Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-04-08
CURRENT ITEMS.

A CINCINNATI lady has hair ten feet
long <az @ 2 ehe
THERE was but one marriage in Gov.
entry, VT, in 1869. By @
THE Baptists of Ireland have doubled
in numbers since 1852
A GIRL in Dover, N. H., has construct
ed III words out of Washington.
THERE are upward of 40, 900 more white
males than females in Iowa.
A ROMAN letter says the Pope is posi-
lively infrm and cannot last the year out.
THE London (England Chess Club has
been dissolved, after an existence of sixty
three years. $3.50
A NEW YORK paper says that not one
pound in ten of the honey sold in that
city ever knew bee. sfi
The National Base Ball Club of Wash
ington have decided not to play any pro-
fessionals this season.
a A CITIZEN of Baltimore recently died
from having taken quart of whisky at a
single draught. a .s
A MAN lay in bed and read newspa-
per at the City Hotel, in Mobile, until the
candle consumed all his hair. sG
AUSTIN, Nevada, has Judge who late
ly fined himself So for not arriving pune
tually at the time fixed upon for opening
Court. .4G t# 81
THE new Houses of Parliament in Lon
don, completed only twenty years ago, are
crumbling to pieces on the river front.
A MAN, lately returned from Alaska,
says that he lived there thirteen months,
au clr od far hQ nf n
dollar .s.s .s .-s.e ,.,.s
THE death rate in New York city is
about 2428 per 1000; in London 30, in
Paris 3S, in Berlin 80, and in Vienna 30
per 1000. essa 3. ss5f,as A.,
A HORSE attached to Minnesota stage
coach, while trotting at the usual pace,
the other day, threw off one of its hoofs,
and bled to death in few minutes.
JOHN TAYLOR sawed wood for his fami-
ly, March IA, at Oswego Falls, N. Y, and
on hanging up his saw, laid down and died
in five minutes, aged 102 years
A BROOKLYN restauranter keeps a
"dosed" pie sitting just where some thief
steals it every day, but not the thief that
stole it the day before.
A BOY, ten years old, whose parents are
dead, shot himself through the heart, in
Portsmouth, Vt, a few days ago. 1t is
supposed harsh treatment drove him to
the act. 1880 Nt baa yea @
A LAD iii Evansville, Ind. of an inquir-
ing turn of mind, exploded five cents
worth of powder in an oyster can, and
now wears his head in q turban saturated
with glycerine. ea 9y sa5
THE Scientific american predicts that,
in txun W.
will be as common a feature of daily pa
pers as market reports are now. at
A LETTER reached Washington few
days ago dated August z, 1S49," having
been twenty one years on It's passage from
Germany. The sender will be informed OF
its safe arrival. @ -s1f ,
r. A MATRIMONIAL engagement was re-
Gently broken off in New York because
the high-spirited (?) young woman and
her lover quarreled as to who should pur-
chase the wedding ring. sea Ca #rgsf
THERE were sent to the United States
from Leipsic, during the last three months
of 1869, books, journals, and other printed
matter, of the value of $45, ,154; and maps,
paintings and pictures to the value of $9,-
083.
Gov. GEARY, in the course of some re-
marks at recent Temperance Jubilee in
Philadelphia, stated that cut of 5000 ap-.
plications made to him for pardons, nine
ty-fiye per cent. of the crimes could be
directly traced to rum. ~
The vine is cultivated in seventy-nine
departments of France, and yields. the
sum of 1,600,000,000 francs. The cultiva-'
ton and production of wine gives en-
ployment to 6,500,OO0 people, and the
wine trade alone employs 100000 more.
s A woMAN's-RI advocate insists that
divorced women have a right to vote un-
der the Fifteenth amendment, which pro-
vides that the right of suffrage shall not be
denied or abridged on account of race,
color, or "preyious condition OF seryltude.
q In 1869 the number of inland letters
posted in the United Kingdom, exclusive
of official correspondence, was 772, ,00O, 600,
realizing in postage e3, ,43S 183 Inthe same
period newspaper and book packages fig
ured up to $4,000 realizing e40S, ,792.
A YOUNG man recently went to the banks
of the Danube for the purpose of drown
ing himself He laid his hat on the
ground, when soldier on guard shouted,
q Fall back there, or I'll shoot you" The.
young man picked up his hat and rapidly.
ran away. Death by shooting was not in
his programme. e a;6 .e
Mrs. CHURCHILL, one of the advocates
of woman suffrage in Vermont, refused to
walk, the other night, from hotel to the
hall in which she was to lecture, with a
member of the Woman Suffrage Assocla-
tion, because he was drunk; and declared
that either he must leave the canvass or
she would leave the State. a
A BLACKSMITH residing in Williams
town, Oswego county, New York, while
laboring under deIiraana trenae,as, asfeW
days ago, rubbed live Goals on his face,
laid red-hot iron bars across it, and finally
fell into the blazing forge. He was res,
cued, but his face and the upper part OF
his BODY were burned to a crisp, and there
is scarcely chance Of his recovery.
q SA1DA.HA, a Persian, has givena a mag
nificent ball at Paris. His lounges were
covered with cashmeres embroidered Win
gold, which he gave away to the depart
ing guests. One "lady," not caring tor
cashmere, took away "a. Persian carpet.
Supper was served under giided trellis.
bearing ripe grapes, peaches and cherries
The entertainment cost more than 92O,O0u,
TIE Directors of the Buffalo Driving
Park Association have decided to offer
& 10 100 in premiums at their summer
meeting, commencing August 9th The
principal prizes are $4,000 for horses
that never beat $50 !. $4,000 for horses
that never beat $2.27s s., 600 for. horses
that never beat *S22..2J; s., 600, free to all
horses, and large pHlfses'fof all horses that