Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-01-02
CURRENT ITEMS.

JOHN ZEAGLER, OF Pulaski County, Va,
climbed creased pole by the aid of sand
and indomitable grit.
AN Indiana widow wants 100000 dam
ages from the man who refused to keep
his promise to marry her.
THREE men were badly wounded by
the bursting of wheel in Springfield,
Ill, planing-mill, recently.
JAMES SMITH, of Racine, Wis, recently
walked one hundred miles in twenty two
hours and thirty three minutes.
"A IA is5oe1aERE7 paper terseiy says of
man who was kicked by horse, 'that
his life was extinct for some time"
A PHYSICIAN advised Peck Roberts of
Troy to take iron, aud he took 500 pounds
from foundry and is in Jail for it.
JONES complains of the price of tea.
He wouldn't wonder if grocers thought
it reasonable to make T-reasonable.
To PREVENT boots from squeaking hang
the wearer. That is the way they did at
Weston, Mo-, and it cured the boots.
WoRTHINGToN, Mass, boasts of house
one hundred years old, in which no
funeral ceremony was ever performed.
A BOSTON lover committed suicide the
other day before perpetrating matrimony.
He merely got the cart before the horse.
A GREEN BAY woman took o teaspoon
full of creosote instead of lung balsam,
and had rough time of it in conse-
| quence.
Mrs. CLARK didn't like the assessment
put on her property, and she went right
before the Council of Quincy, H., and
| told them So
| A New YORK paper intimates that the
young bloods who are favorites with the
bellies of that city suffer terribly from
painters collie.
| A CONNECTICUT man recently shot his
wife, and then pretended he was aiming
! at stray cat. The Coroner's jury COM
mitted him for trial.
| A YOUNG lady in Illinois recently be-
came so much embarrassed by proposal
| from her lover, that, in her agitation she
| swallowed a needle.
| The Louisville Cour5er-J0urnaz will
support the postal savings bank project,
| provided the scheme be enlarged to in
clude a saloon attachment.
THE C0ur5er-.J JOurpdl classes as the prin-
cipal contributions of Kentucky to the
national repertOry: "WOmen, horses,
whisky and blue grass"
A MAINE Justice vindicated the dig
nifty Of the law by sending newspaper
editor to prison for calling him 'mud-
dle-headed mannikin.'
THE editor of the Duluth Herald is
sanguine in spite of hard times. He
saws: eve shall iorlc 10 u ~ Wits
or5y urs1Ing the coming winter, or we are
much mistaken"
MADISON, Ind, is letting the fence
around its cemetery fall to pieces. 1t
thinks that the people in the cemetery
can't get out, and those who are out don't
want to get in.
AN opium-eater in Greenfield, Mass,
has consumed $4,000 worth Of the potent
drug, without mentioning, as local
paper has it, ''the consequential dam
ages"
IT is a queer notion some people have
of getting angry when they receive dun.
The party who has a right 10 become
vexed, is the one who has been kept out
of what belongs to him.
THE Terre Haute Gazette says there is
man in that city who has been divorced
twice and married three times, and is now
for another divorce. He will probably
die drunkard, as all the lawyers treat
! him.
AN expensive accident occurred in
Jackson County, Ind, recently. A man
was showing a neighbor how nicely he
had fitted up aroom, when he fell, break
ing lamp that set fire to and burned
much of the furniture.
HARD times in Alabama, according to
a Southern paper, that says: "Some con-
sunmate scoundrel, on Friday night, eX-
humed the cornerstone of the new colored
church at Opelika and extracted there
from one-dollar bill"
THERE is a man in Rockville, Conn,
about forty years of age, who can repeat,
word for word, every book and newspaper
article that he has read for the past ten
years, says a Connecticut exchange. This
is either lie, or the man can't or don't
read.
A LADY in Sullivan was recently grant
ed divorce from her husband, with forty
acres of land as alimony. The same after
noon her former husband applied for
marriage license, and in the evening was
married in the street to the lady of his
second choice.
THEY "ax' us to believe this story. A
pine log was being sawed at the Michi-
CANINE Mining Company's mill, so the
romance runs, in the middle of which an
ak was found Our informant looked us
in the eve when he related the above and
never blanched What a piece Of work
is man !--M5oing Gazette.
WHEN will injustice cease and women
get their rights! Here's another girl
| killed herself, this time at Portland, Me-,
a chawing gum. But for the cruel pre-
| judice that drove her to the use of that
vile substitute for tobacco, she might
have killed herself with fne-cut. and like
the other victims of the weed whose sad
fate is duly recorded, have been from
eighty to hundred years doing it.-Cht-
cage Post.
IT Is stated that wealthy Boston gentle
man met prominent Judge in the street
few DAYS since and said, Judge, | sup
pose you believe | am sane man?"
"Celtainly," replied the Judge; "but
why 2" Il have made my will to-day, and
I didn't know but some fifth cousin
would swear was non compos merits, and
| so / wanted high judicial authority for
nv sanity" 1t won't do to contest that
will while Judge x. is living.
A MARRIED man at Ottumwa, Iowa, felt
unhappy and hung himself. His wife
and sister cut him down. Then he tried
to butt his brains out against the wall.
The women interfered again and held
him till the City Marshal came. That
| grim functionary cleared out the meddlers
and told the frantic youth to butt away
as long as he wanted to. He butted three
times, and then, tucking his bruised head
under his wing, begged the Marshal to
put him to bed. He was put.
THE Kilbourne City Mirror says: John
Schmidt, OF this village, brought a