Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-02-28

| extraordinary coincidence OF parallel de-
scripton, which might have beenayoided
had i read the manuscript before my book
went to pres" iar
Personal and Literary.
EPEs SARGENT is writing another novel
of American Society.
THE famous proselyted Jewish boy, lit
tie Mortara, is to be made a priest.
GEORGE BANCROFT and Caleb Gushing
were both born in the year 1900.
Ext PRESIDENT, Day.. of Yale College,
aged ninety four, is the original e live-long
Day. - - a - r
GEN. Pope is in Washington, enjoying
the first leave he has had for twenty four
years
"WILD BILL" so favorably noticed in
Harper's Monthly, is now a low gambler IN
Kansas.
/ IT Is, reported that a son Of. Marco Boz
zaris will be Greek Minister to the United
States. ~ a
now in his twenty third year has pension
of $4,000. ,.--Er ,r.5-o,,CT -
A NEW comic c' weekly is to appear m
New York about the list of May, under the
nance THE A4an Of the Wor1d.
THE London Telegraph boasts daily
circulation of 138,704 - the largest
daily newspaper circulation in the world.
CoLENso has written a long letter TO
/ the London Times: to prove that the PRIME
tive Christians offered no prayers to
MRS. HENRY Johnson, late Miss
Harriet Lane, has given birth to afine
boy, who has been .christened James
Buchaiiah Oh dsIIIL3IR
GENERAL BUTLER denies, in card,
that he has brought suit fore libel
against any one; all such stories are false
hoods
SANTA ANNA is still living quietly on
Staten Island. He promises to go to Mex
| leo soon, to take an active part in affairs
there. oD t5J uD
Mr.. CHARLES A. DANAs new paper is
to be styled the New York Chronicle, and
is to be started on solid cash capital of
100000. OF '2
Mrs. BENJAMIN, wife of Judah P. Ben
jamin, late Secretary of State to the late
Confederacy, has the handsomest equipage
in Paris
I WILLIAM A. JACKSON, who was once
jeff Davis coachman, is fitting himself
for a collegiate education at Pierce Acade-
my, Middleboro.
70 Tune is the name of rich Chinese
exotic blooming in San Francisco circles,
who is known among Gothamitez residents
as the China Astor. = g -
THE Siamese twins have concluded to
settle down again, and have instructed
their agents to secure them comfortable
home in Kansas or Missouri. 49,.
A SON of Cornelius Vanderbilt has testi- /.
fed before the Legislature that his father
owns half the Harlem Railway and seven
teen thousand shares-of the Hudson River
WILLIAM B. AsToR has just given $780,
600 to the Aston Library, (which his father
founded at an expense of 100000, and to
which the son had before given over $780,
OO0
ALEX H. STEPHENS has written book,
entitled GA History of the Late War
between the States 3 Tracing Its Origin,
Causes and Results y twill shortly be
published by Cincinnati book firm.
i THERE are two ladies named Woods
writing novels in. England. Mrs. Henry
Woods thinks SO little of the other ones
ability that she advertises she is not the
author of the works of her namesakeI
THE Rhode Island Legislature has grant
ed the petition of fastidious individ-
ual who~wished to leave off the last
third of his name Of Mason Mowry Lee,
because he didn't like its rebel associations
Rev G. II. STURGEON has just conclud-
ed the purchase of two and a half acres of
land adjacent to Chaplain Common, upon
which the buildings for the purposes of the
new orphanage, under his auspices will be
erected p We
AMONG the men in New Y rk taxed upon
immense amounts of personal property are
William B. Astor on $2,250,000 James
Brown, on 81 100000; James Lennox, on
81 100000, and A. T. Stewart, ON $2,000,-
O0O .-
A LITTLE GIRL, niece of Captain Childs,
is reported to have fallen heir to fortune
of 81, 100000. This little heiress resides
in Portsmouth, Va, and is thus suddenly
enriched by the death of relative in
England She is but seven or eight years
of age. Ri IS go
The latest rumoris that young Benefits
fame has won the heart of an English girl,
whose father is a member of Parliament,
and whose wealth is of a nature to satisfy
the most aYaricious mind, and that he is to
bring her back with him as Mrs. j. G. b.,
Junior G,$ W ~ IA
BAYoRD TAYLOR delivered in Rochester,
on the evening of the 21st ultimo, his eight
hundred and fifty-seventh lecture since he
entered the lecture arena. He goes to
Europe in the spring, where he will
write to the atlantic and the New York
Tribune. 500 ;-~
TALLEYRAND died few hours after hay
ing signed formal recantation of the
errors of his extraordinary life. a" He died
| like man who knew how to live !" said
lady. "After humbugging all this
world, he ended by wishing to humbug
the other" said NJ de Blancmesnil
CHARLES DICKENS continues to be
great pedestrian, and from Tavisford
Square to Gadshill, good twenty eight
miles, is no uncommon pedestrian journey
for him before dinner He is not.a very
orthodox man in areligious point of view,
and frequently shocks his neighbors by
Sunday games of croquet on his lawn.
| Col. G. K. GARDNER and lady, of Wash
ington, celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage last week This semi
centennial event was observed in a bril-
| liant and becoming manner Several hun
dred cards of invitation were issued an
nouncing that the bride and bridegroom
would be at home from three until six
I p. IA. rah prTn31ns}
ALPHoNsE KARR, the French poet, has
offered a bon mot to the world. He was
lately present at a medical banquet, at
IL frlf laah nott ~