Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-03-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Canadian Government is issuing
twenty y-fve-cent fractional currency notes.
/ P. s. GILMORE, of Boston Jubilee fame,
has purchased villa on the Hudson river,
Z IT is estimated that the total loss by the
late freshet in Maine will amount to ST.
100000.
TT cost a Syracuse druggist five hun
dred dollars to mistake laudanum for rhu-
barb.
| NEW York boarding house keepers now
add to their advertisements: mo moving
May 1.".
Virginia has passed law allowing
twelve per cent. interest in case OF special
contract.
A AQUEBRc paper says there are three
tons of twenty cent pieces in one OF the
bank vaults of that city.
| Two deaths from congestion of the
brain, produced by the intense cold, oc-
CURED in Paris a few days ago..
ALL the roughs of Denver got valen-
tines this year, each one reading, Travel
| or hang" -
JOHN G.. SAKE, hepoet, fell and broke
his left arm while on his way to the thea
ter in Albany, a few evenings ago.
THE Knife and Fork is announced as
| the name of new gastronomic weekly
journal about to appear in London
ALETTER from Nice sets the number of
strangers residing there at twenty thou
sand America furnishing the largest con-
tingent.
A LONDON photographer carelessly left
a solar camera exposed to the rays OF the
sun one afternoon, and the next day he
was looking after new studio.
HORSE cars are to be introduced into
China An enterprising Prussian has
obtained the privilege of laying down
tramways in all the cities of the Empire.
PHILADELPHIA has a "day nursery
where on an average twenty-three chill
dren per week are taken care OF and fed
while their mothers go out to work.
A PATRIOTIC young lady OF Philadelphia
decorated the railing around the Wash
ington monument with immOrtelles, early
on the morning of the 22d.
In Georgia, the other day, party of ne
groes captured an alligator seventeen feet
and three inches long. The animal was
attended by fifteen young alligators.
THE Legislature of New York has
passed an act to enable the American and
Foreign Bible Society to consolidate with
the Baptist Publication Society IN New
York city.
Rosa BoNHEUR said recently TO an ad-
miring visitor of hers, that for some time
past she had hardly been able to overcome
her lazinessy and that she did not believe
she would paint much more.
PROFESSOR KING, the aeronaut, who re-
Gently made an ascension atAugusta, Ga,
was up in his balloon three hours and
half In this time he travelled distance
of 130 miles.
THE Hessian Government has forbidden
the exhibition of children of school age
by travelling showmen.- 1t has also for
hidden the employment of children as
rope-dancers, horse-riders, and gymnasts.
A BOY only twelve years of age has
been brought repeatedly before the Police
Court at Montreal on charges of drunken
ness. 1t is a disease with him; his father
and mother both fill drunkards' graves.
LESS than six years ago, ninety-dve
citizens of Portland, Me-, signed testl-
monial to clergyman about to remove 10
another city. Already its author, Hon:
VIM. Willis, and twenty-four others OF
the ninety-fve signers, have died. ~
WALTER MARRATTA, the heroic steam
boat clerk who lost his life in the Emma
disaster on the Mississippi river, in en-
deavoring to save young lady's life, was
citizen of Beaver, Pa, and was married
inside the past year.
THE law courts having decided that the
Duke of Newcastle could be adludlcated
as a bankrupt, notice of the same appears
in the Official Gazette. 1t is the first time
within the memory of man that an Eng
lish peer has been thus gazetted.
AT Fredonia, New York, few days
ago. Lieutenant Commander William b.
Gushing, United States Navy, was mar
ried to Miss Kate, daughter of Colonel ID.
s. Forbes, of that place. The bridal
presents were very valuable, including
$4,000 set OF furs
AN autograph of George Washington
sold at LeaVitt & Styebeighs sale in New
York, recently, for $3.50. The Detroit
Tribune says that Washington's autographs
are higher now than they were few
months ago, as the man who makes them
has been in jail at Philadelphia ever since
October
AT Elkhart, Ind, the other day, a
woman, in a drunken frenzy, threw q
lighted kerosene lamp at her husband.
The lamp exploded, setting fire to the
house and the husbands clothing. The
house and it's contents were destroyed,
and the man burned to death.
ONE of the Wesleyan Academy stu
dents, at Wilbraham, Mass, rushed up to
sleigh load of tippeted and muffied riders,
gave friendly tweak to the nose OF a
person whom he supposed to be chum,
| but who proved to be woman, and the
wife of a professor.
A TAUNTON paper says that's dozen bus
| hels of potatoes were dug on Friday, Feb
ruary IS, on the Britton place, near Rayn-'
ham, Mass, which are as sound as those
| dug in the fall. The land was in litigation
| at harvesting time, hence the delay, and
| the mild winter had not in the least in
iured the appearance or quality of the
| esculent
THERE is a boy in Vermont who has
eleven grandparents living, and he pro-
poses to give party for them exclusively
one of these days, although his five uncles
and aunts, his thirty great uncles and
aunts, his twenty six great great uncles
and aunts, and his forty second cousins
may feel sighted.
THE Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
has decided against the Commonwealth
| in the case brought by the State Deputy
Eseheator against the Philadelphia Saving
Fund Society, for 100000 unclaimed de-
posits, which the Commonwealth claimed
on the ground that it consisted OF de
| posts the owners of which have died
leaving no lawful claimants
i Mr. SAMUEL L. HARRIS a mechanic OF