Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-01-28
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Mrs. BEEcHER STOWE has again gone
to Florida. e a"
THERE were 10000 arrests in Philadel-
phia in 1859. fs
Four biographies of George Peabody
are announced.
Ex-PREsIDENT FILLMORE recently en-
tered his 70thyear.
THE Yo Semitic valley was visited last
year by 1922 persons.
THERE are twenty four colored printers
in the city of New York.
MARK TwAlN is reported to be worth
$4,000, all made by his pen.
ELEVEN cattle thieves were recently
hanged to one tree in Texas. ..,es.
The new Directory of London for 1870
is volume of 1890 pages.
BRIDeEpoRr, W. Va, has impeached its
Mayor for drunkenness.
THE area of tlmbered lands in Kansas is
estimated at 2,500,0G0 acres. S, 80.
The profit of the richest gold mine in
California last year was $340, 400.
Mrs. LYDIA SEXTON has been appointed
Chaplain of the Leavenworth (Kansas)
Penitentiary.
A MAN in Mystic, Conn, paid the State
one dollar for calling neighbor "a con-
founded mutton-head." ~ lst5tl
A VIRGINIA negro, who stole valuable
horse and killed him for his hide, has been
sent to prison for eighteen years..
SEVENTEEN bridesmaids, four clergy
men, and three bands of music managed
to marry pair in England, not long
since.
THE late Col. David Chambers, ofZanes-I
vile, printed the flaws of Ohio, in 1910,
on a wooden press made by himself. n
A RESOLUTION has been adopted by the
New York Legislature requiring members
contesting seats to bear their own ex-
penses. asN sA y
THERE are no fewer than two hundred
and forty-one HindOo temples and Mo-
hammedan mosques in Calcutta alone.
WILLIAM PENN's carriage is owned by
Capt. Pierce, of Cleveland, who occasion
ally gives the old thing an airing in the
streets. s.e,. ~
The largest personal income returned
to the United States Assessor in Boston
last year was made by Nathan Matthews,
amounting to $150,000. s.
A SON of Attorney General Carter, of
Halifax, attempted the other day to rescue
two girls who had broken through the
ice, and all three were drown.
A YOUNG man at Waugarratta, Australia,
lately kissed lady against her will, and
he was sentenced by the Mayor of that
place to two months Imprisonment
The wives of upwards of hundred
convicts at Cayenne have petitioned the
French Ministers Of Justice to be allowed
to rejo1n their husbands IN that penal
colony. eja ts
A YOUNG man was married in a London
suburb on Christmas morning, and at the
supper in the evening he quarrelled with
his best man" cut his throat and alb
seconded, ~
IT is said that Cyrus W. Field, of the
original ocean cable, and VIM. Orton,
President of the Western Union Tele-
graph, have purchased the French cable
for $1,0O0,00O in gold.
A RESIDENT of Hudson, n Y, has been
directed by the Court to pay young lady
$4,000 damages and $50 as an extra al
lowance for costs, for failing to keep his
promise to marry.
DURING performance of "La Belle
Helene" recently, at Amsterdam, the actor
who played Me7aeIdus died on the stage
from rupture of All aneurism. The audi
ence laughed, thinking it was a part Of the
play.
LINDSAY MUsz has been messenger at
the door of the Navy Department forty
two years. Two years before Secretary
Robeson was born, LINDSAY Musz was
ushering visitors into the presence OF the
Secretary of the Navy.
A MAN in North Brookfeld, Mass, tied
his horses head and tail together, and.
drove it in circle to cure it of baking.
In one minute the animals spirits were
entirely broken, and SO was its neck, from
running againsta post.
A Mr.. CARTLr., who labors among the
London thieves, burglars, and pickpockets,
has gathered church of 1900 members.
His wife instructs 1000 mothers, meeting
400 at a time, who, without her labors,
would receive no religious instruction at
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A LITTLE child in Allentown, Pa, was
attacked by rats, a few nights ago, and
had part of his knee eaten away. The in
fant, which is nine months old, was heard
screaming during the night, but no one
took the trouble to see what was the mat
ter with it.
sbHENRY RoCHEFoRT's new daily paper,
La MarseillaGse, has already reached cir
culation of 100000 copies. 1t is estimated
that not less than half million of copies
of revolutionary newspapers are distrib-
uted every day in Paris and the other
large cities of France.
In a show-window in New York there
is curiosity in the form of an old watch,
formerly carried by the Tycoon of Japan.
1t is inlaid with the most valuable pearls,
four hundred in number, and is valued at
81 O0O 1t is said to be one of the Oldest
watches in existence.
ON Christmas Eve, Princess Metternich
gave a Juvenile ball to which 400 young
quests had been invited. On the same
evening, before the opening of the ball,
the Princess had given splendid Christ
mas supper to 100 poor children, every
one of whom, before leaving the palace Of
the Austrian Ambassador, received beau
tiful Christmas gift.
WINNIE REAM, the young American ar
tist who went to Rome to complete the
bust of Abraham Lincoln, for which she
received commission from Congress, is
getting on well with the work. She has
Completed the bust of Gen. Fremont, Mer-
edith Reed, Consul General Of the United
States in Paris, and the Rev. Father Hya-
cinthe. The artists of Paris and Rome
have received her with marked kindness.
HENRI RocHEFoRT is described by the
Gaulois as tall, thin-Very thin--thin as
skeleton; face more than pale--of
color not to be defined, between the
creamy white and greenish blue of the
oIoctric lioht cheek -bOnes prominent,