Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-05-12
General Items.

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Paradise and the PERI" is becoming
very popular in the British provinces.
oNE of those Georgia diamonds was
dug up the other day, weighing about
thirty hve pounds, and the lucky finder
refused an offer of 275 for it.
A CHURCH in Iowa has expelled a
deacon for attending base bali match.
WATER sells at the rate of two cents
per pint in some of the Colorado towns.
A FARMER near Jasper, Newton coun-
ty, Iowa, has ia steers for which he re-
Gently refused $4,000.
SAN Francisco is successfully raising
oysters brought from the Atlantic coast
and planted in the bay.
THE people of Memphis will decorate
the graves of the Southern soldiers who
are buried near that city on Sunday, It'll
of May.
They do large divorce business in a
quiet way in Massachusetts. The Wor-
cester Gazette mentions that there are
now 1l5 suits for the dissolution of the
marriage contract pending in the Su-
preme Court there.
AT the recent funeral of the infant
Prince Alexander, son of the Prince of
Wales, white violets, primroses and
anemones were scattered on the coffin,
instead of earth, at the sentence "Ashes
to ashes," etc.
THE Christian Radical communicates to
an astonished world the following bit of
bewildering intelligence: elizabeth
Cady Stanton has seen the error of her
ways and concluded to take unto herself
husband" s
DRUNKENNESS is a dangerous pastime
for thieves. A dry goods clerk in New
York absorbed too much benzine the
other night, and was picked up by the
police, and his pockets searched. More
than 100 pawn tickets were found in
them, representing property to the
amount of $500, which had been
stolen from the store of the firm by the
prisoner at various times, and pawned.
TOUCHING SToRY.-The Bath Times
tells the following pathetic incident:
"Two beautiful little boys, twins,
aged about three years, of remarkable
loving disposition and unusually preco-
cious for their age, were each attacked
by the scarlet fever, and in a short time
one of them died.
"The other one, after wrestling with
disease for long time, rallied, and no
doubts were entertained of his recov-
cry but he constantly called for his de-
parted little brother, and refused to be
comforted unless he could see him.
In vain his attendants told him that
he had only gone away on short visit !;
he would not be satisfied unless he was
taken over the entire house and assured
that his brother was not at home. His
entreaties were SO urgent, that finally he
was carried one afternoon through every
room in the house, and his eyes searched
each room hopefully and longingly.
Having made the tour of the house,
he returned to his chamber, and seemed
to have given up all thought of seeing
his brother. He did not even mention
his name, but seemed to realize that his
brother could not come to him.
"That same night, all unexpected,
the angel of death came, and the weep
ing attendant saw the dying child clasp
his little hands, and heard him exclaim,
exultingly:
"' see-I see =
"' See what p said the watcher.
| see, | see Albert = and then, with
a smile, he closed his eyes in death.
land who will affirm that his broth
er had not come back to accompany
him to the mansions of bliss ?"
No MAN is man until he is tried till
he has passed through the ordeal /;
through deep water and scorching fires.
A man surrounded with comforts, friends
and relations, food and rainment whose
barns are filled with plenty, and whose
presses gush out with new wines; who
eats his fill sits and reads, doles about,
takes his ease and pleasure; smoking his
pipe and chewing his cud is he man
Far from it. A man is not man until
he is proved-has passed the ordeal
drank the bitter cup risen above life's
conflicts; mounted the pillows of the
wave.