Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-07-12
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS.


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w. FL. LANGLEY, the Gallipolis, Ohio
flour merchant, who lately failed has an
insurance his life of $780, 00-more
than any man in the country
.~r. ~.a-, MR. Seldom, the ex-Confederate Secre-
49, - tary of War, is working his fine farm in
Goochland county, Va. He does not med
die with public affairs, and says he is out
~ u OF the political ring.
ALBERT PIKE has performed one great
achievement In a recent editorial he pro-
3 e 'a' .' dueed single sentence Of two hundred
n;,,,e and ten words, without any other stop than
istsa few commas 1t is said that Henry A.
q" Wise tainted away on reading the sentence.
GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN Is reported
to have received $4,000 for organizing the
- Z Credit Mobllier of America, a financial in
- = stitution that has handled $4,000 900 since
he established it in 1865 1t has the con-
tract for building the first section of the
Union Pacific Railroad. ~
MOSES MATHER and his wife Sally, of
s,1% ~ ~ &Darien, Conn.,, received eighy-one of
their descendants whose united ages were
two thousand four hundred and twenty
eight years, on Thursday, and family re-
,,.,s-x-... union Of great enjoyment was held. The
s7, aged couple eighty live years DID, and
7ief ao'esarr have been married sxty-six years. gs
ar'4a.4, a.. THE New York Times denies that the
i@0 go sa Rev. George Z. Williams Of Suffolk, Ya4
has been acquitted of the charge of pick
ing 1ady's pocket in Broadway stage
1t says the case was passed over because
p sfHz Inc district Attorney notified that Mr.
Williams had gone crazy, and was in
arfTDT mate OF 'a)lunatic asylum.
THE Emperor of Austria, on the occa
sion-of his formal coronation as King of
Hungary, issued decree of amnesty to all
ELKIL8 political offenders, including 1.-THE once cell
ebrated Kossuth KOssuth is now advanced
.yeW9J 2 . ht have been Of a317Is ss to
Eighteen years have elapsed since he fled
from Hungary.
~-gsfs g. ME-. STURGEON has the govt, and in a
Il u T. recentserrnon alluded to his illness He
had the govt in his left leg and be had
preached standing on the other. He had
not lad the govt in his tongue. and he was
RSs sTSs B3 P{phs 9 sh$qS Tl her snfe
~'"H q 'sg Sdtprey 6ften, for he gwas bis fheTs'
eldest son, and inherited his gOodqrahtes.'
,-r~~~ -, He was thankful to say that the govt had
Cta1 IL ~ mot caused him to renquish single min
iserial duty. 80
4aGd sJosH B1IIINGs " new lecture, which
he has been engaged to read before several
societies and associations next winter, bears
the unmeaning title of " Milk" His listo
So engagements is not completes it-seems, for
he has issued a circular in which he says
4c,. 81 am prepared to read it before Literary
stJ1Jo Associations the coming fall and winter
The price Of the Lektur' is $6S 40.
'a' might possibly be induced to discount the
eighty eight dollars but the forty cents /
must invariably have as pay all my own
- expenses ia 2a4 e4I
SOME of the Western papers copy
~ ing in sober earnest joke in Brooklyn
a Y paper to the effect That the Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher usually commences his days
labors with rotations of ale. 1t is proper
to contradict this story for the sake of those
aDIis( who know no better. Mr. Beecher pre-
sents to young men the example of
man who has arrived at middle age utterly
ignorant of the taste of sprtuous fer
mented drinks in any form except as used
for sacramental purposes, and has never
used tobacco in any form.
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