Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-26
COMPRESSED NEWS ITEMS,


Tom THUMB hsps. He considers him.
self Thumb pumkinth.
A PACIFIC RAILROAD agent Is now in
the East to engage five thousand colored
laborers for that national highway.
QUEEN VICTORIA was expected in Paris
and has probably arrived there already.
Her visit is to be strictly IN c0g., so the
papers and authorities will refrain from
taxing any notice OF her.
THE well known French financier, Nj.
Emile Pereire, is President of twelve or
fifteen JOINT stock companies, the aggre-
gate capital of which is $74S, 900, 600. His
influence IN Paris may be imagined.
Cora JAMES, alias Samantha Proctor
the notorious astrologistess, has sued a
leading grain warehouseman of Chicago
for 100000 as breach-ofpromise DANA
ges. 1t is "a palpable case of black mail.
A GENTLEMAN asked Mr.. Beecher the
other day what he intended to do with the
characters of his novel now running in
the Ledger. He said he was bothered to
know, but " felt tempted to get up grand
railroad accident and kill them all off at
once"
GEORGE CRUIKsHANK, the artist humor-
ist, has been granted pension OF $475
per year by the British Government in
Acknowledgement of his genius. He is
seventy-five years old, and, whether need
ing it or not, the acknowledgment comes
late, and is not large.
POPE PIUs TX. is strong man physical
ly, if not spiritually. According to the
New York Heg'azd's special cable telegram
the old gentleman complacently lifted
the silver model of the Henrietta from its
case with its cargo of $4,000 gold dollars. y
II was magnificent present but its total
weight at the least calculation, must have
been roo pounds. - r@s" "fs''
BRIGHAM YOUNG was 66 years old on
the first of June Miss Eliza r. Snow,
the Mormon poetess, improved the occa,
sion as follows:
o God bless Brigham Young;
Bless him, and all that bless him.
Waste them away, o God, we pray,
Who, rising to oppose him,
"a Contend with Thee. r~-
$40 God bless Brigham Young
Preserve his he alth and vigor:
We pray Thee, give him power to live
Until the resurrection
Gives back our dead.
Robert Stephenson was very fond of re.
ducing his scientific reading to practice
and after studying Franklin's description
of the lightning experiment, he proceeded
to expend his store of Saturday pennies in
purchasing about half a mile of copper
wire. Having prepared his kite he sent it
up in the field opposite his fathers door,
and bringing the wire, insulated by means
of a few feet of silk cord, over the backs
of some of Farmer Wigham's cows, he
soon had them skipping about the field in
all directions with their tails up. One day
he had his kite flying at the cottage door,
as his fathers galloway was hanging by
the bride waiting for the master to mount
him. Bringing the end of the wire just
over the pony s crupper, so smart an elec-
trick shock was given that the brute was
almost knocked down. at this juncture
the father issued from the door, riding
whip in han f, and was witness to the sci
entilic trick just played off upon his gallo
way. "Ahl you mischievous scoundrel,
cried he to the boy, who ran off. He in
wardly chuckled with pride, nevertheless
ct Roberts successful experiment.