Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-14
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restored to health. 1oi "
The Danville (Cal) Adoertiser boasts
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THE New York police comprises force
Of 2,679 men.
PARIS makes little watches no bigger
than three-cent piece. ''.
NAPOLEON III. now goes to bed every
evening at 10 o'clock. oq a
BERGH thinks that five hundred New
York babies die every year from the use
of swill milk. a ag 7f e
A NEPHEW of the Hon.. John G.. Cal
houn is street-car conductor in the city
of Charleston, s. G.. .isaa yl@
AT the late Mecca pilgrimage 200
pilgrims assembled at Mount AraTat-an
increase of $1,000 over 1868. o a
A LARGE sheep, harnessed to scraper,
does good service in clearing the sidewalks
in Montpelier, VT, of snow. ia 92
Miss JELF, of Elizabeth, N. j., owns up
to being an old maid. She has passed her
one hundred and fourth birthday.
A COUPLE of Schenectady (N. W chill
dren were frightened into fits by the ap
pearance of "made up" Santa Claus. Z
3 Two servant girls in London recently
Jumped from third story window on a
wager, and on the following day they
were decently buried. .s.>ta
IT is claimed that, at Eureka, New, a
deposit of clay has been discovered, i'm
pervious to fire, which is just suited to
lining furnaces. Gs12 8aE
A NAN in Lewis county, Va, had his
wife brought into court on warrant tor
slandering his character, but the court
dismissed the case. f a
A WOMAN at Mansfield, Ohio, brought
suit against saloon-keeper for damage
done by selling her husband liquor, and
she obtained verdict for $3.50.
THERE are six free libraries In Manches-
ter, England, containing 92, ,355 volumes
During the year ending September, 1869,
these libraries had 2,172,0 046 readers.
DURING the year ending October |,
1869, the New York Post-ofice sent to
Europe 5,OO6,O12 letters, and received
from there 1854, ,597. The force in the
office numbers about 800 men.
AT a marriage ceremony in Wexford,
r. l., lately, the groom became impatient
during the extended prayer, and inter-
rupted the clergyman with Elder, amt
that 'beout 'nough?"
WE are warned by a recent writer
against the use of opaque envelopes, which
are green on the inside and white on the
outer, as the analysis proves that the
green is produced by an arsenite OF cop
per. 4J a.3t
In 1852 the first church in West New
hurry. Mass. was compelled to deal with
Richard Bartlett, who refused communion
because his pastor, Rev. Mr.. Hale, wore a
wig. which he declared to be anti-Chris'
tian. .e8.
AS A result of the continual strikes
among the London cabmen, they are to be
allowed to charge what fares they please,
the only condition being that the rate
adopted shall be legibly advertised on the
cab itself
A YOUNG man in Lewiston, Me-, recent
ly applied for divorce because his wife
would steal cloth from the mill in which
she was at work. Search was rewarded
with $500 worth of the stolen cloth.
REV. MIR. CoRNs, missionary of the
PRESBYTERIAN Church at Yokohama, ia
pan, stated to Bishop Kingley, on his late
visit, that he did not believe there were
more than eight Christians in the whole
empire among the native population.
IT has transpired that the Hartford
youth who, much to the disgust of the
lady in the case, postponed his wedding
day by swallowing laudanum, was driven
to the act by the refusal of his tailor, in
whom he trusted, to trust him for his wed
ding suit.
THE losses by fire in the United States
during the year 1869 including only those
fires in which the loss at each was $4,000
and upwards ds-amount to $40,604, ,OOO,
against $34,757,000 in 1868. The total
losses in the past fourteen years amount
to $3.50, $4,000.
In our large cities the debt per head is
as follows: Baltimore, $9173 Boston,
$6O.5O; San Francisco, $6184; New
York, $56.52; Philadelphia, 1888; Lou
| isyille, $41. 1.1S; St. Louis, $27.62 Chicago,
$2083; Cincinnati, 1854 and Brooklyn,
| $3341. o.,ra .j.lt
Two respectable and valuable citizens
of Haddenfield, New Jersey, have recent
ly died of hydrophobia. Other deaths
| from the same cause are reported in the
| State, and great alarm prevails, as several
persons have been scratched or bitten Dy
dogs supposed to be rabid. "'s 'i Z
IT appears that the salaries of govern
ment officials in the little State of Florida
are larger than in any other State east OF
the Rocky Mountains The Governor
gets $4,000; his Cabinet, in all, $4,000,
and the Legislature $500 per annum, or,
allowing 40 days to the session, $125O per
day. 2r4 9fa
ISAAC N. NORRIS, of Quincy, Illinois
has been favored, for collection, with q
claim of 1885,, 2,907, ,519.33 against Mexico
by the Tehuantepec Ship Canal and Mex
lean Pacific Railroad Company. He il
allowed commission Of five per cent.
not payable in advance @ slfa
SINCE the price of telegraphic messages
has been lowered in Great Britain theil
number continues to increase. In Novem
Der of 1868, 291, ,531 dispatches were sent
in the corresponding month of 1869, aftel
the reduction, the number of telegram'
rose to 476,122, being difference OF lo4,
191. 7Yas t3 G4fIi
MAN in .Pittsfeld, Mass, is so sin
gularly particular on the subject of die
that he denies his family all meats, tea
coffee, cake, sugar and salt One OF hi
children, who ate small piece of cak,
given it by playmate, was horsewhippet
by him in the street, and probably thus
cured.
ETHE Boston Trarszler says it is undoubt
edly true that the population Of the rura
districts of New England has decreased
but it has decreased because the cultiya
tior of the soil, and the development o
, resources, require lesslabor than formerly
,, and the surplus laborers have sought EN-
nloyment where their labor is needed.
"A VERY pretty idea children have il
Germany of forming themselves int
, xonieties for the nrOtection of animals an