Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-12-09
CURRENT ITEMS.

Now is the time to insure in the Wash.
ington Life. ee
RAILROADS have no affections, yet they
ought to have strong ties. .ad /
| MASSACHUSETTS is making large quan,
titles OF cartridge paper for France.
NINETY-ONE bears have been slain in
Maine the past year, and bounties paid for
them. f j., ss, .f.
"Cend me pair of esq., Toad Shooze."
SIX members of the Illinois Legislature
were elected by less than twenty-five ma
! jority. 81 .a l4a hsrE H8H
A YOUNG gentleman of Terre Haute, I1rd
has brought breach-of-promise suit
against a young lady that city. '.r
MARSHAL NORRIS, in his census pere-
! grinations about Monterey county, Gal,
has found an Indian.woman 140 years old.
NEARLY four hundred thousand letters
were sent to the Dead Letter Office during
the month of October 3.l''
A PROVIDENCE man fell dead the other
day while directing letter. A warning
against directing letters. a0
THE Springfield Republican thinks the
| course of woman suffrage is soon to be the
winning side in Massachusetts.
A LIFE POLICY often proves to be re-
liable collateral in business emergencies.
| Secure policy in the Mutual Life Insur-
ance Company of Chicago.
| HENRY WARD BEECHER predicted on
Thanksgiving day that the time is coming
| when million ofmoney will not entitle
man to call himself rich. ~
THE Mayor of an interior Texas city,
| instead of issuing a proclamation against
the dogs, goes through the streets with
double-barre shot gun, and shoots them.
AN old man in Saybrook, Conn, lives
on a farm that never was bought or sold,
it having come down to him from his an
cestors, who obtained it from the Indians.
PUNCH wants to know whether the
Germans will care as much for the Watch
on the Rhine" now that they have got the
great Strasbourg clock GELS
A CORRESPONDENT complains to Pun
cli7aello that, from languid circulation, or
some other cause, he frequently goes to
bed with cold feet and asks for a remedy.
Pupchapello answers: "Don't go to bed,
sleep in chair"
A MAN in Franklin county, Vt, seventy
years of age, and the father of twenty
children, has been tarred and feathered by
his neighbors for deserving his wife.
AN envelope, without any address at all,
was recently dropped into the Gloucester,
Mass, Postoffice. Upon being opened it
was found to contain check for $3.50,
signed by a prominent business man.
SOME of the people of Lynn, Mass,
have neighbor who has been shoema-
ker for seventy four years, and they have
just been helping him to celebrate his
eighty sixth birthday.
OVER year ago, Colonel Paxton, of
South Olive, Pa, lost a set of tools in an
oil well he was boring, and never could get
them out. The earthquake, the other day,
gave that well a twist, and the tools came
out several feet into the air.
PHILADELPHIA has sixty-two million
aires So a prominent merchant says, who
has made careful examination into the
matter The Press thinks this is under
rather than over the mark.
Book canvassers may not be aware of
the fact that five cent revenue stamp is
required to be attached to every signature
in their books; the agreement to purchase
being considered a contract.
ONE of the most accommodating of
men lives in Noble county, Ohio. The
other dayehe walked over thirty 1.-TWO miles,
through the rain, for the sole purpose of
paving a neighbor's tax. The tax was IS
cents, and, with the delinquency, amount
ed to A cents. G4j g4li -El'.Gl 5il /
AT New York wedding the groom for
got the ring. The traditional curtain ring
was unavailable, and matters were at a
stand still till an ingenious lady cut Off an
end of one of the brides curls and framed
out of this ring, with which the marriage
was consummated
THE artesian salt well of Lincoln, Neb.,
throws stream of brine six inches in
diameter to a height of over fifty feet. This
stream has sufficient volume and velocity
| to run mill wheel. It's waste channel is
like rapid, roaring mountain brook. ally
AT Providence, r. Il on Thanksgiving
Day, the newsboys and bootblacks were
treated to mammoth dinner, the promi-
nent feature of which was a mammoth
pudding, three feet long, two feet wide,
and one foot deep, and containing, among
other ingredients, fifty pounds of raisins
and ten cans of milk.
THE Muncie, Ind, Times says: "Volney
Wilson says he played strategy on the po--
tato-bugs this season. He says he planted
grain of corn in every hill of potatoes.
| nc COlu DCdt t1O POunoOSo ''p, 49,
bugs, thinking it a corn field, never went
near the potatoes till it was ollate to do
them any damage, and he raised over 400
bushels of nice potatoes"
ONE of the first cases under the fifteenth
Amendment has occurred in Lawrence
county, Ohio, where Lewis Garter has
been convicted of using intimidation to
prevent two colored men from voting
Carter was sentenced to one months i'm
prisonment and fine of five dollars, with
costs, the minimum penalty prescribed by
the law. ~ -...3. ,.,er sf
| GEORGE S. CoUTANT, Of Rosendale, N.
Y, who had been robbed of 400 about
fourteen years ago. while asleep, was late
ly notified, by an anonymous letter, that
he would lind the amount in package at
the Kingston express office. He went
there on the following day and received
it. 1t was directed in such way that IL
would be impossible to trace out the thlei
through it,
THE Darlington, Wis, Democrat tells
the following dog story: While MI. j.
Langford and his family were away from
home last week, they left a dog to watch
the premises. Mr. Walton lives near. and
also has dog Mr.. WIS people laid ou
some food, and said it must go over FOL
Langford's dog. Waltons dog at once
took it and carried it over to his nelghbor
, returning home for his own, evidently
much pleased that his friend had hi
, dinner"
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