Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-05
Personal and Literary.

QUEEN VICTORIA has given sitting for
the portrait which she intends to present to
Mr.. Peabody.
BARON JAMES de Rothchild has forty
thousand volumes and great many rare
manuscripts in his library.
DAN RICE, the circus clown, is nominated
as the Johnson candidate to represent the
Nineteenth District of Pennsylvania.
STEWART, the merchant prince in New
York, reports an income last year of 81, 1885,
600, upon which he is to pay a tax of over
100000.
A NEW edition of "Tupper's Proverbial
Philosophy" completing the two hundredth
thousand of that popular work, is dedicated
to Mr.. Gladstone.
IT is rumored that VIM. B. Aston, who
to erect an equestrian statue to the dead
hero in Central Park, New York.
Mr. VIM. JEssUP, the celebrate Sheffield
(England) cutlery manufacturer, is now in
st. Louis, attending to business with his
branch house there. Mr.. Jessup is report
ed to be worth twenty millions.
THE St. Louis Democrat says: "We un-
derstand that Mr.. Jas. Shea, who died day
before yesterday, left his whole fortune
over 500, 000-to the Sisters Hospital. He
had frequently been nursed in that excellent
institution"
A WASHINGTON letter says: "There
seems to be but little value to money here
The cost of living is exorbltant. One mem
Der of Congress, Mr.. Dodge of New York,
who ousted Brooks] with his family, SER
wants, and horses, lives at one of the hotels,
and pays for his living one hundred and
eighty dollars per day"
THE Rev. Henry Ward Beecher crawled
through a pipe of his new church organ,
the other day, on challenge of one of his
flock. He came out covered with dust and
sweat, and exclaimed, as he touched the
floor, 81 want no man to tell me anything
about this organ. know all about it.
have been through it,
We CLEAN from our exchanges that during
the past two weeks Abraham Lincoln was
shot in row in New York, George Wash
ington detected as q chicken-thie in Bos-
ton, Andrew Jackson whipped his wife in
Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin robbed a
bank in New Hampshire, and George B.
Mcclellan died of the measles in New Jer-
sey.
1OoN0 hEISdUMs Iuc lUTKeT, continues 10
behave himself at Sing Sing Prison, New
York. He makes very creditable book
keeper in the shoe department. His faith
er's family and his wife visit him very reg
ularly, and he is in constant receipt of let
ters from old business companions. He is
not confined to the rule of silence generally
maintained in prison. but is allowed every
possible privilege, being looked on as the
victim of circumstances rather than as d
studied malefactor. /
! THE New York Citizen says: "Mr
Greeley, it is believed, will complete, with
in the present month, his second and con-
Guiding volume of The Amer can Conflict,
/ being history, both political and military,
of the recent rebellion. The sale of his
/ first volume has only been limited by the
| productive powers Of the publishing house;
and we are glad to believe the author, from
| this work alone, will derive fortune amply
enabling him to carry out his favorite pro
ject of ceasing work, save as pastime, and
going off somewhere fishing"
The Cincinnati Commercial has an ac-
| count of a family meeting of the Kumlers in
Millville. Ohio. 1t was held on the estate
| of Mrs Susan Kumler, who is now in her
eighty-seventh year. According to The
Commercial she has now living two hundred
and thirty descendants of blood, as follows:
Eleven children, eightyfour grandchildren
one hundred and thirty-two great-grand
children, and three great great grand-chil-
dren, with ffty-two by marriage. making
total of two hundred and eighty-two. OF
this number two hundred and four were
present.
A GOOD story is told of Wigfall, who, at
the collapse OF the rebellion, fell into the
vicinity of party of Union soldiers in
Texas. Being well disguised, he entered
1 freely into conversation with the soldiers OF
/ the guard, and, in the course of the CONVEX
sation, asked what they would do with old
Wigfall if they were to catch him. "Oh,
we would hang him, certain" was the re-
ply. "And you would serve him right, .
replied Wigfall. I" If l should be with you,
have no doubt should be pulling at the
end of tie rope myself" The double en-
tendre was not suspected, and its wit was
therefore lost, but it is worth producing
now.