Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-02
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.

of that State q i " -
SINCE the destruction of 1000 begging
letters by Mr.. George Peabody, he has re-
ceived 1000 more.
DAN RICE has made an engagement to
travel with a circus the coming season, get
ting s26 900 for his services.
ANDREW JOHNSON has been pronounced
insane by jury, at Rockford, ILL.,, and is
now safely lodged at Jacksonville. Ii
e. JoHN B. GoUaH made his first temper
ance speech in Rochester, on the 4th of Ju.
ly. 1842 0Since that time he has delivered
$500 speeches and lectures.
MARTIN F. UPPER has been excited to
"a apoem2 ON. Confederation, in which he
states that +" o! this win gladden. Canada /.
o, this will raise her much." -
LOUIS GAYLORD CLARKE a man VINO
has seen better days, is said to be contrib
-uting series of staIe-anecdotes and jokes
tothe columns of anotorious Sunday pa
per.
WHEN Sheridan was golngto Court one
morning, carrying his usual green bag full
of books and papers, some OF his profess
.sional associates set on the urchins in the
streets to ask him if he was peddling old
clothes "".No,p he replied, Gthese are all
new suits"
n The pubiicis promised some rich deVel-
opments. Bennett, of the New York Herr
0td has for long time assailed ruthlessly
Ben. Wood, of the New York Neaos. Wood
has endured it as long as human nature
can, and gives warning of retaliation. He
intends to commence such an exposition
of hist Bennetts)p private affairs as will tend
to put stop to this reckless disregard of
the decencies of life" The subject is a
good one, the zelda wide one, and the pub
lie will await the revelations with consid-
cradle interest
WILLIAM WRIT, was once arguing case
involving somepersonal right, in the course
OF which he stated very broad legal
'propositiony His opponent asked him for
his authority I'M laying down the rule, and
to cite the book and page which contained
his precedent Mr.. Writ, in his Impressive
style, turned upon his auestioner, and an
sWered nrthis gorgeous manner: I" Sir,
am not bound to grope my way among the
ruins of antiquity,-to stumble over Obso-
lete statutes and delvesin black letter lore,
in search of a principle written in living
lett, rs upon, the heart of everyTman."
Mr. WILLIAM X. KETTLES, of Fall
River, Mass extensively known as one of
the finest telegraph operators in the coun-
try, AND by many considered as cham
pion telegrapher, was not.a little amused
by a fellow lightning picker of the Quaker
City asking, for his solution, a question, to
which he give publicity, Notwithstanding
the joke at his own expense. He was
asked, !" Why Bridget in the kitchen was
the best telegrapher in the United
States )" and upon giving it up, was told
that she was, so because she@could wipe
out kettles, TO which reply Mr.. Kettles
could only calculate, Personal but cor
rect" ; s ,~.uii
Coll UTLEY of the Racine Adoocate,
concludes an account of his last visit to
the Garden City as follows: "We are not
going to Chicago again until we get new
suit of clothes for we got took down lit
tie in our black broadcloth suit. We pre-
sumo we were the only man in the city
dressed in old fashioned black suit, and it
struck the boot-black boys that we were
from the country, and they were after us
with warm applications They dogged us
wherever we went, and finally, when we
got round to the fremont House, we turned
on them and gave them to understand that
our boots were sometimes put to other
uses besides backing A little ragged
thing, about two feet high, turned and
buOubCNt w ~ OOilildoC Ol 0nC OOllCl oiuC VI
the street, who it appears was watching
his success; says he, II say, Pete, this ere
country cuss is putin on airs I?
BARON ROTHsCHILD says; 1t requires
a great deal of boldness and a great deal
of caution to make fortune and when
you have got it, it requires ten times as
much wit to keep it. If | were to listen
to all the projects prop Osed ONE, should
rl1ip pouQa1f SficIr RI hl1oi
ness, young man." said he to Edward
!" stick to your brewery and you may be
the great brewer of London. Be brewer
and banker, and merchant, and you will
soon be in the Gazette. One of my neigh
bors is a very ill-tempered man he tries
to vex me, and has built great place for
swine close to my wall.sSo, when go out
hear first grunt, grunt, squeak, squeak
but this does me no harm. | am always
in good humor. Sometimes, to amuse
myself, give beggar a guinea. He thinks
1t mistake, and for fear that should find
it out, off he runs as fast as he can. | adj
wise You to give a beggar guinea some
times tits very amusing"
THE death of Rev David Dudley Field,
D.. d., at Stockbridge, Mass, April Is,
gives fresh occasion for noticing the record
OF his distinguished sons. David Dudley
Field, who has few peers at New York
bar; Matthew d., of Southwick, Mass, an
extensive civil engineer and bridge builder
in the Southern and Western States JON
athan E., Stockbridge lawyer, and Presi-
dent of the Massachusetts, Senate from 1863
till 1866 Cyrus W., of Atlantic cable
fame; Stephen J :, of San Francisco, Cal,
and Judge of the United States Supreme
Court and Henry NJ, for many years the
editor of the New York Eoangelist, are the
six brothers, who have made themselves
conspicuous and prominent position in
the professions in which they have been
engaged All but Stephen Cyrus are grad
yates of Williams College, and it is a Gu
lious fact that the attempt was not made
to educate the latter because he wasn't
thought worth the experiment. Rev.
Henry M. Field was ON the point of de-
parture for Europe by the Great Eastern
(by which steamer Cyrus w. had just ar
rived when news of the fathers death was
received
GEN. SHERMAN says that the greatest
demand ever made on his moral courage
was under the following circumstances
The citizens of San Francisco were cele-
brating the Fourth of July in the large
American Theatre, which was packed to
its utmost capacity. Gen. Sherman was
chief marshal, and occupied seat near the
front of the stage, The orator had COM
pleted his Grafton, the;post began his song,
when one OF his aids, white with fear,
made his way down the middle aisle to the
footlights, and reckoning the Generals
ear, whispered to him that the theatre had
settled foot and half in one of the side
walls, under the weight of the crowd, and
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