Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-01
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE CzAR appends SO titles to his name
on imperial decrees
Two years of courtship to one wedding
| is the Vermont rule.
SAVANNAH, Ca, runs special street cars
for colored people.
TARTAR EMETIc pie detected lunch
| thief in a Vermont school,
! EMIGRANTs at the rate of q thousand
| day are pouring into Kansas.
MONTREAL gives its poor 1000 quarts
of soup and 600 loayes of bread every
week.
In Liverpool, boy of eleven earns a
living by delivering curbstone phrenologi-
cal lectures.
FORTY years ago, Hon. George Dawson,
of the Albany ,To"~aaI, set 22,022 ems of
type in thirteen J lrs.
Two new velocipedes sold for five dol
lars at late sale of unclaimed express
packages in Washington.
In Nevada they fined minister" $25
for performing mock marriage, the vic
tim being girl of twelve years. e
AT a fire in Rutland, Vt, recently, a
young man threw away pail of water.
remarking that it was too hot to do any
good ''si02 So. - a'-tt shi ~
AN English sportsman lately killed no
fewer than sixty five geese with two shots,
and sold his game in sLondon for forty
dollars.
AT late fashionable Hotel de Vile ball,
in Paris, it is estimated that the ladies
present wore 1900 pounds of false hair.
In Williamsburg, Va, few days'ago, a
horse threw two young men, who had
mounted him in frolic, and killed them
both. sea. Ia oa ,id.a-.31
A LADY compositor on the Janesville
(Wis) Gazette recently set 12,500 ems of
solid nonpareil in ten hours.
Two competing stage lines in California
advertise free meals and free rides"
each hoping to drive the other from the
course
Ina recent breach of promise case of
Dickinson against Fields, in Brooklyn,
damages laid at $4,000, the jury rendered
verdict for plaintiff, Marietta Dickinson,
allowing 81 1000. '9
THE Episcopalians have a ." Clergy
mans Mutual Insurance League" num-
bering 529 members. On the death of any
member his brethren each send So to the
heirs. t So
BENJAMIN GoDBY, sentenced to be hung
at Waynesboro, Ga, was reprieved by
Governor Bullock, but the reprieve was
not received till the day after the execu-
tion.
THE colored ianitor who tore elegant
and valuable books from their rich bind
ings and sold them for paper stock, in New
York, has been sentenced to the State
prison for -four wears for his vandalism.
WHEN Maine entered the Union fifty
years ago, her population was 29S, 1856. In
that time it has much more than doubled,
being now about 100000, and she has sent
to other States more than 100000 of her
people.
The base ball season will open at Gin
cinnati on the 10th of April, between the
Red Stockings and a picked nine. The
Red Stockings will bat in the same order
as last year, and will occupy the same
positions. 9a
A NEW YORK policeman lost his nose
the other night, while attempting to quell
riot among gang of roughs The fel-
low who bit it off boasts that it is the fifth
proboscis he has served in the same man
ner.
A MAN in Louisville, for whom there
was letter containing sum OF money
from his mother, was asked at the Post
office, as a means of Identification, to give
his mothers name. He was unable to do
so, and stated as the reason that "he had
been away from home SO long," aet
A MAN attempted to take possession of
the office of a New York line of omnibuses
the other day, claiming to have bought it
for $1,000, 900. He was a maniac on the
subject of cheap transportation, and was
so frantic at being refused possession that
he had to be taken to an asylum.
THERE is a family at Colchester, Conn.
some member of which applies at the post
office for letter from four to six times
day, rain or shine, oftentimes as the office
opens in the morning and the last thing
at night, while but one letter has been re-
ceiyed for them during the last six months