Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-16
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

l. : Personal and Literary.
Mr.. BEEcHER doesn't go to Europe, but
Mr. Bierstadt does. ,,,,,,-
JOHN G. SAKE has sailed for Europe tor
a three months tour.
aS@gA.'T. STEWARDS losses gby shoplifting
@andsether robberies are over $4,000 per
annum.
JOHN PRIDEAUx SBLBY, the eminent
naturalist, has just died in Els gland, at the
age OF eighty -seven.
i~ai Mr.. BUCHANAN, whose fortune is reek-
oned at 10000, is the richest Of our sur
vivlng ex-Presidents.9 ala ~.
ANNA DICKINSON has preached in an
actual pulpit in Toledo, and very well she
is reported to have done it.
The portrait of Her Majesty, Queen
- Victoria, designed for presentation to Mr.
Geo. Peabody, is valued at $4,000.
THE present Duke of Wellington three
years ago had an Income of $750,000
BY steady exertion he has reduced it to
- 81, 500. FF<S.FsF - ~ - - =. #F
OssIAN E. DODGE, the celebrated
vocalist and humorist, was married on
the 4th instant to Miss Fannie Pratt, OIL
. st. Paul., ~ ,.a.. -s ...,,s,e., ....t e.
4 REAR ADMIRAL PHIPPs HoRNBY, senior
officerof the British navy, lately died, aged
q eighty one. Lord Edward Russell sue
ceeds HIM 'ss' z2a~s' lyea-.s7 u'.s
Y. IL. VALLANDIGHAM is announced to
deliver the annual Grafton before the liter
airy societies of the Oxford (Miss.) Univer-
sity, at the next commencement
40 IRWIN DAVIS formerly a waiter at
the Massasoit House, in Springfield, Mass,
is now one of the richest men in California,
his income being from $4,000 to 100000
aInonth. 2 '<h'f7
HIS HOLINESS PIUs TX. has conferred
on John Murphy, of Baltimore, the dis
tmetlonJ Of " Printer to the Pope "--an
honor never before received by any one in
this country. Th n
MIR. IRA ALDRIDGE, the black tragedian,
has been greatly admired in the French
provinces, and another actor of color,
called Morgan Smith, has been performing
successfully in the Welsh towns.
Dr.. HYATT SsnTH found the name of
q. Jenny, Lind cut into the hard stone on
the top of the great Pyramid of Cheops
He afterward learned that the inscrip-
ton was the work of the songstress' own
hand. D. T. w IfEts,A
THERE is a serious talk in Paris of a
marriage between Adahf Isaacs Menken
and Alexander Dumas, pere. The lady was
to start for Vienna this month to fulfill an
engagement there.
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, who has
just sailed for Europe was presented before
his departure with $780, O0by, his friends at
Boston, asa testimonial to his services in
the anti-slavery cause.
A FEW months since, Vanderbilt played
ga corner" on Drew, costing the latter
nearly million Of dollars. 1t is said that
Drew, has now got Vanderbilt i'll " cor
ner," in such fix that it will cost him
three millions Of dollars. r = r.E
TT is related that when Emma, Queen of
the Sandwich Islands, visited Dublin Cas-
tie, during her recent tour in Great Britain,
the Lord Lieutenant ordered the leader of
= the regimental band to play the Hawaiian
national air, when he at once struck
upwith the soul-strring strains of Hickey
pokey Winky-wang, KinGof the Cannibal
Islands"
RIsToRI was rich before coming to this
country. She owns No. As Boulevard
Malesherbes, a splendid pat0is, which was
completed before her leaving for America,
at cost of 100000 francs. She owns
also, q splendid p0lais in Florence now Oc-
oupied by the Russian ambassador. It
cost 100000 francs. All this property
was earned by her. She owns, also, sew
eral splendid mansions in Rome.
Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is in
Brooklyn on brief visit, She intends to
make Florida her permanent home, having
bought property in that State. She has
become a-member of the Episcopal Church.
1t. is scarcely violating the sanctity of
private affairs to state that the later
years of Mrs. Stoves life are cloudcd
by deep sorrow for the tragic death of
her sons, but she sustains her Affections by
apgenuine pity that finds vent in verse and
prose-. s 49,
Miss MAReARETTA Fox, one of the
original "Fox girls " of Rochester
knocking" notoriety, and more recently
notorious in connection with the memory
of DR., Kane, The Arctic explorer Ito whom
she claims to have been matrimonially en-
gagged, has lately returned to Rochester,
and intends to afford those who desire to
hear the remarkable sounds which for
merly created profound excitement
throughout the country, an opportunity of
doing so.