Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-21
Personal.

QUEEN VICTORIA has gone to Germany
to make match for one Of her daughters.
IRA ALDRIDGE, the celebrated mulatto
actor, who has made great sensation IN
England, and on the continent as Otheiio
and Shylock, and other famous characters,
and who has been decorated with orders
and marks of distinction by the King of
Prussia, Emperors of Russia and Austria,
and King of Sweden is engaged to reap
pear in London at the Haymarket Theatre
Mrs Aldridge is not colored11y.
THE editor of French paper, in speak
ing of the dedication ola cemetery near Ly-
ons said that IN. Gascoigne had the pleas
ure Of being the first individual who was
buried in this delightful retreat"
THE expedition of Professor Agassiz to
Brazil, promises most important results to
science, particularly in the discovery OF
glaciers, and in the departments of mine
ralogy, geology, botany, technology and
natural history generally.
LUclE MAUREL GRAssAU a French ac-
tress, died recently at the age OF 10 having
been during 81 years actively engaged on
the stage, and with considerable success.
She was native of Lyons.
JUDGE HALLIBURTON, better known as
'sSam Slick, - from his humorous work en-
titled, s.The Clockmaker, or Sayings and
Doings Of Samuel Slick Of Slickville, F" died
at the end of last month in England, at the
age Of 62 years. He was native of Nova
Scotia.
JUDAH ?. BENyAMIN, the notorious rebel
who, with his usual cowardice, made his
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captured. has arrived at Southampton,
where his co-religionary, the mayor of
that city, will probably invite him to his seat
in the synagogue. He is one of the worst
specimens of the tribe of Ben amin, and is
very appropriately named after Judas
COLCHESTER, the Spiritualist, took out %
license as .:juggler, in Buffalo on oatur-
day last. He paid 500 for it, and is allowed
to practice until May next
THE Hon. Horatio Seymour is one of the
delegates to the Episcopal convention which
meets in Philadelphia in October.
THAT grim old hero worshipper, Thomas
CARLYLE, has left London for Scotland to re-
store his health, which is worn ont by hard
WORK on his history Of Frederic the Great.
CARLYLE is now seventy years old, and has
always been dyspeptic and atrabilious.
MISS HANNAH f. GOULD, the poetess, died
at her home in Newburyport on Tuesday.
She was born in the last century, the first
volume of her poems was published in 1882
and she has continued to be prolific writer
both in prose and verse, until quite recently
Her poems are characterized by q strong re-
lioious sentiment, and she has written much
and acceptably for children.
A COFFIN was lately discovered in Sussex
England, in the course Of excavations near
Bosham church, which is reputed by English
antiouarians to contain the remains Of the
Youthful daughter Of Canute, the first DAN
ish King of England.
A correspondent states that Maj. Gen.
Hooker was to be married on September y,
! to Miss Groesbeck Of Cincinnati, sister of
Judge W. 9. Groesheck, ex-member Of Con
gress Miss Groesbeok enjoys an income OF
| $4,000 per annum.
| MARTIN FARoUAR upper, has turned
on his enemies the critics and punsters by a
pun which would do credit to the best of
them. He calls their attacks upon him, ''Vi-
upper alton" Excellent, Martin.
THE Hon. Samuel Hooper, NJ. c., of Bos-
ton, one of the wealthiest and best men in
Massachusetts, has just given $4,000 to the
Harvard University to found school of
mining and practical geology. It is to be
opened on the first Monday in October.
THE Hon. John Van Buren, is now on an
extended western tour. Very probably he
4 will 60 as far as Nebraska.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS, formerly of Illinois,
is at present visiting San Francisco after an
absence in Mexico of two years, during
which time he has been Superint endent of a
mine in the State Of Sinaloa He will soon
visit the Atlantic states
SEVENTEEN autograph letters of Cardinal
Rcheieu, six of them to the celebrated Ma
rion Deorme, who figures in Bulwer's drama.
have been discovered in Paris. They were
found in secret drawer Of an ancient piece
Of furniture.
JENNY LIND has founded subyention
of 1000 rixthalers for worthy artists, to be
awarded annually for the purpose of study
ing music.
| JOHN C. BRECKENRIDGE, the rebel, is now
sojourning in Canada, exchanging sympa-
thies with George Sanders and other ske-
daddling conspirators and traitors.
Mr.. e. G. DAILY of Barkhamsted, a clerk
in the treasury department at Washing
ton, was the happy father of pair of twins,
which weighed when born, one pound each.
| One died, and the other, now seven weeks
| old, weighs two and ore half pounds. He
is probably employed in the fractional cur
rency department"
CALEB CUSHING is in Milwaukee, being
engaged as counsel in railway suit in the
United States district court in that place.
OLE ANDREAs HANSEN, the Russian giant
formerly curiosity in Barnum's museum,
went on ga spree" the other night in New
York He is eight feet, one inch tall and
large in proportion, so that his capacity for
beer drinking rather astonished the inn keep
ers whom he patronized He finally went
| to sleep, and was then arrested by single
bold policeman.
On Friday evening, Ed'lle Zanfretta, one
| of the female riders in the New York circus
exhibiting at Jersey City, while riding a
double act, fell from the horses, and was
badly injured by the animals trampling on
her neck and shoulders. The flesh was con-
siddrably lacerated hit no bones were bro
ken.
Bennett of the New York Herald is sew
enty years old.
GEN. Fremont is turning his attention to
Missouri, and designs establishing at ST.
Louis, the manufacture of railroad iron,
railroad engines and rolling stock. He is
President of the Missouri company, corpo-
ration chartered in 1864 by the Legislature
and that company viii as soon as the proper
arrangements can be made, enter into that
business.
A BOY of fifteen lately committed suicide
in London because the servant maid took
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