Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-03
CURRENT ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.

EseTS0nd1 dEAA Literary
A PAPER has just been started in Texas
with the euphonious title Of q Se,ns- Weekly
Jsmplecute.
RAPHAEL SEMMEs, the pirate, recently re-
leased by order of President johnson, is
candidate for Judge Of Probate Of Mobile
county, Ala
THE New York papers record the marriage
on the 10th inst, Of Mr.. Norman Wizard,
the cannon maker, to Miss Mary Carlin, q
sister of VIM J. Florence.
IT is stated that Mr.. Charles F. Brown
(Artemus Ward) has received an offer Of
$40, 900 in gold, and his ordinary expenses,
for a lecturing tour in England Of six
months.
The Navy Department has given medal
to John Rountry, of Taunton, for risking
his life to extinguish fire in the room next
to the powder magazine on the iron-clad
steamer Montauk.
spANGLEa, Mudd and O'LeughIin, at last
accounts from the Dry Tortugas, are taking
their Imprisonment very philosophically,
and have conducted themselves So as 70 get
released from the heavy irons they have
been wearing.
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK is an enthusiasiasdc
teetotaler, and took occasion the other day,
when invited to show his remarkable pic
ture the Worship of 1acchus, 10 Her Maj
esty, 10 give Queen Victoria regular tenn
perance lecture.
L1TTgRs received in Boston from Profess
sor Agasaiz's expedition report that up to
February be had discovered fourteen hun
dred new SPECIES OF fish and other animals
lao h nv
reason TO expect.
Mr.. WIN. C. PETERS. the well-known mu-
sic- publisher, died suddenly IN Cincinnati
on the 2Ist The destruction by the late
Opera House FIRE, of his immense collection
of plates, the creation Of which had been
the labor Of bis life, no doubt FASTENED the
event His catalogue was the most extern
aive n the West previous to the conflaGra-
ton.
EDWIN FORESTS engagement in Califor-
MIA is for fifty nights, at 5 600 night.
The contract is the most extraordinary ever
made with any actor, either il this or any
other country, for the reason that on arriving
at California, Mr.. Forrest is bound to act If
he does not feel disposed to do so. while the
management makes it binding upon itself to
do its owp part. Madame Ponisi, Miss Lii
lie, and Mr.. Mccullough accompany the
tragedian.
THE Augusta tGeorgia) papers announce
the advent in that city or Miss Ann Eliza
Leak, who was born in that State without
arms. She is represented as exceedingly
attractive in her personal appearance. and
as exhibiting the most wonderful dexterlty
in the use of her feet. She writes with her
toes much better than most people do with
their hands, besides knitting, sewing, en-
bordering, crocheting, and doing oil KINDS
of needlework with astonishing ease and
rapidly.
THE difficult feat Of two men writing
novels, SIS Beaumont and Fletcher wrote
plays, and with the success which crowned
the Joint authorship OF those brilliant mast
ers Of our city drama feat never at
tempted, we believe, in England, and but
once in this country, when the late G. 2 r
James and Mr.. Maunsell 3. Field produced
between them forgotten novel, :" Adrian,
or Clouds of Mind this remarkable feat,
we say, has been, and sill is being, accom-
plished in France, by two writers of repute,
Emile Erckmann and Alexandra Chatr4in,
who have written together at least SIX
novels within the last four Or five years.
STURGEON, the great pulpit orator Of Eng
land has VIGOROUSLY drawn great deal Of
his eloquence from the Inspiration Of tobacco
smoke and beer. His appearance betokens
man inclined to anything but ascetism.
He has shown great persistenoy in resisting
the appeals of reformers with reference to
the two creature comforts I have named. A
few years ago, an auti-tobaoco delegation
waited on him, and laid their good old stock
arguments before him. When they had
done, Sturgeon replied that he had listened
attentively to their remarks, and this he
would promise them, that the very next
pound of tobacco he got be g would burn
it," The committee collapsed. They gave
him over as fuliginoMs reprobate. Eph..
rain was joined to his idols and his pipe
Then the teetotallers have fred their broad
sides into him for ten years; and like an
unconQuerable Briton he stood mentally
by his beer barrel. At last, however, he
has surrendered on the latter point. He
has sworn off from beer and greg; but he
will smoke.