Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-14

EAST FLORIDA has marketed large
orange crop this season, and fruit cult
vation has been very largely stimulated.
! The ultimate success of the intelligent
and industrious fruit-grower in that Sec
ton is certain.
| THE age to which CANNES live has been
recently determined. There is a dog in
Cheshire, Conn, who is 200 years old. 1t
belongs to Mr.. Truman, quarryman.
Perhaps it ought to be stated that the
quadruped is made of iron.
Mrs SMITH, of Chicago, walked in
front of an incoming locomotive on the
| Chicago & St. Louis Railroad, a few days
ago, and if Mr.. Smith had allowed her to
go step further, Mrs. Smiths children
would have had step-mother.
A DAKOTA sheriff attached show the
other day, and while tacking up a sale
notice" on the elephants headquarters,
which the official took for small barn,
the animal swung his tail around. There
were eight hacks at the funeral.
A WHITE OAK tree was recently cut
down in Lebanon County, Pa, which
yielded 5000 feet of plank, worth $75,
twenty-five years ago three cords of wood,
A MILWAUKEE kitchen girl who, in six
weeks, never went to but three circuses,
four meetings, five balls and three Sunday
excursions, recently resigned her situa-
tion because she found it absolutely nee
essary to have little time to herself.
THE Young Mems Christian Union of
Boston are giving free carriage rides to
invalids who require the exercise but are
too poor to hire carriages. The same fa-
cilities are to be extended to the inmates
of hospitals Boston is always original
ing some worthy charity.
PEOPLE complain of dull times, and in
this regard life insurance agents are pre-
eminent. A Nashville agent should not
be placed in that category. He has just
been arrested for marrying four wives
within three months, and he insists that
with him times are uncommonly lively.
NOT many days ago funeral procession
in Indianapolis, Ind, was fearfully de-
moralized by the team running away with
the hearse. After an exciting chase the
team was recovered, the corpse gathered
together, and the mournful procession
wended its way to the silent city of the
dead.
The Minnesota farmer who lost an arm
and whose son lost a leg in his new
threshing machine, advertises that the
efficiency of the implement is not serious
ly impaired, but that it will go on thresh-
ing as usual. He hopes by attention to
business, and earefulness in the filling of
orders to merit and receive large share
of public patronage.
A SPRINGFIELD gentleman promised his
young, lovely, but unreasonable bride, as
the said bride was about winging her
flight to regions of celestial bliss, that he
would never remarry. He, however, en-
gagged himself to a Chicago belle, but the
recollection of his pledge came upon him,
and rather than violate it he Wooed and
won death with a revolver.
THERE are two legal luminaries in Chi
cago, Justice Scully, who presides over
the West Side Police Court, and Justice
Banyon, who holds similar position in
the South Side Court. One morning re-
Gently, the former held thief, who stole
an overcoat worth $25, for trial in the sum
of $1,000, and the latter held thief who
stole $1,000 greenbacks, in bonds of $500.
There's an illustration of justice
EDeERToN, Wis, rejoices in small
sized sensation. The Widow Brown,
sweet, gushing creature of seventy-six
summers, recently married a patriarch
whose hair was silvered over with the
frosts of twenty four winters. Several of
her grand children Joined in the festivi-
ties of the occasion. 1t should not de-
tract from the romance of the affair to
state that the bride was wealthy and the
groom penniless.
For sagacity and intelligence commend
to nt q orr q r
educated creature deliberately committed
suicide by rushing into the Mississippi
River, near CarOndelet, because her bO-
vine dignity had been wounded by some
of her associates; and now we have the
story that one of her sisters deliberately
walks log fifty feet long, thrown across
a roaring stream, every night and morn
ing, while going to and from her pas
ture.
THERE has always been spirited COM
petition for the proud eminence OF the
Meanest Man in the World, and no deci-
sion has ever been reached. When one
aspirant has made noble effort that
seemed to command the palm of victory,
another would enter the lists, and wither
his laurels by a transcending achieve
ment. But the pretensions of man re-
siding at Newburyport Mass, will be re-
cognized. A short time ago this mans
father, an estimable old gentleman of 80
years, went to visit him. The old gentle
man took with him small dog, which
had been his pet and companion in his
declining years. The son objected to this
dog because it cost him nearly cent a
day to feed him during his fathers visit.
Thereupon the noble and affectionate son
went to the authorities and made COM
plant against his father for that he had
an unlicensed dog. The old man was arrest
ed and fined 500; and having no money,
he was taken to Jail, where he remained
at the last accounts, while the son goes
proudly on the even tenor of his way.
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