Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-05-23
CURRENT ITEMS.
Boston schoolgirls play football.

out of which five different men have leap
ed to their death.
BOSTON papers report the price OF re-
fined sugars lower than at any time DUR
ing the past ten years.
Fort SMITH. Ark, has woman black
smith who can throw mule ana snoe
him in fifteen minutes by the clock.
RUssrA-LEATHER jewelry is the latest.
Tt is pretty and unique, the earrings
being made of every imaginable pat
tern.
JOHN PETERSON, who is to be hanged
in Georgia next month, has, since his SEN
tence, fallen heir to fortune of
$4,000.
THE Yoevil colonists (English) have de-
cided not to allow saloons or "drink
shops" as they designate such places,
within the colony limits.
A TENNESSEE man wrote his will on a
paper collar, and it passed through pro-
bate as well as any other will, though a
little unhandy about filing.
THEY feed their juries by contract in
st. Louis. The +iailer receives the pro-
posals The last job was let at the rate of
thirty-ive cents per juryman.
MISS LINNAMORE, a San Francisco lady,
has brought suit against Michael Burns,
the owner of vicious dog, to recover
$4,000 damages for injuries sustained
from an assault by the latter.
A NUMBER of capitalists in New Jersey
and New York have already cOnsummat-
ed project for the construction of ship
canal, running under the Palisades at the
rear OF Weehawken and Hoboken.
JUSTICE DowLING wants $4,000 from
the New York Sun for saying that he
opened court, the other day, by asking a
prisoner for a "chaw," and wound up by
adiourning to the front room to take a
drink
A NEW advertising agency has been
opened at 81 Park Row, New York, under
the firm name of Bates & Locke-the
members being Messrs. J. H. Bates, late of
the firm Of S. M. Pettcngill & Co., and D.
r. Locke Petroleum V. Nasby), of the To-
ledo Blade.
THAT part of Boston which was lately
burnt down, and which has an area of
about sixty acres, will, it is said, be so laid
out that five main thOrOughfares will form
radii Of segment Of a circle Of which the
centre will be the Post-office and the arc
the sea margin; the intervening streets
will be laid out as chords of this at equal
distances apart
THE Truckee Republican says that there
is a rumor to the effect that Captain Jack
has divided his army of fifty men into
three divisions; the first, under the Cap
tain, is to capture and hold California; the
second is to sweep northward and subdue
Oregon, while the third forces its way
over the mountains and sagebrush and de-
vastates Nevada and Utah.
THE "Iron-Jawed Woman" who is en-
gagged in ennobling mouth performances
in connection with travelling circus, was
married at HustOnville, KY, the other
day, to a gymnast connected with the
same show An iron awed woman and a
gymnast in the holy bonds of matrimony!
Wouldn't you rather see one of their little
cOnnubial disputes than all the balance of
the circus?
THE latest "big thing" in California is
the enterprise of converting Guadalupe
Island, lying off the coast of Lower Cali
fornia, into one AngOra goat ranch. The
island has an area of 1876, 400 acres, and is
the property of an incorporated company.
1t is mountainous, we'll watered and at
present tenanted by an immense flock of
wild goats, embrasing, it is estimated,
100000 head
IT is said that full $4,000 Jews are de-
sirOus of coming to this country from the
Old World-principall from Roumania,
the scene of their recent persecution-an
an organization of their friends in Amer
lea has been established to help them. A
colony of several thousand will settle near
Lincoln, Neb. Most of them are expected
to arrive during the present year.
ONE of the new fraternities of a secret
character in their organization and work,
which is to be established in the United
States this year, is that of Forestry, which,
though only planted in England in 1915.
has now nearly half million of mem
berS, with cash capital of about $780,
600. A High Court of this order will
be founded in New York some time in
the autumn.
The Iowa Granger is responsible for the
statement that five men were grubbing
hazel brush, etc, on the farm of Thomas
Coalthrust, ten miles east of WASHINGTON,
when they found big snake den, cover
ing a space of about five square feet. at
the depth of two feet in the ground. Six
different varieties of serpent snakes'
were here making their winter quarters to-
gether-the blue racer, blacksnake, green
snake, hOusesnake, viper and rattlesnake.
One hundred and four snakes were taken
out and killed, and it is not known how
many yet remained in the den.
A REMARKABLE breach of promise case
was tried in a Pittsburgh court, recently.
In this case the forlorn and broken heart
ed damsel commenced suit, several months
ago, against the man who refused to fulfil
his promise of marrying her, and during
its progress married another man. The
curious incident was therefore witnessed,
of married woman bringing suit against
man, who was by this time also married,
for refusing to marry her. The jury found
it difficult to decide what amount would
fifty heal her lacerated heart
A WILKINSON County (Ga.) man be-
came convinced the other day that wo
mans temper is very irregular He had
been moulding some bullets, and had neg
Iected to cool off the ladle in which the
lead had been melted While he was
counting the bullets his wife came into the
room humming tender love song Sud
denly the song ceased, and the man was
made aware that something had happened
by catching an adjacent coffee-miIl on the
bridge of his nose. The unhappy wife
and mother had taken this picturesque
mode of informing him that she had pick
ed up the ladle by the hot end.
Those New Boots.