Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1873-11-07
CURRENT ITEMS.

a+remarkable apple crop.
The recent rains have filled the rivers
of Maine with floating logs.
A CONNECTICUT girl has gone insane
from being kissed in the dark.
A NEW BEDFORD man has been fined
$40 for watching some men play ball on
Sunday
SEVERAL. families were recently sick
in Syracuse, N. Y, from drinking poison
ed milk.
NEAR PEORIA ILL.,, several cattle were
bitten by a mad dog and have died from
hydrOphobia.
ABOUT twice as much coal is being
shipped over the Cincinnati & Marietta
Railroad as last year.
A TERRE HAUTE, Ind, farmer has
brought bill of $50. 80 against the county
for sheep killed by pet wolf.
CANAL boats are now towed from AL
bany to New York City for So piece.
There is an opposition war on the Hud-
son.
A WOMAN at Scranton, Penn, put her
tongue to a flat-iron to see if it was hot
That household is remarkably quiet these
days.
A REVEREND gentleman of Oswego, N.
Y, was last week fined $3.50 for choking
his wife, which he did with view to make
her talk.
G. BERRY, Of Bethel, VT, committed
suicide the other day because his father
died last year. He expected the old man
to live forever
A PEORIA, ILL.,, barber has 8 valuable
parrot whose appealing "Have a shave,
sir?" often induces passers-by to enter and
indulge in tonsorial delights.
A NEW secret society of mechanics,
modelled after the Patrons of Husbandry
and called "the Patrons of Industry"
has been started in New York.
AMATNE boy Of eleven, who killed a
girl by pointing a gun at her Gin sport"
has been found guilty of manslaughter
and will be sent to the reform school.
THE salt deposit near Ann Arbor, Mich,
is beginning to attract considerable atten-.
tion in the State, and parties are already
making investigations with a view to
erecting salt works.
A WOMAN named Kate Parker is
astonishing Knoxville, Tenn, with her
skill in using the pistol She drives
nail at ten PAGES, and the young gallants
don't write her any love-letters.
SOMEBODY in a Georgia court zap
plauded," whereupon the judge 1--WE quote
from the Griffin No10S) Indignantly re-
marked: "Now, dry thatup; will let you
know that this is no camp-meeting.
A LARGE black bear took his stand on
the track Of the Wisconsin Central, above
Amherst, Wis, one day last week, and
stopped the train. After looking the
thing over for few minutes he trotted
off to the woods.
A CANNON wouldn't be good for any
thing if it wouldn't go off, but they are
calling John Cannon of Sioux City, Iowa,
a goodfor-nothing because he went off an
hour before the marriage ceremony and
can't be found since.
AN Iowa City man built himself
$4,000 barn, and sat down in it to have
smoke and contemplated the structure
lie liked it exceedingly we'll and will at
once build another on the same site, hay
ing obtained his insurance
THERE is a farm in Franklin, Me-,
wherein, every seventeenth year in the
middle of August, at nine O'Clock in the
morning, the man who mOws drops dead,
scythe in hand. A local paper thinks
that five minutes before nine would be
good time to go over to the house and
get drink of cider.
THE Supreme Court of South Carolina
has decided against a railroad company
in suit brought by Knox 81 Gill, mer-
chants of Camden, in that State, to re-
cover the excess over a fair and legal
charge for freight; and the Supreme
Court of Iowa has awarded $4,750 to a.
father for the killingof his child by a
passing train.
MISS NvEN, of Spring Brook, Luzerne
County, Pa now sixteen years of age,
when five years old had very severe at
tack ofsmall-pox, which left her nostrils
entirely closed, and she does not remem-
berhavlng taken breath of air through
them The other day, DIR. J. w. Cobb, of
Scranton, performed an operation upon
them, and now she has the satisfaction of
breathing through them freely.
JOHN HARDEN, an extensive importer
of linens from Belfast, Ireland, died in
testate, leaving an estate estimated to be
worth about $2,000,000. A woman, claim
ingsto be his wife, obtained, with another
person, letters of administration empow-
ering them to dispose of the property.
Several of the nephews of Harden now
contest the legal right of these persons
to administer upon the estate, basing their
contest on the allie cation that Mr.. Harden
A.
This occurred in New York
THE GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Enterprise says ):
An cid gentleman and lady from Penn
sylvania are visiting our fair whose life
history is somewhat singular. 1t appears
that widow lady took an orphan boy to
raise, and when he arrived at the age of
eighteen she married him, she then being
in her fiftieth year Ten years ago they
took an orphan girl to raise This sum
mer the old lady died, being ninety-six
years of age, and in nine weeks after the
old man married the girl they had raised,
he being sixtyseight years old and she
eighteen.
MIeHIGANDERs are wondering what
their State motto means, Mr.. John +.
3lOis having suggested that the proper
Interpretation of asa Qu8r5s pen6nsu5ana
dn@nan1, circumSpice," is, " If you covet
this beautiful peninsula, beware" and
that the motto refers to the boundary line
troubles between Michigan and Ohio Just
before the organization of, the former
State Mr. Bloisss translation is more in
geniOus than correct The motto can
mean nothing else than what it is gener-
ally supposed to- mean :" If you seek a
pleasant peninsula, look around you"
Any other interpretation would be far
fetched and unnatural.
On az recent Sunday, as the Rev. Mr..
Garman, of the United Brethren Church,
in York, Pa, was conducting the services
at the Union Church at Yocumtown, York
county, the sexton handed him a note.
After the sermon was completed the min