Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-10-11
Personal and Literary.

WILKIE COLLINS, the author, is said to be
dying of consumption.
The New York Tribune has offered Dick
ems $4,000 to write novel for its columns
The second volume of Mr.. Greeley 8
american Conflict" which completes the
work, has just been issued.
DIR. LIVINGSTONE writes, July II, from
somewhere in the middle of Africa, that
he is well and "pushing along"
HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE thinks billiard
tables, nine pin alleys, ball playing, etc.,
under certain conditions, better than Sun
day Schools.
DAVID CLARK, of Hartford, has given
$4,000 to each of his five nephews who
served honorably in the war to suppress the
rebellion.
ROBERT BONNER has written an indignant
letter to the Milwaukee Wisconsin denying
charges of gambling made against him in
that journal.
THE Independent has stopped printing Mr..
Beecher's sermons, but the World gives
them in in full, although they do not now
contain any politics.
IT is said in Providence. Rhode Island,
that Mrs. Kate Sprague, daughter of Chief
Justice Chase and wife Of Senator Sprague,
is about to apply for divorce.
LOUIS NAPOLEON is over sixty years of
age; his death, therefore, ought not to be
considered as an event unlikely to occur be-
fore many more years have passed.
MISS MARIA S. CUMMINs, authoress of
the "Lamplighter," mabel Vaughan"
and other well known works, died at Dor
chester, Mass, on the 18th inst.
Mr. WALTER, late M. P. for Berks, and
the proprietor of more than half the shares
of the London Times, started with his son
in September for tour in the United
States. fr
THE portrait of the late Joshua r. Gid
dings, painted by Miss Ransom, of Cleve
land, and purchased by Congress for 81 900,
is to be placed in the rotunda Of the Capitol
at Washington. f
REV Dr. CHAPLIN recently said in SER
mon: ssThe resurrection of Christ trans
formed the interrogation point of the phil
osopher into the exclamation point of the
Christian"
THE King of the Sandwich islands is
breaking down. He manifests a constant
desire to sleep, and fears of his brain soft
ening are felt. If he dies, Queen Emma will
succeed to the throne.
MRS. FORD of Monroe county, KY, gave
birth, on the 10th ult., to three children,
all boys, weighing y pounds each. All are
living and healthy. Names, G. D. Prentice,
Gen. Lee, and jeff. Davis.
GEN. GRANTS pay is $18 678 per year,
and Lieut.. Gen. Shermans $13,518. Each
Is allowed fifty horses. A Major General
gets SIS, 300 per year, and is allotted five
horses. The pay of a Brigadier is $780,
so.
CHARLES BEADER, of Philadelphia, who,
years ago, compromised with his creditors,
and received legal discharge, recently in
vited them to @ dinner at the Continental,
and paid each creditor the full amount of
his Indebtedness.
"EcoE Homo !" has reached its twelfth
thousand in England, and the demand still
continues. The authors name is not yet
known; but if he prefers profit to fame, he
is probably satisfied, for it is announced
that his publishers have already paid him
$780, ZOO.
Coz. LEASE, who has been appointed
United States Marshal for the State Of Cal
ifornia, settled at Los Angeles, California,
in 1868. He erected the first house in
zebra Buena (now San Francisco), and
raised the first American flag that was dis
played in that city.
THE Boston Transcript announces that a
new magazine, edited in Boston, but pub
lished in New York, is about to appear.
I" All it's articles will be anonymous it will
aim to develop new authors" and its to be
under the editorial control of lady and
gentleman very widely known in literature,
- namely, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and ED
mund Kirke," Il. R. Gilmore.)