Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-10-05
Personal.

ANNA DICKINSON charges $3.50 night for
lecturing this winter.
MADAME KossUTH, wife of the celebrated
Hungarian patriot died on the 1st of Sep
TENDER, at Turin, Italy, at the age of SIS.
JOSH BJLLINGs says that opea music don't
have any more effect upon him than castor
oil would have upon craven image
QUEEN VIcroR1A is in towering passion
at an article in the London Times about her
prolonged grief for her husband.
P. T. BARNUM, has stalk of corn in his
field at Bridgeport, which is more than sew
enteen feet high No humbug.
REV. J. S. G. ABBOTT has resigned charge
70 the Howe street church in New Haven.
and preached his farewell sermon on Sun
day.
CLARENCE J. PRENTICE (the rebel son of
George D.. has Withdrawn from the Louis
ellie journal, and is about to leave the
country
REV. DR.. HAWKS, of New York, has been
offered 81 900 in gold to preach in Grace
Church, San Francisco, but $4,000 in cur
rency at New York suits him better
THE young King Of Bavaria, now in his
10th year, is said to DC engaged to the Infanta
Maria Isabella, daughter of the Queen of
Spain, who is in her 10Th year.
The president has recognized Mr.. Louis
Boerlin, as vice-consul Of Switzerland, at
Chicago, for the states OF Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota. and the northern part of Illinois
The parents of Barnum's fat woman WIS.,
tod hor OF md Ipt !,
the daughter to the giant, giantess, and the
Circassan ladies, all OF whom took tea to :
gether
Mr.. BANCROFT, the celebrated national
historian, is busily engaged at his country
residence at Newport upon the 8th volume Of
his great work. MIR. Bancroft is now in his
Goth ) car, and enjoys excellent health.
LITTLE CARRIE being down stairs one
evening later than usual got up in q chair
to look at the canaries Finding them
asleep, she jumped down and said:
''The birds have swallowed their heads
DR.. MUD is acting as nurse in the hospi-
tai at the Dry Tortugas; Spangler and
0'Laughlin are on duty as carpenters, and
and Arnold, who is in bad health, is employ
ed in writing for the Provost Marshal.
FITz-GREENE HALLEcK, the poet, is passing
the evening of his days at the beautiful sea-
side town Of Guilford, about sixteen miles
east Of New Haven. He is seventy three
years Of age. but is still hale, hearty and
active.
Mrs. WE1LAND, of New York had some
slight trouble with her husband, who is d
butcher and walking into his shop, seized a
huge meat knife, and plunged it into her
abdomen, intiicting fatal wound. She
was but %.
BELLE BOYD, the notorious rebel woman,
after having been turned out Of her London
boarding house, and sold her best dresses,
aud pawned her jewelry, is at length driven
to the necessity of making living as an
actress.
JAMES MONROE, the sixth President of the
United States, died in New York so poor that
his remains found resting place through
Jhe charity Of one Of his friends They
remain in cemetery in School street, but no
monument marks the spot where they repose
THE English people complained that when
Queen Victoria returned from her late visit
to Germany, the blinds of the royal carriage
between Woolwich and Windsor, were kept
closely drawn, so that not glimpse of the
sovereign could be seen. She still wears
deep mourning.
AMONG the Egyptian victims of the chol-
era, we regret to find the name of Madame
Marietta, the wife of the renowned French
Psychologist, who had followed her husband
in many of his scientific exploring expedi-
tons, and has resided for years at the foot
Of the Pyramids and in the desert Of Sahara.
BRIGHAM YOUNG some time since asked the
King of the Sandwich Islands to permit him
to send Mormon missionaries to the islands
To this the Sandwich Islands Secretary of
state replies that the Mormon tenets are sub
versive of good government and in violation
Of the laws Of the Kingdom, and that efforts
to establish a colony of the saints will not
be tolerated.
CAPT. CHARLES IT. MARSHALL, an old
and well known merchant of New York,
died in that city on Saturday. He COM
menced life as sailor al the age of Is, and
rose by degrees to the command Of vessel,
and fnallyt the joint ownership of the well
known Black Ball line of Liverpool steam
ers. When he commenced his sea-faring
life, his cash capital was II shillngs; at
his death he was one of the wealthiest men
in New York.
GEN. GRANT met with an enthusiastic re-
reption at Indianapolis on the 25th. upon
which occasion he made the longest speech
Of his life, as follows: (" Fellow citizens. la
dies and gentlemen: You are well aware that
am not n the habit Of making speeches, and
| am sure you would not want me to begin it
before so large a number Of people as / see
before me to-day. l simply say that thank
you kindly for this handsome reception, and
viii take my seat" Loud cheers greeted him
as he sat down.
CAPT. ANDERSON, of the emigrant ship
Villafranca, which lately arrived in New
York from London, has undergone an exam
ination before United States Commissioner
for legged cruelty to his passengers, and is
held for jury trial at $4,000 bonds The
Captain is described as dark visaged and
repnlsIve locking man, and the records Of
his crimes as Givulged in the testimony, full
" reyives the horrors of the middle passage.
The provisions dealt out to the passengers
were scanty, and intolerably bad, and there
was not enough water to quench their thirst,
while eleven cattle on board had all the wa
ter they required One witness testified that
women with starving and thirsty children,
implored his consideration Of their situa-
tom, but he swore that he cared nothing for
them. When the passengers complained,
the captain threatened to throw them over
board, and to hang them. Anderson would
not even allow them to secure rain water
and little child quenched its thirst by lick
ing the n-drops which fell on vessel its
mother was not allowed to use to catch the
rain.