Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-14
CsIisHENrj5NEsvsJ iTEMs.
Personal and Literary.

Personal ana A1IerdrJ'
IN ANNE E. Dickinson is writing noyel
founded on her life, and developing ner
TIE. Princess of Wales had her third
baby. a daughter tornSon the 29th ult.
2 She fasf1ot beer married four years
A Mrs, SETGLE who was two years in
the 18th Missouri cavalry regiment in dis
guise, with her husband, is creating SEN
= satipn stIDes Moines' TIL CT
q. lTHERE have been fifty Thousand books
printed about America since its discovery
by Goiumbus and ANEW York bibliopole
1gispubHshing4 "a Dictionary oil list of them all
JEAN INGELow always keeps her manu-
- scripts in her desk a yeaB it is; saip, before
she lets them pass out of her hands, read
ingthems carefully oyer and frequentlysre
writing them ere they aTeyput in type
MARGARET TIME, the captain of
~S1y- Dutch yachtswhich %ils in the Meditefra
mean, is about twenty &c ven years Of age
and attracts great attention Her suite is
composed of four black persons dressed in
picturesque costume, after the fashion Of
the East ~
1T ! RbsTxh is riekJand liberal; hisiacomeis
$4,000 year, and he spends most Of it
in charity and in. Maintenance of art.
Among the rest, he has established and
Oh towns some of the lyest mosael lodging
houses Cin Lopdon, shut put Aof these he
makes money.
Hon ROBERT c. WINTHROP, of Boston,
has contributed $500 to the Southern Re
Lief Fund. In a letter accompanying the
donation he says: Il fear that our people
- are not sufficiently alive 10 the danger of
.. starvation Which Is impending over many
parts of the South az
NINE. MARIE 8 ALEXANDRA DUMAS,
daughter of d.. Alexandra Dumas, has
brought out novel, which is said to be in
teresting. She married provincial gen
tleman of fortune Six or eight years ago,
grew tired of married life, quit her hus-
q Il band, andltgwsqntqp 70 Paris Il A =
A BOOK published in London in 1893,
said to be- one Of the most beautiful that
that or any other century can boast OF,
-,-, gives the, natural history of the rarer lepi-
dopterouslinseetso of Georgia it was writ
ten by Mr.. John Abbott, many years
resident of this1country and contains one
hundred and four colOred plates
~ 81, The statements regarding the manner of
" = the death of Edgar a. Poe, which Mrs. E.
Cakes Smith made in recent number of
Beadle's Monthly, have stirred up quite an
excitement among the readers of that peri
M odical In the March number we have
letter from Dr. Snodgrass, which settles the
fact that the gifted poet died the death of a.
drunkard. - n. ,i -, 81
THE New York Ipdepende,,t says: 'AIrs.
Stowe was at one time paid more per page
Dickinson probably averages more com
pensation per lecture than any man now in
the field Ristori is certainly paid more
than any male actor Rosa Bonheur and
Harriet Hosmer' probably obtain higher
prices for their works than if they were
men certainly not less high. And these
professions are not yet filled, and show no
signs of being filled, by women"
JAMES DUNwooDY DEBow the Journal
list and StatiStiCian whose name has long
been familiar to the public, died on Thurs
day, the 28th Of February at Elizabeth,
New Jersey, after brief illness He was
born in Charleston, South Carolina, on the
lrs 10th of July, 1920, and was in his forty
seventh year at the time of his death. He
was the son of Carrot DeBow a Charleston
q merchant and for seven years was himself
employed in a mercantile house. But he
manifested an inclination for intellectual
pursuits, and his father determined give him
a liberal education He was graduated at
Charleston College in 1843 studied law and
was admitted to the bar in 1874 He had
more taste for literature than for law, how
ever, and became contributor to the
Southern Quarterly RepieaO Charleston
periodical, of which he soon after took
charge as chief editor. In 1916 he with
drew from the Charleston periodical and
went to New Orleans, where he established
DeB0ws Commercial Re0ieap,s which was
highly successful. In 1853, President Pierce
appointed him Superintendent of the United
States Census DeB0ao's ReDiep monthly
magazine, started before the way, and tenn
porarily suspended, was revived after the
return of peace and Mr.. DeBow was en-
gagged in editing and publishing that sue
cessful periodical at the time of his death.
Mr.. DeBow was a strong advocate of
slavery, and adhered to the South during
the war of the rebellion. 2 40 Dc