Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-09-25
CURRENT ITEMS.

THE Erie Canal revenues have fallen
off so that the total for the summer is
some thousands less than last year.
A BIG elm, known as Gaylord's Elm,
which was recently blown down, in
Chicopee, Mass, made over fifty cords of
wood.
A KENTUCKY paper remarks that
g there were eight suicides in Bourbon
County last month, three of which were
fatal"
A CHIMNEY BIRD, in flying over house
in Chatham, Chester County, Pa, struck
the point of a lightning-rod and stabbed
itself to death.
THE Governor of Alabama has been
requested by a constituent to find miss
ing wife, who is comprehenslvely de-
scribed as "a medium m-siZed woman in a
calico dress"
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY head of Califor-
MA horses belonging to the United States
were recently sold at auction in Montana.
They were sold in lots of ten, and brought
from $40 to $50 each.
THE potato rotis working terrible havoc
among the crops in the vicinity OF New
Haven, and at Wallingford, Conn, in
many instances, whole fields are consid-
ered not WOrJn gatnerlnS.
In reporting the fall fashions the New
York Herald says: There is marked
absence of the extravaganza and absurdl-
ties of former seasons, and marked I'M
provement in matters of taste"
A MACHINE company in Hartford have
a contract to furnish the Prussian Gov
ernment with machinery sufficient to
make 100000 rifles Of a new and inn
proved pattern. The contract is for the
muniicent sum of $1,000000 and will
be the most perfect set of gun machinery
ever made.
FROM Leavenworth bridge, over the
Missouri River, the other day Mexican
pony fell eighty feet into the turbulent
river below He disappeared from hui
man vision, but in few seconds came
to the surface and then padded forsthe
levee, which he shortly reached, appar-
emily none the worse for his frightful
plunge.
ARCTIC expeditions are said to be made
up in three distinct stages, all of which
are necessary to form complete expedi-
ton. At first vessel is sent to make
exploration; after an indefinite interval
of time second ship is sent to find ttH
first, and after another interval third
vessel is dispatched to complete the ex-
ploration and bring back information of
the survivors, if any, OF the two preced-
ing ships.
A CLERGYMAN's cat at West Spring
field, Mass, has shown some remarkable
symptoms of natural depravity. After
giving birth to seven kittens, recently,
of various colors, she removed the two
blacklist from the group, and utterly
fused to take any notice OF them. NO
sooner were they restored to her nest
than she again and again elected them,
and death finally received the little
waits.
THE municipality of Vienna has, by
advice of the Board of Health OF the
city, decided that the cremation of the
dead should be Immediately carried into
operation on the same plan which has
been completely successful in Lelpslg.
AS the annual mortality OF Vienna
amounts to about 10000, the public au-
thorities reckon on making great saw
ing, as we'll as considerable benefit to
the public health
A SHEFFIELD (Vt.) man who had been
quarreling with his sons sought to
end his troubles the other day by suicide.
The sons found him dangling at the end
of a rope, apparently in the last struggle,
and the older son called upon his brother
to help him save their father, whereupon
the latter responded: "Guess we had
better let the old chap hang" But the
older brother thought that their father
was, on the whole, worth saving ana ac-
cordingly cut the rope.
In 1870 mosquitoes made their appear
ance in England, imported, as it is alleged
there, from the United States, and they
have now so much increased as to have
become a general nuisance. A cor
respondent of the Times says they can
be kept away at night by placing a few
pieces of the 'spale, green-leaved pyreth-
rum" about the room. The plant here
meant is probably the pyrethrum parthe-
mum, or feverfew, which is common
enough in English gardens.
A LABoRER's wife at Mortimer, En-
gland, died the other day from the sting
of a hornet She was standing in the
road near her house, when hornet flew
out from nest in the bank and stung
her on the right side of the neck. She
went indoors and neighbor bathed her
neck with water and vinegar. However,
she tainted almost Immediately and sx-
pired in few minutes, before medical
man could reach the house. The shock
to her nervous system was the immedi-
ate cause Of death.