Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-12-17
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| husband beats her.
The health of Jenny Lind is said to be
| rapidly giving way. Eee
| Nor big words, but big ideas, mark the
speech of great men.
Forty farmers will take seats in the
next Ohio Legislature.
II j.. r. LANE, Texas stock man, recent
! ly purchased $4,000 sheep,
| ROCHESTER,, n Y, had boy on trial
the other day for stealing a cent,
| SWEET HANNAH ORNJEs'' is sign dis
| played by Troy IN. " fruit.dealer.
Now THEY'VE got the Astor estate fig
ured down to $45, 200, 900. Poor mani
| THE empress Carlotta is growing
crazier, according to the Belgian reporters.
THE Cleveland Plain Dealer of the 1st
talks about 8 these glorious autumn morn
ings." .ga,h fe.
| a sIGNAI,-sTATIoN has been established
| at the summit of Mt. Kearsarge, in New
Hampshire.
| BoUcIcAULT says that it takes at least
six months for London to become satu-
| rated with fact.
A FEATURE of the Sunday dinners at
the California State Prison is 1900
pound bread pudding.
HARRY ME1GGs, the Californian and
| South American railroad king, is dying
of softening of the brain.
| THE late Senator Ferry is to have a
statue; plaster of Paris cast of his face
was taken after his death.
THE too, too solid flesh of the Boss
probably thawed and resolved itself into
| adieu Rochester Democrat.
THE Pennsylvania girl who coughed up
a shawllpin the other day is now trying
toraise camel s-hair shawl.
THE Albany IN W Penitentiary is
| filled to overlooking with prisoners, al
most every available spot being in use.
LUCY STONE remains firm in her oppo-
sition to the Centennial. She says it is
an insult in the men to ask women to have
anything to do with the Centennial.
THE Undertook Rough Notes says that
the late William B. Astor was the rich
est man in America except one, whose
name modesty forbids us to mention."
WHEN a relative with simple tastes dies
| it is always well to remember and respect
his fancies. 1t will save you good deal
on the monument-St, Louis Republican,
| THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company
| has reduced the wages OF the laborers en-
ployed on the New Jersey division to
| ten cents per hour, orninety cents per day
of nine hours.
~ THERE is compositor on this paper
| who invariably spells Jerusalem with
G., and all the angels in heaven couldn't
convince him that there is such a letter as
J.-RocAester Chronicle.
A BLACK duck flew against the light
| No oly 4ha 9TH
day, with such force as to break a large
plate glass window almost half an inch
in thickness, killing itself instantly
BENJAMIN p AVERY, our Minister to
China, whose death is announced, was a
California Journalist, and at one time ed
itor of the Overland Monthly, and a gen
tleman of culture and modest merit.
a FELLOW named Sam Ryan was sold
at auction at Las Animas, Col, the other
day. There were but few bidders, and he
was finally knocked down at fifty cents,
which was considered an exorbitant price.
I WHEN a Michigan father pounds on the
stair door and informs Sarah that it is
time to go to bed he means business. The
next time he gets up a wild-eyed lover
goes for the gate on gallop.- Detroit
Free Press. a-a-a asE
PADDY cornered the pig in his best par
lor and the pig Jumped through seven
bv-nine window "Well," said Paddy
philosophically, watching the fast-receding
form of the diminutive Tweed, " I've got
yer dimensions onyhOw."
THE Russian Gar doesn't propose to
become embarrassed by the growth of the
Socialists or Communists in his domin-
ions, and isnipping the organization in the
3 wi 1;forc hot
in France in that it is strongest in the in
terror cities like Moscow and Odessa,
while at the capital, st. Petersburg, it is
almost unknown.
A YOUNG man from neighboring town
tried to woo one of Concentrates pa
fair women, but having been coldly re-
ceived he plunged into the canal, with a
view of adding his name to the long list
of fools who have sought peace in suicide.
But the rejected lover changed his mind
and cried Justify for help. The young
woman who had unconsciously induced
him to make the jump was the first to hear
his screams and run to his assistance. She
just got to the place as he was getting out.
ONE of the queerest contests on which
the new House will have to pass is that
from the Thirty-thi New York District,
where Mr.. Augustus M. Lowry claims
the seat. To be sure, he received exactly
5 votes against 10, ITO for Mr.. Norton and
Mr.. Cary 9,139; but he insists that he was
the only man who was voted for correctly
as Representative in the Forty fourth
Congress-" and hence that the 8 Lowry
ballots are the only ones that can be
counted.
g a CURIOUS will-case has just been set
tied in Providence, r. l. Almoran Har-
ris, of Cranston, worth about 100000,
had one daughter, who married a young
Irishman named O'Rourke, whose ante
cedents were not of the best kind, but who
was rsther good-looklng, and Almoran's
rage knew no bounds, for he hated irish
men He refused to be reconciled to MS
daughter, and made will leaving all his
property to two old maids not related to
him except $500 to Mrs. O'Rourke. The
daughter appealed from the will and, after
a litigation, the old maids have settled the
case by handing over 0,O0O to the
O'Rourkes.
THE attorney In Denver COW case con-
.cluded his argument as follows: "May it
please your Honor, This is stupendous
question Its decision by you, on this
day, will live in judicial history long after
you and shall have passed from this
scene of earthly glory and sublunary
vanity; when the tower OF Pisa shall De
forgotten, when Waterloo and Boridlno
shall grow dim in the distant cycles OF re-
ceding centuries when the names O1 Eu-
gene. Marlborough and Napoleon are no
longer remembered; when the pyramids
of the Pharaohs shall have crumbled into
dust: when the hippopotamus shall cease
to inhabit its native Nile; when our own
rocL r;hhad tarrifOry chalt No more grow