Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-10
C,TsYiIRREST NEWS ITEMS.
personal and Literary.

AVER. the pill man, has turned lecturer.
VICTOR Hueo is preparing history OF England.
Cousr BlsMARK Is threatened with softening OF
the brain.
GAIL HAMILTON has gone South, and intends to
write book about it.
MACMILLAN has ordered his letters sent to Mezl-
"a seoand not o,Gibraiter. s$E ava fy
q = TIE late Mrs Amos Lawrence bequeathed $685.
900 to public institutions
WE are very sorry to hear that the Sirdar Ma
hommed Raffeek Khan has been strangled
BENJAMIN BRIGGS editor and publisher of the
Newark (Ohio) Adcertiser for thirtysix years, died
on the morning of the 18th.
THE thousand and oneth translation of the Kneid
has appeared In England from the pen of John
Conington.
GEN RosEcRAYs is said to be making pile "
in California, by his skill and enterprise min
ing engineer.
80 BP snLrABEH, s'Mrs. Partngton,' has left
the Boston Journal and joined the staff OF the
49, Duly Adrertiser.
=. FATHER CLEVELAND the Boston city missionary,
is now ninety -four and half years old and is still
active in his good work. u .1
II AT Pleasant Mills, N. j. lives the oldest John
Smith His age is III years and his faculties are
not dim, nor his natural force abated.
1 Gossrp reports the speedy return of General
z, Mcclellan from the continent, and that he will re-
side of his country house at Orange, New Jersey.
BEN. WooD, with his recent faro winnings from
John Morrissey and some other pocket money, has
purchased handsome row of stores on Broadway.
RI RoBERTs, the Cambridge teacher who OBJ
tanned his notorety by fogging one of his school
girls last summer, has received present of $3.50
'i'' from his friends -.
$3.50 Mrs BUEDEIL. CCsNISGHAM who was reported
among those lost on the Evening Star is at present
b din0i N yyl he
s,.4 ago married man by the name of Hayes.
o. =, SIR PETER LEFY made it rule to look at
bad picture, has ing found by experience that
20 whenever he did his pencil took hint from it.
Apply this to bad books and bad company. ~
u. TIE familiar hymn, Sweet Hour of Prayer
o so popular in our Sunday schools, was written by
Mrs. Fanny, blind lady We are grieved to hear
~ that she is INDECENT circumstances and needs help
~ JoHS s. Rock, the coiored lawyer who was adj
mtt ed to practice in the United State Supreme
r. Court on Senator Summers motion, some time
SINCE died in Boston on Tuesday last of consump-
I ton. a = I'll e" ~ 3Co .SE-. J+i
THE New York correspondent of the Hartford
- Press says that Mr. Stewards new house will cost
81 100000 and that there is a report in circulation
the effect that Mr.. Stewart is soon to retire from
business u,z ,a ID n,a... = !,
are printed in the German language, of which
seven are daes eleven are devoted to religious
discussions, and OF the secular papers forty-one
are published weekly.
IT is said that Nathaniel Hawthorne has left
novel no portion of which has been published, his
widow hesitating to permit its publication on ae-
count of the great number Of points in which he
had marked for alteration.
A. K. BAILEY, Jr. editor and proprietor of the
Winnesheik Qowa) Republican. met with sad &C
cident recently. While running the power press
? his right hand was caught in the machinery and
ia three of his fingers mashed almost to pieces.
REV. DR. PREsTLEY, of Pittsburgh, who was late
ly accommodated, preached his farewell address
to the congregation on Sunday. He says that he
will remain in that city and endeavor to live down
the charges that have been brought against him.
y A SON of the Hon. William L. Day ton is engaged
TO the only daughter of the Hon. Geo. II. Pendle-
ton, says the New York World. The Hon. George
Pendetons daughter is but twelve years old alto
gether too young to play at the serious game of
matrimony, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
FIFTY years ago, John Smith arrived in this
e country from Brechin, Scotland and the other day
in commemoraton of this event, he invited seven
hundred of his friends and employees to duner.
q The mammoth banquet took place in Andover,
Mass, where Smith has his factories.
MARK TWAIN, the California humorist, in a
printed programme of lecture he was lately to
give in San Jose, proposed to illustrate the cann
bal propensities of the ancient islanders by de-
vonring child in the presence of the audience,
If some lady would furnish him one for the occa-
zion.
FL = THE Detroit Post says that ex-Alderman I. w.
Ingersol is heir, with less than twenty other per-
sons to $16000000 the accumulation of sum de-
posted forty years ago by his maternal grand
mother in the orphans Court of Holland, for the
descendants of Isaac Webers, of New York, one
: of whom he is. 2" a
HENRY BOYD LEWIS, near male descendant of
George Washington, was convicted, on the 22d of
= December, at King Georges Court House, Vir-
ginia, of voluntary manslaughter, in killing DR..
Ross, some years ago. He was sentenced to three
years and six months in the Penitentary. The jury
recommended the prisoner to mercy.
f.. THE orchestra says that Mr.. Anderson, ''the
wizard of the North,'' is the most unfortunate man
in public life. He is recently bankrupt again for
the third time, and in the last twenty years has by
fire, water and unsuccessful speculation lost up
wards of $l50OOO. Instead of whining over his
- Gaamtes, he spreparing to go to work again.
THE Leeds Mercury says that the world will
probably have the pleasure of reading new poem
from Mr.. Robert Browning next spring. 1t is no
slight thing, nor is it acoection of small poems
althat he is now bringing to close but agreat
work of many thousand lines. 1t is founded on a
medieval Roman story which has fascinated the
poet" en-s
N. P. WILLIS health is rapidly improving. He
has so far recovered to be able to contribute his
usual s. Article to the Home J0ta'nal of this
week. In private letter to his partner he says
You will be gratifed to hear that have once
more gained victory ever my enemy-death; and
you mustnotb surprised if survive YOU
..e NEW ORLEANS can lay claim to the youngest au-
thoress in Ameica. A little girl, not eleven Yeas
old, has been keeping diary for time past,
and it was recently sent to New YorSto be read by
some friends, for their amusement. They were so
well pleased with its contents, that its publication
was advised. 1t will be a volume of-over two
hundred pages, and bears the title of Under the
Roses. 4
en- DIR. LIVINGSTONE, the African explorer, at last
accounts was moving up the river Ravenna, ON the
east coast of Africa intending to visit the unknown
northern extremity of Lake Nyanza. The lates
advices received from him are to, May 18th. Hi
progress was slow, as the Ravenna is fanked Oh
both sides by chain of hills from four hundred tt
six hundred feet high, covered with dense en-
tangled jungle The natives were very friendly.
DAN BRYANT, the Irish COMEDIAN was invited
few days ago by the owner of menagerie to visi
the collection of animals in their winter quarters
The two inspected the beasts after one of MIR
BrYant's evening performances over; and thu
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