Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-05-31
CURRENT ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.


Ex-senator D. L. YULEE has been elected
President of the Florida railroad.
THIRTY per cent. of the beautiful paper on
which the Scientific american is printed is
of wood pulp.
THE Rev. John s. C. Abbott of New
Haven has realized $4,000 from his history
of the war.
WILLIE, the only surviving member of the
murdered Deering family, is to be supported
and educated by some liberal Philadel-
phians.
BEN. B. BRENcH, Jr., engineer of the
Capitol extension at Washington, was mar
ried recently. That was capital extension
on his part.
A SAN DIEGO, California letter says that
Gen. Rosecrans is daily expected there, and
that ne will probably become permanent
resident of the place.
GEN. NEAL Dow, Of Portland, has taken
passage for England, whittier he goes upon
the invitation Of temperance men in Great
Britain, to urge the Importance Of pro-
hibitory liquor law.
"MARK TWAIN" the Artemus Ward Of
the California press, was formerly printer
in the Office of the Muscatine Journal. His
real name is Samuel Clemens, and he IS a
brother of Orion Clemens, once part pro
prietor of the Journal establishment.
DIR. J. G. HOLLAND (Timothy Titcomb)
has retired from the Springfield (Mass.) Re
publican, with which he has been connected
for many years. He intends spending next
year in Europe, and viii hereafter devote
his energies to literary pursuits exclusively,
untrammeled by the cares and responsible
ties Of newspaper connection.
GEORGE PEABODY has received all manner
of attention since his arrival from England
in this country. The last person who IA
vored him with assurances Of high consid-
GRAFTON is the Revenue Assessor, who has
notified him to make return of his income
since September, 1862, for the purpose of
taxation, under the revenue laws Of the
United States. .l@51l
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT has some curl
GUS ways. At odd moments he invites his
friends to gymnastic exercise. "Can you
do that?" he said to much younger man,
suiting the action to the word by lifting
himself to the top OF the sanctum doors by
sideways, varying the sport by grasping
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more difficult position.
"ALL1GAToR Stephen H. Branch,
announces himself in the New York papers
as candidate for member of Congress. He
says: 81 am an orator, and yearn to roar
in the Capitol, and clap my wings like
Shakespeare's rooster or the eagle On his ce-
lestial cliff, rrF
Gazing at the prey.
My arrows did Stay.
JOHN RANDOLPH is said, upon one occa-
sion, to have visited race-course near the
city of New York. A fash looking stranger
offered to bet him $500 upon the result of
the race, and, introducing his companion,
said: "Mr. Randolph, my friend here,
Squire Tompkins, will hold the stakes "
"But, sir" squeaked the orator of the Ro-
anoke, "who will hold Squire Tompkins
after give him my money ?"
GOVERNOR SUFFER-, the first discoverer of
gold in California, is supported by pen
sion from the State; Comstock, who found
and gave his name to the great silver lode
in Nevada, is vagrant trespasser in Mon
tana; Alva Gould, locator of the Gould &
Curry claim, is making shingles at Washoe
Valley; Marshall and Wemer, who found
the first gold on the South Fork of the
American River, in 1847, are both reduced
to biting poverty. The list might be largely
extended, and is not encouraging to gold
hunters.
THERE is magistrate in town in Iudi-
ana named H lser. A clergyman in the
same place was called upon by a young
couple not long since, wishing him to join
them in the holy bonds of matrimony. He
asked the bridegroom "a soldier, by the
way, flor his marriage license. The man in
blue said he had been engaged to his girl
for four years, and thought that would do
Clergyman thought not, and remarked as
the speediest way to obtain license, "you
had better take your girl and go to Helser.
''You can go to hi YOURSELF" retorted the
veteran, and without further advice left his
presence.
ONLY day before his death. Thurlow
Weed Browa, the great temperance advo-
cate, indited his last editorial correspon-
denoe, consisting of the following note, ad
dressed, as he usually addressed his edito-
rial letters, to his sister Emma, who was
associated with him in the publication Of
the Wisconsin Chief:
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
THE OAKS, April 29, 1866.
EEMA: am told, and readily believe that
| walk no more among the living. To those
who have been so kind to me and mine, |
invoke Gods choicest blessings, and give my
wasted hand IL feeling goodbye to all.
The battle is over. THE SENIOR.
AN interesting question in law, involving
a considerable sum of money, has just been
decided in Connecticut. By the will Of the
late Colonel Colt, five hundred shares of
stock in the Colt Arms Company were
given to his brother, Judge James B. Colt,
for life; similar gifts of the same stock
were also made to other persons; and by
subsequent clause of the will, all the resi-
due of the stock in that company, of which
he should die possessed, was to be distri-
outed among those legatees in proportion
to their respective legacies. A codicil re-
voked The legacy of five hundred shares to
J. B. Colt, but did not say anything about
the residuary proportion of the stock be-
Gueathed by the subsequent clause. That
was accordingly claimed, and the claim has
been sustained by the Supreme Court of
the State. who have just awarded to Judge
Colt, for life, 574 shares Of the stock, with
the dividends on it since Colonel Colts
death, amounting to $4,000.
4 CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati Com
msrcia1 gives this hitherto unpublished an
ecdote of Abraham Lincoln: Once when
conversing with the Hon. J. A. Briggs, the
Ohio State Agent, he said: g Why, Briggs,
believe there is even a system OF female
brokerage in Offices here il Washington, for
l am constantly beset by women Of all sorts,
high and low, pretty and ugly, modest and
the other sort. Here, yesterday, a very