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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
Sleeping in Trees.

THE little spot of land rising in THE
South Seas called Ysabel Isle is divided
among several savage tribes that are con
tinually at war with each other. A. ter
rible massacre occurring in portion of
the island named Malaga, the sufferers
adopted as means of defense against
future surprises of a similarly unpleas-
ant nature the custom of sleeping in
houses built in high trees, though living
by day in the ordinary open bamboo
huts. When the Rev. Coleridge Patteson,
Bishop of the Melanesian Islands, Wis
tied Malaga he was very curious to in
spect these human nests in the SUBMITS
of the loftiest palms. They were situ-
ated in swamp that for greater safety
was surrounded by strong wall. The
lower boughs of the trees selected for
habitation had been Topped off, leaving
only the highest as a platform for the
houses. A plumb-line let down from
the veranda of one of these houses to the
ground showed the distance to be ninety
four feet.
The ladders leading up to the houses
were planted upon the top of the wall.
They consisted of a bamboo pole in the
center to which cross-pieces about two
feet long were lashed by vines To
steady these and also to hold on by there
were double sets of plant vine stems
stretched along The whole length. One
ladder was found to measure sixty feet.
Another of fifty feet had forty-two
rounds or cross-pieces at unequal dis
tances apart Up and down these
dizzy ladders the native men, women
and children ran like monkeys,
never using their hands, but
trusting entirely to the sure planting OF
their feet. At first the Bishop dared not
attempt an ascent, and while he stood
wondering at the fearlessness of the
climbers he saw woman go up with
heavy burden on her back as if it was
the easiest thing in the world, and not
once staying herself with her hands. A
sailor in the company of the Bishop, who
was perfectly at home in the shrouds Of
a ship, ascended one of the ladders, and
when he came down confessed: was
afraid my legs shook. Going aloft is
nothing to it." At another time the
Bishop himself managed TO reach one OF
the arboreal huts. He found it in an in
expressible filthy condition. The floor
was made of matted bamboo, and meas
ured twenty-three feet by eleven feet,
and the roof and sides were OF palm. leaf
thatch. The roof was low, and there
were no apertures for air and light.
Everything was grimy with SCOT and dirt,
while the noise of squalling babies, the
singing and scolding of women and the
chatter of all the natives together made
the place very pandemonium. A brief
stay in the wonderful nest convinced the
Bishop that it was much more comfort
able to sleep in hut on the ground,
where during the night the singing and
sQualling of the women and babies above
him sounded as if they were in the
clouds.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
A River Pilots Memory

FIRST of all, there is one faculty which
a pilot must necessarily cultivate until
he has brought it to absolute perfection.
Nothing short of perfection will do.
That faculty is memory. He cannot stop
with merely thinking a thing is so and
so; he must k1a0oo it; for this is eminently
one of the "exact" sciences. With what
scorn pilot was looked upon in the old
times if he ever ventured to deal in that
feeble phrase "I think" instead of the
vigorous one "I know" Ore cannot
easily realize what a tremendous thing
1T is to know every trivial detail of | 200
miles of river and know it with absolute
exactness. If you will take the longest
street in New York and travel up and
down it, coming its features patiently
until you know every house and window
and door and lamp-post and big and
little sign by heart, and know them so
accurately that you can instantly name
the one you are abreast of when you are
set down at random in the street in the
middle of an inky black night, you will
then have tolerable notion of the
amount and the exactness of a pilots
knowledge who carries the Mississippi
River in his head. And then If you will
go on until you know every street cross.
ing, the character, size and position OF
the crossing g-stones, and the varying
depth of mud in each of those number
less places, you will have some idea OF
what the pilot must know in order to
keep Mississippi steamer out OF trouble.
Next, if you will take half of the signs in
til at long street and change their places
once month, and still manage to know
A., tQl W dark
nights, and keep up with these repeated
changes without making any mistakes
you will understand what is required OF
a pilots peerless memory by the tickle
Mississippi.
| think a pilots memory is about the
most wonderful thing in the world. To
know the Old and New Testaments by
heart and be able to recite them glibly,
forward or backward, or begin at random
anywhere in the book and reclte both
ways and never trip or make mistake,
is no eXtravagant mass OF knoWledge,
and no marvellous facility, compared to
a pilots massed knowledge OF the1lissls-
sippi and his marvellous facility In the
handling of it. / make this comparison
deliberately. and believe | am not ex-
panding the truth when do 1t. Many
will think my figure too strong Dut
pilots will not.
And how easily and comfortably the
nilot's memory does its work. how plac-
idly effortless is it's way! how a'acon-
sefouslu it laws up its vast stores, hour by
hour. day by day, and never loses or mis-
laws single valuable package of them
aIif Take an instance. Let leadsman
cry. Half twain! half twaini half twain!
half twain! half twainf' until it becomes
as monotonous as the ticking of clock; !;
let conversation he going on all the time
and the pilot be doing his share OF the
talking and no longer listening to tne
leadsman; and in the midst of this end
less string of half twains let single
sauarter fwainr' be interiected,. without
emphasis, and then the half twain cry go
on again just as before; two or three
weeks later that pilot can describe with
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
LATEST NEWS.
THE OLD WORLD.

An extensive mining riot occurred at
| Charleroi, Brussels, on the 2Sth.
The Prince of Wales was Installed
Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge OF
Masons, at London, on the 2Sth, in the presence
of an immense multitude OF spectators.
The British Association of Agricultural
Engineers las recommended manufacturers in
England not to send their wares to the Phila-
delphia Centennial Exhibition, because the
United States imposes a heavy tariff on the i'm
portation of machinery, and mere exhibition
will do them no good. The carpet manufacturers
have decided not to send specimens of their goods
for the same reason. French manufacturers have
generally concluded TO contribute.
The Spanish fort at Santander on the
2Sta saluted the German flag as the final act of
reparation for the Gustav Outrage
On the 2Sth, at Gratz, Austria, Don
Alphonso, brother of Don Carlos, of Spain, was
assaulted by an armed mob and the strongest
efforts of the police were necessary to protect
him from their violence.
Lord Hobart, Governor of Madras,
India, died on the 2sth.
An explosion occurred ON the Both
ult. in coal mine in North Staffordshire, En-
gland. Every miner in the mine was thought to
be killed At last accounts twelve dead bodies
had been taken out, and of the twenty-three re-
naming not one was expected to be recovered
alive.
Count de Waldeck, the French artist
and traveller, died in Paris on the 30th, aged ITO
years.
A bill has been introduced in the Ger
man Reichstag abolishng all religious orders in
Prussia.
French and English gunboats have
been ordered to the banks of Newfoundland to
prevent threatened trouble between the fisher
men of each nation.
Madrid kilograms of the 1st say that
a portion of the Carlst forces on the frontier of
Navarro had revolted and demanded peace and
submission to Alphonso. The blockade around
the provinces occupied by the Carlists had been
re-established.
The late diplomatic controversy be-
tween Germany and Belgium has been concluded
satisfactorily to both Governments.
st. James Hall, in Liverpool, England,
was burned on the I'd. Loss S150,0o0.
The Captain of the schooner Jefferson
Borden reached London on the Sd, and reported
that when about eight days out from New Or
leans his crew mutinied. The first and second
officers were killed, and all the sailors who were
engaged in the mutiny were disabled. He hailed
passing vessel and obtained sufficient hands to
work the ship to London.
Telegrams were received 10 London on
the Sd, announcing Carlist victories at Breda and
in Arragon.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
Ben Spinner's Composition.

The reason why that the 4th Of July is
so short, is because they signed the Decla-
ration of Independence all on one day. Ii
they only had went slow, and been three
or four DAYS about it, then we would have
had longer pull at the fireworks, and
plenty of time to make things lively most
all the week.
When your mother sends you to the
grocery with a basket for two dozen eggs
in hurry, and you get into a soft game
of marbles ON the way, and with good
many, and don't come home for two
hours, that's forgetfulness. But your
mother don't forget you when you come
back
When you slide down on the long
banisters of the front hall stairs, and go on
down to the bottom so fast that it burns
you clean through your uowsers, that's
riction.
Some Saturday when you are in the
kitchen and the hired girl has just shined
up the knives, when she turns her back
you mustn't dip them one at a time in the
vinegar jug, because if you do the chemis-
try will turn 'em black, and then you might
have to go careless down to the back fence
to get out of the way of some hot water or
something.
Your father would never pay twelve
dollars for big dictionary for you in a
hundred years, but if you was to win one
in hard spelling match he would make
you study it nights till you nearly went
crazy That's always the way.
When your mother is frying doughnuts,
and you're hungry, it don't make any
difference how her hair is combed, or if it
is combed at all or not; just only tell her
that you think she looks so handsome with
her hair done up in that way, and she will
feed you on hot doughnuts till you swell
up like toad
When sack of peanuts gets busted on
a dray and split out on the street, and your
pockets don't hold many, because they're
| nearly full of other things, then daily
| newspaper would be good thing to have,
and would be useful. Courier
| TOuT1,nI
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

"A grocer in Ottawa, Canada, was
made the recipient of valuable present
one day recently. A young woman entered
his store offering butter for sale. He in
formed her that he had sufficient quanti-
ty and did not wish to buy any. The
woman asked permission to leave her
basket in the store while she went to see a
friend. She left, promising to return in
ten minutes for her property. She did not
return, and few minutes later sounds at
tracted his attention, and, on tracing them
to their source, he found that they came
from the basket of butter. He raised the
cloth which covered the basket and dis
covered baby. The woman did not re-
turn to claim her property.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

1900 and Something.
FOREHEAD white and not frown,
Cheeks of red and eyes of blue,
Wayy hair of golden brown,
Feet unshod just as they grew,
Clean and fine in her calico gown:
That was the girl who spelled us down!
Mary Baker, aged ten:
Grandma johnson long ago,
Faded dream of the silver Then,
Tresses thin and white as the snow,
Clear and calm and the mother of men,
Pale eyes sad with the "never again!"
Mary Baker, age sixteen:
Longer zone and rounder arm,
Girl ana woman-golden meant
Eyes grown soft with nameless charm,
Waiting the King she never had seen,
Hearing him say 4" My life! my queen!"
Mary Baker, twenty one:
Sweet the words and round the ring,
Took the hand of the royal son,
Saw the face, and twas not the King!
Ashes of roses scattered and strewn,
Cross for crown and thorns for a throne!
Benz. r. Taylor, in Laporte Chronicle.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

According TO the OIuC1al TotuIuS VI WIG
recent Connecticut State election, 1ngersoll
(Dem) for Governor, had majority OF 6,52l av-
erage majority of the rest of the Democratic
State ticket $500; Democratic majority on Con-
gressmen 1857.
According to a recent editorial in the
Philadelphia Press, all hopes of the recovery OF
Charlie Ross had been abandoned.
A British ship recently arrived in New
York with cargo of salt and arsenic. During
the voyage the two articles somehow became
mixed. Subsequently the salt was sold and most
OF it sent out of the city Some OF that which re-
mained was analyzed, and the presence OF the
poison was revealed. The salt sold was ordered
back to New York for examination.
A colored man named Reed recently
shot policeman at Nashville and was lodged in
iail On the night of the 30th ult large and
excited crowd attacked the Jail, overpowered the
keeper captured the prisoner and took him to the
suspension bridge, where they fastened rope to
his neck and to the railing and threw him over
board with the intention ofhanging him, but, the
rope breaking, he fell on the rocks ninety feet
below He was shot once as he was falling and
once at the bottom.
The Attorney General OF Louisiana
has filed petition in the Superior District Court
praying that John C. Moncure may be declared
Treasurer of the State in place of Antoine Du-
bueet
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the sale of $50OO,0o0 of Government
gold in New York during the month of May.
According to the computation OF the
Department of Agriculture published on the 3D.
the area of land sown to winter wheat this year
is per cent. above that of last year. Crops in
the South look better than last spring, and in the
North and West not so we'll.
Ida Greeley, the elder daughter OF the
late Horace Greeley, was recently married IN
New York TO Col. Nicholas Smith, of Covington,
KY The bridal party left Immediately for Eu-
rope.
The United States Supreme Court has
lately decided that the capitation tax provided
in railway charter to bepaid to State is
valid and cons titutional contract. The opinion
was expressed that State cannot impede COM
merce in it's efforts to regulate it, and that Con-
gress has the power to regulate interstate COM
merce; that commercially this is one country,
and that the progress of merchandise must not
be impeded. The rights of the State must also
be protected.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

-Apropos to the notion of putting
clocks in all the principal streets OF Parls,
all combined electrically to give uniform
hour, the Figaro says: This is the last
work of progress, and Paris, as usual, Is
in advance Of all cities" But Brussels
had this piece of progress ten years ago
and copied it from old.fashioned Ghenf.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
THE MARKETS.

NEW York, May 4-Flour-Whlte
Winter Extra, s5.6O@6.3o. Wheat-No. Chicago
Spring, s1.1991.21; No. Milwaukee, S1.23h@
1.24; No. Northwestern, S1.1a@1.A. Barley
S1.5o01.55. Oats-Western Mixed, f40161ac.
Corn-Western Mixed, 91h@92Ac. Pork-New
Mess, S2210. Dressed Hogs--1'c. Lard-l5Bc
Cattle-Flrm and active at 11@12Ac for Com
mon to Extra Sheep Clipped, 4h@5Ac; Tn.
shorn, 65z0Sc. Gold closed at 1151s.
EAST LIBERTY, Pa. - Cattle - Best,
ss.75@7.a5; good, S6.25@6.75. Hogs-Yorkers,
S750@7.75; Philadelphias, 1S1z@9.i2h. Sheep
-S4.OO@7.oo.
CHIcAGo.-Wheat-No. Q closed at
s1.O5hmLG5s< cash. Corn-Closed at 76hc fol
New No. 2 and 72ssc for Rejected cash. Oats
624 @63hc, cash; June options sold at 6414c. Rye
81 O6@1 .07. Barley-No. 2, $i.2s@130. Mess
Pork-s21 .90@21.95, cash. Lard-$15.50@1555
Cattle-Choice to Extra Graded Steers, $64cQ
ZOO; Prime to Choice Natives, S5.40@6-121a
Texans, S2.59@5.5O; sealawags, S3.0o@4OO
Hogs-Good to choice, $775@s70; extra, $s75Q
geo
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE


while attempting to eject miners family named
OConnell from house bought at Sheriff's sale
was fred on and two persons were killed and one
mortally wounded. Reinforcements were brought
from Wilkesbarre and the murderers were finally
arrested.
Ex-senator Schurz and family left for
Europe on the 29th. Before he left he was ten
dered complimentary banquet, at which w. NJ.
Evarts presided
Trains on the Union Pacific Railroad
had resumed their regular trips on the 2sth.
The Weber furniture factory in Detroit
was burned on the 29th causing loss of about
S300,o00
Dispatches from Oshkosh, Wis.,, of the
30th ult say the losses by the recent fire then
estimated at S25 COZ, on which there WAS an
insurance of about S950,Oo0. Preparations had
already been made for rebuilding over half of
the burnt district. The contents of the
bank safes were recovered in good
order. The following was thought to be correct
enumeration of the buildings, ETC., destroyed:
Five hundred residences, sixty-nne stores. three
banks, five printing offices, Opera-House and
Postoffice four hotels, two engine-houses, five
churches, the depot and telegraph offices, five
mills and lumber-yards. Relief for the fire suf-
ferers was greatly needed.
In recent charge to North Carolina
Grand Jury Judges Brooks and Dick declared the
criminal features of the Civil-Rights act uncon-
stitutional.
1t is reported that the recent cold
weather has destroyed the young grasshoppers
in many sections of the country, and it is be-
lieved there will be no further trouble from them
A petition has been filed in the
Superior District Court of Louisiana by the At
torney General of that State against State Auditor
Clinton and his sureties to recover the aggregate
sum of over S500,C00, which includes the amounts
received by him from tax collectors and which
are unaccounted for.
The Michigan Legislature adjourned on
the evening of the 29th
The following is the public debt state
mont for Nav
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07

One of the tricks of the trade in Phil
adelphia is to conceal two pounds of lard
inside of four pounds of butter.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
Selected sMisrella,ty.

THE GIRL THAT SPELLED US
DOWN.
New-York tribune., 1875-01-28
The STATE OF TRADE.
EUROPEAN MARKETS

LiyEnPoo Jan 2712:3o mThs Cotton market hrmer'
hi0ug panis ; Mdding Orleans 7s sales, 5000 bales,
including 5000 for speculation and export Cotton To arrive /
dearor the Of NdlDg Upsnds nothing below Low
Peouay 7' do do shipped February and March at l3l6d
LosD0S 27-2:30 mThe discount
bills is l6 which Ia 1915 cent
be6w the Bank Of England Paris dispatches quote Rnies
62f Ace.
Liverpool Jan 2723o mof the Cotton sales to-day 1000
bales American the basis Of Mddng Upsnd nothing
below Good Ordinary shipped January and February lll6d
DO nothing below Low mddtng deliverable March and April
7a sales s bass Of hdftng Orleans pOthng below Low
Miadlug shppe December 1Td Bread.,usThe market s
Qlret. B1con 49i6 u cs. Tor Snort Clear Middes
HosDos. Jan 1880 D. m-The OF bullion rs ;,,o
Bank OF Eugland balance to-day ia 1852 900 sOe '
f6Sb5S Jan 27-S p I-Ers Nv shares qs Par, sI,
patches quote Rentes at 62f, 47Lc
FRAsKFoEr jan 2ej States Fve-Twenty bonds 1S62s 9ss
LvsRrOGt LAP 5 Sales Of Cotton on the basis Of Md
dug UpT nothing below Good Ordinary shipped December and
January lll6d do shipped February sad March, 72
Do nohng below Low stngs deliverable February aud March
- l6L
LONDON, Jan. 27-EveriDg Dg-CAcutta Linseed SO 6d60
New-York tribune., 1875-01-28
WEDNESDAY. Jsu. PIP "


We bear much OF the immense liquidation which
has been going on throughout the country during
the past fifteen months and there is No reasonable
doubt that something handsome has been done IN
this line ia the general commercial and trading
business Of the country but IL equally true thai
there is much more to be accomplished in the same
direction before we can say with truth that
we have returned TO healthy condition OF
bnsioess Where is the evidence of anything like
universal liq,idatiOn f-Shere tie evidence that
we hare got down to hard pam" Not in the state
ments - loans by the banks not in the steadily in
creasing issues of " consolidated bonds by rail-
roads, called consolidated first" or second
mortgage bonds. when IN reality the mortgage is
now. aud wlil for years TO come. be Olly a third,
fourth, or fifth lien upon the property IcOrtgaged
il Is true that some railroads, having defaued on
their interest liabilities, are in the pro-
cess Of liquidation through foreclosure and sale
a process very unsatisfactory TO the stock holders.
But 80 far rs EeInember with the single excep-
ion OF Michigan GENITAL where is there q railroad
company that during tlis period Of liquidation" |
'as reduced its liabilities one doari The reverse
of liquidation has been the rule to such an extent
tAat theIe are but few roads with any remaining
New-York tribune., 1875-01-28

A..ss vae psh se steadily quiet hsnhsden dan and
.s,hs,sed Lard doll e1 l2asl 10 for Pnae Wnmi
de al for No l. and 70 aS0e o No. DO ober ons gae'
We Vno<i " ...n s-..... ala. a,
nI1P-ere continued fair trade demand at full tfursi ees o.
100 Al ydSc; 2O0bbs Louisiana low 70 PRIME Esaes
AZ 8l7Js.e, and 100 bssI Rsasoon Al 6Sdeiae ,~..,
eEBDs-Coyr quiet h owing to the limited oes ~ pen,
an and tho extremely demand Of YESTERDAY We only
hear Of 200 bags Western sold sr lie. -, ,.oo A.. =.
sTBARIN steady with only moderate inquiry 'als' dSoo ea
1As. III,
suGARS-Rav Sugars extremely dali ssd prices are
unchanged quote Fair 10 God Reanng Cuos 20
co at Sac Cenuugal bids and boxes Nos. 70 l3 totUyI
and No " (syed Boz Al s1 Refined steady with noderss
rsde, So i In Bot Yelowi 9ce9l0c Tor Son mhei iV
Crush q, l09.c for Powdered and l02 for 0ranao
TALLOW neady but quiet Of 300Oo oato'"n '''A ~
S7se., and 80 "a do od grade S74c -, .,
WHsKY-The marie, unehbged with limited demand sales Of
200 bbs ct 07e.
New-York tribune., 1875-01-28
COTTON MARKETS.

sosiLl Jsn 27-Copon aus, snL Mddhes 49, MS
MidSlIrg 4s Good Ordnsry, l3z9f3ssc reesipp I5S
bales EXPORTS eosstw 37l bsesI sales. 1000 bssi 'eA<
S.rOsiSIs, jan 27.-cotos srm good demand H1dhsE
lls.e Low Mdding l4. Good Ordinary, l3sc pes rssnPI
bO2I bales gross. 5238 bs sales 1000 ssss "ess sos1>S
Cs.xrr.ros J.D 27-co,.oo qas and ',esd, hddhss sx
Low Mddung llLc Good Ordinary l3c' ret vesirs Soie
bales srpors BuiD 3263 bales sa< lsoo bales "'s1'
S.y.ssaa Jsn 27.-Coton very Irmi nddhps. IL tNN
eps 47s bales exports eoasnise 5oo eass 'a" hSse
jan 27-co,,on steady, Mdaans ss set reeps,
20e7 bsle 20 bsses se 1918 bales Hoes 'o'@s
Msr,rp Jan 27-Co,toa quiet and irn M4ins u tadla*a
Tow Mddhrg IA Ia zc: Good Ordinary 12i31lz'4 sss @
eepn l725 bales shipments 1854 ea'es sales i"0" 'f
B.Irsoss Jan 27-Co,,on srmi MddHns iee ret nessps
3O2 bales gross 1872 bales exports " the ConnnenL 200
eosstrse lG8 bales sas $50 bales rpnners 20 eA~s "'
MH2%syo, Jan 27-CO,ton s.sy. Addung net res.ot
4es bales exports eoas.ise 62s bs sae $50 bss' '''
sr Lous JAN 27-Coton frmer, quoby hghsri noosG
"A se BAL bales, shipments ia oA*si ' ''
Bo,ros jan 27-CottOn oui.t Yddibg l5cj ss, rseeHs
287 bales gross eeep 6S7 baesj saes 73O bales s EsoSs
EoRyoLs Jan 27couou srm: Mddng lI'.ei net receipts
2447 exports 1725 bAesj saes zSo ps''b
TsIapEIpHIs Jan 27.-cot,ou srm Aidihns. lbS. Low
Modng l5s Good Ordinary l4e net repu 2ie bsesi T~''
Jan 27cOon uneb,ngedi mddAps l.se set re-
lao bass shipments, l. 73Z bales noct ioz,z ose
ArGu,T. Jan 27.-Cotton Arm Mdilnz li4e LoS nmassS
137s Ordinary, l3e net receipts SS7 es'' "ss iEso
baes