Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-16
CURRENT NEWS .BREyITIES.



PERSONAL aaad Literary.
/ ALEXIS Youngest son of the Gar, will
visit the United States. SIS
Il A TERRIBLE affection has overtaken
| Tom Thumb--he has begun to grow!
NV. BEACH, late of Seneca Falls, N.
| Y. has been chosen Principal OF the High
| School at Dubuque. lily ,ftit
"FATHER CoTToN," aged eighty three
was married to Mrs. .Rebecca Rechler, of
seyenty-five summers, in Indiana, near
South Bend. sw
/ MAJOR GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN has
been receiving much attention during a
Temporary soiourn at the Continental Ho-
tel, Long Branch.
| IT WAS contemplated to put Grants pic
lture on the new fifteen cent currency, but
he objected, for fear the engraver should
get speaking likeness.
| REV. r. X. BEEeHER, of Elmira, II. Y,
has recently returned from journey of
| ID, 600 miles, iii which he passed complete
| ly around South America LITa9u0a !
+ THERE is a happy combination of artil-
! Jerry in the engagement of Major Rodman
and Miss Dahlgren, daughter of Admiral
| Dahlgren. We shall beat the British now,
beyond doubt.
| MADAME OCTAvIA WALTON LA VERB
the Southern rauthoress, with her two
| daughters, Octavia and Cara Meta, is
| spending the summer at the Clifton House,
4 Niagara Falls.
LOWELL says that in the eyes of the
sentimentalist, Theory is too fine a
dame to confess evenfa country courtship
with coarsehanded Practice, whose home
| w. ways would discomfort her artificial
world, il. q -AN4 +
REV. r. ANDRUs has resigned the Pres-
dency of Quincy Qll) College, and Rev.
George w. Gray, the popular Professor of
Mathematics and Vice President, has been
| elected to fill the position thus made vacant.
Mr. Andrus proposes to return to the
! work of the ministry.
| Mr. EDWARD SEYMOUR, for nine years
! connected with the New York Times, and
| of late the managing editor, has resigned
| his position to enter tho publishing house
| Of Messrs. Scribner IS Co. A parting
breakfast was given HIM, at which the
publisher of the Times presided
ERNEST REMAINS yearly income amounts
to one hundred thousand francs. His
!" Life of Jesus alone yielded him three
i hundred and fifty thousand francs,
Seven years ago he was overjoyed on
being appointed Professor at the mod
est salary of six thousand franc year.
HELMBoLD, of Buchu" fame and his
beautiful wife, are cutting great dash at
| Saratoga A few years ago he was poor
| but he had nostrum and used printers
4 ink, and is now worth a million. Last
year he expended on newspapers over
! $214,00O and 100000 in posters, pam
phlets, &c. "---
| CHARLES O. ROGERS, of the Boston
Journal, has bought the "Livermore
Farm" at Plymouth, N. H., OH the east
side of the river 1t contains 400 acres of
land, 100 of it interval, and the rest up
| land, tillage and woodland. 1t is a splen-
did old country seat after the English style,
with five barns extending out from the
/ main mansion to the tenants houses of
| which there are several.
| n CHARLES DICKENS has coined a new
| form of oath, and hurls it at the American
| Congress for not passing an international
| copyright law. In letter to Louis Gay
lord Clark he says: "What impossible
wager shall make against some prop
erty of yours, that you and will not be
in our graves, and out of them in particles
of dust, impalpable to human sight, before
those wrangllng men at Washington In
their earthly riots, care one miserable d-n
for mind?"
Wv. S. ATWOOD, of Detroit, formerly
Major of the FIRST Michigan Cavalry, was
found composed in death, by the side OF
the grave of a beloved child, in Elmwood
l Cemetery, August Sd. On the previous
day he had settled all his affairs, saying he
would start for Niagara Falls, where his
wife and her parents were spending the
summer The cause Of death is a mys-
terry If a suicide, it must have been
by some subtle poison not yet dlseov-
cred. The deceased had life insurance
of $4,000. rs.f
Domestic Paragraphs.
"A young ladies' base ball club has
been organized in Niles, Michigan. We
suppose they are now open to engage,
ments for a home match. aal,- .9N .ia
An ungrateful son at Boston, named
William Wallace, stole his mothers feather
bed, worth $40, and sold it for 81, to take
his girl riding, the other day.. ,aM
The New Workers are becoming dis
gusted with their detective police. They
lost over two millions last year, which
those gentleman couldn't find again.
All the. express companies, old ani
new, have been Indicted at Cincinnati fol
violation of the postal laws, in carrying
letters which ought to have been sent by
mail. 10 90 9f'eli2lA2
-InNeyada and Colorado female ser
wants receive fifty dollars per month. Thu
supply is limited, and some one writes t.
the Boston transcript, to "send the girl
! along" Us A az ID 81
Widows who have been getting a pen
; sion of half the monthly pay Of their hus
bands, under the laws passed prior to tn
g act ofIJuly 25, 1865, are not entitled to a.
increase to So per month under that ACT
: A New York paper says that Edwi
8 Booths new theatre in Twenty third stree
+ twill kill Pixies new Opera House.
! will cut off all the fashionable patronage
/ being Just in the current, and most convt
/, nient to the big hotels" I3
d The Galena Gazette says: "The en-
d plovees of the Northwestern Union Packt
n Company are on a strike for an increase {
wages The roustabouts of the line wal
G forty dollars a month, thinking that the
h can do better than work for thirty dollar
r and board"
3 THE New York Tribune says go
e flames eternal camping ground the gre'
y family of the Abbotts have spread the
n not BY any means silent tents Tor man
3, years past. The celebrated John 5.
3 has written an original life OF Napoieo
% l., and has licked the boots OF Napoleo
/ Ill"
is A bed of peat, Is inches thick, w'
it found in the south ward of Green Ba,