Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-04

GENERsLs Tom THUMB is living quiet,
ly in the enjoyment of his wealth at Bridge
port. %grFT4f(F81r
d. APPLETON & Co. have given one
hundred thousand books to the Peabody
trustees, for use in the South, VI f +
THE fact that Ben Butler has "a
new Clarence coach at his house in Lowell
Is IS exciting exc nngs an New England 1t cost
BRYANT, the venerable poet and journal
ist, is-noW travelling in SPAIN His poems
show that he has special fondness for
Spanish literature and scenes. &c
SOME inventive imagination has started
the story that Mr.. Peabody is to marry
Miss7Burtlett Coutts, the famous female
philanthropist, of London.
KOssUTH has turned up again. He
writes public letter from Turin, protest
ing against the arrangements made between
Hungary and the Emperor Of Austria
OssIANl e. DODGE hes become so rich
and independent that he will not sing on
any occasion, public or private. He lives
at st. Paul, and is hardly known by any
person there %TE11tG
GENERAL GRANT was urged to become
President Of the National Temperance So
ciety. He said he was in full sympathy
with the cause, but did not think he was
the man for it. i" 1sy ~ r'-.a. s~-
j. G.. HOLLAND offered his first and most
successful books to our publishing houses,
by whom they were refused Mr.. Scribner
ventured upon the publication, and has
sold nearly fifty thousand copies of each.
Mr. HURLBUT, mining engineer at
Houghton, Michigan, is reputed to have
become the wealthiest man on Lake Supe-
rior, or in any way connected with the
copper mines. He was the discoVerer OF
the famous Calumet mine. IL ~ j. T. ILL., a.
COLONEL J. D. 3. DEBOw's death oc-
CURED as stated, and the contradiction of
the report was made by mistake, Colonel
DeBow having gone to- Elizabeth, New
Jersey, to attend a dying brother, who
preceded him to the grave only few days.
EDWARD BooTH has purchased a house
in Thirty fifth street, near Fifth avenue,
with stable attached for seventy-five thou
sand dollars. Lester Wallack has purchased
house in West Thirtieth st rect, furnished,
for forty nine thousand do liars, and has al
ready taken possess ion.
MIR. f. X HhzMAN, Hungarian refu-
gee residing in New York, was on the
21st inst, unanimously elected Mayor of
Buda, his native place, and having been
informed by telegraph he will obey the call
of his countrymen, and return to the land
of his birth as the first magistrate of its
ancient capital
THE latest notoriety given to General
Grants inevitable cigar is by Rev. George
Trask, of Fitchburg, Mass, who, it is said,
in a letter to the General, after taking him
to task for using the weed, urges him by his
love for the youth Of America to drop
his cigar The General has not yet replied
to the letter nor dropped the cigar.
SOME friend of the late Hiram Woodruff
contributes to the Boston Post an anecdote
highly creditable to him One day on the
Bloomingdale road, Woodruff recognized
before dirt cart the relics of the once IA
nous roadster "Ajax." He pulled up at
once, and inquired the price of the beast,
bought him, and turned him out to Craze
unmolested for the rest of his natural life.
PORTLAND, Me-, has just lost man
named Leonard Cross, whose principal pc
culiarity was to be the first person to pay
his tax after the bills had been placed in
the Collectors hands; and the books for
the last twenty years will show that, with
the exception of one year, when somebody
got in before him, his tax was always the
first one paid.
THE Ravenna CO., Democrat says that
Arvin Olin and wife, ofFranklin, celebrated
the fiftieth anniversary Of their marriage
few days ago, upon which occasion Mr.. Olin
presented each of his sons and sons Flaw,
and daughters and daughters-in-l law, to the
number of fourteen, with ST. 900 EACH The
company present consisting of the old
couple and their descendants, numbered
sixty -four.
Mr.. JOHN THOMPSON, known as "Smok-
ing Johnny" from his inveterate use of to-
bacco, died last week, atsSalem, Indiana, at
the age of over one hundred years 1t is
noticeable in his case, as in that Of many
other centenarians, that while he recOllect-
ed scarcely anything that took place within
the last few years. his memory of events
which occurred in his early days, was re-
markedly vivid and tenacious.
ACCORDING to The Friend, Quaker paper,
Mrs. Cady Stanton is the orat or of the age;
& Her power over an intelli gent audience
is irresistible. Keen as Phillips, majestic
as Sumner, elegant as Curtis, tender and
womanly as Luoretia Mott, magnetizing a
magic logic with the most ethereal graces,
her claim to a place among the first of
American orators and statesmen is beyond
dispute Her rightful place is in the Sen
ate"
IT is said that Brougham, the actor is the
victim of an exaggerated attack of govt,
and that occasionally, despite his rollick-
some endeavor to throw care and the pangs
of his great toe to the dogs it will mani
fest itself to the occupants of the boxes
and dress circle. Only night or two ago,
in Washington, while playing "Micawber,"
Mrs. gMicawber dropped the waxen head of
the "sweet babe, upon the tender under
standing of her lord, causing him to wilt
in one of his most impassioned notes of de-
fiance to bum-bailitfs, and "other ills Of
life 04 A.5IItL
BONNER some time since offered Beecher
round sum of money for story for the
Ledger, Mr. Beecher, speaking of it lately,
used the expression that Bonner came
down handsomely" The novel halis--the
gifted author finds ii difficult work and de-
lays handing in the manuscript A friend
lately asks why the delay, when Mr. Beech
er candidly told him that he thought "nov-
ell writing was not his FORTE" and added
naively, giving his friend poke in the
ribs, call they can say is that Beecher
can't write a novel," and he laughed heart
lily at his idea.
Hon. JOHN PRENTIss, for many years
the editor and publisher of the Keene IN.
H. Sentinel, began his ninetieth year on
Thursday last He commenced the !Ssnti-
rel in 1899, when he was just twenty-one
years of age, his cash capital consisting of
five dollar BILL He gave three notes for
his stock in trade, which bore this singular