Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-07-12
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| in Cincinnati with S103,95
NEW magazine, called The Belgrduid, Is
| about to be started in London under the
! sditorship Of Miss Braddon.
JAMES ROBINSON, the bare back rider
With Lent's New York circus, gets an an
nual salary of S24,000.
JOEL LIEDLEY, the Medina IN. Y. cler-
gyman who beat his child to death, has
been recessed from custody on giving bail
in the sum of $4,000.
THE Duke of Hamilton is the talk of Lon
don, for having been permitted to knock a
policeman down in the Haymarket, without
mourning evil consequences.
ADRIAN LINCOLN, cousin Of the late
President, resides in Harrison county, Ind
He has strong resem blance IN form and feat
ure to his great relative.
GEN. C1ALD1xf is small, well-looking
man, with qnck and intelligent eye, and
wears great moustache and beard like the
Chasseurs de Vincennes.
FIELD MARSHAL BEKEDEK has, it is stated,
announced that he will accept Mr.. w. III.
Russell, the historian Of Crimea, as the only
correspondent of the press at his headquar-
tiers.
AN exchange states that Mrs. Lincoln has
presented Fred. Douglass with cane Of
her husbands, carrying out wish which
the latter expressed shortly before bis assas-
sination.
LIEUT.. GEN. GRANT has accepted the 70
sition of second Vice-President Of the
Washington National Monument Society,
which was, until his recent death, filed by
Lieut.. Gen. Scott.
BROOKLYN has Mayor who is one Of
THOUSAND. The City Council having passed
resolution to raise his sa.ary from $4,000
to $4,000, the Mayor-the Hon. Samuel II.
Booth-has vetoed it,
CHURCH is fond of exhibiting his skill in
painting that pOas Gsinorum of artists, the
rainbow. The phenomenon figures very
cons picuously in his last landscape, to which
he has just put the finishing touches.
REV. Dr. BACON of New Haven said in
recent address that, during his Al years
passionate over his church, he had expended
| $25, 900 beyond all that had been paid him
directly or indirectly by the church.
ONE BARRY is giving swimming exhibit
lions down East. He allows himself to be
tied up in bag and thrown overheard, after
the manner of cats who have been con;
demned to die, but, like them, he always
come out all right
GEN. PORE is to succeed Gen. Hooker in
command of the Department of the East.
Gen. Hancock will succeed Gen. Pope in the
West, and Gen. John M. Schofeld, who has
lately returned from Europe, will be gent
to Baltimore.
A LONDON letter says: Mrs. Ri chic,
daughter of the late Gen. Wadsworth, re-
Gently met the Prince of Wales at a party,
and he was so fascinated by her beauty as
to demand her for partner in the dance
twice during the evening"
JARED INGERsoL, of Philadelphia, has
pleaded guilty Of purloining books from the
mercantile library Of that city. The libra
rian who detected him putting books under
his coat, testiies that during the last seven
years over $4,000 worth of books had been
lost in this manner
The Rev. Paul Hamilton, on receiving the
presentation to the church and parish Of
Broughton, near Edinburgh, preached a
farewell sermon to the ladies Of Ayr, and,
not little to the surprise Of his fair audi
tory, gave out the text: ''And they fell upon
Pauls neck and kissed him."
THE Philadelphia Bulletin says: "Strange
mingling of races. Two peorle went to
church the other day at Kew, England. One
was Mary Cambridge, Englishwoman and
| spinster. The other was Alexander Teck,
Austrian and bachelor They came away
| As-Tecks. Kew-rious wasn't it ?"
AMBROSE A. BUTTS, of Auburn, Ohio, re-
Gently lifted dead weight of 2,7373 lbs,
which is the greatest lifting feat on record.
He has been practising at intervals during
the last six years. DIR. Winship, for several
years past considered the strongest man in
the world at last accounts had lifted only
$500 lbs.
Nor many years ago the city of Galena,
H., single street had the business signs Of
six prominent citizens who have since be-
came eminent in the public service. They
are Brig Gen. J. A. Maltby, Maj. Gen. A.
L Chetlain, Maj Gen John A. Rawlins,
the Ion Elihu B. Washburne, Maj. Gen.
John Z. Smith, and Lieut.. Gen, U. S. Grant.
WHEN people read of Theodore Tilton,
they probably imagine grave, gray, Sc
we're person, with face like an open Bible.
Our associate saw him last week on the
foor of the House of Representatives, and
he looked like College F, eshman, with a
profusion of brown locks and not enough
beard to make door mat to beehive.
CHARLES ELLIOT NORTON FIELDS, entered
the bookstore of w. D. Ticknor & Co., near
ly thirty years ago, poor boy, and got his
education from his surroundings in the
business Now he is esteemed one of the
best read men in English literature in the
world His fine taste and good judgment
have given the house of Ticknor & Fields
their present high reputation as publishers
of books of high character.
A GEORGIA paper, criticising one of Gus
fave Dore's illustrations of the Bible, re-
marks: ''The Judas kiss, which, strange
enough, is the first plate in the Genesis, is
anything but fine. The Savior we say it
with no irreverence) looks like tall, lean
Yankee. Judas looks like Thad Stevens,
and some of the features in the background
are horrible, almost as bad as Judge Under
woods"
GEN. CAss' large fortune had its origin in
his investment in real estate in what is now
the heart of the city of Detroit and it is
stated that the heirs of the deceased states
man may thank the late Mrs. Glass; who died
in 1855, for the great wealth they inherit.
Repeatedly, when the property was rising
in value, years ago, the General was anxious
to sell, and was only restrained by the earn
est advice and remonstrance of his wife.
THE New York Post Furnishes PROPOSE
ton, signed by numerous prominent gentle.
men, to present VIM. Lloyd Garrison with
$4,000 as testimonial of the appreciation
of his past labors. Among the signatures
are Chief Justice Chase. Governor Bullock,
Ex-Governor Andrew, James Speed, R. W.
Emerson, Gerrit Smith, Senators B. F.