Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-16
CURRENT ITEMS.

RACINE, Wis, is shipping colossal
threshing machines to California.
THERE is a heavy immigration this
spring to the Lake Superior iron region
SIX young ladies acted as pall-bearers
at funeral in New FORK City recently.
A NORTH BR1DeEwATER (Mass.) hotel
has a corps of Chinese servants who give
entire satisfaction.
A PETRIFIED Indian, discovered in the
bluffs on the North Platte, last summer,
has been sent to Yale College.
NEW YORK has followed the example OF
Michigan in Furnishing those who point
gun, loaded or unloaded, at another per-
son.
A BOY punched a hole through dam at
Sparta Wis, just to amuse himself, ana
in fifteen hours the dam was washed
away.
CHARLES HEATH goes to the Iowa Peni-
Tertiary for three years and SIX months
for marrying four women. Rather amid
sentence.
ADAM GRIM, of Watertown, Wis,
claims to be the largest bee-keeper in the
United States, with the exception of
California man.
A PRECIPITATE Detroiter is miserable at
discovering that his wife inherited half
million just after he had procured di-
vOrce from her.
IT is asserted that a Vermont family,
living on retired road that had been
blocked with snow for several weeks, were
recently found to have been keeping Mon
day for the Sabbath.
A PASSENGER on an unusually slow rail
road, aroused from a serene slumber by
the footing Of a whistle, exclaimed petu-
lantly "The train has caught up with
those cattle again!"
ONE Of the cOrpses picked up at the At
lantic wreck had on quilted vest, and in
every diamond Of the quilting there was
sovereign, there being in all about eighty,
equal to about $400
AFTER thirty years of welded life, and
half that number of pledges to the union,
Mt Pleasant Qowa) couple got married
again the other day, SO as to be able to
send certificate to Germany before re-
ceiving heavy legacy. The old certifi-
cate had been lost
A NEW YORKER has taken the contract
of furnishing two or three railroad COM
panies with all the tickets they require,
free Of charge. He gets his remuneration
from the advertisements he is permitted
THE City of New York is to be enlarged
by the addition of that part of Westches-
ter County comprised in the towns of Nor
risiana, West Farms and Kingsbridge. If
no unforeseen obstacle intervenes, the an
nexation will take effect on the list of
July.
A YOUNG lady living at Eau Claire, Wis,
disappeared the other day, and after three
L. I'D
hours, she was found sitting On the bank
of the river with her lover, squeezing
hands and talking nonsense as if nothing
had happened.
ISAAC RICE, of sHenniker, n H., has
been postmaster in that village since 1909,
having been appointed by President Mad
ison. He does not owe his place so much
to his capacity to adapt himself to differ
ent Administrations as to the fact that the
office is worth, on an average, only $25.63
per annum fR rsass&
SOME weeks. ago a. woman was re-
ceived at the Cottage Hospital of Mime
apolis, afflicted with a disease like delir-
ium tremens, caused by alcoholic drinks,
but which in her case arose from the use
of opium. She is said to be the daughter
of arespectable New York physician.
IHE DTISIOl IN. ~ I-NCGItGG says: NIL
John Bullock, formerly known as Uncle
john who will be one hundred and four
years old in June next, had an attack of
pneumonia last week, and when conva-
descent, remarked to one of his sons:
THAT was a severe attack: if I'd been an
old man | guess it would have fetched
me.''
In recent suit for damages in Boston,
brought by father whose son was run
over by a heavy dray, the Superior Court
charged that inasmuch as the boy was in
stantly killed, without any interval of con-
scious suffering, no damages could legally
be claimed, and ordered verdict for the
defendant.
On recent Sunday Mike Summers, a
crazy man Of Minneapolis, entered Geth-
semane Church. having drawn sword in
each hand and marching part way up the
aisle, began to hold service by himself
He addressed the congregation, brandish-
ing his sword and throwing his arms in
the air. He was promptly elected, and
the services continued.
A FUNNY lawsuit is to come off at Fort
Madison, Iowa. 1t is an action for $4,000
damages, brought by lady for being
forcibly elected from a church, because
she stopped her ears with her fingers dur
ing the prayer of a party personally OBJ
noxious to her, and who had been instru-
mental in the accommodation of herself
and husband from church membership.