Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-02
CURRENT ITEMS.
A QUILTING party is now STYLED q spice

1hE NCW LUX DdE ASSOC1dllOu LIDS
over six hundred members.
A CONVICT at Elmira dug his way out
OF Jail with tablespoon last week.
THE Rhode Island Medical Society has
determined to admit women to full mem
bership.
Two BOYS, the oldest fifteen, stole a
Georgia locomotive, the other day, and
run it fifty miles.
A PENNSYLVANIA woman challenges
any man in her county to a wrestling
match for the championship.
IMMENSE white sunshades.-small circus
tents, in fact-are the correct thing for
fashionable demOiselles who intend to
visit the seaside this season.
THOMAS L. FREEMAN, who has served
five years of a nineteen years sentence for
murder in the Tennessee State prison, has
just been proved wholly innocent of the
crime whereof he was accused.
HENRY 0. PRATT, NJ c. elect of Iowa,
left his native village (Foxcroft, Me-
fourteen years ago as an oX-teamster, and
having never seen his parents since, now
returns to visit them, member OF Con-
gress.
MRS TAYLOR, of ST. Louis, has obtain
ed a judgment of $4,000 against the Iron
band, who was a sWitchman, and was
crushed to death while coupling two cars
that were not properly constructed.
Two LYNN boys, just in their teens, a
few days since stole sloop at that place,
and set sail for Florida, where an uncle of
one of them resides; but their visions of
orange groves were cut short by the boat
grounding in Lynn harbor.
THE handsomest dressed woman in New
York just now is the wife of street con-
tractor. Her dresses are made in Paris,
and the custOm-house duties on them are
sufficient to buy an entire outfit for any
ordinary woman. -
A MATRIMONIAL engagement was effect
ed by Atlantic cable last week. The lady
was in London and Romeo was in New
York. "Will you have me?" cost four dol
lars, gold, exclusive of address; and
eyes," cost one dollar. Cheap at half the
price.
THADDEUs STEVENS Caledonia (Pa)
Iron Works, with IA 900 acres OF land, are
to be sold, and the proceeds given to erect,
establish and endOw a House of Refuge
in Lancaster, for the relief of homeless,
INDECENT orphans who have lost either
parent
AN attempt is shortly to be made to
cross the Pacific, from San Francisco to
Japan, in a small sloop, thirty feet long.
She is named the Dolphin, and will carry
crew of three men in addition to the cap
tain. The object is to hunt sea-otter,
which are stated to be very plentiful on
the japanese coast
THERE is a family living on Michigan
avenue, Chicago, the members of which
have common birthday. The father is
fOrty-five, the mother forty-two, and they
have three children, aged three, seven and
thirteen. Each ones birthday is the 18th of
April.
THE most fashionable entertainments
arc now lighted by wax candles, their
lights being more becoming" to feminine
compilations than the glare of gas. 1t is a
sad fact that to many frequenters thereof
utter darkness would be the most becom-
ing thing imaginable.
In Bedford County, Pa, recently, a
spigOt worked out of whisky barrel dur
ing the night, and several gallons of the
liquor ran out on the floor of the cellar
where the barrels where stored. The fol
lowing morning a number of rats were
found lying in the liquor in a complete
state of intOXicatiOn.
GENERAL MEYER, Chief of the Signal
Service Department, has secured the ser
vices of Professor Tyndall to superintend
the device and construction of the electri-
cal instruments to be used at the signal
stations of the army for making regular
simultaneous observations of the electrical
conditions Of the atmosphere
Two KILBOURNE CITY (Wis) BOYS who
had been reading Ledger stories, stole
Il skiff filled it with provisions,
blankets, kettles, axes, etc, and
started down the Wisconsin River
to seek their fortune They were arrested
at Portage, and sentenced to the State Re
form School until they are twenty-one
years old
SCENE IN A HoRsE-CAR-Car stops
smiling young lady enters: every seat full
An old gentleman rises at the opposite
end. 90, don't RISE" said the lovely girl
81 can just as well stand" 81 don't care
whether you sit or stand" he replied, "I'm
going to get out"
Two RESPECTABLE young men have Just
been found guilty by the Criminal Court
at MurfreesborO, Tenn, under an indict-
ment for disturbing public worship, and
lined $50 and costs each, amounting to
about $75. Their offense was whispering
to young ladies in church.
THE sons and daughters of Portsmouth
New Hampshire, resident in different parts
of the country, are hidden to come home
on the approaching Fourth of July, to eel
citrate that National Festival by grand
reunion. In 1853, in response to like in
vitation they came focking from all di-
rectiOns, and the event was one of never
tobe-forgOtten enjoyment.
SOME pestilential fellow in Troy, N. Y,
has been misdirecting his inventive facul-
ties by putting into the toy-shops of that
city a patent bean-slinger The beans are
hurled with great violence, so much so
that they crash through plate-glass win
dows with as much ease as pistol bullets
and citizens walk the streets with fear and
trembling. But the small boys are iubi-
liant.
COST OF ARTISAN WELLs.-The Union
Pacific Railroad Company have lately
sunk six artesian wells on the elevated
plains over which that road passes, 1000
feet above the sea level. The deepest so
far is about 1900 feet A we'll of 1000 feet
In depth costs about $780, Several of
these wells yield about 1000 gallons per
hour, sufficient for irrigating twenty acres
of land. Others bring water to within ten
or fifteen feet of the surface, and then
pumps must be used The flowing wells
are certain to be of immense benefit for
agricultural purposes in the future.
THE Nashville Union and american SAYS !:
'This paper took great pride in publish
ing to the world, three months since. the
gratifying fact that the ladies of one of
our churches had pledged themselves to
dlscountenance extravaganza and follv, bv
appearing at church in the future in cali
co dresses. We are now enaIlod 70 ,o,,o,,+