Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-04-12
Personal and literary.

FRANK LESLIE, at his establishment in
New York, publishes eight illustrated peri
odicals, and keeps forty engravers con-
stantly employed.
GEN. SHERIDAN, after his recent Mexican
tour, stated his opinions sucoinctly and fore
IDLY, as follows: elf | owned h-ll and
Texas, would rent Texas, and live at the
other place.
MIR. STEPHEN SMYTH, father of Gov.
Smyth of New Hampshire, has voted for
governor Of that State fifty nine consecu-
tive years. His last vote was cast in 1866
for his own son.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER was once
pastor of congregation in Indianapolis
which was too poor to paint the church edi-
fee, and the young minister did the job with
his own hands.
Mrs. CHARLES, the author of the ''schon-
berg Gotta Family" is publishing serially
/ in an English magazine story entitled
''The Draytons and the Davenants: being
| the Personal Recollections of Mrs. Olive
Drayton of the Fen Country"
THE REV s r. BROWN, missionary from
this country to Japan, has translated the
| Gospel of Matthew into the Japanese lang
uage. Mr.. Brown was from Monson, Mass,
and his mother was the author of that fav-
orite hymn, GO l love to steal awhile away"
A WASHINGTON despatch of March %,
says; Miss Mary Harris, who, it will be
remembered, had trifing difficulty with a
Treasury clerk named Burroughs, some
time since arrived in town to-day en- route
for Richmond, where she has established
herself in the millinery business"
REV. HENRY WARD BEEcHER, in his last
political lecture, said: The kind and
patient MIR. Lincoln was cudgeled and
whacked by Congress, and he bore it with
patient spirit, reminding him of some
horses who merely act when cudgeled as
though it was to brush flies off. When they
commenced whacking Mr.. Johnson, they
found pair of heels through the dashboard,
and they left the wagon and took to trees
and bushes, crying Beast, brute, but since
then lad cudgeled more carefully"
MRS. LUCRETIA Mort, the noted Quaker
preacheress, in a recent Sunday lecture,
said the time was fast approaching for
women to ask higher recognition Of their
| powers in all the various relations of life.
| She thought there ought to be more equality
in the marriage relation that women
ought not to be required to promise ''to
|
obey" The marriage contract, says this
gentle Quakeress, ought to partake more of
the nature Of reciprocity treaty" between
the sexes than it does at present
A GERMAN paper publishes an anecdote
Of President Lincoln, which has not been in
| print in this country. Lieutenant, whom
debts compelled to leave his fatherland and
service, succeeded in being admitted to the
| late President Lincoln, and, by reason OF
his commendable and winning department
and intelligent appearance, was promised a
Lieutenant's commission in a cavalry regi-
ment. He was so enraptured with his sue
cess, that he deemed it duty to inform the
President that he belonged to one Of the
oldest noblest houses in Germany. " Oh.
never mind that" said Mr.. Lincoln, 'syou
viii not flnd that to be an obstacle to your
advancement"
A NEW JERSEY editor had occasion, q
few days ago, TO refer TO Prometheus; and
fearing that no intelligence Of this person
age could have come by the only route
known to that State, namely, Camden and
| Amboy. he proceeded to enlighten his read
ers as to the antecedents OF the legendary
| hero g Prometheus," he wrote, g was a
Roman, who was chained to rock for kill
ing and eating a yl.lture, the vulture being
considered, among the Romans, sacred
bird" If the great chief Of fire could have
ceny would be the New Jersey editor, he
would have allowed the human race to re-
main g left out in the cold"