Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-03-28
CURRENT ITEMS
A HARTFORD baby weighs pound an

possession an unique WaCCn formerly OWL
ed by Napoleon the Great.
A NEW volcano, with more than twenty
vent-holes, has been discovered near Mo-
leie, in Lower California.
A DOG TEAM with sledge, near Ash
land, Mimi, recently made twenty-five
miles in one hour on the ice.
CELERY over two feet long, grown this
winter in Oregon, is something to boast
of, and the papers there do it.
=. THE FIRST child born in Denisnn City,
Texas, a girl, received present of town
lot from the railroad company.
THE LAW prohibiting minors from play
ing billiards is strictly enforced at In
dianapolis.
By the completion of the Texas Central
Railroad, there is now unbroktn railroad
communication between Chicago and the
Gulf.
A WOMAN servant has served a family
in Terre Haute, Ind, for thirty three con-
secutive years, and has 81, 100 to show
for it.
MISS HANNAH JANE DUKE, a 500 pound
girl, has received $400 from circus COM
pany in Fayette, Ky, for breach of con-
tract.
JACOB KEPLER, butcher of Williams
port, Pa, won a wager by killing
and dressing for market ten sheep within
an hour
THE Eagle Distillery at indianapolis
cost $46, 900, but was sold recently for
$21 200, leaving $25, 900 to be charged to
the new temperance law.
THE Roman spirit of Rock Island
Squire was tested and found worth $40,
the other day. He fined his boy that
much and costs, and then paid the bill.
A YOUNG LADY in Beaver Dam, Wis,
has recently fallen heir TO fortune Of
500, 900 through the death of an uncle.
Thus are the sorrows of death alleviated
MURRAY MORLEY, a precocious pop
corn dealer in Marshal, Mich. not vet six
years old, has the snug sum of 0$65 in
bank, the proceeds of his winters trade.
PHOEBE A. LowRIE, of New York CITY.
has been awarded $50, 900 damages from
Abram B. Chambers for breach Of prom
Use. We rather guess that Abe wishes
now that he hadn't done it.
AN INDUSTRIOUS Detroit boy has gath
cred up and piled in the back yard during
the past winter, over eleven hundred old
oyster cans. He has not yet decided
what use he will make of them.
THE La Crosse wis Leader relates an
drOphobia nine years after he had been
bitten by dog, having never previously
felt any i'll effects from the same.
LEAvENwoRTF, Kansas, is to have a
new depot, which will be at least 900 feet
long and 1877 feet wide. Seven or eight
trains can enter it abreast, with album
dance of room for loading. The cost will
be from 5000, 900 to 100000.
THE cerebral-meningitis, or spotted
fever, is raging fiercely on the Pacific
coast. In one instance four members of
family died within twenty-four hours.
The disease has assumed an endemic
type and proves fatal almostinvariably.
IMPRISONMENT for debt is by no means
SO generally abolished as people suppose
The Hartford Comm C0atr0nt mentions
that ten or twelve debtors have been
lodged in the jail of that city during the
past winter, and three are confined there
now.
A SMALL boy arrived at Harrisburg,
Pa, the other day, from Texas, having
been sent all the way q la package, with
u ticket sewed to his coat. The conduct
Ors all took an interest in him, and he en-
joyed the journey hugely.
IN one locality of O'Brien County,
Iowa, thirty-four young bachelors have
opened up farms, and all they want is a
cargo of feminine divinity to hedge them
round about, and make them behave
themselves.
THE New YORK City police recently
took possession of the office of notorious
firm of sawdust swindlers 1T 566 Broad
way. 1t was found by the books of the
concern that they had deposited within
six weeks over 1913, 900, the proceeds of
their nefarious schemes.
A MAN who has been engaged in petty
thefts from stores in Concord, N. H., went
TO them all, the other day, and made am
pie restitution, declaring, with tears in
his eyes, that he could neither eat nor
sleep, the matter lay so heavily on his
conscience. He had not been suspected.
THE usual process of subdivision of
the soil into small freehOlds is reversed
in Bourbon County, KY, where, among
other similar transactions, one capitalist
has bought and consolidated twenty-four
adjoining farms, the former occupants of
which, ISL in number, have emigrated to
the West
A HOTEL proprietor at BrattlehOro, Vt,
was fined 800 for selling liquor to a one
armed soldier, and then turning him into
the street, late at night, in state of in
toXication, where he must have frozen to
death had not friend found and cared
for him
THE editors and publishers of Maine
newspapers having met in convention at
Augusta the other day. the Portland
Press ventures to affirm that there were
gathered the Every wisest and most vir-
tuous little crowd of men, in the seediest
of last years clothes, that ever met at
the State capital"
THOMAS CALDWELL, President Of the
South Nashville Street Railway, under
took to ride with new driver, the other
night, telling him in response to the de-
mand for fare: 81 own most of this road, !"
and getting this reply: Well, you won't
That's all I've got to say about it. 'N'
DENNIS A MAHoNY, proprietor of the
Dubuque Daily Ee6n519g Telegraph, has en-
tered suit against the city of DUBUQUE for
$4,000 and interest, for injuries inflicted
on him, whereby his right arm was broken
and permanently disabled in fall, caused
by the streets being permitted to remain
obstructed with snow and ice.
THE MAYOR of Lafayette, Ind, is car
rying out the Sunday ordinance to the
strict letter of the law. Ona recent Sun
day ne not only arrested keepers of sa-
looms, ETC., which were open, but all the
milkmen, twenty-four railroad employees
who were about to start train, and
the editor and compositors of the Jour-
nal, who were getting out Mondays edi-
ton = zse~
THE Dell Rapids Oakota) Journal is
printed after the following approved
fashion, as explained by ITSELF "These
tough times we have to keep an eye out