Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-06
NEWS ITEMS.


| cUlblOu, tHTS6 UtOUSUJttb, DupA1oASNt
but fortnight ago.
SANTA ANNA, a garrulous old man OF
Iysevepty, has beensspendingI the winter on
Staten Island He is said to- esworth a
little less than a million, and gives up all
further connection with Mexican politics.
BUDRooDEEN TYABEE, Mohammedan,
has been admitted &c. practice at the English
bar He was sworn onthe- Koran. He in
tends to practice at the bar at Bombay, and
will be the first member of the bar in India
who is a disciple of the Prophet.
CATHERINE E. Hutton, of Caroline
county, Va, claims to be sole heir of
81, 100000 worth of property in New AL
bany, Ind, which was granted many years
ago to one of her ancestors. The lady is
single, but if she proves her claim to her
| fortune has not much longer to wait.
NICHOLAS LoNGwoRTH, the millionaire
of Cincinnati, once Cancelled a mortgage in
this wise: "I cancel this mortgage, not
recollecting whether it was paid or not.
Paid or not, i acknowledge payment, and
| cancel it, AS it is not likely thata Jersey
man would let mortgage remain twenty
one years unpaid" ff..r ~
MR. BEECHER, appealing to his people
| for the southern relief fund, says: My
sister, Mrs Stowe, who has just returned
! from a two months journey in Florida
and. Georgia Il have heard. from her lips
tales of suffering among the educated and
cultivated that would melt your hearts
could / relate them as she has told them to
me- ~ - - - = I}-iti II Vie
AMONG the lost, by the burning of the
Wisconsin, on Lake Ontario, was John
Powers, the first mate. He was a very
on1 Othnr
embellishments, he was the champion skater
of America, and created quite a .fHrore at
Chicago and other Western cities a few
winters ago.
/ SOME months ago the cable reported
that General Kalergis, the Greek patriot,
had been3sent by that nation as an Envoy
/ to the United States. He came on his way
to this country as far as Paris where he
was taken sick, and his medical advisers
ordered him to return to Greece. He re-
signed his commission as Envoy, and soon
after died at Athens. He was sixty years
Of age at the time of his death. q
lSE.P. WHIPPIE, the Boston essayist, re-
ports an income ofonly 81, 800 and Oliver
Wendell Holmes reports but $5,594, which
may be derived from his profession as a
physician, or from property derived from
his practice in past years. The compare
tive smallpess ofthese incomes, however,
shows that the copyrights of these authors
are nearly worthless, and that literature at
the I" Hub" is not particularly remunerative.
Hon. JOHN BELL, of Tennessee, is now
living at his home, near the Cumberland
Iron Works, few hours steamboat travel
below Nashville, on the Cumberland river.
He is about seventy three years old, badly
brokenidown, physically and pecuniarily.
Before the war he owned six hundred ne
groes, worth a quarter of a million at least,
and was the principal owner in the large
iron works at Chattanooga, which were
burned in 1862.
= Mrs. HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE bought
three hundred acres of land near, Jackson
vile, Ca, some time ago, and planted it.
with orange orchards, and she can sell it
now for twice the amount paid for it. With
an average yield the crop is said to be the
most profitable one raised in the South.
Mrs. Stowe can have early vegetables at
will, almost. Water melons and green
corn were in market at Jacksonville ON
May 9Th; while green peas, blackberries
and such things were already almost past
their season.
In Curacao is a colored emperor, the En-
peror Soulouque, or Faustin l., former en-
peror of Hayti. He was dethroned there
by revolution little more than a year
ago. He is person Of great intelligence,
gentlemanly manners, and lives in good
style. He is reported to Lave an immense
fortune IN the Bank of England. The ne
grOes, with whom he does not at all asso-
ciate, are very jealous of him, and frequent
ly insult him as he walks along the streets
His son-ln-law rejoices in the singular but
refreshing title of Duke of Lemonade.
/. WILLIAM BISHOP CARR, the inventor of
the toy known by the name of the "return
ball, was shot on Tuesday morning in
Brooklyn by an ex-policeman of bad char
acter named William T. Skidmore. The
wound will undoubtedly prove fatal Carr
was an Englishman, and manufacturer of.
jewelry. He had made large sum of
money out of this invention, and had ac-
cumulated considerable property. The
cause of the murder is not known.
BEEcHER says in his new novel: zone
of these days men will call things by their
right names. Then, they won't say, he's
of good dispositi n but, he has good
stomach Half the grace that's going is
nothing but food. Paul said the kingdom
was not meat and drink. Very likely not,
hereafter. But it is here Good steak and
light bread are benevolence. Coffee is in
spiration and humor. Good tea is tender
ness and prightliness-facts very hum
bling of our excellences. But they re facts"
PROF. KIRKwooD thus theories regard
ing cometse list. That the elements Of the
comet of 1866 corresponded so closely with
those of the meteors of November Is and
IA that we must either regard the comet as
an aggregation of meteors, or the meteors
of this ring as the debris of a disintegrated
comet. 2. The third comet of 1862 bears
similar relationship to the meteols of
August TO- 3. At the epoch of the separa-
ton of Biela's comet into two parts al the
close of 1865, that body passed c0ery near,
perhaps through the ring of the Novem-
Der meteors 4 Biel0's comet Is lost. 1t
was due about the close of 1865, but during
the time in which it should have been Wis
BILE astronomers looked for in vain.
LANDLORDS and boarders will appreciate
the following story. which Lewis GAYLORD
Clarke tells of Theodore Tilton and land
lord at whose table he 'boarded.n His
host, who was. continually :" short " of
money, was in the habit of handing in his
bills before they were due, and making
apologies for it. On one occasion when
bill was laid upon Tilton's table with the
customary apologize note, he inclosed the
money in an envelope, with the folio ing
reply: - tt@@ ~
" You need make no excuse, my dear landlord, n
Ill pay your bills soon ashley are scored;
= For If from me you may, - Il
Before the proper day, N''-+@- y q
Get pay for board;