Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1872-12-20
CURRENT ITEMS.

ELK CRY, Kan, maintains a jewsharp
band.
New ORLEANS is to have Produce
Exchange.
'sDIAMoNp cut Diamond"-The dia-
mond 5windlers of San Francisco and
their dupes.
PROVIDENCE has only one steam whis-
tie in the whole city, and is bound to
eradicate that.
LOUISIANA has more pork than for ten
years before, and will ship tons OF bacon
to England.
Busy Boston has already issued a new
directory containing all the changes OF
residence.
THE only man who has raised cotton in
Sonoma county, CAL, happens to pc
Mr.. Derrick.
A CALIFORNIA man is manufacturing
watermelon syrup, and thinks his expert
fnent a success.
A YOUNG lady who thought she could
make her voice clear by straipingit made
great mistake.
a SUCCESSFUL borer for petroleum is
said to resemble ''the oldest inhabitant"
because he's senile.
THE Schenectady Union made bet of
a new dress ON the result of the election,
and won it and wears 1t,
ONE Of the Giving skeletons" is grow
ing fat, and he now fears starvation be.
cause his occupation is gone.
THE oysters in several of the tributaries
of Chesapeake Bay have become green,
and, in consequence, unmarketable.
A BARREL of apples sells for twenty
five dollars in San Antonio, Texas, but
beef is only two cents per pound.
CANvAs-BACK ducks are more numer-
Gus in the vicinity of Baltimore than any
where else in the United States.
mere serious in Florida and Alabama du-
ring the past season than in any other
State.
THE latest thing in opera boufa is one
by an Italian composer, in which all the
parts, even to those of the chorus, are to
be taken by women.
AN Indian skeleton has been exhumed
at Mystic, Conn. At its head was pint
bottle, of thick flint glass, of unique
shape and rude manufacture.
TIE recent failure among the fish mer-
chants of Boston have, it is stated, caused
great distress among the poor fishermen
of Cape Cod.
ONE day when Mrs. Darlington heard
the minister say there would be a nave in
the new church, she observed that "she
knew well who the party was"
MOSES DEvAUx, found guilty of bring
ing more passengers to the United States
than the tonnage of his vessel allowed,
was fined $3.50 and costs.
CANADA papers say that the trapping
season for fine peltries is now well adj
vanced, but furs are not coming to mar
ket in large quantities.
VERMONT proposes to enact that rail-
way bridges shall be made wide enough
to prevent the frequent decapitation of
passengers by projecting timbers.
THE assets of the Washington are Sc
curely invested in bonds and mortgages
first liens) and United States and New
York State stocks and bonds, in COM
pliance with the laws of the State of New
York.
THE Titusville Press says that the
meanest man in town is the one who
horsewhips his wife because she won't
tell him what she intends to give him for
Christmas present.
&C. COFFIN has dashed off "a pictur-
esque story of the Boston fire." which
will be illustrated. Several carpenters are
now at work ON the "cuts." Mr.. Coffin,
we imagine, is grave writer.
PENNSYLVANIA proposes to amend her
Constitution SO as to prohibit her Judges
from INDUCING in gratuitous rides upon
railways, and to permit her juries to rem
der valid verdict by two-thirds ma
jority
A MAN named Peck, who murdered
Mrs. Almira Cheney, in Coleraine, Mass.
five years ago, and who has been in an
insane asylum ever since, hiss been dis
charged, cured, and will be tried for MUIR
der this month.
KEoKUK claims to have a cow that can
climb into wagon, unite a sack of oats
or corn with her teeth, and unlock Gel
lar door, and go down cellar and eat up
the winters stock of cabbage, or climb a
ladder into the hay NOW
THE Georgetown (Texas) Sentinel says:
we intended to publish the dispatches
regarding the fire in Boston, and laid
aside the paper containing them, for the
purpose of clipping them out; but before
we had time to do so, Colonel Coffee Dor
2O"ON II, SsAd ldIlCI w lCtll1 Ii IL.
"A PAIR of loot herons made head-quar-
tiers at Highland Lake, East Andover,
n. H., for half century, and the other
day stranger shot one of them, which
so enraged the citizens of the neighbor-
hood that the man was in danger of be-
ing lynched.
THE Titusville Press says: can intox-
icated printer in East st. Louis wandered
s,1fo Oh II, g -
ton and set ap several stickfuls of shoe
pegs, and took proof of his matter in
the boot press, before he realized his aw-
full condition"
BRITISH spectators are sending for
large quantities of American oysters to
plant in British waters, and expect that
the bivalves will thrive, for the reason
that they have some moister seasons
there than can be found in any other
country.
THE Congregatsonalsst says that Gin
a prayer meeting not many miles from
Bosten, a few weeks since, one of the
brethren prayed most earnestly that the
pastor might keep level head But it
is fair to explain that the pastor has
sometimes been called eccentric"
The Buddhist nunneries at Wuchang
have been suppressed, and the parents
of the girls notified that, if not claimed
and taken home, the ex-nuns will be
handed over to any eligible parties de-
string wives there are numerous applica-
tions for them.
THE London Diapers journal says that
the demand for lace set by the present
fashions in millinery and dressmaking
has given a decided impulse to hand.
made lace, and the prospect is that the
demand has been permanently enlarged
by the prevailing fashions.