Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-11-08
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.
PersonaI and LIterarv.

CLlPPhNGN AND DkIFPINGN.
Personal and Literary.
MAJOR GENERAL LEW WALLACE ia pro-
posed as Republican candidate for Gov
ernor of Indiana
JOHN BUNYAN and j. Paradise keep
liquor stores in Bristol, R. /. Is there
anything in name?
Miss BALDWIN, the Professor of Greek
at the Baker University in Kansas, is only
I twenty one years OF age.
SIR JAMES SOUTH, an eminent English
astronomer, died in London, on the 23d, at
the advanced age of 80 years.
REV. DIR. D. d. WHEEDoN, editor of the
Methodist Quarterly Reuseao, declares him.
self in favor of woman suffrage.
GEORGE PEABODY has made a donation
of $4,000 to Harvard College for the
purpose of establishing museum and in
stitute OF archaeology and ethnology.
IT is 1umored that James 81. McVicker,
of Chicago, will take the management of
Edwin Booths magnificent new theater in
New York, which is to be finished next
year. -...o.
| A PARTY of French engineers, invited
by General Dix, our minister to France,
to visit this country, have gone West from
st. Louis with view of gaining informa-
ton of the country, railroads, mines, DC.
They are in charge of Col. Helm, Secretary
of Legation at Paris. ),
| MENoTTI GARIBALDI, to whom his IA
Their, Giuseppe Garibaldi, intrusted the
authority of Generalissimo of the forces
Operating against Rome, was born in Uru-
quay, South America, in 1880, and is there
fore twenty EIGHT years old. set8v
PROFESSOR LIGHT made an ascension at
Perryville, Juniata county, Pa, ON Thursday
last, In his Montpelier balloon, with per-
| ilous termination. His balloon split from
the hoop to the top and descended with
alarming rapidity. AS good fortune would
have it, Mr.. Light lit in the Juniata river,
and escaped without any serious injury.
REV. IRA EDDY, who has been preaching
the Gospel for f1fty-two years, as Method,
! list itineraDt preacher, lately filed the pulpit
of Rev. J.. G.. Schofeld, in New Castle,
/ Pa. Fifty years ago he. preached in New
1 Castle, or rather where it Is now located,
| but his audience of that time has passed
away. His health has been very good up
to q few weeks past: ~ t''ig,s'', Z
WE see it stated that. Mr.. Charles Dick
ems has decided to leave England for the
| United States on the 9th of November, in
the steamship Cuba, occupying one OF the
| officers cabins. He will remain in Amer
lea until May. His agent, Mr.. Dolby, had
arranged to sail from England three weeks
earlier. Mr.. Dickens has just completed
| his Christmas story for 1867, and is in ex-
cellent health and spirits. Mr.. Willzie Col
Inns will take charge of AN the Year Round
| dr,r Mr. nickQpq' q haanca
JOHN RYAN, who was convicted and
sentenced for term of years to the State
i Penitentiary, from 10 Davies county, ILL.,,
about one year since, has been pardoned
by Governor Oglesby. Since Ryans con-
| viction evidence has been brought to light
i which proves conclusively that the identi-
fioation of Ryan as one of the guilty par
ties is a case of mistaken identity. Mr..
Ryan, previous to his conviction, had
borne an excellent character, and the peo'
pie of Galena are well pleased with his
| vindication. ~ rt.s9 :
e, miscellaneous Htenls.
Georgia has Colored Educational
Convention. ,,-s.s .a.,sIs,i. ,,,,..nt
| Hartford has a fire-alarm bell weigh
ing 5000 pounds. a4s.4
] The upper slopes Of the White Noun
4 tains are covered with snow.ie 'l4I. 81
i There Is an immense immigration OF
| Nor mons into Salt Lake just now Many
| of them are Danes. 3:g 81 f'ef u ,E&ant
"A Chicago firm has built q packing
house in Leayenworth, Kansas, with ca
pacity for slowing away 100000 beeves, or
100000 barrels OF beet, per year.
Mrs. Yoc, on trial at Pontiac, ILL.,, for
the murder of her husband, has been found
guilty Of manslaughter, and sentencedto
eight years in the penitentiary. qz3 YaT
1t is said that, in the future, the oath to
Income returns is to be administered as is
| the oath of allegiance to the applicant for
naturalization party repeating 1t after
\ the Assessor. -..sl4 iaA .s2@ia 1911
I'm jackson county, Ohio, the vote for
Treasurer was tie--1 $40 for the Demo-
i cratic. and /, $40 for the Republican can
didate. They cast lots for 1t, and the Dem
ocrat obtained the office. a'i.- - 'iHs 2
+ The Concord on. II. ! Statesman has
been informed by one of the trustees OF
| Dartmouth College, that Hon John Went
1 worth, of Chicago, has given $40, 600 to the
| general fund of that Institution.
"A discharged convict from the Con,
necticut State prison recently Droke mo
that institution and carried oil 2 wheel
barrow load of articles manufactured by
the prisoners, of the value Of about : $500:
"a correspondent of the Geauga( Ohio)
4 Democrat says that COWS, which last spring
brought $50 to SIS, are now seillngyo
account of,rthe drouth, for $780, The
i cheese factories will soon have to suspend
operations for want OF milk @peIa Z 10
Sir Frederick Bruce usually desired to
| ride In other cars than those filled with
smokers and chewers.a Whenever he tray
4 eled he was under the ludicrous necessity
of taking his cook with him, as means OF
obtaining admittance to the ladies' carr
Aft "A few " days ago shrewd villain in
| Nashua, N. H. walked deliberately up TO
+ q store window and broke in pane Of
/ French glass. and when asked to. pay for 1t
/ as deliberately drew out a hundred dollar
I bill, which the storekeeper took, giving
him seventy dollars in change. The bill
i proved to Be counterfeit. -
llaa-The, manufacture Of artificial fl fuel
i from consolidated coal dust, although con-
i mercially unsuccessful In this country, has
met with very different result abroad.
Twenty establishments in France produce
annually 5000 tons In Belgium seven
manufacturers turn out 400, tons, while
| In other countries the produce, though
less, Is very considerable, .rai,, e,5 ~ g4a
Ono of the most unpleasant features
of the manufacturing interest has been the
! steady decline during the past season OF
L ~ fo11 q aanfc