Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-14

FIGS are now successfully raised in the
| latitude of Northern Missouri.
A MAN at Lehigh, Pa, raised 5000 cab
| bages this season, and is proud of it.
A MARYLAND man fought with stone
cutter about tombstone. Both were
killed.
AN Ohio girl has made paper of pins
last her eleven years. That girl will do
to pin to.
A GENTLEMAN who has voted for sixty
two years is one of the curiosities of Potts
town, Pa.
A LITTLE fellow was tossed up by a
COW, in Saginaw City, but came down
right side up.
EVERY inhabitant of the town of Bren-
nerville, on the Red River, has died of
yellow fever.
THE obituary notice of Kentucky lady
includes the fact that her hair was six feet
eight inches long.
A NEW YORK servant girl stole her
young mistress wedding trosseau. The
ceremony was postponed.
CAPTAIN JACK is the name of brass
cannon in Norfolk. 1t is of better report
than was the Modoc chieftain.
A DUBUQUE urchin thought a barrel of
lye was something good to drink and
tapped it, He is convalescent.
THERE will be more building in AS
toria, Or, during the next year than has
been done in the last five years.
A SAD accident occurred in Pennsyl-
vania, the other day. A young lady
broke her arm while trying to turn SON.
ersault.
BOSTON boasts choir which contains
a colored girl who sings in equal COM
panionship with her white brethren and
sisters.
The notable sweet potato has appeared
in Alabama. 1t is six feet two inches
long, and can be seen in the Office Of the
Selma Times.
PENNSYLVANIA comes to the surface
again with an old pear tree, which has
borne sixty bushels of pears this season.
Erie claims the tree.
THE Polaris survivor is welcomed at
several Western cities with his subscription
book, and everywhere is identified by his
blooming proboscis.
HERE is the newest wrinkle in street
car locomotion: Passengers in the Cleve-
land street cars have the privilege of pur-
chasing reserved seats.
THE fool-killer has not recently visited
Maine. A Portland man has started to
wheel his wife from that city to New
York, on wager of $500.
DURING the recent hurricane at Tortu-
gas, it is said, solid bar of iron, weigh
ing 1900 pounds, was carried 200 yards
over the parapet of the fort
r. 1,
recently shipped to market about 5000
pounds of honey. Not all the sweets of
life are found west Of the Alleghenies.
THIS is the latest rat story. Rodents at
tackled little child at Butler, Pa, during
the absence of its parents from the room
and stripped the flesh from one of its
! hands.
A YORK STATE girl, on hearing of the
death of her lover a month ago, tainted
away, and was unconscious for a week
She recovered sufficiently to be married
last Monday.
| ALL the assistants in the offices of the
| United States Circuit and District Courts
of Memphis have died of the yellow fever,
and the principals were all at one time
out of the city.
| A CoWARDLY scoundrel recently went
| to the stable of a farmer near Shippenville,
Pa, and cut the tongue out of valuable
horse. Hanging would be too good for
such wretch.
| A Mrs. HAGGERTY, a tender-hearted
woman of Lenox, Mass, who is contem-
plating trip to Europe, has just had two
horses killed rather than trust them to the
care of stranger.
AND now comes the intelligence from
Allegheny, Pa, that that city is rejoicing
in recent shower of angle-worms. A
shower of baked fish and ham sandwich
es is next in order.
"UNCLE HOBBS" who lives alone on
Rush River, Mimi, heard rattling tap at
his cabin door the other night. He open
| ed it and big black bear confronted him.
That door was promptly closed.
TEN females rejoice in having been
elected County Superintendents of Schools
in Iowa. One voter in scratching a
woman's name from his ballot, wrote,
sDon't want kno woman in Nine"
A COUPLE of Omaha telegraph opera
tors made the contents of dispatch the
subject of public comment, not long ago,
and the manager of the Office very prop
erly gave them their walking papers.
THE economical negro has been heard
from. He lives in Wilmington, Del, and
last year, he says, he picked up 1900
pins This is given as an answer to the
conundrum, 'What becomes of all the
pins?"
THE Chief of the Boston Fire Depart
ment has signed the total abstinence
pledge, and called upon every man in the
department to take similar pledge, or
resign. Twenty-four out of 1875 have
obeyed orders.