Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-03-29
Personal and Literary.

CHAs. KINGSLEY, is preparing History
England for the b'hoys.
A NEW work by Ernest Renan, entitled
g The Apostles will Immediately appear
DIR. HOLLAND is said to have already re-
allied over $4,000 from the copyright of
his life of President Lincoln. -,
Ex-Gov. VANCE of North Carolina is at
his home stricken with paralysis on one
side, and with poor hopes of recovery.
A LONDON paper announces by the au-
thor of 'Prometheus Bound" Prone
theus Half Bound, to be followed Prone
| theus in cloth with gilt edges
Mas. SIdouRNEY published ffty-six books
during her life, beside more than two thou
! sand articles contributed to nearly three
hundred different periodicals. OH
| ., MISS BRANDON is about to turn editress
and take charge of new Magazine; not
bad name for it would be The Ponder Maga-
zine, although aIwag suggests THE Bon6G-
zine.
| Ex.-Gov. VANCE of. North Carolina, who
lately sustained paralytic stroke, has
nearly recovered from its effects, and is
again able to be out. The paralysis af-
fected the facial nerves only.
AN autograph letter of Marie Antoinetie,
written on four sides of paper, to Count de
la Marck, and not to be found in any collec-
ton, has just been sold by auction at Ber-
! lin, for the large sum of 1885,.
GEN. GRANT was invited after service in
Grace Church, New York, on Sunday, to
remain to hear the organ play. "No," re-
piled the general, g don't know one tune
from another, and would rather hear bass
drum than an organ, any day." ~ Il,
PRINCE ALFRED, Queen Viotoria's second
son, now young fellow Of 81 has just been
promoted to be Captain in the British
navy, and Parliament has granted him an
allowance of $4,000 year. He is talked
of as the Viceroy of the projected British
American aConfederacy. 25a'
AMONG collection of autograph letters
by Lord Byron, lately sold at auction in
London, was one in which he says: {" / hope
4 you will find me an altered parsonage, | do
not mean in body but in manner, for be-
gin to find out that nothing but virtue will
do in this damned world" It sold for sew
en- guineas. -
ALBERT PIKE, the rebel poet and Indian
! fighter, is at Little Rock, and evidently still
very unhappy. A correspondent of the
Lawrence Tribune says he recently heard
him declare that 'sall efforts at republican
government recorded in history were signal
failures that ours was the most complete
failure of all, and the sooner the free gov
eminent humbug was played out, the bet
ter" i. laY 1Eii211 5-s .6Etlf.5 ~.
Gnu PAX, late President of the See Yup
Company of San Francisco, died in that city
a few days ago. Mr.. Chu PAX was a very
wealthy gentleman of the Chinese persua-
sion, and died atithe mature age of sixty
nine. His funeral was splendid affair.
Long Tables were spread in the streets,
which were loaded down with sheep, goats
and hogs roasted whole, and decorated with
flowers, feathers,setc. Incense was burned,
bands played, prayers were said, dirges
sung, and the deceased enjoyed all the
honors of Celestial funeral.
THE walls inclosing the remains of Thorn
as Jefferson and his wife and children, be-
sides those of some relatives, are gradually
falling to the ground. The gate is left UNI
locked, and ingress can be obtained by
every vandal curiosity hunter disposed to
desecrate the tomb of Jefferson for the sake
of possessing u chip of the stone monument
covering his grave. 10 such an extent has
this petty larceny been carried that the
tombstone presents the appearance of a
broken piece of granite. Even the grave
stone of Mrs. Jefferson has not escaped
these thieves"