Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1866-06-14
Personal and Literary.

PRINCE SALM-SALM, who served under
Mcclellan, is now az officer in Maximillian's
army.
JEFFERSON DAVIS was recently solicited
by an enterprising photographer to SIT for
photograh, but declined.
CAPT. w. L. HERNDoN's widow has re-
ceived from Congress the exclusive right to
publish for IA years her husbands book on
the Amazon.
SIDNEY II. GAY has resigned his position
as managing editor Of the New York Tr'-
Ju,ae Mr. Young, Of the Press, Philadel-
phia, succeeds him.
j. P CHAPMAN, formerly Of the Indiana
State Sentinel, known throughout the coun-
try by the sobriquet of ''Crow, Chapman,
Crow" died in indianapolis recently.
A RuMoR is in circulation in Germany
that, in case of a war there, Gen. McClel-
Ian, who at present sojourns in Dresden,
will be appointed Commanderin-C Chief of
the Saxon army.
MISS THOMAS, in her "Walter GOring,"
says: "Women can make one another mis-
cradle in such enthusiastically small ways
that man can rarely be brought to compre-
bend how the business is managed"
SToNEwALL. JACKSON never would open a
letter which came to him on Sunday, nor
ever, If he could help it, send away letter
which, in the ordinary course of mail,
would have to make any of its journey on
that day.
TENNYsoN is So years DID, has weak
shutting gait wears glasses most of the
time; generally dresses in gray clothes !;
has a melancholy, Illuminating voice; and
wears, when his features are in repose, an
expression of classical, habitual sadness.
THE Hartford Courant says themonument
to Col. Samuel Colt, the revolver man, about
to be placed in Cedar Hill Cemetery, in that
city, will cost about $25, 900. It is of
Scotch granite, 40 feet high, and sur
mounted by beautiful figure" The An
gel of the Resurrection"
THE Prince of Denmark, fine looking
young man, is still staying at the Tuileries,
and seems to be a great favorite. He and
the Emperor may frequently be seen stroll
ing and smoking a cigar together in the
garden of the palace, and sometimes his
Majesty drives his visitor about to show him
the town.
THE English philanthropist. DR., Hodgkin,
well known TO many in this country for his
active corporation in all efforts for the wei
fare of the African race, died on the 5th of
| April, of dysenteTy, st Jatfa, on his way to
Jerusalem, in company with Sir Moses
Montelfore, engaged on a philanthropic
mission.
THOMAS B. LEIGHTON, a man of wealth,
who died at the Isle of Shoals, near Ports
mouth, n. H., few days ago, desired to
I Il. Il L,
neral, and was buried, according to his re-
quest, on Appledore Island, between two
granite rocks. on one Of which he wanted
his initials cut.
The billiard champion of America
Joseph Dion-is about % years of age he
has for sometime past offered to play any
man in the world the American game Of
billiards on ur-pocket table, in Canada
push shot barred, for the sum of s., 600 in
gold. This challenge has not been accepted
as yet, and Mr.. Dion leaves it open for ont
month longer.
AMONG the latest announcements Of Eng
lish publishers is a sort of Sturgeon jest
book, with tho title g Anecdotes and Sto
ries of the Rev Z. Fl. Sturgeon, now frs
collected and arranged The London Re
Uiele saws of it: This must not take t
itself the credit of being the earliest cleri
cal budget of wit. There was 'Sterne1
Cornwall Jester; or, That's Your Sort
A LoxDox letter says :" 1t is evident tina
the Prince of Wales ard the Queen are oil
no better terms than heretofore The Queer
has gone to Osborn House, and the roya
palaces are closed, even against the Prime
!, Of Wales. He wished to attend the Ascot
races. and though so near Windsor Castle
is obliged to hire furnished house. Al
this makes world Of scandal and ill-feel
ing"
IT is not generally known, says a Wash
ington correspondent, that Senator sumne
is and has been for six or eight weeks, SUI
fering seriously from recurrence OF tn
cerebral and nervous troubles caused By