Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-31
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS
Personal and Literary.

= e fs,Ih,R,Es r. s.frrH--Bill Arp was re-
comfy elected Mayor of Rome, Georgia.
MAnAyE PAREPA is not about TO marry
Carl Rosa. the violinist, as was reported.
MISS WErHERILL, author of the "Wide,
Wide World" has i'll press " The House OF
Israel" - 1sss -. ~. \
GENERAL PHU., 'SHERDAY denies that
he is about to get married or run for the
Presidency
MoRRIssEY has succeeded of late years,
but when a fighter. there was time when
he couldn't ego" Hyer.
CHARLES DICKENS has begun public
readings of !" Barbox Brothers, and the
"Boy atMugby," in the city of Leeds
s CORNELIUS VANDERBILT keeps a
stud of nine horses. He also has
new colt not yet drought out into society.
MR. JOHN MULDER, of EastmanVille,
Michigan, has son aged only thirteen
wears who is five feet eleven and one-half
inches in height.
THE honor is claimed for Gen. Thomas
of being the first man to suggest the great
, national work of national cemeteries for
our dead soldiers.
IT is reported that new Radical paper
is to be started at ST. Louis, under the man
agement of Hon. Charles A. Dana and
other parties not named.
THE Pope.is evidently preparing for a
rainy day. He sent great number of jew
els, etc, to the nunclo at Paris, by whom
they have been deposited in the Partisan
banks.
q ANEW Texas weekly newspaper bears
, 3 the euphonious titleof the Sarcastic 1Boacae
Knife. 1t claims to possess strong inter
est in the welfare of the educational inter-
ests of the State.
THE distinguished sdUGn, Professor Ag-
ASST, was born at MOtiers, Switzerland,
and was intended for the church. He is
now fifty=nine, and has been in this coun-
try twenty-epe years. 4
CLEMENT G. CLAy' property has been
libeled for confiscation Mr.. Clay was form
erly Representative from Alabama in the
United States Congress. He. took prom
inent part in the rebellion. 1~{A
THE Howard UNIVERSITY opens this
month, in Washington, with acorps ofpro-
fessors to instruct colored men in literature,
theology, medicine, and law, and with an
endowment already received of$100OO0.,
Hon. e. B. WAsHBURNE, Of Illinois, will
soon sail for Europe intending to be aD-|
sent about three months He is said to
be suffering from a spinal disease, and goes
for the purpose of obtaining medical as
sistance.
THE wound of Mr.. Frederick Stewards
head, received at the time Of the assassina-
ton, has only closed over within a recent
period. Trepanning was impossible owing
to its situation on the side of his skull, and
now the brain at that point is only pro-
tected by thin armor Of flesh. 5
HENRY GwINN, a colored man who is
well spoken of, lectured at Savannah, Geor-
gia, one evening last week. His subject
was-"Labor morally, mentally, and phys
ically considered" He desires to impress
upon his race the necessity of industry and
good faith in their contracts as laborers
Mr.. LEWIS TwrNING, the bee tanner, who
at State Fairs and other places has carried
bees in his hat, allowed bees to go in and
out of his mouth at pleasure, and made
himself personally very intimate with bees,
diminishing from his home in Indiana, and
his wife is anxious to know his where
abOuts. 7--ie }tI+a
THE Prince Of Wales gives offence TO the
British people by his intimacy with the
Duke of ST. Albans, notorious profiigate.
Il Albert Edward is pretty hard boy. Cos
sip intimates that he is not only fast and
dis5ipated, but that his tastes are of the low,
depraved description, for which George
~. was notorious. ~
REV. DR. CUYLER, of Brooklyn, was last
week invited, with his wife, to take sleigh
ride with deacon. While they were
abroad they thought the deacon acted very
strangely, and wondered why he insisted
upon, keeping them out SO long. When
they Returned home, they found their house
newly furnished, from top to bottom, in
most tasteful and elegant style.
THE death is announced of the Rev.
IDt.x~ Il. %s.,frx sel, Ntn
matcian, whose works on astronomy, alge-
: bra, &C., were for many years text books
q at Cambridge University, England The
deceased was second wrangler and second
Smiths prizeman in 1915, and was for
some years fellow and tutor of Sidney SuX-
sex College,
THE dramatic critic Of Wilkes Spirit Of
the Times says OF Ira Aldridge, the cele-
brated colored actor: ellis wife is Swed-
iSh baroness, and his residence is splendid
mansion in the suburbs of London, near
the Crystal Palace, and he owns not only
+ the house which he occupies, but five villas
of equal proportions. There is not alive a
. more successful man than Chevalier Ira
Aldridge, T. s., thirty years ago Wallack's
body servant|
THE colored another in Israel," Sojourn-
"a er Truth, to whom Mrs. Stowe has given a
70 Wl1c lame. anu WHO Is 4dlInOSI u uuLltIcCi
s. years old, made the following speech on
woman's rights in Rochester last week
"Now I'm gwine to say something bout
dis question of woman's rights. | don't
see what for that they want to keep talkin'
about der rights. Desc rights belong to
EN-. Whena ting belongs to anybody, all
dey got to do is to go and take it. OATS
all der is about dis question" e,,re, haya
AT Medina, the "prophet Mahomet
once sent back dish of mutton untouched,
because they were favored with onions,
saying that they were disagreeable to the
angel who visited him. He never travelled
without tooth-pieks, and anthony for the
eyes he was good listener in converse
ton, and never, in shaking hands, was the
first to withdraw his own; he was not adj
dicted to any of the games or sports of
which the Arabs were so passionately fond,
and was, in all things, most unlike the he
roic ideal of Arab character.
REV. CHARLES B. SMYTH, the sensation
al "Black Crook preacher, of New York,
having acquired some fame by lecturing on
the immoralities of the day in Cooper In
stitute, till the trustees, regarding them
selves as conservators of public morals and
public deeency, closed the doors of the
building upon him one Sunday afternoon
just as an audience was assembling to hear
him, appealed to the public to vindicate
him by paying fifty cents to hear him lee
ture on a week night in the hall from
which he was excluded on Sunday Rut