Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1875-05-07
MULTUM In PARY0.

1t is certain that movement is on
foot for the establishment of large iron and
steel works at Chicago. Blast furnaces, a
rolling-mill to make iron for general pur-
poses, and crucible steel-works are con
templated.
The drain tile, sewer-pipe and chm
ney-top business formerly SO extensively
carried on in several towns on the Ohio
River, has been greatly reduced of late, and
some of the capitalists interested are talk
ing seriously of stopping work for time.
The grain capacity of the vessels that
have wintered at Chicago is greater than
ever before. This fact seems to indicate
very low freights the coming summer by
both rail and water. 1t is also conceded
that most of the wheat crop will go for
ward by lake.
The Duke Charles, a brother of the
Empress of Austria and a cousin of the
musical King Louis, of Bavaria, has
taken to ophthalmic surgery under the in
struction Of DIR. Rothunned, of Munich.
a royal surgeon is new thing but not a
bad thing as the world goes.
AT Pesth they have ina museum what
they suppose to be the first meerschaum
pipe ever made. 1t was cut by a sculptor
in wood named Carol Kowates from a
piece of meerschaum given in Turkey to
Mr.. Andrassy, an ancestor OF Count An
drassy. The idea of making a pipe of
this substance occurred to kowates as a
happy experiment merely.
The largest maple-sugar manufacturer
in Vermont, and possibly in the country,
is F. E. Ray, of Wilmington, who taps
8, $50 trees and sets as many buckets. His
average crop of sugar is from four to six
tons each spring, about one-half of which
is run into diminutive cakes, while the re-
mainder goes into molasses, which is put
up in cans and hermetically sealed.
"A few days since the men working at
the new eighteen-inch train of rolls in the
Cleveland rolling mill commenced work
at the usual hour in the morning with four
ordinary heating furnaces, and before
night they had rolled the enormous guam
tity of II 1924 feet of steel rails, thirty-five
pounds per yard-a feat of rolling rails
never before accomplished by the same
number of hands.
Camel coal is one of the purest in ex-
istence. 1t is of rich, satin black appear
ance, and under heat splits into plates or
layers until thoroughly ignited, and burns
completely to ashes The term is Lam
cashire brogue for candle, pronounced
can'l by the miners because it ignites and
burns like candle. 1t is claimed that
the only really pure mine of coal in the
United States exists in Clarion County, Pa.
The Atlanta (Ga.) Herald has the fol-
lowing: " Yesterday, in conversation,
some one remarked that Gen. Toombs
never crosses a Court House door for less
than So, 900, when Judge Lochrane replied
that there was nothing strange about that.
| wouldn't take any case for smaller
fee than $4,000 This caused the crowd
to discuss legal fees, and it was found that
several large fees had been paid Atlanta
lawyers since the war. Mr.. Hill, in the
celebrated Metcalf case, received a 500,
900 fee. Judge Lochrane fee of $40, 900
in the Brunswick and Albany case. Mr..
Hill received fee of $25, 900 for his man
agement of Kimball's case. Judge Loch-
rane received $4,000 as fee from Mrs.
Kimball in the Kimball House case In
addition to these cases there is a case now
pending between Henry Clews 81 Co. and
the Cherokee Railroad, involving $780,
900, in which the fees will be large. 1t is
said that Judge Lochrane's fee as attorney
for Clews will be $25, 900.