Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

MARK LEMON has written sixty plays.
A. PHILADELPHIA woman has eleven
hundred flower pots surrounding her
house. s.i
FORTY Chinese attend the school of the
Five Points House of Industry in New
York. ii:go ais oj 9a5 Il .g II DO i
d THE Washington Life offers all the ad-
yantages of q stock and mutual company
combined.
MELVIN FOSTER killed mad dog with
his billiard cue at his saloon at Norwich,
Coun., the other day.
I7r" WAsHINGToN's body servant" hasn't
all died yet, but one of him is still iiving
at Syracuse, aged 113. }a3i
EACH policeman of New Haven has
been presented with two dollar Bible by
kind hearted old lady.
ANDREW STAFFORD, late mail agent, has
been sentenced, at Baltimore, to three
years Imprisonment for embezzling a
letter.
A POOR woman in Utica, who owns
three houses and is building another,
sends her children into the street daily
to beg. s....
HARVEY HAYES, of Rutland county, is
the name of the solitary voter for female
suffrage in the recent Vermont Constitu-
tional Convention.
In accordance with the wish of Mr.
Dickens, the weekly journal, AW the Year
Roasnd, will remain under the charge OF
his eldest son. 7gi
NEITHER minister, lawyer, doctor nor
liquor dealer has local habitation or a
in I,xa nf fo
with population of 1900. emi
DURING the late session of the Massa-
chusetts Legislature, the Governor signed
400 acts and 81 resolves. Last year there
were 1855 acts and 103 resolves. t'ae'
! A FELLOW in Philadelphia has been
sentenced to fifteen months imprison-
ment and $325 fine for the embezzle-
ment of $500 in soldiers pension
money.
TWENTY thousand kegs of beer, or g.
100000 glasses, were consumed in Cincln-
natl during the recent Sangerfest week,
which yielded to the retailers 100000
IF you were to die to-day, would you
leave your family Independent of charity?
Insure in the Washington Life Insurance
Co., of New York. ss8
AT Harvard College the very suggest
i've motto for dull clergymen of He CIV
eth his beloved Sleep" has been chos'
en- to adorn the walls of the new chapel
HAPPY the man who, free from care,
findeth his wife content to wear the dress
es she last season bought, and this year
troubleth him for naught.
A CINCINNATI census taker, who was
also employed by the Marshal in 1866,
says many of the ladies have grown
younger during the past ten years.
NORWICH, Conn, has 70O7 names in
her directory, tax list of $13,5OOO0
2,132 dwellings, $10,000000 invested in
stock companies, and $S, 900, ,000in savings
banks.
THE following epitaph was written by
an exemplary wife for her own grave;
.oh, husband sweet-since 1. thy loving wife,
Untimely thus must take my leave of life,
pray lust heaven to superadd to thine
m The happy years fondly reckoned miner
THE Chicago, Burlington and Quincy
railroad has been mulcted in $3,500 dam
ages, on account of the death of Charles
N. Bennett. a fireman, who was knocked
from his engine by a mail catcher, near
Cliola station, last September.
A KEROSENE lamp explosion occurred
recently at Rocky Mount, N. c., setting
fire to a blanket, which was hastily
thrown out of the window. 1t turned
out, however, that baby was wrapped
up in the blanket, and died of the fall.
A LUNATIo in New England town was
discovered one day lately at the grave OF