Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-08-30
CURRENT, NEWS BREyITIES.


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IT rs said that Beecher is writing a five
act drama for Edwin Booth. The hero Is
John Brown, r, rf.geeF
LEONARD CASE, young man NOT mucn
over twenty years OF age, Is the Weaithiess
1 nmansin Cleveland.
sS~ GrSERA Al. P1LLow has at last been in
the field" to some purpose: ne estlmates
his corn crop this year at 20O,OOO, bushels.
Ex-GovERNoR GILMORE, of Colorado,
lately sold strip OF land tor $2,7OOOO0,
and is one of the richest men In the west.
+. "a Carol of the Harvest, for 1867" by
Walt Whitman, will be published in the
G0LQay for September. 1t is long chant
celebrating the bounteOus harvest OF the
present year. Look out for terrific yawp.
Mr. PEABODY assures an English paper
b that over 5000 letters addressed to him
have been of necessity destroyed since he
arrived in London. In fact he could not
have time to read them
SAMUEL REED, leading editor of the
=, Cincinnati Gazette, and Henry Reed, lead
ing editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, are
brothers. One is a radical Republican and
the other an ultra Democrat, and they are
as unlike in character, appearance and
manner as in politics. HI aa staf8 ssal
:. q JAMES A. CUTTING, inventor of the am
brotype died last week in the Worcester
: Insane Asylum. He made many thousands
Of dollars out of his discovery, but spent
his income in an extravagent, experimental
aquarium, and finally went mad. His
aquarium is now at Barnum's. te.g
AN anonymous gentleman of Vermont
announces the publication of a second vol
ume of Vermount Poetry" and requests
all the poets of that State, wheresoever
they may reside to furnish such of their
productions rs they may wish to have in
serted, giving their names and residence
In full. f- SEW
Y BIoNbIN has been compelled to break
his engagement at Asnieres having first
come near breaking his neck. On closely
inspecting his rope, one day, he discovered
s&hatitshad been sawn asunder, so that one
fibre only remained, which his weight
would have broken. But for the timely
discovery, this diabolical attempt would
have succeeded.
AMONG the interesting sights at Sarato-
ga are the public interviews of John G.
Heenan and Hon. John Morrissey. They
meet upon Broadway, shake hands, take a
scat upon, the lawn, light their Habanas,
and hold a most friendly chat over their
cigars of peace, for an hour at time. The
Benicia Boy is looking nobly-the very
model of a perfectly built man. Morrissey
looks like an old man beside him. Hee-
nan is said to be worth 100000, and just
now is defendant in suit in New York in
which patron of his gaming house seeks
to recover about $500 lost therein. @
WILLIAM GED, the inventor of stereotyp-
ing, was a jeweler in Edinburgh, and in
prosperous circumstances. In an unlucky
hour he disclosed his discovery, and accord
ing to DR.. Charles Rogers, a recent Scotch
author" the trade, desming their craft in
danger, formed a combination for mis- DIES.
truction. Masterprinters journeymen and
apprentices worked against him as com.
mon enemy they assailed him with insults;
they loaded him with invectives; they re-
preached him with ignorance and assump-
ton. Poor Ged, who ought to have made
fortune by his discovery, sunk under the
load of persecution, and died of a broken
heart"