Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-11
CURRENT ITEMS.

races tnere LnlS season.
THE Tombs prison in New York has
been condemned by the engineers, ana lts
demolition has been recommended.
CHARLES MOORE and Frank Morton
have been convicted of sawdust sWlndllng
in New York, and sentenced to a years
Imprisonment and to pay fine OF $l,ooo.
BosToN girl who was married four
wears ago in a dress worth $4,000 may
now be seen splitting her own kindlings
and doing her own washing.
THERE is an honest man in San Fran
cisco. He is tobacconist who has put
out sign reading: Imported cigars of
our own manufacture"
CAsT-IRoN monuments for the boundary
line between Oregon and Nevada are in
process of construction at the Occidental
Foundry, San Francisco.
Two young ladies, very we'll connected,
have been sent to Jail for seven days in
Richmond, Va, for stealing human hair
from hair-dresser's shop.
A NEW YORK dry-goods merchant re-
ports among the items of sales, last week,
twenty camel's-hair shawls at $4,000 each,
five of which were disposed of to one fam
lily.
WOMEN who hold $4,000 worth of prop
erty, and pay taxes on it, are declared by
the Judiciary Committee of the New York
Assembly to be entitled to vote in elections
in that State.
THE State Treasurer of Iowa has given
notice that the State of Iowa is prepared
to redeem all its outstanding warrants, and
they will cease to draw interest on and
after the 22d of April, 1878.
THE number of persons out of employ
LODI I,0hs 10 .c
insertion of little advertisement for
clerk in railroad office brought 985 ap-
plicants in single day.
THE Legislature of Kentucky has en-
acted that married women may receive di-
rectly from their employers the wages or
compensation for labor performed by
them, and that the money so earned shall
be free from the debts and control of their
husbands.
SOME of the voters in one of the White
Mountain districts went 1875 miles by rail
to the voting place on the recent election
day. The long journey was taken on &C
count of the depth of snow in the Notch
through which they had to pass.
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE says it takes
an attack of malarial fever or two to teach
the Northern man that he cannot labor the
day through under a tropical sun as he
can in the mountains of New Hampshire.
A MASSACHUSETTS, man has a dog that
watches for the afternoon train regularly
every day, gets the evening paper which
the eXpressman throws off, and conveys it
to his master He knows the time when
the train is due as well as his master, and
if it is late he waits for it.
THE Willimantic Comm Journal says
that Leonard Uncas, grandson of the cell
ebrated Indian chief, and the last of his
name, died in that village recently, aged
seventy years He had resided in that vi
cinity most of his life was an expert
fisher and hunter and handwriting
man.
PHILADELPHIA has discovered that one
of the most noted street beggars, whose
income from fraud is oftentimes thirty dol
lars a day, lives in an aristocratic quarter,
loans money at usury, and gets drunk
nightly. Another, deformed young
woman, owns row of houses, and is a
large dealer in real estate.
Sixty acres of the farm owned by the
late Edwin Forrest, near Philadelphia,
which he named "Springbrook," has been
set apart by his executors for the Home
for aged and INDECENT actors provided
for in his will. The Home will be sur
rounded by a magnificent park, to which
the public will have a free admittance.
THE Pulaski Tenn) Citizen learns of
young man of that town who made an en-
gagement to call upon a certain Giles
County young lady, who had fire and
light in the parlor, dressed herself and
waited all the appointed evening in vain.
Next day the old lady sent round to that
young man a neat bill of one dollar for
those fire and light
THE postmistress at Villa Ridge, Ill,
has resigned in order to get married. In
her letter of resignation that she sent to
the Postmaster General, she remarked that
she would rather have one man where she
could lay her hands on him when she
wanted him, than to be handling mail
bags irregularly on small salary, and
getting sworn at by people who expected
letters that never came.
AT Point Creek, Jackson County, KY,
a trader had bought sheep of a resident.
Resident had one more to sell, when the
following conversation ensued: Trader
dent--"Its worth $50 TIT amt
worth &c." R--"It's worth S." TIT
amt" r. drawing a large navy
whats that sheep worth?" T-"Under
the circumstances, think it's worth nigh
onto &c." They traded forthwith.
A REMARKABLE INvENTION.-One of
the most important improvements ever per
fected in musical instruments has lately
been introduced by Geo. Woods Sc Co., in
their improved Parlor Organs. 1t con-
sists of piano of eXqisite quality of tone
which will never require tuning The in
strument was lately introduced at must
cal soiree in Baltimore, and received the
cordial applause and Endorsement of the
many eminent professionals present.-BoS-
ton Journal.
THE Post-Office Department has ordered
that postmasters whose salary does not ex-
coed 81, 900 per annum may be permitted
to hold local civil Offices such as probate
Judges, town clerks, etc. Heretofore the
amount has been restricted to 5000, and
numerous instances have come to the
knowledge of the Department that great
hardships would result if pcstmasters
were obliged to throw up that salary to
hold little local Office.
A VERMONT dog was heart broken at
the recent death of a horse owned by its
master He followed as chief mourner to
point on a mountain, two miles from the
stable, where the dead horse was dumped
over ledge, and the laborers left him
gazing down upon the body of his old
companion and whining piteously. After
ward they returned, and found him lying
in the snow beside the body, and some
force was necessary to get him to the
sleigh to take him home.
LAST fall John Foster, of Boston, placed
$1,000 in the hands of the chief of police