be subseryed.