Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-07
CURRENT ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.

Personal and Literary.
The widow of johnson Hatch, says ths
| Maine Democrat, late Of Wells, now upward:
! Of seventy years Of age, relates the follow
| ing curious fact. Something more thar
thirty years since she heard a discussion il
relation to how long the terminating prin
ciple in corn would continue sound anC
cool She resolved to try the experiment
AID prove the fact She selected a nice
sound ear of corn and planted few kernels
from it every year for thirty years. Every
year for twenty nine years the corn grew
and fourished, but the thirtieth year i
failed to come up or sprout at all
WILLIAM NORTH was once asked by the
editor of the paper with which he was con
nected, to write leading article opposing
the temperance movement, which was then
making a great stir IN New York. "Write
me good one, and 1 will give you twenty
dollars for it," said the editor. "Now how
long do you wish 2" enquired North. GAS
short as you can make it," was the reply.
North sat down Immediately, and wrote the
following: ave would rather see the whole
world drunk Of their own accord, than one
man sober on compulsion." The twenty
dollars were Immediately handed over, and
the paragraph published as leader.
A BRILLIANT genius is writing for the
Kosciusko Star novelette, entitled "The
Georgia Gal; or Who Sole my Coolers "
"JosH BILLINGS" new book has this pre-
face: "This book wuz got up tew sell, ~but
if it don't prove tew be sell, | shant worry
about it," The volume is dedicated to Dea-
con Uriah Billings, with the hope that she
ma hav the strength to stand it,"
THE Round Table says that "every new
proof" of Mr.. Lougfellows translation of
Dante, Gas it comes from the press, is sub
jected to the scrutiny of chosen circle Of
critics, suggestions noted, and the objections
considered
THE Reno Times, one Of the most able Gil
papers in the country, has recently sus-
pended. tALlet l4<4t So.
GEN. GRANT told correspondent who
called to see him lately that he was breaking
smoked eighteen to twenty cigars day,
but now he smokes only nine OF ten.
THE Selma (Ala.) Messenger states that
Robert Bonner recently explained his sue
cess with the New York Ledger as follows:
:" found that the reading public wanted
trash. | have given it, and you see the re-
suit. I engaged Edward Everett, Henry
Ward Beecher, and other distinguished men
to write for my paper, only stipulating that
they should write trash. They complied
with my condition, and now you have the
secret in nutshell"
The notorious Stephen Fl. Branch has APP
pied to Collector Smythe, of New York, for
office in the following letter:
To Mr. smythe Collector of tn Port of New York;
Dear Sir-will yoa have the kindness and charity to
give me an office to enable me to get pork and
beans, or liver hash? My pants, too. in bad
way, and my landlord wants lis rent. Fer God's sake
do relieve II you will, will attend your funeral
(f you die rs and fertiiZe your grassy hillocks with
tears Of gratitude Irefer your bosom friends Rich
ard B. Connolly and Henry j. Raymond, for a know
ledge OF my character, who my friends.
With extreme affection,
STEPHEN II. BRANCH.
THE Daily News, New York; makes pub
lie a story of deception and crime seldom
met with 1t appears that when Mrs Gen.
Eaton, so famous as the leader of social
and fashionable life in Washington during
the administration Of President jackson, be-
came widow in England, she returned to
this country and took up her residence.
boy and girl, and with a competence amount
ing to at least 100000 was living very
happily. At length an Italian adventurer
named Bourgani was employed as a dancing
master for the children, and they took such
a liking to him that they prevailed on the
grandmother to have him introduced to the
home. The result was that he married Mrs.
Eaton, and succeeded eventually in getting
e Ill ~ j ~
stop here, but prevailed upon her to place
IN his charge the property she had set apart
for her grandchildren, of which he had the
full use and benefit. He finally succeeded
n corrupting the girl, and sailed for Eu-
re pc last Wednesday, taking her with him
rs has wife. He left a note for Mrs Eaton,
IN which he told her that he had converted
Ill her property into cash, and would allow
ler $50 per week, if she you'd keep the
natter quiet. 0
THE personal appearance of Santa Anna,
Who is now in New York, is thus described:
9 He is man Of about five feet nine inches
n height, apparently some sixty years of
age, with dark hair, slightly tinged with the
chill destroy erst ouch, aud strongly marked
'eatures, typical of the intelligent Mexican,
md the resolute, self-reliant man of the
world. He wears no beard, SO that the
,hara cter Of the lower portion of his fea-
ures is readily legible. Although he uses
4 cane in walking, a casual observer would
act suspect that the General had but one /
carna' pin to stand on, the other, it is
we'll known, being, like toper's last drink
On Saturday night under the new excise
law, " corker.
AMONG the many and enrolling pursuits
lately developed by the Prince Of Wales is
mania for going to fires. 1t is said. there
has not for some time been confagration
in London, at which be has not been pres
ent. 0EE f31r
THE friends of Mr.. William Lloyd Garris-
on propose raising fund of $4,000, to be
presented to him in token of their appre-
citation Of his labors in the anti slavery
cause. -g.~ ----z~ gee g-a.
Domestic Paragraphs.
At Springfield, Massachusetts, there is
a pop corn man who is also a good Metho-
dist; bat he got business sadly mingled |
with things spiritual at g late prayer meet
ing, where, when he attempted to Join in
he hearty raSncusas IF &c A NOR, ha ..y,; al