Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-04
CURRENT ITEMS.

WHAT sublime courage was that dis
played by the Nevada woman, who, when
the stealthy savage approached her, just
pulled off her hair and gave it to him!
A KENTUCKY exchange says: "With
the beginning of the year we will reduce
our business to cash basis. Cordwood
and potatoes taken for subscriptions
THE first piece of artillery was invented
by German, soon after the invention
of gunpowder, and was first used by the
Moors at Algeziras, in Spain, in the siege
1341.
WHEN a horse reaches ten or twelve
years of age don't kill him because he is
getting too old. Goldsmith Maid is over
seventeen, and is showing considerable
activity yet.
A SEALED bottle has been picked up on
the Florida coast which contained It'd
ings of the fate of the long-lost steam
ship City of Boston. She sailed from
New York Jan. 20, 1870, and foundered
in storm.
A SALEM (Mass.) man has canary
which during the past six months has laid
thirty-four eggs, Matched fifteen offspring
thirteen of which are living and seven of
them singers, with six eggs remaining to
be heard from.
THE Detroit Free Press anxiously re-
marks: "Of course, one can more or less
contemplate a common rolling-pin but
when they send a cargo into this State
with lead run into the ends what is to be-
come of personal liberty?"
THE Milwaukee Sentinel has the follow
ing statement "The grasshoppers on
their way south stopped railroad train
and got copies of the ST. Paul papers.
When they read that only small por-
tion of the crops had been destroyed
they started back to finish up the job"
A REQUEST of $150,O00, intended by
DR.. E. r. johnson, who died in New Bed
ford two years ago, to establish chari-
table institution for colored people in
that city, has failed in its purpose from
a singular fact. The will, written by the
Doctor himself, provided that the above
bequest should be available on condition
that his daughter should leave no
"heirs." He probably meant, on condi-
tion that she left no issue. Although the
daughter died without children, her
mother was her legal "heir," and the
bulk of the property now goes to the lat
ter's relations.
THE finest specimen Of silver ore ever
produced in Colorado is now being care
fully detached from its position in one
of the Caribou mines 1t is eight feet
long, four feet wide, and fifteen inches
in thickness; it's weight is estimated at
four tons at least, and it is covered with
nuggets and scales of pure native silver,
some Of which, as an eyewitness OBJ
serves, are large enough for door-plates.
The proprietors intend to exhibit their
specimen at the coming Territorial fairs,
after which they will ship it to New
York, where it will remain until 1876,
when it will be taken to Philadelphia, to
be on exhibition at the celebration Of the
centennial-DenyerI Ir5bat7ae.
WHILE w. Reeder and other gentlemen
were fishing in Green River, KY, recent
ly, they were thrown into the utmost con-
sternation by the appearan ce of dread
full monster, in the shape of a fish, NOV
ing slowly up the river, it's back fins pro-
truding some six feet out of the water.
Mastering up courage, Mr.. r. and his
friends got in a skiff and pulled out near
the monster, and when within a hundred
feet of it the or eature sank. They
moved forward to see if it could be OBJ
served beneath the surface, as the water
was very clear In a few moments it
arose within forty feet of them and they
could see it's full gigantic form, which
was about fifteen feet long and three
feet in diameter at the middle, with large
fins on it's back and side, six or seven feet
long; it's head was fully one-third of its
entire length; one prong of its tail was
about four feet wide and six feet long
Louisville C0nanaercSat.