Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-07-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

saws Green Bay woman. "D'ye see
that tongue, mister?"
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS Will denver
the address before the Northern Wlscon-
sin Fair, at Oshkosh, Sept. %.
THE late heavy winds have played
havoc with the grain fields, in some places
fattening and tangling the stalks inter-
minably.
THE trotting mare White Stockings,
owned by Mark S. Tyron, of Milwaukee,
was poisoned the other night, in that city
She was worth $4,000.
THE Northwestern National Fire and
Marine Insurance Company OF Milwaukee
has formally withdrawn from the National
Board Of Fire Underwriters, and will be
independent henceforth.
GEO. I. JONES 81 Co., the milwaukee,
commission merchants who recently sus-
pended, have settled with their creditors,
giving notes at three six and nine months,
secured by real estate.
THE compositors in the E0en51ag WSs-
constn office at Milwaukee recently voted
to submit to reduction of 10 per cent in
the price of composition. They were re-
ceiving thirty-ive cents per 1000 ems.
THE. increase in the population of Mil
waukee between the census of 1870 and
1875 is in greater ratio than any other
place in the State. Oshkosh has 81 per-.
cent. of increase, and Milwaukee AZ per
cent.
DURING the week ending July II, 1875,
postal changes occurred in Wisconsin as
follows: Observation-Disclosures Corner,
La Crosse County, Alois Newberg, Post
master. Postmaster appointed-Walhaln,
Kewaunee County, Frank x. Gosin.
WHEN Mr.. Jacobs, of La Crosse, told
his son that even the hairs of his head
were numbered, the boy jerked out one,
looked all over it to find "7'' or CO."
and then went out of the room believing
that the old man was a deliberate LIAR
Detroit Free Press.
SHE is beautiful girl, living, of course,
seventeen miles west of Milwaukee. She
picks up scythe and leads seven men
around the meadow, laying the best swath
in the lot cuts four or five rattlesnakes in
two, takes drink from the jug and then
goes home to her music lesson.-Detr0at
Free Press.
THE subject of religious instruction in
the State Industrial School came up before
the Board of Managers recently. After
long and exciting session a resolution was
finally passed in favor Of allowing the in
mates of the institution to be instructed in
whatever religious creed they or their par
cnts desire.
DIR. o. w. WIGHT, the Wisconsin State
GeolOgist, has a corps of thirteen assistants
in the field He is at present organizing a
party to start the middle of August to
traverse thewilderness of the northern part
of the State, along all the important rivers,
involving journeys in canoes and on foot
of more than 1 1000 miles.
THE following were the postal changes
in Wisconsin for the week ending July
10, 1875: Discontinued-El Dorado Fond
du Lac County Postmasters appointed
Brookside, Oconto County, John J. b.
wee; lola, Waupaca County, Thomas G..
Staenbli; Knapp, Dunn County, Robert
L. Rose; Velp, Brown County, Hercules
Desollier.
FOND DU LAC complains bitterly and
says ne late census in Oshkosh was not
what can be called o true count of the
people in that city. Its papers say that
crease the population of Oshkosh beyond
the ordinary growth, and in this respect
claim that Fond du Lac has the advantage.
They insist that the taking of the last
census of Oshkosh is an outrageous fraud
upon the other cities in the State"
THE Normal School Regents, recently in
session at Madison, made the following
appointments to the faculties of the differ
ent schools: River Falls-Professor of
Mathematics and Institute Conductor, j.
B, Thayer, of Menomonee; Instructors,
Misses l.. j. Foote, E. b. Armstead, HI.
A. Beaman. Observation-Disclosures of
Natural Science, j. T. Lovewell, formerly
of this State, now of New Haven, Conn,
in place of Prof. Copeland, resigned.
Observation-Disclosures, Miss S. J. Cook.
A MILWAUKEE telegram to the Chicago
Times of the goth says the farmers of the
State are rejoicing in the prospect of bet
ter crops than in any year since 1860,
which will long be remembered as the
best year the farmers of the West ever
had. From all portions of the State the
news concerning the growing crops is uni
formly the same. All authorities agree
that the yield of small grains will be
above the average, provided the weather
holds good twenty days longer. In the
central and southern portions of the State
haying has been finished, and the yield of
clover and other grasses is simply enor.
nous. Farmers are now engaged in cut
ting their winter wheat, barley and rye,
and oats will fall hefnre the reaper next
The proportion of winter wheat grown in
this State is small. Many fields in exposed
places were winter-killed and sown with
spring wheat Other fields were ravaged
with chinch-bugs, or affected with blight.
These fields will yield three-fourths of an
average crop. Fields which remain unaf-
fected promise the husbandman from
twenty-five to thirty bushels. per acre.
Spring wheat barley, rye and oats vary
IN appearance, but in no instance does the
promise fall short of the average, while in
a majority of cases considerably more
than average yields will be realized. Until
recently corn has been backward, but
few days of warm weather, experienced