Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-12-20

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PRINCE ADELBERT, of Prussia, Is to be
sent to the United States to study naval
construction.
THE Baroness De Rothschild has gone to
Nice to spend the winter. She has gneiss
house in a Nice place.
President FAIRcHILD, Of Oberlin College,
and his wife celebrated their silver wedding
on Thanksgiving day.
STEPHEN IL. BRANCH has issued the first
number of a new paper called The GraUe
DlggeT, in New York.
QUEEN VICTORIA has ordered the Arch
bishop Of Canterbury TO draw up form Of
prayer to avert the cattle plague and the
cholera.
Henry WARD BEEcHER declines TO lecture
this winter, and has returned the money
advanced to him by committees and asso-
Citations.
FEW, probably, are aware that Robinson
Crusoe was originally published as serial
story in the London Post. 1t extended
through 1875 numbers.
q 4 PROPOSAL has been made to erect 8
handsome monument over the grave Of
Charles Lamb, in Edmonton churchyard.
A subscription paper has been opened.
ARrEMUs WARD is resping rich harvest
in England from his lectures. According
10 Ward, money, not virtue, has its own
s' ward"
Mr. WALTER, of the London Times, has
had interviews with the President and most
of the members of the Cabinet in Wash
ington.
NJ. GUsTAvE DoRE has been engaged TO
illustrate Edgar Allan Poe's celebrated
poem, "The Raven" The subject is pre-
cisely in his wild and fantastic vein.
HIRAM Powers has lately executed. in
Florence, large nude figure of "Eve after
the Fall, a work spoken Of as being finer
than either his California" or his "Greek
Slave"
Hon. PAUL A. CHADBoUREB, Professor of
Chemistry In Williams College, has been
elected President of the Massachusetts
Agricultural College, in place Of Judge
French, resigned.
SENATOR WILSON was baptised at Natick.
Massachusetts,, Sunday before last, and
united with tWenty-nine others with the
church at that point, Of which Rev. G. M.
Tyler is pastor.
TIE [ ouisville Journal has been printed
thirty-six years and the Boston Post thirty
four, and the editors 4who controlled their
columns at the commencement occupy the
same positions to-day.
Mn. JOHN THOMAS, we'll known as prac-
teal printer, died at his homo in New Jer-
sey, on Tuesday, in the sixty-second year
of his age. Mr.. Thomas ran the first CYL
inder press ever operated in this country.
Mr. JOSEPH BARKER, who is well known
in this country as an infdel lecturer, is q
candidate for orders in the English Church.
lie has been by turns Methodist preacher,
free-thinker, and dissenting clergyman.
DR. CHARLES CULLs, of the Vernon Street
Consumptives' Hospital, in New York, re-
ceived an envelope on Thanksgiving day
containing one hundred dollars and slip
of paper on which was written simply,
" Haggai g."
ERAsTUs STANDTsn, and his wife cele-
brated the sixtieth anniversary of their
marriage at Bozrah, Connecticut, on Fri
day, with a large gathering of their descen-
dants and friends Eight of the thirteen
living children and twenty eight grand
children were present.
GEN. HENNINGsEN is now making living
by distilling whisky, in Richmond, Va. If
bad luck, Gen. Henningsen is the man. He
has been on the losing side in no less than
four wars-the Carlist war, in Spain, the
Hungarian war, the Nicaraguan war, and
the late war in this country.
HENRY WARD BEEcHER is to receive from
Bonner $4,000 for the novel which he is to
write--or is writing-for the New York
Ledger early in next year, whereupon
the New York Sunday Dispatch publishes
the following neat epigram on Beecher
Ward Beecher engages. for Bonner and profit
TO " write for tho Ledger" a St0ryl What of it
His sister, we know, wrote of Ton" and his howell
Aud sBeeehers" must always be doing things-nope5.
THEY tell story of Emerson to the
effect that some person, being introduced to
him, begged an calculation of certain pas
s&ges in his essays. The guesser of truth
got no answer till after the author had
studied the page for while, and at last was
told that, though the writer did not then
know precisely what the passage in question
meant, he doubtless knew their meaning
when nc wrote them.
Mr. N. P. WILLIS, who has been an in
valid for some years, and who. for the past
year or so, has been unable to attend to his
professional duties, is now lying danger
ously i'll at his home, Id1ewild, on the Hud-
son. a letter written by Mrs. Willis, and
dated November 20, says: "Mr. Willis
fails ever day. He sleeps most of the time,
and continues to lose strength. / feel that
he may die at any moment" Mr.. Willis
was born in Portland, Me-, in 1907, and is
consequently in his Goth year.
The Ohio Repository published the follow
ing Mr.. John Saxton, the senior editor
- Ill rbo t4ad
torn nearly ffty-two years ago, and has
been its publisher ever since--now in
the seventy fifth year of his age-set
type on the message last night from eight
o'clock till midnight, putting up in that
time three thousand FIVE hundred ems. The
junior, who makes this note unknown to
the veteran editor, challenges any typo of
like age 10 show SO good record"
CHAs JACKSON and John Masters, con-
yicted in February, 1862, of placing OBJ
stru,tions on the Cleveland and Erie Road,
near Walnut Creek, have been pardoned
and released from d. Pennsylvania Peni-
tertiary They were sentenced to nine
years and nine months imprisonment, and
have been in solitary confinement at hard
labor for nearly five years. After this lapse
OF time it has been discovered that these
young men are really guiltless of the offence
for which they have been SO severely pun
ished.
LORENZO Dow, the itinerant preacher, so
famous in his lifetime for his eccentricity,
commencing his sermon on one occasion,
read from St. Paul, ." can dc all things"
The preacherpaased. took off his spectaoles,
laid them on the open bible, and said: "lll
bet you So you can't, and stake the money"
AT the same time, putting his hand in his