Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-11
CURR EMIT NEWS ITEMS.

GEN. BANKS is going to Palestine with
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
A Pm has as much head as great many
. authors, and great deal more point.
LONDON is to have a new daily morning
paper, Liberal in politics, and called The
Latest Ne,os.
= r IT reported that Barney Williams has
q secured, for $35, 600, alease Of the Broadway
Theatre for three years.
THE Hon. Michael Przybylowize, of the
Kansas Legislature, has had his name
changed to Murphy
- bARTENUs WARD bequeaths his library
to the best boy in the school of his native
village, Waterford, Maine
HAwTHcRNE- once said, after speaking of
the great Mississippi Valley, "After ALL we
Yankees are but the fringe on the garment
-&-Of the West" 49, AE% 49, -
BLANCHE MARRYATT, whom we take to
be the daughter of the marine novelist, is
about to publish a novel entitled, "Briars
and Thorns" y
, r ABrEMUs WARD had large seal ring
which, he used quantity to say, he wore
only during the forenoon, as it fatigued him
to carry it all day
"a. THEODORE CLAY, Isonlof Henry Clay,
has Tor oyerthirty years been an inmate of
the lunatic asylum at Lexington, KY. He
became insane from disappointed affection.
A CANDIDATE for County Treasurer in
California has published card pledging
himself in case he is elected, to pay 1000
:. in gold coinfor the benefit of the school
. fund.- A. 4 h ~ - - -
ONLY three daily, newspapers now sur
vive, Of nine published in Boston in 1913.
OF twenty light magazines, three also re-
main. Of thirty five weeklies, all but
twelve are gone. "a D.,
A COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF
THE BIBLE based upon the Bible. Die
= tionaryof Dr. Snlith,iis in course of pre-
" pafatioon, and will shortly be brought out
by the Appletons. = 81 *
BAssoN- HERE, French Ambassador to
Spain, was telling Henri Quotre how he en-
, < tered Madrid. 81 was mounted on the
smallest mule in the world" "Ah," said
Henri, "what an amusing sght-the big
gest ass on the smallest mule !" 81 was
81 your majesty's representative" was the re-
III ply! ~ 80 4 3 -. al y '-~l.l
THE number of papers now published
recalls to mind the cd anecdote in regard
to Franklin's mother-in law, who objected
to her daughter marrying printer be-
cause there were two newspapers in this
country, and she did not see how Benjamin
was to make living. There are now
1000. aesI ga sa,er I'D
GENERAL JOHNSTON says the victory of
Bull Run saved the Confederacy, which
was all it could reasonably have been ex-
pected to do. Most of the rebel troops re-
garded it as deciding the whole question
and ending the war, and thousands of them
left the army and went home The Union
army he says, was "less disOrganized by
defeat than the Confederate army by its
triumph" -a ~. .a -..
DEACON DAVID WHITNEY died in West
minister, Mass, March 25, aged ninety nine
years, seven months and nine days He
was born, and always lived in the same
house, and on the same farm, where his
father settled in 1852 He has enjoyed a
life of uninterrupted health, having never
- had occasion to call medical attendance
since he was ten years old, till his last i'll
ness He was able to perform light work
till within two or three years of his death,
and his mind continued active till the last.
WHEN Prince Achille Murat resided in
Florida (1847) where he often engaged in
hunting, it is said that nothing swims
the water, flies the air, crawls or walksthe
earth, but that he served up on his table.
Alligator steaks, frog shinS, boiled owls
and roasted crows are found palatable;
but there is one animal that the Prince
don't like. The buzzard is one too
many for him. He says, I try him fried
NY ulHl IOdStcu, LILY Ilil StcWCu anu L
r. make soup of him, but the buzzard is not
goot. l have no prejudice against him, but
/ cook him every way and then l no like
him."
THERE is now living in the southeast
portion of Camden, Lorraine county, Ohio,
a Miss Polly Haskins, who is one hundred
and fifteen years of age, having been born
in july 1862. She was seventeen years
old at the commencement of the Revolu-
hi rstso foot law II
at New Bedford, Conn, she and her pa
- rents were obliged to quit their home -
she travelling on foot, and carrying a
feather bed twenty miles the first day
They could see the smoke of their dwelling
as the work of devastation, by the British
went on. She is now of sane mind, and
hearty.
Nor long since, an American artist
wrote to Mr.. Ruskin for advice upon the
subject of art The eminent English critic,
who doubtless has had ten readers in the
Northern States for one in any other part
r. of the world, replied in manner that Sc
verely tries our confidence in his augment
and sincerity. The barbarous manner in
which the people of the North, he wrote,
had conducted the war upon the southern
people and their patriarchial institutions,
had utterly destroyed his interest in Ameri-s
can art True art, in fact, could not -four
ISL among people SO uepTaVeuj anu he,
therefore, advised his friend to abandon
all effort to read the true path in art, and
to confine himself to painting such pictures
as were suited to the, degraded taste of the
Northern Americans.
In its issue of the Gath ult, The Nd
ton published the following notice respect
ing Fanny Ferns first literary success ::
Fifteen or sixteen years ago, Artemus
Ward Mrs. Partington,' and Miles
O'Reilly were laboring together in one
office, each in his degree, working ON The
Carpet Bag, a not very comic paper, which
was then trying hard to live, and was pub
lished in Boston. We may be mistaken,
but we think Fanny Fern was first sue
cessful in the columns of the same journal"
This statement is corrected by Fanny Fern,
in the following characteristic letter
TO the Editor of the Nation:
SIR: Fanny Ferns first article was writ
ten for one horse religious magazine in
Boston, called the Mothers assistant, or
some such name. The remuneration for
that article was fifty cents, and the writer
went up four pair of stairs five times to the
office of the editor to get it. beside being
put through this catechism:
Widow, Ell? See you have on black :?
Children? How manys Girls or boys?
Yours respectfully,
FANNY FERN