Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-11-01

of the i'll fated Evening Star. she had es- 4
( tablished an extensive and fashionable
maisoN de grissttesin New Orleans, and was
returning to that place from visit to Phila-
delphia, Baltimore, and Boston, where she
| had collected a fresh troop of young girls,
known as nymphs du Pave, whom Mrs. Cum
ningham was con veying to the Crescent city,
in ordersto promote her nefarious business,
which was assuming vast proportions. This
-naaitresse- du salon has gone to the bottom OF
| the ocean, in company with thirty employees
and CO. workers in crime.
Pers onaI and Literary. Il
MISS KATE BArEMAN's married name is
Mrs. Grow.
III is said that Artemus Ward gets $75
letter from Paiach.@ -
AGAssIz, the great Professor, is rapidly
putting in shape for the press his "Travels
in Brazil" "a s. ~ -
HOLMES is busy over his new romance,
the first instalment of which will appear In
the January atlantic Monthly. -
GARRISON, still far from being in robust
health, works away daily at his History
of the Anti-Slavery Movement in America"
Mrs. JULIA WARD HowH,is deep in "Fate,
Freewill, and Foreknowledge. probably
| for the benefit of the readers of the Ctras-
tan Examiner or her new magazine.
Mr.. C. L. DABoLL, inventor Of the fog
trumpet, died at New London, on the 18th
inst, aged forty-eight years. lie was the
son of Nathan Daboll, the maker of "Da-
bolts Arithmetic"
MIR. STURGEON publishes note to say
that it is true that he has been offered
100000 to found an "Orphanage," but
lahat the lady was not the Duchess of Suth-
erland, as was reported.
GEORGE PEABODY has given $4,000 to
Harvard College for the purpose Of build
ing ana maintaining museum and profess
sarship of arch @ology and etymology, in
connection with that university.
EMERSON is reading the proof sheet of
his new volume of poems to be published
this autumn by Ticknor s. Fields. The title
of the neM book'is "MayDay, and other
Pieces" Two long poems lead off the vol
ume. r.-+..
LoNGFELLow has finished his translation
of the Divine Comedy, and is still preparing
the notes and Illustrations. The whole
work will appear in few months, proba-
bly,. His "Flower de Luce" is in the
bindery. aJc91 .fe2bod
LOWELL has at last completed the "Sec-
ond Series of Biglow Papers" and having
added most piquant Introduction Of some
hundred pages to- the Volume, he is now
writing story in verse fors hessAtlantic
Monthly. i ~ 1a'tzt-'
CHARLES READE has, says the New York
correspondent of the Hartford Press, at
once commenced his suit against Mr.. Sweet
ger, the proprietor of the Round Table, for
the alleged libel concerning "Grifith
Guant."
GENERAL NEAL Dow, of Portland, Maine.
recently spoke at session of the English
Social Science Cong ress, set apart for the
benefit Of the workingmen. There was
such noise and row made that not word
could be heard. "a g~...--rzr
LORD BRoUGHAM has talked with lady
who lived in the reign of Charles II. She
was his great-great-aunt, who died at the
age of 1O6, IN the year 1889 Longevity
runs in the. Brougham family. Lord
Brougham's grandfather died at SO, and his
mother at 80.
/ EDWIN FoRREsT's health has greatly i'm
proved since he went to California. Before
going into the interior of the State, he acted
thirty-fve nights in San Francisco, for
which he received twenty thousand dollars.
He will not return to the Atlantic States
I till next spring.
Mrs. PARTINGToN { B. P. Shillaber) has
written to Miles O'Reilly, encouraging him
in the effort to get.the Office of City Regis
ter of New YORK. Darlington says "The
denomination is the most unacceptable that
could be made''-meaning, may be, unex-
ceptionable.
GENERAL LEE accepts the notes of all
I students who are unable to pay the fees at
Washington College, believing that young
men who receive their education under such
circumstances will pay when able. There
have been eight hundred applicants for
admission to the college this season.
Mr. ]. TAFFINGER, the fortunate possessor
4ofsthe eighteen Thousand dollar prize in the
recent soldiers and sailors gift concert at
Washington, is fireman on board of the
steamboat Susquehanna, of the Panama
ferry, plying between Few York and Jersey
City. John says he will continue to stoke,
as he can't afford to lose forty dollars per
month. sa Il re
MILE. ADELINA PATTI commenced her
winter season at the Italian Opera in Paris,
| in "Somnambula," and was received with
storms of applause. The best part Of the
house is now paid for at the rate Of twenty
francs the seat--a price no other singer has
been able to bring. She is the fortune of
the house.
ONE of Mr.. Lincoln's Secretaries, in his
white House Sketches tells of a personal
popularity in him we have not seen men
toned. His writing was done when alone,
and was rarely corrected, either by himself
or Others He composed slowly, and when
done, was accustomed to read his manu-
script over aloud, "to see how it sounded,
as he could herdly judge of thing by
reading it." a., os,.. .s.s
Mr. CHARLES F. Brownies letters in
Punch are considered successful in England,
which is great deal more than they are
here. The first of the series was 80 poor
that we doubt if any American comic jour-
nal would have published it. The second
/ was rather better, but not up to the mark Of
Artemus Ward. Mr.. Browne has taken
Egyptian Hall, in London, and is about to
give hisllectures.2 fTG Sacn9q
: NJ ADoLPHUs HUARD, of Paris, has pub
lished biography of Charlotte Corday, who
Ii killed the infamous Marat on July ID, 1898,
and was gniAotined for the deed. From
} this it appears that, instead Of being Nor
mandy peasant, as generally believed. she
was noble by blood asiweu as intellect,
!. and that younger sister of Corneille, the
dramatic poet, was among her ancestry.
J An elder cousin of hers, who survived until
! 1881, remembered Charlotte as one who was
t grave or gay, reserved or loquacious, seri-