Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-03
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Sumner "a that vinegar blooded blue
belly
THa Duke Of Hamilton, succeeded three
years ago to clean go, 900 year, and is
now an insolvant
PRIVATE letters say that Thomas Carlyle
intends paying America visit next year,
or the year after.
sTMRs BETSY JANE WARD" has written a
letter to Artemus, in which she advises
him to stop writing to Punch, and toadying
British, and come home.
THE Doyleston pa Democrat says that
Secretary Stanton has given the colored
Episcopalians in Washington $4,000 worth
of bricks to build church.
DR. HOLLAND is to edit work entitled
Christ and the Treble. The plan embraces q
eelection of the choicest poetical gems on
religious subjects gathered from various
authors.
PROFESSORS MALLORY and Niles, Of Trim
: ity College, Hartford, Conn, will edit the
Connecticut Churchnlan, the Episcopal organ
Of that State, after the first Of January
next.
AIa. Lowe, the adapter of the screw pro-
peller in its present useful form, was run
over and killed by heavily laden wagon,
in Blaokfriar's road, London, on the 18th
ultimo.
- TaE editor Of Good Words asked Miss
Mulock the other day to write tale for
him, and she replied that she would do SO
if-he liked, but not for a less sum than
$500 in gold.
sM BIURsTEN, famous song writer,
whom the Swedas called their Beranger,
lately committed suicide at Stockholm. He
was tormented by an incurable malady,
and cut his throat to get rid Of his suffer
ingJ.
WHEN the King of Italy arrived in Flor
ence after the Venetion .fetes he was met by
Baron RicasoIi who offered him his hand.
NO" said Victor Emanuel, "let us en-
brace each other" and he suited the action
to the word.
IT is reported that A. T. Stewart is grad
ualIy Withdrawing from active business.
The details Of his immense estates furnish
business enough for one mans time. Mr..
Stewart is computed to be the richest man
IL America.
A RICH widow and believer in spiritual
ism has presented Home, the Paris medium,
with 500 600 The lady conceived herself
neglected by relatives, and determined to
spend her money for "some philanthropic
object"
The German papers announced recently
the death Of NJ. Frank, distinguished
rabbi of the Jewish Church of Germany.
He was born at Wilma in 1853, and was con
sequently one hundred and eight years of
age at the time Of his death.
REV. DR.. PIERCE, in the Baltimore Epis-
c0pQL Methodist, says, "There are two modes
OF sermonzng: one is, as if the preacher
were laboring to sustain his text by his dis
course the other as if he were laboring to
sustain his discourse by his text. The lat
ter is the right mode"
THE Memphis Post tells story greatly
to the honor of son Of Gen Lee. AT
dinner party in Richmond, one of the
quests proposed as toast, "The Fallen
Flag" "Col. Lee promptly placed his
band upon the glass and arose. Gentle
men, said he, this will not do. We are
paroled prisoners. We now have bat one
flag, and that is the flag of our whole coun-
try--the glorious old stars and stripes
can recognize no other, fight for no other,
and will drink to no other"
MISS WINNIE REAM. who is to execute a
statute of President Lincoln for Congress,
is a native Of Madison, Wisconsin, is about
twenty-five years Of age, and has been
g female clerk " in one Of the Departments
at Washington, where the family has for
some time resided. Her first attempt at
sculpture was the result OF visit to the
studio of the younger Mills. She was sat-
isfed that she could "sculp" as well as he,
and on subsequent visit she presented
medallion so well done that the elder Mills
could hardly be made to believe that it was
her own work.
Mr.. JACOB LoUCKs, respected citizen of
Manchester township, York county, Penn,
and supposed TO be the largest man in the
country, died Of apoplexy, ct the age of
fifty seven years. He was exceedingly cor
pulent, and was supposed to weigh about
five hundred pounds at the time of his
death. His coffin measured thirty five inoh-
es in breadth by twenty-three in depth.
His weight was not fer from that of Daniel
Lambert, of Lei3estershire, England, which
is given as five hundred and twenty-eight
pounds, and who is said to have been the
largest man in the world.
THE London Court Journal says that Mr..
Tennyson is aboutto leave the Isle of Wight,
where he has a pretty house and grounds
at Faringford. If the report be true, he
will actually have been driven away
by the curiosity of his neighbors He
has bought up all the land he could get
around his grounds but to no effect. He is
watched and lodged wherever he goes. Ii
he opens window or pulls up blind, 8
blind score of eyes are upon him, aided
by opera glasses and telescopes In Lon
don he is quiet enough; no one suspects the
= great poet of our day to be that tall man
with wide-awake, long beard and spec
tacles.
In is known that NJ. Michelet married
young wife in his old age. and that bis
work La Femme is to a great extent made
up of the results of his personal experience
OF married life. Madame Michelet has now
made her debut as an authoress. NJ. and
Madame Miohelet, before leaving Paris, as
they are wont TO do to pass the winter sea-
son at Hycres, gave farewell dinner to
their friends In the evening some chap
tiers were read of new novel by Madame
Michelet, called L'Enfdnt. This, like some
of her husbands books, is said to be per-
sonal, and to contain passages from the his
tory of her own life. Madame Michelet
was governess, and for some time lived in
that capacity with the family of Prince
Cantacuzene, at Bucharest.
Domestic Paragraphs.
Six white rats were caught at New
buryport recently.
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