Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-02-11
CURRENT ITEMS.
WEST VIRGINIA has no State debt.

THE Queen of Prussia gives, annually,
$4,000 to the poor,
THE Charleston Theater cost $7O,000,
and was built in forty days.
NEW WORKERS up to recent date had
had but two days good skating this
winter.
THE Emperor of Austria himself in
structs bis children in penmanship and
arithmetic.
IA NEW church for free-t thinkers, poets
and men of letters" is advertised in the
London papers.
SEVERAL young women are said to be
preparing to enter Amherst College next
summer.
FIFTY thousand dollars is the value a
Jerseyman puts upon an eye which rail-
road accident knocked out.
OLIVER DYER says the outcast children
of New York would make, in double file,
a procession eleven miles long,
La Marseizlaise has hundred and four
thousand subscribers, and net profit of
twelve hundred francs daily.
THE Boston Journal says that quitting
advertising in dull times is like tearing
out dam because the water is low.
THE San Francisco Society of Califor
mia Pioneers are to erect building in
that city for their use, to cost 100000.
A SUBMARINE cable has been ordered,
which will be laid along the Pacific coast
of South America, from Panama to Puyta,
Peru.
|. THE California militia are to be
equipped with breech-loaders, by altering
their present regulation muskets.
PHILADELPHIA has subscribed $4,000
and New York $4,000 to a memorial
chapel to be erected in honor of Stone
wall Jackson.
THE statue of Nathaniel Greene, which
Rhode Island has presented to the nation,
is said to be the finest piece Of sculpture
in the Capitol.
A NEW YORK undertaken says that his
most liberal customers are the surviving
partners of marriages which have been
the most unhappy.
THE Maine Legislature is made up of
fifty seven farmers, fifteen lawyers, twenty
seven merchants, sixteen mechanics,
twelve lumbermen, two priests and one
apothecary.
A FRUIT DEALER of Los Angeles, Cal,
recently found in bunch of bananas, just
imported from the Sandwich Islands, a
very vigorous, pugnacious, four inch
centipede.
A NEPHEW of one of the wealthiest United
States Senators died in Kansas City, Mo-,
the other day, pauper. Rum brought
him so low that he would lounge about
bar-rooms and almost beg for drinks.
A NUMBER of the working girls of Gin
cinnati have become ashamed of work,
and carry books in their hands when
passing along the street, in order to create
the impression that they are attending
school.
IT was recently estimated that foot of
snow Just then in the forests of Maine
and New Hampshire would have been
worth $30,0O0,000. Millions of feet of logs
were lying in the woods waiting for the
snow, workmen were idle and the mills
were silent
THE whole number of children in the
State of Minnesota between the ages of 5
and 81 is 144, ,414-males, 1854; females,
69,770. The whole number attending
school was 102,0s6. The whole number
not attending school, 42,329.
THE last census of the Kingdom
of the Netherlands, which has re-
Gently been completed, shows a popula-
tion of 3,62S,463 souls-an increase of
81, ,450 over that of last year Since 1880
the population of the Kingdom has in
creased by 1909, ,162 inhabitants.
Mrs. MILLER, widow lady, of Wex-
ford county, Mich, was left alone seven
years ago with large family of small
children in the new regions Of that coun-
ty. She has since raised her own crops,
kept her family comfortably, and is bring
ing a go cd farm into use.
WITHIN six miles of Tuscon, Arizona,
Major Duffield owns silver mine which
is, perhaps, the richest on the continent.
| In 1867, piece of rock sent to New York
assayed over $4,000 to the ton, and SUBJ
sequent assay showed a yield of $4,000
to the ton.
A MAN in Detroit struck another in the
teeth on Christmas day, cutting his own
knpckles thereby. The hand swelled and
became very much infamed, and since
then the flesh has decayed from the
wounded finger. The diseased bone has
been scraped, but without effect, and the
physicians think amputation will be nee
essary.
THE vine occupies, in France, almost
6,175,000 acres, or one-twentieth part of
the French territory and the sixteenth
part of its soil capable of cultivation
The gross produce amounts to more than
1,500,O00,000 francs, and occupies the in
dustry of six million men, women and
children, and nearly two million mer-
chants, agents, traders, etc.
A GENTLEMAN of Ironton, Ohio, seeing
little boy barefoot ON the streets on a
cold day, recently, took him into store
and fitted him out with new pair of shoes.
In the evening the benevolent gentleman
received back the shoes and an accom-
panying note from the indignant father,
who said he was better able to buy his son
shoes than the giver was; and the asser-
tion proved to be true.
THE Louisville Commercial had long
account of how Kriel, the wife murderer,
was galvanized back into life after being
hung. This brought out a card from
Kriel's brother, in which he says; The
story that my brother, William Kriel, is
still alive, has no foundation in fact, and
it seems to me that its publication was a
great outrage upon his family. They have
suffered enough already, and all they ask
is that they may be permitted to live II
peace. / have opened the coffin of my
brother and find his body there as it wa:
placed after his DEATH"
A REMARKABLE scene was witnessed a
the depot of the Ft. Wayne Railroad
near Madison street bridge, an evening o.
two since. The afternoon train brought
among its passengers party of little
folks, hailing from West Virginia and e1
route for Minnesota. 1t consisted of three
oirls and two hoyS unattended ranOius