Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-14
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QUEEN VICTORIA opened Parliament IN
person this year. I'D rrro tr 1oCF
SENATOR f. Z. FRELINaHUYsEN, OF New
jersey is the third OF his name VINO mas
occupied the position. a
Henry WARD BEEcHER is to be sued by
the Buffalo Ly ceum for falling to keep a
lecture engagement.
CHARLES ANDERSON, an incorporate
w6od-sawyer Of fairfield, Iowa, has fallen
heir to fortune of 100000 in Sweden.
~ MARTIN FARoUHAR upper is said to be
greatly distressed at tie violent manner in
which he has been criticized Of late years.
IN the New York Chess Tournament,
Capt q. H. Mackenzie is ahead, having
won rtwenty-one outoGtwenty-three games.
lA1'IIE~ Green Bay tNVis.y ddr0cats has
h0istef the name Of Abraham III. Lee,
Of Prairie Gu ItocheE for the next Presi-
duncy. pas
JUDaE PERKINS, of Columbus, Miss, at
his Death gave sixty thousand dollars to
the Theological Seminary at Columbia,
South Carolina
Mr. r. H. OLMsTED and Miss Martha t.
Hale, Of East Hartford, Conn, were united
III lidtGiDioily vi odIiudIJ iot, olCCA " e""h'
ship Of twenty years.
ANANIAs KNOTT, of ST. Louis, has APP
piled for divorce from his wife on the
ground Of "lhdignities" Let her remem-
Der the song "Love-Knott"
COLONEL DAN G. TAYLOR, ex-Mayer, of
ST. Louis, drew a valuable prize in the
Crosby rattle He is brother-in. law Off The
man who won the Opera House. %
Mrs. MAJOR WILLIAMS Of Washington,
formerly Mrs. Stephen A. Douglas, recent
ly celebrated the first anniversary OF her
last marriage by giving birth to twins.
THE Marquis of Westmnster's grandson
Lord Belgrave, will be the richest man in
Europeif he lives. He rntcs the titles
of two of the wealthiest families in the
kingdom.
FRED. DOUGLASS says he is not permit
ted now,jas formerly, to enjoy the luxury
of whole seat when travelling. Some
people really prefer sitting next a niger
to standing.
II. F. JAMES, who founded the city of
GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, in 1885, soon after
wards ernigga ted to the Pacific coast, and
now writes to the GAINESVILLE Gazette, says
that, although he is SO years of age, he has
never yet seen a railroad or telegraph
Ir is stated that the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher is about to sue the Independent
Theodore Tilton,) for publishing his
Plymouth Church sermons and lectures,
contrary to his (Bcecher) advice and
wishes. #
AMONG the wealthy Oil men of Pennsyl
yania is old John de Bennehof, whose in
come, estimated from the present produc-
ton of his oil farm, is not less than $780,
cooper year. He still lives in his antiquat-
ed Dutch homestead, near the head of Ben
nehoff Run.
The death of the honorable Colonel
Ceaser Kaluaikau Kahanupauokalani Ka-
maksehukai Keolaokalani Kapaakea, mem
Der of the House Of MOBILES, Privy
Council of Stlte and Knight Compan-
ion of the Order of Kamehameha is an
nOunced. ~ A &&&f ss
The Pittsburgh Chronicle says that
Henry Motifs, the young man who wagered
forty dollars, last summer, that he would
stand on post twenty-four hours, and who
was removed by the police, after being up
ten hours, has accomplished the feat for a
wager of one hundred dollars
THE value of the estate of the late Ed
ward Mott Robinson, whose will is just adj
mitted to probate at New York his daqgh-
ter Hetty having Withdrawn her opposition
to it, is sworn at four and half millions.
The will, as now finally sustained, leaves
Miss Hetty 100000 in her own right.
THE other evening, Artemus Ward faint
ed away while delivering his lecture on
she Mormons He looks extremely i'll.
His papers in Punch are discontinued
He is under the professional care of
DR.. Mary Walker, in London. He is A
Ward in the hospital in which she is a
Walker
~, ,,o,,o,, ~,ro, Jooo,~+;n, -, +lo ,oro,
ence of Charles Lamb upon the repulsive
appearance of the oyster. 1t isn't hand
some, Coleridge;" said Lamb; but it has
the advantage of you in one thing" "What
is that ?" queried Coleridge, who as every
body knows, was an inexhaustless talker.
cit knows when to shut its mouth" was
the reply.
A STORY is told of Stewart, the dry-goods
millionaire that knowing certain article
was rising he sent to a Boston merchant to
buy up everything of the kind at ''the hub"
He overlooked the putting up of his own
prices, however, to correspond to the rise;
the Bostonian found it out and bought half
of Stewards own stock at two cents a yard
less than market rates, before the merchant
prince found it out. Stewart had to buy
his own goods at an advance.
THE New York Tribune says: "Charles
Augustus Davis died in this city, on Sun
day last, at the age of 70 years. He was a
native of New Jersey. He was well
known as merchant, from his long con-
nection with the house of Davis & Brooks,
shipping and commission merchants of this
city, and, as literary man, from his letters
over the signature Of "Major Downing"
and peter Scriber" Many of the
Downing" letters were directe against
the United States bank and the financial
policy of Nicholas Biddle At the time of
his DEATH Mr.. Davis was director of the
bank of the state of New York, and
also director in the Pacific Mail Com
pany"
Domestic Paragraphs.
Since the morgue was opened in New
York city, on the 21st of June, there have