Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-04-25
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Personal and Literary.

PersOnal and LiterAr'y.aa1o
A GENTLEMAN in Albany has had his
life insured for $4,000. a! srelssQ
THE Duke of Hamilton gave his Jockey
$4,000 for winning aarace.
GEoRep FsFRAfrSsI was adnitted-to the
bar of Cincinnati on the 0th. l7etTg
GRANVILLE JOHN Penn, great. grandson
of the William Penn, died in London on
the goth of March I n Z. D.IfI
THE daughter Of HenfyW Shaw, GOSH.
Billings,) was married recently, In pougn-
keepsie, to PeruYan0T.T "a m Ut
Mrs. KEY Blunt is living poetical read
ings in Berlin, and lately appeared at the
Royal Theatre,in that eitys 70 II
REV. DAVID D. FIELD, father of Justice
Field, of the Supreme Court and Cyrus
W. Field, died April 6, aged 3d. ~ W
TT is said that Dickens is certainly
coming tothis country that he will come
in the summer, and stay six or seven
months. ,rk,,I orr T~,.-,Yfysr
UNCLE TONS CABIN has reached its
three hundred and twelfth edition, and
still sells at attthe. rate Of thousand copies;
per annum! - - ~ - ~ 0~*'-tt
AMONG the passengers per Great East
ern were Cyrus w. Field, NJ. de Chafllu,
the celebrated African traveller, and Bishop
Jackson, OF Iowa. ~. - ~,5 .- - Z. ~ I
DIR. ABRAHiMs, of New York, who died
suddenly few days ago, left nearly his
whole fortune-$30O, 0O0-to various char
table Institutions. .,.,., .--.,.,
GARIBALDI persists in shocking his Eng
lish adorers., The other day he publicly
baptized acbabyin ."the name of God and,
Of tho TaniclafOr IpcIIa ~
ROBERT BONNER, Of the New York
Ledger, is about to erect five-story marble
front building at the corner OF Spruce and
William streets, at cost Of $150,000.
JEAN INeELow is at work on q new
volume Of poems. She refuses to contrib
ute political ARTICLES toll magazines
but often publishes prose sketches in that
way.
MRS. HENRY - Woop, the English
novelist, has been exposed in rehashlng
her old novels under new names, and
putting them out afresh as new produc-
TONS MN 0NATTr,u
MUsTAPHA PAsHA is great favOrite in
Paris, where he spends about $4,000 francs
a week. He is said to be polished gen
tleman and an accomplished man of the
world. .sse5g5a} iaui9ib.N 7oI
THE Detroit Free Press, after fair trial
OF about a year, has thrown aside the quar-
to and resumed the folio form. 1t took on
the former as within, and the latter as the
result of experience. 'sot eli" 5o +
VIM. r. CRAWFORD. of .Venango, Pa,
has been boring oil wells since 1860, but,
until he completed the fourteenth, last
week, hasn't extracted a drop of oil. He
now gets it at the rate of thirty barrels per
day. 49, ~ sr'a- t
HoLE-1N-THE-DAY, the Chippewa Chief
has arrived at st. Paul with white wife,
whom he married out of the laundry of
Washington hotel, where he lately stopped.
This Indian gentleman is now nearly as
much married as Brigham Young.
GRAU has returned to New York to
make arrangements for the ltstori farewell
performances, to commence on the 22d
inst at the French Theater. She will
leave for Europe on the 18th of May, and
will carry back with her some $2OO,OOO in
gold.
A WESTERN paper contains the follow
ing item of news "Captain BlakestOn, of
the steamer Morning Star, has just been
presented with q service of three years in
the Penitentiary, in consideration of the
distinguished ability with which he plum
dered passenger and kicked him over
board" I.lIlI atj l
THE Macon (Ga.) Telegraph announces
the arrival in that city of Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, and hopes that her So
journ in the South has been a pleasant one,
and that she finds the morals of the South
ern people much improved since she wrote
"" Uncle Toms Cabin"
AFTER addressing political meeting at
Norwalk, Conn.,, recently, Horace Greeley
returned to his hotel, where he found a
Democratic crowd in session over several
kegs of beer. On being invited to join
them, he did, and gave them free lecture
of considerable length on the evils in
temperance and the blessings of RepIbli-
canism. ,v,iu-s4 l4 r.. A., t..
ARTEMUs WARD was fond CT telegraph
ing, and studied it for amusement. He
was a very good SENDER" Yes, and one
of the best sends he ever made was the
following When he proposed going to
California to lecture, an enterprising Yam
kee, getting wind of the fact saw his
chance for speculation, and telegraphed
to Artemus thusly: "What will you
take for the first ten nights9" To which
Artemus sent as a reply, Brandy and
water !" 1' ~ .+
WENDELL PHILLIPS was recently in
vited to lecture at Mount Pleasant ILL.,,
and on reaching the town was met by the
Secretary of the Lecture Association, who
informed him that the people could not de-
eide which they most wished to hear--the
lecture on "The Lost Arts" or that on
"The Peril of the Hour" Mr. Phillips
was ready to deliver either, but the Secre-
tary gravely proposed that he should de-
liver bothi The lecturer thinking it pity
to spoil good joke, consented, and begin
ming with 1.-THE Lost Arts" gracefully
glided into 9"'The Peril of the Hour" oc-
cupying three or four hours, and entirely
satisfying his hearers.
Domestic Paragraphs.
The prospects for fruitin, Iowa. excep
peaches, are generally good. S'+a { ~
The report Of the recent confinement
of Mrs jeff. Davis was q canard. e A..
The North Carolina. Legislature ha
fixed death asa punishment for horse-steal
ing. @{@e~s
The Jews are contemplating theestab
nl, ~f- .,o..