Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-02-28
CURRENT ITEMS.


sued for $4,000 damages by married
woman, for selling liquor to her hus-
band.
THE young ladies of Vassar College
have formed an "anti-falling inlove-be-
e.you-are- out of-schooT club.
A YANKEE offers to clear the Nile of
all its crocodiles within two years II the
viceroy of Egypt will come down with
100000.
SEVENTY FIVE of the business men of
Mendoza, Ill. have subscribed $25 each to
pay the expenses of prospecting for coal
in that vicinity.
THE right of street car conductor to
eject a small ox patient from his car is
to be contested in the Boston courts.
A "HoMEsPUN" association is being or
ganized at Des Moines, Iowa, the mem
bers of which are pledged to wear no
goods not made in that city.
NEW JERSEY expects to hang two men
in April, one in May, and three in June,
besides supplying the usual quantity of
champagne.
THE Penn$yZgaaian, at Oil City, has sus-
pended because the editor and his wife
couldn't agree about his employing female
compositors.
THE Polk County, Iowa, Agricultural
Society this year offers a premium fol-
the best preserved man and woman sew
enty years of age; also, for the largest
living family.
VANDERBILT says that the traffic be-
tween the cities of New York and Boston
is so constantly growing that new route
is needed every ten years.
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lar to the editor of the Democrat, asking
that false notice of his death be cor.
rected. The correction was made.
THE Board of Supervisors of Greene
County, Iowa, have allowed John Gray,
an enterprising farmer, 81 900 deduction
from the valuation of his property for
taxes, for planting twelve acres of fruit
trees.
A LARGE number of tax payers of Jer-
sey City, N. j., recently held a meeting
and resolved not to pay any more taxes
to the State until the law exempting rail-
roads from taxation is repealed.
THE proprietors of the Legal Tender
mine, at Clancy, Montana, have struck
vein twenty seven inches wide, aver
aging $4,000 per ton. This is the great
est strike ever make in the Territory.
The ore is galena, with sulphate, ruby
and native silver.
JOHN M1sHLER, of Harrison, Delaware
County, Ind, 81 years old, claims to be
the champion hunter of the State. He
says he has killed in his time 40 deer, 90
bears and 25 wolves. He has lived in
Harrison for the last twenty-five years.
THE most remarkable chime of bells in
this country is on the chapel of Notre
Dame University, near South Bend, Ind.
1t consists of twenty-four bells, the larg-
est weighing Ia, 900 lbs, ranging through
two octaves. 1t may be heard in its deep
reverberations for twenty miles away.
ONE of the foundries at Peekskill, N.
Y, has "salamander," as it is termed
a furnace in which the molten iron has
been permitted to grow cold, and as not
even August weather will thaw it out, it
has got to be removed by drilling, which
will cost $4,000
FOURTEEN deaths have occurred recent
ly in the vicinity of Naples, Scott Coun-
ty, Ill, by cerehfo spinal meningitis
The disease was rapidly increasing, and
the people of the neighborhood were be-
coming greatly alarmed at its disastrous
spread.
MILLERIsM is reviving in Vermont
The world, it is there affirmed by some,
is coming to an end toward the close of
the present year. Others think that the
catastrophe will occur during the present
winter. There are good many meetings,
and there is good deal of preaching and
excitement.
q PROPOSITION was seriously made in
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Conven-
ton the other day, that the punishment
of fraud at elections be changing by the
neck until dead, without the benefit of
clergymen, of executive clemency or any
other benefit whatever"
THERE is in New York a professional
'face maker" who sits as a model for the
artist who manufactures grotesQue masks
for carnival times. The fiexibility of his
features is said to be wonderful that, if
necessary, he could elude the recognition
of the smartest detectives.
THE new code of California establishes
such complete equality in the marriage
state, and so does away with the old no.
ton that man and his wife are one
flesh, that the two can contract with and
sue each other the same as if they had
never been married The marriage of
minors changes the status from minors to
adults.
CARS are being built for mail trains be-
tween New York and Chicago, to consist
of three cars and one locomotive. No
stoppages are to be made except for coal
and water, and the trains are expected to
make the distance between the two cities
in twenty-four hours, run ming about forty
miles an hour.
MR.. GEORGE LIE BARRE, of Pennsyl-
vania, is held up by the New York Herald
as the oldest man in America. His years
number 115, he was too old for the war
OF 1912, and he shook hands with Wash
ington. In addition to this, he has hab-
itually used whisky and tobacco for a
century.
GENERAL DIX is so pestered with ap-
plicants for Office that he has this notice
posted upon every window and door of
the Executive Chamber and his dwelling:
"lf any office seeker presents himself
here during the next four hours, shoot
him on the spot!' In this manner, a lit
tie quiet is obtained, and an opportunity
had to attend to State affairs.
SOME genius has come to the relief of
the poor but ambitious amateurs who
want to kill somebody, and has invented
pocket pistol which sells for $3.50. Of
the six murders committed in New York,
in one week, three were performed with
that economical but effective weapon.
Nothing like bringing luxuries within
the reach of the common people.
AN Athol Mass man, long resident in
California, is about to bring courtship
of twenty-five years to a happy termina-
ton: Ten years ago he started home
ward for the same laudable purpose, but
was waylaid and robbed of his all. He
went back to the golden State, gained an
other fortune, and this time has reached
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