Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-28

a terrible series of accidents have oc-
Cured at the Lyons races. The last race
was grand steeple chase by the officers of
the regiment of Lancers. Six ran. They
started too rapidly, leaped the river and
the first wall, but at the first wall the Irish
horse turned complete somnersault with,
his rider, fell on the rider, crushing in his
breast, and the unfortunate gentleman's
life is despaired of. the second horse STUN
bled over the first, threw his rider on the.
head, killing him instantly. The third and
fourth horses cleared the wall and went on
The fifth horse stumbled over the first and
second horses which lay dead on the other
side of the wall, and dislocated his riders
shoulder. The sixth horse likewises STUN
bled, and his fiderwas one mass of bruises.
"A London letter says: sThere was
great deal of private gossip toward the lat.
ter end of last week, to the effect that the
intended marriage Of the~Princes Helena
with Prince Christian Of Denmark has been
broken off, in consequence OF his having
already contracted one Of those curious all
liances called smorganatic marriages.
Whether, there be any foundation for tn i
N0hhOO cHy LHlS-tuoG- IL 1o
generally said that he is not only married,
but the father Of six children moreover,
that he still lives with his left-handed wife.
Nevertheless the newspapers announced, on
authority. last Saturday, that the English
Princess is to be united to him on the 9Th
of July, in the private chapel at Windsor
Castle, and the Court milliners and others
are now busy preparing for the 'happy
LII l.. o4o
dignant that the good Queen should sane
ton bigamy. 1t runs in the Royal family
of Great Britain, on the male side, any way.
George the Eonrth was privately married to
poor Mrs. Fitzherbert, and, if scandal speak
truth, George the Third to Hanna Lightfoot,
apretty Quakeress.
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Personal and Literary ss-
r HORACE GREELEY is put down as one Of
the New York half milliouaires. -
= THE mother Of Senator Sumner died at
her residenc in Boston. on the 18TH, at
thesageof8 l. years r IL > X, 80. 80
THOMAS F. MEAGHER is publishing his
personal Recollections" in The Irish
People,
GENERAL GRANT has been invited to
visit about 96 places on the Fourth of July.
He is expected at as.
GENERAL STRoTHER ("Perte cCrsyon'')
has declined the proffered Consulate to
Buenos Ayres. g
BELLE BOYD recently made her debut at
Manchester, England, in the " Lady of Ly
ons," and failed.
LIEUTENANT GENERAL SCOTT is reported
to have said, in his last days, that he owed
whatever was good or great in him to his
mother.
PROF. AGAzzIs, with his wife, had re-
turned from the valley of the Amazon, and
at lecture given by him in Rio Janeiro the
Imperial family were in attendance.
LEUTzE is engaged on a new historical
picture, the subject of which is passage
in the life of Mary Queen of Scots. 1t re-
presents the first mass in Holyrood.
ANsoN BURLINGAME has purchased tract
of land near San Mateo of 1,l00 acres, and
proposes to become q resident Of California
az BOON as his mission to China is ended
NELIAs HOWE, the inventor and patentee
of the sewing machine needle, has declared
Ills purpose not to apply for an extension
of his patent, which runs out this year, on
the ground that he has made million and
half dollars on it already, which he re
CARDS as fortune enough for one man.
SOME oficious individual asked General
Sherman to call on the members of the
Southern Railroad Delegation from South
Carolina, now on q visit to Cincinnati, to.
whom the General replied - " Thank you,
no, did call on the gentlemen once, and |
think it is their turn to call on me now"
ANNA E. Dickinson has fulfilled her lee
turing engagements for the season, and is
now at her home in Philadelphia She has,
since the opening of the lecture season,
given one hundred and fifty three lectures,
and travelled nineteen thousand miles. She
will spend the summer at Rye Beach. ,.o;,,
; MEssRs D. APPLETON s. Co. Of New York
publishers of The american CycJop@dia, be-
coming uneasy at the rejection of that " ork
by the Indiana State Board Of Education,
have addressed letter to the Superinten-
dent Of Public instruction Of that State.
asking that errors in the article in relation
to- Indiana be pointed out, and promising
that they shall BE rectihed :sf Fl
ANNA DICKINSON, in woman's rights
meeting at Boston lately, gave some remin-
iscences of her early life. She had done
hard manual labor, had sewed, taught,
copied letters, sto I'd in the store, workedin
the Mint, before she chose the platform as q,
profession. Miss Dickinson brought down
the house by the statement that the first
money she ever earned was by scrubbing
walks 10 Philadelphia, and that she was
actuated to undertake the labor by 8 deter
mination to obtain the means to buy ticket
to. hear Wendell Phillips lecture. 1870
Il: GEN. SooTT's Headquarters in Mexico
comprised two rooms, one opening into the
other. In the rear room the General slept.
One night, after the General had retired,
one of the staff wanted some waters Il was
I'M the front room. The evening was warm
and the hour late, being near midnight:
The officer started to go in in his shirt4
sleeves. He was cautioned against the. ex-.
pertinent as dangerous one,s for if the
General caught him in his quarters with his
coat of, ). he Esnld. u1nish. him.4 .Lh off eeri
said he would risk it; thai the General was
asleep and he would make no noise. He
opened the door softly, and went on tip-toe
to the water pitcher. He had no time 10
drink before he heard the tinkle of the bell,
and the sentinel outside of the door entered.
g Take this man TO the guard house" was
the brief order, and the coatless officer spent
the night on a hard plank under guard.
Art and Science.
Red noses are light houses to wafnyoy-
ayers on the sea of life off the coast Of Ma
laga, Jamaica, Santa Cruz, and Holland.
1T annaara that the new variahle star