Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1865-09-28
Personal.

'1oioh huHo anu MS SONS are Journey ing
on the Rhine.
GEN. JOE LANE is living on his farm in
Portland, Oregon.
WERz IS unwilling to have his photograph
taken. Should think he would be.
BARNUM has enlisted John Hanks and the
Lincoln cabin for the new Broadway Mu-
scum.
AT the Rock County wis Fair on Fri
day, Miss Laura Turley only ten years of
age, carried off the first prize for eques-
trianism.
ISAAC WILLIAMS, a Virginian, has been
sentenced to three year 5 Imprisonment, and
a fine of 81 900 for disregarding his oath of
allegiance.
BENNETT G. hurley, the Lake Erie pi-
rate, has escaped from jail at Port Clinton,
Ohio. A reward of 800 is offered for his
capture
The Rev. Mr.. Sturgeon de clares that Ro-
manism is gaining immensely in England,
and that London is now covered with net
work of monks and priests
THE great composer Rossini has just pub
lished declaration that the appropriation
ofhis melodies by the street organs, is some
thing to be proud of.
HARRY LESLIE announces that he will
carry chair and table out on his Niagara
Falls rope, and eat his dinner there. He
invites the public to dine with him.
GEN. FREMONT is about to take up his
residence in St. Louis, at the Brant man
sion on Choteau avenue, memorable as his
official head quarters in1S61.
BosToN CoRBErT has returned to New
| York, and works as a hat fnisher If he
| gives to his hat bodies as long a nap as he
gave Wilkes Booth, his works will become
popular.
A SON of the late President Polk is en-
| ployed with two blacks, the three at five
dollars per day, in taking care of mules
purchased by a Northern Spectator at the
army sales in Nashville.
! MADAME ANNA Bishop sailed last week
for California. After making concert
tour through the golden state, she goes
to India and Europe, and will return to this
country in about two years from this time.
JEFF DAVIS is to have distinguished ad-
vocate for pardon in the person of David G.
Burnet, first President Of the s'Republic of
Texas, . who has been invited by the heroes
Of San JacintO, to proceed on that errand to
Washington.
"A lady in Utica, who has recently lost
her husband and two children, caused the
death of her remaining child-a lovely
daughter of ten years-by administering
poison instead of the medicine which she
thought she was giving.
EMERSON ETHERIDGE will be tried by
court marshal at Memphis in q few days
| Hn 10 oh xUit ba
rebellion, defaming and holding up to in
fanny Gov Brownlow and President John
son, and Decorating the memory of the late
President Lincoln.
/ HARRIET MARTINEAU, now in her sixty
fourth year, continues to be the most active
and able contributor to the London Daily
Nes0s, and other publications, and the last
two volumes of her history of England dur
ing the great peace, are in press. The ac-
tivity Of this lady is imp alleled in the
annals of literature, particularly as she is
nearly as blind as Milton was, and also to-
tally deaf.
ANOTHER astronomer is dead Johann
Frederic Encke, Director Of the Royal OBJ
servatory of Berlin, has lately died in that
city. He was born in Hamburg in 1871,
studied at Gottingen, served in the Prussian
army, and after filing various political po-
sitons, he was appointed to his post in Ber
lin in 1925. He will be chiefly known by
his discoveries in regard to planet called
after his name, though it was first seen in
1913 by Pous.
RESIST THE BEGINNINGs.-Th Arabs have
fable of a miller, who was one day startled
by camePs nose thrust in at the window of
the room where he was sleeping.
at is very cold outside" said the camel !;
~ only want to get my nose in"
The nose was let in, then the neck, and,
finally, the whole body, Presently, the
miller began to feel extremely inconvenien-
ced at the ungainly companion he had
obtained, in q room certainly not large
enough for both.
eff you are inconvenience you may
leave" said the camel; as for myself, [
shall stay where [ am
The moral of the fable may be stated thus:
When temptation occurs, we must not yield
to it. We must not allow so much as its
"nose' to come in. lie who yields, even in
the smallest degree, will soon be entirely
overcome.
SCIENTIFIC. - DR.. Foster of Montpelier,
IId1iilo W hStfC oCCul ulOob loI =
tunate results by new treatment of phthi-
sis puhnonalis, and consumption in general
which he has recently discovered. He makes
his patients eat the flesh Of raw mutton and
of beef and drink alcohol weakened with
water, in small doses The meat reduced to
pulp, and relieved of its tendons, is admin
istered in ball, rolled in sugar or in sugared
pulp in a coffee spoon, at the rate of 100 or
300 grammes a day. If the thirst of the
patient is intense, it is slackened by drink
composed of 500 grammes of cold water with
sugar, in which 100 grammes of the pulp are
dissolved. Raw meat has a reconstructive
power, while the alcohol acts upon the blood
making organs.
JOSH BILLINGS, being duly sworn, deposes
as follows:
That most men had ruther dew smart
thing than tew dew good one.
That backsliding is a big thing, espeshul-
| ly ON the ice.
There IL 2 things in this life for which we
are never fully prepared, and that il twins.
That ignorance IL bliss-ignorance Of saw
ing wood, for instuns.
That men will tale tew be saved, simply
becoz they hain't got nothn' to save.
I That femail woman kant keep a secrit,
nor let nobody else keep /.
That q {. little farming IL a danperOns