Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-10-10
CURRENT ITEMS.
GEORGE LAW lives on SIC. OOo.O 600.

LEAD ore has been discovered tnree
miles north of Lyons, Iowa.
DEATH is as the foreshadowing of life.
We die that we may die no more.
THE Remingtons are furnishing Spain
with rifles, and are making fortunes.
PEORIA, ILL.,, claims tc be the mo- an
cient settlement west of the Alleghanies.
~ NILSSON expended $50, 900 in gold upon
t0izettes from Worth before leaving Paris.
q CHICAGO has about twenty churches
now building, which will cost about
100000. sats4
IT is estimated that the gross receipts
of the Pennsylvania Railroad for this year
will exceed $4,000, 000
. AN experiment shipment of knocked
meat, preserved by a freezing process, has
been dispatched from Australia for Lon
don. sax
PA INTERNAL. REVENUE receipts since the
beginning of the present year exceeded
those for the same period last year by
about 81 100000. Ella
NEW JERSEYS contributions to the
statuary hall in the Capitol, at Washing
ton, will be Semi-colossal statutes of Rich
ard Stockton, and Gen. Phil Kearney, the
former in marble, and the latter in bronze
y The Tobdcco-Leqf says: Pennsylvania,
next to Connecticut, is now raising the
most superior tobacco for smoking pur-
poses produced on the continent
The new Illinois homestead law ex-
empts from seizure for debt homesteads to
the value of $1,000, and adds a sewing
machine to the list of personal property
exempt.
The largest run ever made in Eureka,
Cal, was by the Richmond Reduction
Works, which, in twenty-four hours, turn
ed out $4,000 pounds, nearly thirty-two
tons, of bullion. yas
The Lewiston (Me.) Journal says that a
piece of slate was taken from the Mayfeld
quarry, recently thirty-three feet long,
thirteen feet deep and three feet thick,
without crack or scar.
JAMES Houston, Natividad, California,
sowed 1900 pounds of white Chill club
wheat to twelve acres, and harvested a.
oO2 pounds. Some portions yielded nine
ty bushels to the acre.
The hottest military post on the North
American continent is Camp Mohave. on
the great Colorado River For many
days during the past season the mercury
has stood at 1872 degrees in the shade
THE Dominion Government has for
warded gold watch and $500 to the Rev.
Mr.. Ancient, in acknowledgment of his
gallant conduct toward the passengers and
crew of the Inflated steamer Atlantic.
THE plan of correcting the echo in pub
lie halls, by stretching wire across them
from wall to wall, has had a practical
trial in the cathedral at Cork, ireland, and
is said to have given satisfactory results.
TUMMAs: "Well Mrs Simpson, and low
be it that the milk in these parts are
rose?" "Mrs. s.: "Why, you see, Tum-
mas, this late rise in coal hev caused hiron
to go up so, that they hev riz the price of
pumps"
The amount Of land devoted to wheat
culture in Great Britain is only one half
larger than that devoted to the same oh.
ject in the State of Illinois. Illinois has
100000 people to supply Great Britain
33000,000.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have reduced the number of hours for
laborers and roadmen in New jersey to
eight hours per day, and the pay-rolls
will be reduced accordingly. The labor
ers strike against it.
KANSAS pastor has wisely declined
an addition of 800 to his salary, on the
ground that the hardest part of his labor
heretofore has been the collection of his
salary, and it would kill him to undertake
to collect 800 more.
The receipts of wheat at Milwaukee for
the week ending September 81, were
1,09O, 623 bushels, against G02092 bushels
Tor the same week last year. The receipts
since January 1, 1878, were 1867, 75O
bushels, against 1890, 1874 bushels for the
corresponding period in 1872. Shipments
for the week were 71,305 bushels, and
since January 1, 17068, 422 bushels.
A BLIND man of Wallingford, Conn,
has won his support by saving wood,
being led to the piles of wood by
his boy, who then was wont to leave him
to go to school and at night return for
him. By slow and toilsome steps he at
length accumulated $1,000, which, few
days since, one of his children drew
from the bank on forged order, and alb
scended with it to parts unknown.
e. S. KNIGHT, of Nashua, N. H., claims
to own the oldest coin in America. IT.
was coined during the reign of Alexander
the Great, who died 1928 B. G. The front
bears the head of the King; on the re-
verse is the figure of Hercules, also in
Greek letters "King Alexander" The
COIN was found by native of Csesarea
while digging in the ground, and by him
given to missionary in Asia.
The following sentence, written out in
full, was pronounced by justice of the
peace in Gwinnett, Ca: ''let the prisner
Stan Up, sir, you has bin Found Guilty
d tried Nv the Offense NV shutin at your
Nabor. Yu shall then be took from the
bar Nv this court by the honorable baleef
of this court, and carried into the adiined
county Nv rock-Dale, and thar you shall
remain in everlastin Punishment forever
from the honorable county of guinnett.n
THE amount of timber cut on the head
waters of the Mississippi River and its
tributaries during the past year was equal
to l,579,O00,00O feet. This quantity, esti-
mating the yield of the pine lands at
10000 per acre, would require the denud-
alton of 900 acres or nearly $50 square
miles of land. When these pineries, the
last we have, are exhausted, the fence and
building question will present itself in
new and troublesome aspect to the West
ern farmers.-E0eryTeen and Forest Tree
Grocer.
THE late DR.. Mott, stated on reliable
authority, that only $4,000 barrels of wine
were produced yearly in the island of
Madeira; and yet, after supplying the
continent of Europe with unknown thou
sands, $4,000 barrels of what is called
Madeira wine are annually sold in this
country. The district in which Cham.
payne wine is made produces only $780,
O00 baskets or dozen yearly. Of this $780,
0Uo are known to be exported to other
European nations; and yet about one
million OF baskets are annually sold in
this country.