Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-07-08

| his father in the cemetery, having dug to
| the coffin. He had the lid open, and was
| calling on the old man to get up, telliD g
him he had laid there long enough.
A CLERGYMAN last summer visited the
celebrated Hoosac tunnel, and encoun-
tered sprightly Irishman, who, in reply
jf5o the question, "Do you think this work
will pay s' promptly replied: Faith, no !
but thin it'll be a great ornament to So
ciety." asQ- ae 30
& A CONNECTICUT paper reports that a
| town clerk in that State has been accus-
| toned to sign marriage certificates in
blank and to give them to certain cler-
gyman (who, as is naively remarked,
adoes much marrying to be filled out
and used at his discretion.
AN Irish correspondent of the New
York Herald relates how an old woman,
named Gore, was driven into the streets
in snow storm by an agent of the Ian :
lady, the Marchioness of Ely, and allow
to perish. She was unable to pay tao
Marchioness her rent. as 4
TEXAS is ahead, and Washington's body
servant is nowhere. Texas reports that
negro woman died in that State on the
7th of June, who was 1873 years old, who
was zone of the Oldest inhabitants OF
Texas,p and who was formerly a servant
of General Washington's mother"
A WIDOW lady in Durham, Me-, said
that if the town taxed women for repair
ing highways it must allow them to work
out their tax like men. She accordingly
presented herself on the regular road
mending day, with horse and cart, and
proceeded to haul dirt and stones with as
much facility as the rest of them.
In Newark, N. j., the other day, one
Thomas Flanagan appeared at the Jail
office, and desired to be committed, to
| escape the tongue of his scolding wife.
The request could not be entertained, so
he went into the street and hurled stone
at the window, thus committing breach
| of the peace, when his wishes were COM
| piled with.
A YOUNG lady reached town in Maine,
few days ago, direct from Germany, and
on the second day after her arrival was
married to happy youth, who was en-
gagged to her six years ago In the old
| country, and who, after securing house
| in Maine, sent for her to "come over the
water to Charlie '-only his name was
Frederick. was AWa = i
Dr. STEIN, while lecturing recently at
Dresden, on the preservation OF meat and
| food, produced tin canister of good size,
containing butchers meat preserved by
| Appert's method, and prepared by him
self in 1851. On opening the canister,
which had been filled nineteen years pre-
| viously, the meat was found to be as fresh
and full of flavor as when it was hrst
placed in the canister.
A YOUNG factory operator in Lawrence,
nf u
Gently, and subsequently took her to the
circus. On payday he refunded the
amount very promptly after deducting
fifty cents her circus ticket cost him. He
was not certain he was going to have her.
After that she was quite certain he
wasn't
l. "A YOUNG man in Nevada had courted q
young lady in New England by mail and
exchanged photographs. An engagement
was made and the young lady started over
the Pacific Railroad to meet and marry
her affianced. On her arrival, however,
she promptly declined the alliance, avow-
ing that while his face looked well enough,
she would never wed with such little
spud of a fellow as him."
A LUDICRoUs mistake has been discov-
cred in the bill to incorporate the New
Bedford & Fairhaven Railroad Company,
which passed both branches OF the Mas
sachusetts Legislature a few weeks ago.
Tie bill, among other things, was intend
ed 10 repeal certain acts Of previous y years,
and one of the chapters specified referred
to the organization of an independent
company of cavalry at Holliston, which Is
now repealed by this bill.
THE average velocity of different OBJ
iects ia found in the following: