Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-04-18
CURRENT ITEMS.

to st. Paul, Mimi.
A wOoDHAULER of Omaha has his old
age gilt-edged by an inheritance of So0,OOO
from Montreal aunt.
BARNUM has engaged forty-fve Indians
from Nebraska, whom he intends 10 senu
to the Vienna Exposition.
WHEN the new Post-office in Boston is
completed the various newspapers Will re-
ceiye their exchanges direct by pneumatic
tubes.
COPPER two-cent pieces will become
nrecious keepsakes in the remote future.
The new coinage act abolishes that coin,
and no more will be put in circulation.
JUDGE KANARD, a native Indian, is hold
ing his court at Taskeetown, Indian Terri
tory, and breaches every night during the
session. He belongs to the Baptist denom-
nation.
The epizootic has been traced to its
fountain-head. It originated with the
ponies of the Piegan Indians, and descend
ed first into Upper Canada, whence it ex-
tended to the rest of the world.
The bones of great mastodon, lately
exhumed near Laketown, Wabash County,
Ind, are now on exhibition at Peru. They
show the animal to have been some forty
feet in length by eighteen feet in height.
A STREET car conductor in Detroit
picked up a navy revolver from the floor
as several passengers were departing. A
well-dressed woman claimed it, with the
remark: "Thats the second time I've lost
that pocket-companiOn to-day"
COLONEL E. L. DRAKE, the first to bge
for petroleum in VenangO County, is now
living in Bethlehem, Pa, in very feeble
health and very reduced circumstances.
Like many other great discoveries, he has
never profited much by his discovery.
A JUNIOR who violently assaulted fresh
man at New Haven, Ct, because he refus-
ed to give up "beaver" hat that he wore,
was promptly expelled by the governing
board, and the rule has since been estab
lished that any attempt at "hazing" or
similar OutrageS committed upon students
will be followed by the immediate expul-
sion of the offender.
A CANNON weighing about 1900 pounds
arrived recently at ShebOygan, Mich, from
Germany, addressed to Rev. Edward
Schlotheim, pastor of the Lutheran
Church. 1t was captured by the Germans
at the battle of Sedan, and was sent to MIR.
Schlotheim by the Emperor of Germany,
free of charge to New York, to be made
into bell for his church in Sheboygan.
n PAKIE vi twenty, WOulCIl)
left Boston, for Petersburg, Kansas, few
days ago, to join other members of their
families who had gone out ahead to pre-
pare for them. They belong to the Massa-
chusctts colony, which has grown to be
an organization of considerable proper
lions, and numbers among its members
many of New England's better class OF
mechanics and farmers.
BEWARE of females with three arms.
They have no right to such a profusOn of
limbs, and carry them for no good pur-
pose A man in New York stage, the
other night felt hand cropping in his
pocket on the side next to q Well-dressed
woman At the same time neat, gloved
hand rested on her lap on the same side,
and selling this as she was leaving the
vehicle, he pulled her arm off.
THE Legislature of Kentucky has re-
Gently passed bill that, on the affidavit
of two respectable citizens, any person
who, through excessive use of opium,
arsenic, hashish, or any drug, has become
incompetent to manage himself or his
estate, may be confined in any asylum,
and placed under guardianship, as in the
case of habitual drunkards or lunatics
A DECIDEDLY curious suit has just been
decided at Manchester, n. III. Some time
u
ton, of Weare, was frightened by the sud
den barking of dog owned by Benjamin
Holt of Dunbarton, and inflicted severe
injuries upon the formers year-old
daughter Moulton brought suit for dam
ages, and the supreme judicial court has
just awarded him 81, 450. Owners of bark
ING dogs take notice.
The Governor of Georgia has issued
invitations to the Governors of twenty
two Western and Southern States and the
Mayors of 1913 cities, together with the
members of the Committee on Water
Lines of Congress, to take part in the de-
alterations of the Convention to be held
in Atlanta on the Goth of May, to take into
consideration the subject of water COM
munication with the ocean through the
State of Georgia.
A MAN from Leon County was arrested
and fined in Bryan City, Texas, for carry
ing concealed weapons, who had upon his
person, when searched, two siX-shOoters,
one derringer, pair of brass-knuckles,
three ''tens' and pair of "sevens" "a
poker "full''), together with one of the lar
gest knives the editor of the Bryan Appeal
ever saw, and seven or eight morphine
powders. In eXtenuatiOn of this eXtraor-
binary outfit, he pleaded ignorance of the
laws and fashions of civilized society, and
was released by paying minimum fine.
AN Auburn fisherman, few days ago,
while fishing through a hole in the ice,
caught a trout so large he could not be
brought through the orifice. The fisher
man, however, gently played with his
fish with one hand while he chopped ice
with the other, until the opening had been
enlarged sufficiently, then with a s1illful
Jerk he brought out dead cat with
brick on its neck, the entire prize weigh
ing over nine pounds The profanity that
cnsued caused heavy thaw for sixty rods
in all directions.
IT has recently been ascertained that
portion of the wreck Of the Confederate
iron-clad Charleston, which exploded in
Cooper River opposite Marshall's Wharf,
at the evacuation of Charleston, in Febru-
airy, 1865, now lies more than a quarter Of
q mile from the scene of the explosion.
The discovered portion comprises whole
broadside of the battery, weighing alto
Gether 212,750 pounds, or nearly 100 tons,
and that this immense mass of iron should
have been hurled through the air for more
than quarter of a mile affords a start
ling illustration of the force of the eX-
plosion.
A New YORK correspondent writes re-
garding the Nathan mansion, that though
it will be three years next summer since
Benjamin Nathan was murdered there,
the house still stands without tenant. 1t
is one of the handsomest and most desira-
BILE residences in Twenty third street, and
yet it cannot be let to a private family at
half the price it would have quickly
brought before the tragedy. The sons of