Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-01-17
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
PersonaI and literary.


called 9 TheJ.ast Kiss" q sA4 s.
THE Homer Iliad is the title of news
paper recently started in the town of Ho
mer, Louisiana.
BUT one colored man called upon the
President upon New Years day, and he
was well received.
A PURSE is being raised in Buffalo to be
presented to Henry Giles, the essayist, now
confirmed invalid.
THE Scientific american advocates using
the word "photogram instead of "pho-
tograph." Nonsense.
THE wizard Anderson has been arrested
Harrisburg, on charge of swindling H
X. Stewart out of $780,
JAMES ROBINSON, the famous bareback
rider,is an immense card in Havana. His
salary is 5000 per week, in gold.
TUE President will hold three -levees
during the winter, the 18th of January,
and the 9th and 22d of February.
{ iTHE Bible that President Lincoln is read
i11gto g Tad" in one Of the photographs,
Happens to be a big photograph album.
sss THE Hon Alexander H. Stephens is en-
gagged on work to be called The History
Of tt8 Var bettoeeD the States, and arrange
ments have already been entered into for
its publication r
. Miss SAELrE A. STocKwELL, a Missis-
silSpi young lady, was literally "taken by
surprise one day last week. The way of
it,Was this: She married one John B. Sur
prise. ,.1.tt..g qt a4s fv3 .Hr 10
a- WEEN Sheridan taught school, he had in
one of his classes a boy who always read
cartridges for patriarclIs. "Stop," ex-
claimed the ,wag of a teacher, you shall
not make game of the patriarchs."
Il Room. MnToN when blind married a
shreW. The Duke of Buckingham called
her "a rose II am no judge Of colors,"
replied Milton, but dare say you are
right, for feel the thorns daily"
THE Brooklyn Evangelical alliance,
whose aim is to blend all the orthodox"
churches in effort has put forth an eight
page weekly, called The Church Union,
the first number of which is just out.
4 ESPECIAL messenger left the State De-
partment at Washington yesterday for Chi
cage, to present to Mrs. Lincoln the gold
medal sent to her by 10000 >workingmen
Of France, out of regard to the memory Of
her husband.
The late J. w. NJ Turner, r. A., one of
the greatest Of English artists, bequeathed
to LIS countrymen the remarkable number
of IS 331 works of art, viz Finished pic
lures, 100; unfinished pictures, 1897 draw
in@s and sketches, 1909; total, 1881.
O'CoNNELL, in addressing jury, having
exhausted every ordinary epithet Of abuse,
stopped for word, and then added, "this
nauffageous rufian. When afterwards
asked by his friends the meaning of the
word he confessed he did not know, but
said he " thought it sounded we'll"
JOHN CHENEY, hunter of the Adiron-
dac1s, possess pistol that has. a history.
With it he has killed one thousand five
hundred deer, twelve otter, Fone panther,
twenty bears, nineteen wolves, twenty four
moose, and other game without number
He has carried the pistol thirtytwo years.
GENERATION THUMB and family are in
Manchester, England. A. local journal de-
clares that Mrs. Stratton is perfect little
lady. to all appearance, and those who
Know her best say she is SO in reality She
possesses q clever WOman'S mastery of the
art of dress, and her jewels are very rich"
Mrs DEMIss, of Erie county, Ohio, was
horribly mangled and killed in an accident
on the railroad, near Green Springs, on the
9th instant. She thrust one of her feet
through the car window, and it being
caught'in Che bridge, her leg was torn from
the socket. She lived but few minutes
after the accident.
5LA)NEw Y DIRK correspondent says that
Mr.. Beecher's Ledger story is not new
idea on the part of that gentleman He
has had the plan in his mind for many
years, and in his novel will devote himself
more especially to those moral and social
subjects which he cannot handle with suffi-
cient freedom in the pulpit.
TIE last wife of Brigham Young is
named Maria Folsom. "a Her former resi-
dence was at Council Bluffs, Iowa She is
an imperious young beauty of the Grecian,
rather than the Roman order, and is very
imperious and jealous. Like all passionate
and jealous women she is noble hearted.
Miss Folsom is Brigham's pet
MIR JOSEPH COBB, ninety-five years old,
was one of the skaters on the Muskingum
river, at GAINESVILLE, on Thursday last He
borrowed pair Of "dumpeys, the wood
of~which was cut from the first apple or
chard planted in Ohio, at Marietta, and
struck out, first right, then left After a
few turns, he challenged a juvenile of sew
enty to race, but the banter was declined.
11NflB courtship of DR. Sam johnson was
a model one as an evidence of disregard of
position in society When paying his adj
dresses to his partner he stated that he was
of mean extraction, poor, and had an uncle
who was hanged. His sweetheart re-
sponded that she felt it no disgrace to be
poor, as she was poor herself and although
she never had any relative who was hanged,
she had fifty who deserved to he.
AT: STEWART, the New Y orlx merchant
IllinoQ q notiyn nj I in tlNa oo,J71txr
of Armagh, which town, during the late
panic, in ireland, was benefited largely BY
Mr. Stewards liberality. Not more, than
thirty-five years ago, Mr. Stewards mother
then, the wife of John Martin, kept fur
nitdre store in Chatham Square, while Mr.
Stewart himself bepta modest dry goods
store in Broadway, opposite the Park.
THE Madrid papers announce the death
of the Duke of Neragua, grandee OF
Spain of the first class. The Paris papers,
in reproducing the news, describe him as
"lAdmiral and Governor General of the
Indies" The deceased Duke was neither
an Admiral nor Governor of the Indies,
titles which heTihheritet from his ancestor,
Christopher Columbus, or Cristoval Colon,
as he is called in Spain.
PARK BENJAMIN acknowledged before
his death that he was the originator of the
story, SO often circulated, to the effect thl,t
Humboldt once remarked Of Bayard Tay-
lor: "He has travelled more and seen less
than any other man 1t appears, little
previous to this publication, Park Benia-
min wrote TO Taylor, requesting a complete
set of his works of travel. Having no
particular acquaintance with Benjamin,
and hardly faelinp able TO nut himself tn