Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-20
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the century plant, gave q blow out on
that OCCASION. - k##g E& WT
BARNUMs residence, Lindencroft," was
bought, not by John Merrissey, but by
VIM. Reed, awealthy New York coal deal
er. Mr. Barnum has bought house
on Fifth avenue, near Fortieth street, for
SlUbUvv. qifalsnea 5ilja. sa, bns -1aaIo3ssiJ BIO
HORACE GREELEY has salaryof $500
year as editor of the Tribune. He is so
disinterested in money matters that he ac-
Cepted a recent increase of salary with re-
luctance; and he has been manipulated
bysethers out Of most of his stock in the
ITtbune -
SINCE the elopement of the" Drummer
Boy of the Rappahannock' with rich
merchants daughter, it has transpired, says
an exchange, that he has been swindling
thespeople Throughout stheScountry by sell
ling a biography of himself at $500 q
COPY, payment in advance, but has new
or delivered single book to the subscrib-
ers. a-gsr.u. aaigalams 7d ssiilii9f4 9'eG t@at
THE Rev. Mr.. Abbott's glorifcation of
Louis Napoleon has been translated into
French, To the great amazement and
amusement Of the Parisians. The Paris
papers all say something on the subject,
and one of them, the Steele, is uncivil
enough to suggest that the reverend au-
thor be straightway put in the American
department of the Exposition, and labeled
"the learned ass"
The most intimate friend that Queen
Victoria ever had was a Yankee woman,
thelda,dghter Of Mr. Bates, of Boston, the
American partner of Barring, the bankers.
1t was directly to, her influence that the
kind and friendly feelings of the Queen to-
wards the United States Government are
to be traced. She married NJ Van de
Weyer, the senior member of the diplo-
matte cerpszin Londoh,s and the Belgian
Minister who recently took such a. promi
nent part in the Luxembourg Conference.
In connection with The late Emperor of
Mexico, the Boston Traveller reminds us of
the interesting historical fact that Maxi
milan is the most respectable member of
one of the mostbaneient of. the reigning
houses of the Old World, house that was
at the headyof the Holy Roman Empire
long before Mexico had been heard of
among Christians, and which ruled over
Mexico for almost two centuries, from the
time that Cortez conquered it for Charles
|, ". of Germany in 1921, to the death of
Charles H. in 1900 We may add that we
believe this circumstance gave Macmillan
himself the idea that it would help to make
him acceptable az ruler for the Me < al
PRESIDENT WooLsEY, of Yale College,
was before the CONNECTICUT. Legislative
Committee on Divorce for some time on
Friday, having been called upon by the
committee in consequence OF his peculiar
fitness to speak upon the subject of marital
rights. He stated that, in his. opinion, the
Iooseness of The law with regard to divorce
had tended to make the feeling with regard
to the maria ge relation loose, and there
had been great Increase in the number of
divorces granted for aItew years, not only
In Connecticut, but in several other States.
With regard to the right of the State to
limit the marriage, relationt President
Woolsey said The State can never de
stroy the parental relation, nor make it
dependent on the viii of the child Mel
ther can it destroy the marital relation,
nor make it depend upon the mere caprice
or consent Of the parties who have entered
into it, 1o Aeots iii
MIR. JOHN, ANTRIM, OF Antrim, g., Street,
doing businession Main street in st. Louis
has fallen heir to very handsome fortune
in Ireland, consisting of the Antrim estate,
the property of the late Earl of Antrim,
situated in the county of Antrim, the most
northern county of ireland. 1t is one of
the oldest families In Ireland, its, genealogy
being traceable back for several hundred
years, and supported by large wealth. The
value of, the property left by the earl is
estimated at seven millions pounds sterling,
or $35 100000 in gold. Mr.. Antrim comes
in for the property with three other heirs,
his share being between three and i tour
million pounds. We learn that he is third
or fourth IN iineal descent. One of the
heirs lives in, New Jersey, and another in
PHILADELPHIA MIR Antrim is about forty
years of age, is a married man, residing on
Garrison avenue. and enjoyed a, competen-
cyyof this worlds goods before this afiiuent
addition to his resources He formerly re-
sided in Cairo, Illinois, and has been a citi-
zen ofgSt. Louis three or fouriyears.gy
Domestic, Paragraphs. III
-One- eighth of grain of strychnine
will kill dog. u----
"A Colorado paper says female help in
that Territory commands from $40 to $50
per month, and is scarce at that. -. .-..
The Maison ID Gree properly in-New
York has been leased for ten years, at
$4,000 per anpulm, fQn retail dry goods
store.
Everybody rails at and nobody rides in
the Worcester Mass;1 horse railroad. SO
the owners are making tracks for some
otner business. q HOO.
Mr. Barnum has added to his collec-
ton of euriosities at his Museum o 6 mann
moth infaat," said TO be four years old and
to weigh 220 pounds
"A cable has been shipped from st.
Louis, by the Western Union Telegraph
Company, to sink in the Missouri, to con
meet St. 10. with Kansas
1t is. calculated that it would require
a. column of gold five miles and 1914 Of
mile high and thirteen inches in diameter
to cancel the national debt: ~
"A commercial reporter at Cincinnati
has sued the Western Union Telegraph
Company for $4,000 damages, for the al
legged purposed detention of dispatches.
The new Suspension Bridge over tn,
East River at Harlem is finished, and TIL
public opening viii be made in ten o
twelve days About $4,000, 900 pounds o
iron were used in its construction
"A mortgage was recently recorded il
Polk county, Iowa, from the Chicago
Rock Island & Pacific Railroad Compan.
to John A Stewart and VIM. H. Osborn {
New York, for the sum of $9,0C0000. Tn
revenue stamps amounted to $4,000 f8
THE Cleveland Herald offers SIS in cas-
for 1858 cents, whereupon the Sandusk
Register intimates that the Herald woul
make too much money by the dicker, an,