Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-03-07

ssCURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Personal and Literary

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Personal and Literary.
70 ~ AiccIpEST made Alexander T. Stewart
merchant.
.SYLvANUs CoBB, JR., the story Wfl'er
saleadsa church choir. Dii3
BENEFITS yacht presentation was 'he
greatest gift enterprise OF the year
RuuoR has it that General Fremont is
,dsoofnJ to open banking house In New
York. ...t. t,.r ) .f,t.,
for siy lectures in New Y orh on scientific
topics. aa.
WHITTIER is said to be about to marry a
49, widow whom he courted thirty years ago,
80, when she was maid. la'7t- - g 1sy ii
s'as aBEEcHER's remark that he could never
smoke whole cigar, the Louisville UenSo-
crat styles q stump" speech. mrs
ylsis PRoFEssoR WILSON, a colored man, Is
about to start weekly paper at Washing
., ton to be called The ,Equal Rights.
ri s74 GEORGE w. ELLERY, the last man liv-
p ing whose father signed the Declaration
saaof Independence, died at Newport last
week. lm rs 7siat 80 'H1t osfi
MR.. CHARLES A. DANAs new paper is
z, to be styled the New York Chronicle, and
: is to be started on a solid cash capital OF
S$2OO0OO -
81 HID. STRATToN, of Bryant & Stratton's
A.Business College, died in New York on
: the 10Th inst He had been ill since Octo-
z Der, 1865. =
:. GEORGE Peabody has made q gift OF
s.$15,000 to the Newburyportpnblic library,
z the income to be-expendcd in extending its
= usefulness. Z : ~
3 JUDGE CADY, who was strongly anti
Z womail's rights used to address his
daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, as
5"My Dear Sir" a. *
HENRY ViNcENT,the English lecturer,
recently went, by a natural mistake, to
Owego, instead of Oswego, N. Y.swhere
- he was to lecture.
Al gRIhsUs KISa POLLARD writes from a
"a sick,bed that he Is determined to carry out
va va hisIoproject Of establishing his proposed
bnA paper, The Southern, Op6aeion.q aihat9a
70 9.i e. MoILLiE TRUtssELI passed through Rcch
ester, recently, on her way tO,a Catholic
asa institution" in New York. The Den,oc1ot
, 4, says she was splendidly dressed. |s,gls
azlHMRs X, after expressing her lovef for her
young children, added, tenderly,,. e And
how do YOU like babies, Mr.. Lamb ~, His
a answer, Immediate, almost. precipitate, was
~ !, e, (" oi-boi.b boiled, madam. - 1891
ria %BosToN 2 CoRBETT, who killed Wilkes
e. Booth, has recently paid a bond held
ii against him by5a Richmond physician, for
medical servicesato his wife, who lived In
y Richmond previous to the war. 'in I'll
good d. G. BLooMEB, of Council Bluffs, whose
wife is the originator of the Bloomer cos
tune, is lecturing in western Iowa on
fMahonlet and his Religion" Mr.. Bloom
er is a cultivated and thinking man.
.UTHE President has nominated Professor
Gibbs as Commissioner to the
Paris Exposition, in place of Professor
Agassz. whose duties prevent his accept
ance of the office.
6Ij DICKENS is reported to be an object of
inveterate hatred on the part of printers
2 for his copy virtually has to be "set" twice,
b his first "proofs" coming back regular
u pamphlets, covered with corrections and
additions
,,.l THE Petersburg Iptler renews the lament
n, on the continued Imprisonment of jeff.
I'D Davis: Sand this man is dying meantime.
% Injustice preying upon his soul, confncs
ao ment wearing out his body, the neglect of
1 his own people sickening his heart Sure
ly the browning shame of those which
disgrace the last six years of American
:, history is this. ~
~ the Puritan church (CongregationaD, of
Brooklyn, and his wife celebrated the fifth
dd university of their marriage, or "wood-
~ en- wedding at the church Monday even
~ ing Each Of the four hundred Sabbath
10 school children gave the couple bundle
of kindling wood and a box of matches
N; The members of tho congregation pre-
;, scented them with set of parlor furniture
o and woodenware of all Sorts .gl,-fra,
The origin of the portrait for the God
dess of Liberty upon our coins, is of great
= interest Mr. Spencer, the inventor of
Spencer's lathe, used by the American
Bank Note Company, was the artist who
40 cut the first die for our American coin. He
,g cut an exact medallion of Mrs Washing,
ton, the wife of General Washington, and
81 the first few coins were struck off with her
portrait. When Washington saw them he
was displeased and requested the figure to
s !, be removed Mr.. Spencer altered the fea-
Il lures little, and putting a cap upon its
iiw head, called it the Goddess of Liberty.
Domestic Paragraphs.