Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-21
Personal and Literary.

ARTEMUs WARD sailed for England on the
9th, in the steamer City of Boston.
MADAME DEMoREsT, the fashion lady, is
out in a letter against women's rights.
THAD STEVENS was in his seat on the 18th,
having left a sick bed to be present at the
action on the constitutional amendment.
SINCE the bar-rooms are shut ap on Sun
day, some Of the New York BARRIERS have m
vented a new hair tonic-for the beard
which is applied just under the moustache.
The Washington Star of recent date
says: g Gen. Banks and Senator Sprague
appeared in the new style Hutchinson fami-
ly shirt collars, to day, eliciting much ap-
probation from the ladies' galleries.
A LETTER from Fortress Monroe says:
g Mrs jeff Davis is almost daily in receipt
of money. sent her by sympathizing friends,
through Adams Express The express
agent tells NE that these contributions
sometimes amount to $500, and $1,000
per day"
The Paris correspondent of Boston pa
per tells this story 6 heard the other
day of mot of Miss Cushman's. Some
one said TO her while recently in Paris,
Miss Cushman, were you born in Boston 2
IF had not been l would hang myself
with my garter.
l. THE Southern journals are not very hap
I ply in their illusions to the demise of Gen.
Scott. The Richmond Enquirer remarks:
ssThe papers of the North are sounding his
eulogies. To the citizens of his mother
State, it belongs only to repeat the proyerb,
De morfuis nil nisi bonuna. Let him sleep in
peace"
ANEW YORK letter says of Morris Ketch-
UNI, the old fnancier: "He has departed
from the abode of his glory and shame.
You can see the wreck of the firm stored
in half fixed and rather small room.
mighty fnancier Frustrated by the criminal
folly of boy? The old mans face is sadly
changed. There are faint traces of the
former fire; but the proud bearing has de-
parted" ..
THERE are two Unitarian churches in
Chicago. The pastors names are Collyel
and Collier, and are pronounced exactly
alike Both were Methodist ministers be
fore they became Unitarians The formers
initials are R. L., and the latters r. Boil
are Roberts. Not long since the latter, wht
is an Englishman, received by mistake
letter belonging TO the former, which he re
marking that there was no g (HE)L in hi
name, or ell in his theology"
WHEN the now famous Gustave Dore
whose illustrated Bible is so popular, wa
in school, he paid but little attention to hi
books save to illustrate their margins. HI
, had the burlesque spirit then His father
an engineer, deplored his sons indispositior
to study, and went with him to one 81. Pills
ton, who appreciated the genius of the lad
and who, III order to. convert the family b.
practical argument, said: . l undertak,
to make him earn annually 6,000f. from to
day" Mr.. Dore's income now amounts Il
$4,000 f., and he is still very young man
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York Tri
. bgne, writing from the City of Mexico
, says: az The Emperor, a man of thirty
: seven years old, is one of the largest mel
in the city; tall straight, and well proper
toned, an expert in all manly exercises, es
pecially as a horseman and swordman, ane
possessed of immense physical strength
|. which when he chooses to exercise il, ex
cites the admiration of his staff and tbs
French Zouave officers, nearly all of whom
, have been raised from the ranks for sigma
acts OF daring. in which bravery and per
sonal endurance we're required. His fae'
!, is broad, refined in its expression, ana
beaming with good humor; and above all
there is a look of genuine benevolence and
kindness which seldom fails to win those