Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-01-18
Personal.

IT is rumored at Detroit, that General
Carl Schurz will be the editor of The Post,
the new Republican paper about being start
ed in that city, a<sA
ARLINGTON HEIGHTS still remains in the
possession of the Government, but it is said
that the wife of General Robert E. Lee, has
recently written to friend that she intends
to return there, sseven if obliged to live in
the black quarters" This is indi cative OF
the strength of her determination to re-
assert what she considers the right of her.
self and husband to this historic property.
The report that Gen. Hooker is hopeless
invalid, is contracted by 0. V. Barnard, his
brother-in-law.
PROF. MApEs, the well known agricultu-
rist is dead. Uta yl eAl- 1~
AT Philadelphia on the 7th, Mr.. Alexan-
der REIN, a German by birth, man of
ordinary size, and horse-tamer by pro-
fession, was united in marriage to Mrs.
Hannah J. Duke, TIM "Iowa Giantess" her
weight being 585 pounds. Among the bril-
dial party were Chang and Eng, the Samese
Twins.
JOHN C. HEENAN the s'Benicia Bow, has
returned to this country from England. He
refuses to enter the prize ring, of which he
has expressed an unfavorable opinion. but
hag gone into the billiard and horse-racing
circles, of which sports he is an ardent ad-
mirer.
VICTOR HUGO is threatened with deafness.
If he is married, he may not mind the
threat.
IT appears that Barring, the great London
banker is to be made peer.
IT is reported that Gen. Grant, remarked
during his recent visit to Raleigh, N. c.,
that in ten years the south would be richer
than before the war.
Gov. BRowNLow ..s slightly injured re-
Gently by railroad accident near Knox
vile. The injury was caused by car
which had become uncoupled from the train
and was thrown from the track.
THE title of Queen Victoria's new son-in-
law is his Serene Highness Prince Frederick
Christian Charles Augustus of Schleswig-
Holstein Sonderburg Augustenburg.
Ex-Gov. CLARK of Mississippi has de-
clined to receive any of the money which
has been raised by the people of his state
for the benefit of himself and Mrs. Jeffer-
son Davis.
THE Liberator of last week contains the
valedictory of VIM. Lloyd Garrison, who
announces that this is the last number, the
paper having been published thirty-fve
years. He says the object for which The
Li6srator was commenced has been glori-
ously consummated.
HARTFORD paper states that Mr.. J.
Dickinson Ripley, a nephew of Gov. Buck
ingham of Conn ecticut, was burned to death
on the steamer Commonwealth. He was
asleep in his state room, and could not be
aroused.
Mrs Hannah F. Lee, widow of the late
George Gardiner Lee, died in Boston on the
9th ult., aged IS years. She was the au-
thor of Tires Experiments to Living, and
other popular works.
The Empress Eugene, during her present
stay at Compiegne, is attracting much COM
ment by the great simplicity of her dress.
Her majesty receives her numerous visitors
on the day of their arrival in dress of
cashmere. Her ladies in waiting affect
like plainness in their attire, but the
example seems to be entirely lost on the
guests, who make as great q display as their
purses will permit.