Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-08-22
CURRENT ITEMS.s


kirk, N. Y, shook the bottoms out of a
large number of wells.
A DISCUSSION is going on in Connect
cut in regard to the moral right OF one
church to sue another.
sl# FROM Warren County, KY, is reported
a marriage between boy aged thirteen
and girl aged eleven.
A LADY in Hartford, Conn, gives no.
tice that she will assume no debts of her
husbands contracting.
The Atlantic 81 Pacific. Railroad are
planting locust trees along their road, to
be used hereafter for ties.
UTAH has several thousand tons of
wheat left over from last year, and is now
sending it to San Francisco.
a BALTIMORE duck swallowed light
ed fire-cracker, and shortly after felt de-
cidedly patriotic in its stomach.
A GROCER at Huntsville, Ala, found
the sweets of death by falling head-first
into hogshead full of molasses.
A GREEN milk-ticket left in pail of
milk at Brockport, n. Y, poisoned fam
lily of five persons. They will recover.
AN Indiana paper predicts that every
stump-speaker this fall will have hay
seed in his hair and wear blue overalls.
ONE pint of whisky swallowed on a
wager, settled the accounts Of Morris
Rochelle, an Antwerp Ohio shoemaker
A TEXAS paper speaks of a lady at
Dallas who has bonnet worn by her
great grandmother, two hundred years
ago.
AN Iowa farmer locked up his daugh-
ter's clothing so that she couldn't elope,
but she put on one of his SUITS and slip
ped out and was married.
A FEMALE barber in Detroit handles
the brush and shears with great dexteri-
ty, and otherwise exhibits woman's efforts
to razor self to independence.
A MAN in Colorado has shipped hun
dred prairie dogs East, with the intention,
it is thought, Of raising the animal for the
market.
The Philadelphia North american fav-
Ors the combustion of the offal of cities
and the sale Of the ashes for agricultural
purposes
JOHN POPE, of Vicksburg, rose at mid
night to throw his boots at a bowling cat,
and he found smart fire just getting I'M
der way in his kitchen.
The Chicago & Alton Railroad is about
to withdraw the palace car from that
road and substitute cheap lunch houses
along the line of the road therefor
Los ANGELES, Cal, has a full-grown
meriDO sheep that walks on four hind
legs and two forward ones, and wears
a fleece weighing thirty or thirty-fve
pounds.
BENJAMIN ExUM, of Franklin County,
KY, has beard of imposing dimensions,
and is pledged not to harvest it until the
Southern Confederacy establishes it's indie
pendence.
a Texan town was recently visited by
a clergyman for the first time in it's his
tory, and the hospitable inhabitants pro-
posed getting up horse race for his en-
tertainment.
IT is stated that cultivation of pepper
mint in Wayne County, N. " is quite ex-
tensive this season. Every other crop is
neglected for "mint' with large majority
OF farmers in that county.
THERE is a project on foot, suggested
by the Iowa outrage, to have each train of
cars on Western railroads provided with
a mitrailleuse, to be worked from the
roof OF the Car by an experienced gun
ncr.
PEOPLE never will be satisfied In the
West there is buxom lass who measures
six feet seven and half inches in her
stocking feet, and yet she continues to
grow and refuses to be satisfied with any
thing less than eight feet
The father of one of the principals in
the Troy IN. " prize-fght wagered his
farm up in Vermont and three horses
against $4,000 that his offspring would
beat his man, and he won, though the odds
against him were six to one.
The precOcity of the rising generation
has been further illustrated by an eight
year-old craftsman, of Rochester, n Y,
who successfully executed a burglary in
that city, and was only caught through
indiscreet display of some of his booty.
THE Oshkosh Northeastern learns that
prairie chickens are very plenty this sea-
son, more so than in several years in some
localities. The probabilities are that the
ducks will also be extraordinarily plenti-
tul, and the hunters may expect some
huge sport when shooting-time comes.
The disconsoate widower is in Della
ware. The last words of his late departed
were: Henry, if you marry again, re-
member that it only takes cupful of
sugar to sweeten quart of gooseberries."
He is satisfied he will not see her like
again.
A RELIGIOUS paper in Ohio was sent for
nine years to a subscriber who never paid
cent for it, The other day the newspa-
per wasreturned to the patient and long
suffering publisher with the affecting pen
cilnOte on its margin: 'Gone to a better
world'
SOMEBODY, whether in pursuit of knowl-
edge or out of mere love of mischief, tried
chemical experiment in the St. Johns
bury (Vt) Cemetery, recently. He bathed
nine granite monuments with muriatic
acid. The effect of this acid upon gran
lite is to give it the color of rusty sheet
iron.
THE people of Nebraska are determined
on fair play. The other day twenty-six of
the sovereign voters of that State stood
around for half an hour to see that man
who had beaten his wife with harness
strap, got fair play at the hands of COM
mittee of married ladies who were fog
ging him.
FOND DU LAC Wis, voted one of her AL
dermen cane for being the homeliest
man in town. When the votes were
counted up and the result announced, Mr..
McHenry took off his coat and mauled
that crowd of friends and acquaintance
until the sacredness of the ballot box was
forever destroyed.
A COUNTY clerk in a western city re-
fused to issue marriage license because
the man was only four feet high, while |
the woman was six. He knew something |
about domestic. life with the proportions |
reversed, and couldn't assist fellow to |
buy into a lottery when the odds were so |
teartully against him.