Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-05-09
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Personal and Lfterary.

DAN RICE has made an engagement tt
travel with a circus the coming season, get
ting $4,000 for his services.
COUGH says that last winter was the hard
!. est in all his lecture experience. he los
= fourteen engagements, owing to the storms
and delays on railroads.
G. L.. VALLANDIGHAM is announced tt
deliver the annual Grafton before the liter
airy societies of the Oxford (Miss.) Univer
sity, at the next commencement.
TT is said that Mr. Joseph Parkes, who
died a few years ago, was only prevented
by death from publishing a life of Sir
Philip Francis, in which it would have
been shown conclusiyely that Francis was
"Junius"
Mn. JAMES E. MURDOCH was attacked
with vertigo in the Chestnut Street Thea
tire, Philadelphia, on Tuesday night, while
playing in the fourth act of Hamlet, and
fell heavily upon the stage. He was soon
restored to consciousness, and was to play
p the next night as usual. w. 80
INProfessor Phelps book, entitled "The
Still Hour" occurs the following sentence
"The stiffness of the hour is the stiffness
OF, dead calm at sea-" Imagine the rev.
erend authors horror when he found, after
several hundred copies had been printed,
4 that calm" was made by the types to
read clam"
AN Eastern paper says: st is not gen
orally known, but it is true, nevertheless,
that General Butler married an actress, a
superior lady, with whom he has lived in
the greatest happiness and concord. In
his domestic relations, if not in all his
political views, General Butler is model
for all men,"
HERE is description of M. de Lamar
tines study, which may be read with in
terest: 81 was the other day in M. de La
marines study. The servant was shaking
: and sweeping. The magnificent carpet,
with a white ground, was covered with
snuff. M. de Lamartine snutfs more than
twenty old women, and the greater part of
his pinches fall on the carpet" ~ ~
OF Hon. DANIEL d. BURNEs, Of Yves
ton, Mo, who died on the 18th instant, it is
stated that since his wife's death he would
often lie on her grave all night, exclaiming
that he longed to be buried with her
From time to time he stated that he should
die within year from her death, and
within day Of the limit he set, his words
proved true He was formerly a represen-
tative in the General Assembly filled
many offices of honor and trust, and as a
man, was esteemed by all who knew him.
THE FishkiH IN. W Standard states
that the oldest daughter of G. B. Beebe,.
editor of the Banne, Of Liberty, formerly
Of Middletown, Orange county, but now
published in New York, committed suicide
on Saturday, April 20, by shooting herself
with pistol She had been engaged to
be married to young man, but her fathe
placed her in lunatic asylum, to break
up>the match. The officers of the asylum
finding she was moi insane, let her go home.
She was to take charge of q school on
Monday, but learning of the marriage of
the gentleman to whom she had been en-
gagged, deliberately shot herself
AFTER the great success of the younger
Dumas latest play, "The Ideas of Madame
Aubray," the elder, Dumas wrote to his
fortunate son as follows:
"SIR: Your writings are charming.
should like to write, something conformity
with you. l refer to my published works.
Monte Christie" "Les Trois Mousque-
taires," 6 Vingt-ans apres," ETC., for my tcs-
timonials, and am
"ALEXANDRE DUMAS"
To which the author of the "Dames" of
pearls and flowers replied:
SIR: If had not read your works, the
very high opinion my father has of you
would have forced me to accept your pro-
posal. am, also,
,... ~ ALEXANDRA DUMAS"