Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-11-06
CURRENT ITEMS.

expect to Is. Young forever.
CONGRESSMAN WILLARD, of Vermont,
proposes to return to journalism.
A SILVER bust of life size, and in an
excellent state of preservation, has been
found at Herculaneum.
THE Detroit Free Press now candidly
admits that Shakespeare's plays were
written by citizen of Detroit.
THE farmers around Closter, N. j.,
predict hard winter because the corn
husks are unusually thick this year.
THE last strange animal raised in Ken
lucky is a red-haired chicken. 1t is sup
posed to be sign of coming war
Boston Globe
Mr.. JOSHUA GUPToN, of Franklin
County, N. c., in attempting to draw on
his boot discovered highland moccasin
coiled in the bottom of it.
LOUISVILLE wants an ordinance to pre-
vent her citizens from throwing guilds of
tobacco in the street. One quid will
oftentimes blockade street
A WORCESTER (Mass.) man and wife
drove to church, on a recent Sunday
evening with sober-minded hen roost-
ing on the top of the family carriage.
SEVERAL hundred horses have died
within month or two in Monterey
County, Cal, from the effect of eating a
poisonous plant called rattleweed,"
which produces symptoms similar to
those of insanity.
A GERMAN colony of thirty families
have purchased through an agent large
tract of land three miles above Big
Island, on the James River, Bedford
County, Va. The principal colonists are
experienced farmers and merchants.
THE will of George Foulkes, an old
bachelor of Pittsylvania County Va,
has been set aside on the ground that he
was of unsound mind at the time of the
execution of the document and that
undue influence was used by negro
sorcerers and conjurers.
A MAN in wheelbarrow driven by
negro and headed by fife and drum
took a view of Dayton, Ohio, the other
day, thus paying his election wager, to
the immense enjoyment of those who
saw him. Another bet was paid by a
man swimming across the cold water of
the Miami River.
SUGAR SNAPs.-One cup of butter, two
cups of sugar, four cups Of flour, one egg f.;
stir sugar and butter to a cream; add the
egg we'll beaten and small teacupful of
water with a quarter of teacupful of
soda dissolved in it; stir half spoonful Of
cream tartar into the flour; roll out very
thin, and bake in a moderate oven.
THE widow ofa man in Lehigh County,
Pa, had her late husbands remains dis
inferred for the purpose OF removing
them to Philadelphia. They were re-
+ol- hot oil to off
shipment, when the brothers of the de-
ceased slipped il quietly, took posses
sion of the body and had it reinterred.
The widow proposes to go TO law about
the matter.
SIMPLE, but said to be certain: In pay
ing hack fare down Easter dropped
three bills which were carried away by
the wind After searching anXiously for
them he resorted to the use of strategy.
Returning to the place where the bills
were dropped he permitted the wind to
catch small piece of paper. Following
it's flight he found that where it rested
there also were his bills.
THE San Saba (Texas) NeWs says:
"While out hunting, Snyder shot and
wounded buck, but, failing to get it, re
turned to the house and got young man
named Wolf to go with him in search of
it. Finding it, Wolf commenced shoot
ing, when ball striking the bucks horn
glanced and struck Snyder in the left
breast, cutting through the upper part
of the lung. He fingered few days and
died, entirely generating Wolf"
THREE little Piute Indian boys attend
the Silver City public school. Unlike
the majority of white men, the father OF
one of the redskins thinks it worth while
to visit the school occasionally and OBJ
serve the progress of his son and heir
the hope of his wigwam. When the
father comes to visit the school he
marches into the institution of learning
with turkey-feather in his hair and a
shotgun on his shoulder. AS an object
of distraction to the school the lamb that
little Mary had would not amount to
a row of pins beside the big Injun with
turkey-feather, war-paint and lOng-bar
relied shot-gun.-VGrg5niG City Enter
prise.
The Lawrence (Mass.) Sentinel says,
that number of months since Haver-
hill man desired some accommodation
of the Boston & Maine Road, but was
refused. The action so provoked him
that he determined to get square by some
means, and at length, noticing that there
was no draw in the railroad bridge near
the city, he determined to put the COM
pany to the expense of building one. So
he commenced building schooner of
about 200 tons at point above the
bridge, and now, as it is nearly ready to
launch, he will soon load it with legiti-
mate freight, sail down TO the bridge and
demand passage, which the railroad peo-
pie must grant. him whether or no.
THE Amherst Agricultural College au-
thorities have started to find out how
much growing squash would raise if it
had fair chance. They boxed it up, so
that all the pressure of its growth would
be upward, and upon it they have add
ed weight from time to time, until now
it is lifting 1000 pounds and calls for
more. 1t is now ten weeks since it was
harnessed, and something has been con-
tinually breaking loose. Five levers
have been used, each larger than the pre-
ceding, and set of large irons overlap
ping the first was found necessary. The
leverage is curiosity, the seven weights
comprising buckets of sand, boxes OF
paint, an anvil, chains, pipe-stake, and
numerous other miscellanies. The vine
is between fifty and sixty feet long, and
this dynamic squash is the only fruit 1t is
allowed to bear.-Spr5ngtte5d (Nass.) Re
publican.
JUDGE MCKENNAN, of Washington,
Pa, while holding term Of the United
States Circuit Court in Philadelphia re-
Gently, pronounced ruling in contra
diction to what has heretofore been con-
sidered settled law. The case was suit
brought by the drawer of a check for
800, which had been raised to $4,000 by
tho drauea tn recover from the bank