Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-10-25
CLIPPINGS AND DRIPPINGS.
Berseuay and literary.

Rev. DIR. BELLOWS is about to write
novel.
A NEW YORK letter says the Gdlq15
magazine in the last two years has lost $50,
000.
RALPH WALDO EMEPsoN's estate is
worth $4O,000-quite enough for philos-
opher.
A MISSOURI paper says General Free
mont's fortune is two millions worse thar
nothing.
JAY COOKE is said to have made ovel
$12,000,000 profits out of Government Sc
curities during the war. $z
Hon. SIDNEY BREEsE, ex-senator, ant
now Chief Justice of Illinois, takes prom
inent place in the list of candidates for the
| Democratic Presidential nomination, next
year.
AMONG the noteworthy "printers
devils" in this country are Thurlow Weed
Horace Greeley, Simon Cameron, ex-Vice
President Hamlin, General Dix, Speaker
Colfax, Gideon Wells, Robert Bonner and
Petroleum V. Nasty.
NEXT summer will probably witness the
publication of work of immense interest
the Memoirs of Talleyrand." On May
II, the arch diplomatist will have been
dead thirty years, and the prohibition
which he laid upon the publication of his
papers will then expire. nv
Domestic Paragraphs.
"A hog, entirely blind with fat, was
on exhibition in New Jersey, recently.
"A Wisconsin lady has a beard two
inches long, while her husband has not a
hair on his head.
Nearly all the ice used ON the Pacific
coast is brought from an ice cave In the
northern part OF Oregon. 5s IL,
An old chap in New York has occu-
pied the same orchestra chair at the Black
Crook performance for nearly one hundred
nights and still lives. 4 H5lf 2
Ralph Keeler, the young Californian
who made the tour of Europe for 1871 in
greenbacks, submits his name to the lee
ture committees of the East and West
"A Boston beau sees a lady home
from an entertainment by putting her in a
horse Car, bound to the suburbs, several
miles distant, and then meanders home
alone. faHe sol n
Two men in Vermont went to law
about sheep worth five dollars. The one
who recovered damages to the amount of
$116.46 hadtoEpay lawyers fees amounting
to $3.50
| An estimate made of the value of the
fruit crop of California places The apple at
about $500, 900, the peach at $500, the
plum at 100000, cherries, apricots and
pears at $3.50, 600, and grapes at over ST.
100000. afs7f
Leopold de Meyer, unlike our other
leading pianists, rarely PRACTICES He
has no piano in his room, and declined the
Steinways' offer to send him one. His
touch, and his manner of using his hands
at the piano, is utterly novel, He has been
engaged by Harrison for seven months, and
will travel all over the country.
The Washing ION Lincoln Monument
Association has closed contract for q
monument, to be built of white marble and
to have a height of thin ,y-siX feet, includ7
ing statue Of Lincoln eight feet high of
Italian marble. Over $1,000 has been col
lected for this purpose, almost entirely in
Washington. The monument will be
placed in front of the City Hall.
--Julesburg, Colorado, is . nice plac"
judging from the following list of one days
events: The citizens had two street fights,
hung man, rode three men out Of town
Ou d ldii, SOb up ~ putsI ooi laCc, % ouhHCy
shooting, gander pulling, match dog
fight-had preaching by a circus rider who
afterward ran footrace for applejack all
around and, as that was not enough, the
Judge of court al5er losing his fees at
poker, and whipping a fellow for saying he
didn't understand the game, went out and
helped to lynch his grandfather for horse
stealing.
"A band of Indians made sudden
attack on detachment of our soldiers in
the mountains, recently. The soldiers had
loaded mountain hoWitzer mounted ON
mule. Not having time to take it off and
put it in position, they backed up the mule
and let drive at the Indians The load was
SO heavy that mule and all went tumbling
down the hill toward the savages, who, not
understanding that kind Of warfare, fled
like deers. Afterward one of them was
captured, and when asked why he ran so,
replied "Me big Injin, not afraid of little
guns or big guns, but When white man
load up and fire whole jackass at Injin,
me don't know what to do .E ~