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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
Sayings bQ Josh Billings.

A sLANDER liz like hornet, if yu kant
kill it dead the fust bio, yu better not strike
at it.
Politeness il shrewd way folks haz oV
flattering themselfS.
| make this distinkshun between cbd7Gjc-
ter and neutrality-suspicious. liz what
the world thinks Ov us, charakter IL what
the world kn0aos ov us.
What ridikilus fare it liz to be continu-
ally On the hunt for peace and quiet.
No man ever yet increased hiz reputa-
shun bi contradikting lies.
Anxiety alwus steps on ITSELF
Silence, like darkness, il GENERALLY
safe.
Thare iz only two things that | kno ov
that man wont brag ov, one iz lieing,
and luther IL jealousy.
1t takes branes tew make a smart man,
but good luck often makes a famous one.
| think most men had rather be charged
with malice than with making blunder.
Love cuts up all sorts Ov monkey
shines, it makes a fool sober, and wize
man frisky.
don't believe in total depravity, every
man haz sumthing in him to show that
God made him.
L suppose that one reazOn viii the " road
to ruin" liz broad, il tew accommodate the
CRATE amount ov travel in that direkshun.
When man il squandering hiz estate,
even those who are getting it, call him a
phool.
judge ov mans virtew entirely bi hiz
phaslons-it IL CRATE deal eazier tew be a
good dove than decent sarpent.
Thare are menny ways to find out how
brave and how honest man may be, but
thare amt no way to find out the extent
ov hiz vanity.
A lie il like cat, it never Gums to WI
in straight line.
Nature il kind mother. She couldn't
well afford to make us perfect, and SO she
made us blind to our failings
Study the heart if yu want to learn hu-
man natur; there amt 10 human natur in
mans head.
Beware ov the man with half-shut eyes
he amt dreaming.
Experience makes more timid men than
itSdus wize ones.
One ov the safest and most successful
tallenAs kno ov IL to be good listener.
Thoze who becum disgusted and with
draw from the world, mustn't forgit one
thing, that the world will forgit them, a
long time before they will forgit the world.
Wize men laff every good chance they
kan git. Lafing iz only a weakness in
phOO1S
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
PERSONAL.

President Grant was received by the
Newport municipal authorities, at the
State House, on the 21st. In the after
noon, brilliant reception was held in
his honor at the villa of ex-senator Nor
gan. %
A Rochester, N. Y, telegram announces
the marriage, at London, Canada, on the
21st, of Commodore Vanderbilt and Miss
Frank Crawford, daughter of Robert L..
Crawford, Of Mobile, Alabama.
Father Mcmahon, SO long held as a
Fenian convict by the Canadian authorities,
arrived at Buffalo on the Oath. ct
Gov. Senter, Col d. M. Nelson, Gen. ].
A. Mowbray and Col. John B. Brownlow,
of Tennessee, were in Washington on the
oath, en- route for New York. Governor
Senter would return to Washington in a
few days, for the purpose of calling on
President Grant.
President Grant attended the reunion of
the Grand Army of the Republic, on the
oath, at Ocean Cottage, three miles below
Providence, R. l. Secretary Boutwell,,
Senator Morgan and wife, Senator An
thony, and other distinguished parties were
also present at the Cottage.
Both candidates for Congress in New
Mexico, J. Francisco Chavez, Republican,
and Vincente Romero, Democrat, are ma
tive Mexicans.
Ex-Secretary Stanton was recently at
Wolfboro, N. H., much improved in health.
President Grant arrived in Concord, N.
H., on the 25th.
Hon. David Mcdonald, Judge of the
United States District Court of Indiana,
died at his residence in Indianapolis, on
the 25th. He was in his 65th year. I
John Durivage, an old actor and news
paper man, died in Memphis on the 9th.
He was one Of the founders of the Alta
Californian, at San Francisco.
Horace Greeley will deliver the opening
address before the International Industrial
Exhibition at Buffalo, October 6.
Secretary Rawlins arrived in Washing
ton from Danbury on the 25th, and was
soon after attacked by a severe hemOr-
rhage of the lungs. He was improving
on the Goth.
President Grant and party left Concord,
N. H., for White Mountains on the morn
ing of the 26th.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
POLITICAL.

The Massachusetts Republican Conven-
ton for nominating State officers will be
held at Worcester, September %.
Walkers official majority for Governor
in Virginia is 1879.
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention met at Worcester on the Gath,
and nominated John Quincy Adams for
Governor and S. O. Lamb, of Greenfield,
for Lieutenant Governor.
The records of the State Department at
Washington show the following regarding
State action on the Fifteenth Amendment
to the Constitution of the United States.
Complete ratifcation North Carolina,
West Virginia, Massachusetts,, Wisconsin,
Maine, Louisiana, Michigan, South Caro-
lima, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Connect
cut Florida-12 Defective ratification
Kansas, Missouri. Rejected in Della
ware and Kentucky.
The New York Republican State Con-
vention will be held at Syracuse, Septem-
ber 20. !l
In the first conviction under the new
Massachusetts Prohibitory law, at Boston
on the goth, the fine imposed was $3.50 and
costs.
The Minnesota Republican State Con-
vention will be held at St. Paul on Sep
tember 8. The Democratic State Conven-
ton will be held September %.
The Temperance party of Connecticut
are to run separate ticket, and Mr.. Par
ker of Meriden, will be their candidate for
Governor
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
A Romantic Marriage.

We have just heard of a rather roman
tic story, which has transpired in this city.
! the truth OF which we can vouch for, not
withstanding its sensational proelivities
A few years since, girl living as domes-
tic in an sristocratic and wealthy family
of Liverpool, England, won the affections
of son of that family. The young man
became smitten of his inamorata, and re-
solved upon marrying her. When he
. made his intentions known to his parents,
serious opposition was manifested. The
girl, although good one, virtuous and
honest, was not in keeping with the fami-
ly standing in society To marry such a
one was considered disgrace in England,
especially when the family of the young
man is of the highest blood. Notwith-
standing all this, the young man cast aside
! all family ties and married the poor girl OF
his affections, who was only servant in
his fathers house. The result was, that
the boy was driven from the parental
roof and took up his humble abode with
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
A Sober Meditation by Mark Twain.

In Mark Twain's new volume of remi-
niscences of foreign travels he for once
,abandons his persistent habit of making
fun of everything, and thus discourses of
~the Egyptian Sphynx:
-"' After years Of waiting, it was before me
at last. The great face was SO sad, so earn
est, so longing, so patient There was a
dignity not of earth in its mien, and in it's
countenance benignity such as never
anything human wore, 1t was stone, but
it seemed sentient. Ifever image of stone
thought, it was thinking. 1t was looking
toward the verge of the landscape,
yet looking at nothing-nothing but
distance and vacancy. It was looking
ever and beyond everything of the present,
and far into the past 1t was gazing out
over the ocean of time-oyer lines of
century waves which, further and further
receding, closed nearer and nearer together,
and blended at last into one unbroken
tide, away toward the horizon of remote
antiquity.
1t was thinking of the wars of departed
ages; OF the empires it had seen created
and destroyed; of the nations whose birth
it had witnessed, whose progress it had
watched, whose annihilation it had noted
of the JOY and sorrow, the life and
NO"oh, ohO SiduuCul ucCtty, OI I'VE
thousand slowrevolving years. 1t was
the type of an attribute of man-of a
faculty of his heart and brain. 1t was
MemOry-Retrospec spection-wrought into
visible, tangible form. All who know
what pathos is in memories of days that
are accomplished and facts that have van
ished-albeit only a trifling score of years
gone by-will have some appreciation of
the pathos that dwells in these grave eyes
that look SO steadfstly back upon the
things they knew before history was born
before tradition had being-things that
were, and forms that moved, in a vague
area which even poetry and romance scarce
knew of-and passed one by one away,
and left the stony dreamer solitary in tile
midst OF strange new age and uncom-
pretended scenes
The sphynx is grand in it's loneliness; it
is imposing in it's magnitude ; it is impress
i've in the mystery that hangs over it's
story. And there is that in the over
shadowing majesty of this eternal figure
of stone, with its accusing memory of the
deeds of all ages, which reveals to one
something of what he shall feel when he
shall stand at last in the awful presence
of God.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
Weekly News Summary
- FOREIGN.

| General LIE Bouf succeeds Marshal Mel
deceased, as Minister of War of France.
The Regent Serrano positively denies
that he sustains the pretensions of th'
Duke of Montpensier to the throne o
Spain, and declares that he is entirely
neutral on the question of the disposal o
the crown.
Admiral Mendez Nunez, of the Spanish
navy, is dead.
In Barcelona, $4,000 workingmen have
struck for higher wages, and the preserva
| ton Of order is seriously threatened. ~ /
La France "a Paris newspaper) of the
21st says Cuba is lost to Spain, and the
wisest thing Spain can do is to take ad
vantage Of the present situation. A
Madrid telegram of the 22d says it was
asserted on reliable authority that the pre-
| liminaries Of treaty for the cession OF
Cuba to the United States had been
signed.
Renforth has won the race for the cham
pionship of the Thames, and Brown, the
American oarsman, has challenged the
winner The match will come off between
Sept. % and Oct 1.
An open-air meeting, attended by 90
900 persons, was held at Drogheda, Ire
land, on the 23d, at which resolutions were
passed declaring that any further deten-
ton of Fenian prisoners in British jails
was unwise, impolitic, and unjust.
The Bishop of Winchester has resigned.
Prince Arthur arrived at Halifax on the
22d, and his appearance drew a great
crowd and much enthusiasm.
Eugene and the Prince Imperial were
at Lyons, on the 24tl, on their way to the
East.
Recent details of the condition of the
growing grain crops in Great Britain ex-
hibit favorable promises of good returns,
provided the late dry and cool weather
continued. nF
The father of Adelina and Carlotta Patti
died in Paris, on the 23d.
A dispatch from Hong Kong, August 3,
via London, states that the Chinese Gov
ernment refuses to ratify the treaty con-
cluded by Mr. Burlingame with the United
States. The Chinese text of Burlingame's
credentials differs from the foreign version.
In the former he is appointed Envoy of
China to tributary nations"
1t was reported on the 25th that sixteen
hundred insurgents, with their families,
had presented themselves before the
Spanish authorities at Holquin, Cuba, and
asked forgiveness and protection.
One million people witnessed the boat
race on the Thames, on the Goth, between
the Harvard and Oxford crews. Oxford
beat the Harvards, making four and a
quarter miles in 81 minutes and 20 3-5
seconds, and coming out four lengths
ahead.
News from Tripoli state that two Eng
lish ladies and two attendants were MUIR
dered by their own camel-drivers while
travelling south of that city.
The Empress and Prince Imperial ar
rived at Toulon on the Goth. EugeAie has
abandoned her trip to Jerusalem.
The Agamemnon, from Hankon, June 9,
has arrived in England with the first cargo
of tea of the season.
The recent amnesty granted by Napo-
leon does not extend to those who have
been convicted of an attempt to take the
life of the Emperor, or that of any other
political person.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
Coming to Claim His Bride.

THE readers of the Sun may remember
the story of Mr.. Lew Benedict, of Duprez
& Benedict's Minstrels, who five years ago,
being then a poor young lawyer, courted
the daughter of New York millionaire,
and obtained the fathers consent to his
marriage with her on condition that he
would first amass $4,000. He entered
the burnt cork profession, became part
proprietor of the troupe named above. and
toiled and scraped together for five long
weary years for the price of his happiness.
After counting the receipts of the box
office of the Arch Street Theatre, in Phila-
delphia, on Tuesday evening, he found
that the last $160 was in his possession.
he Immediately telegraphed to his intend
ed father-in-law the joyful intelligence,
and claimed the fulfillment of his we'll
earned contract: Mr.. Benedict intends to
cling to his profession until he has made
enough to provide his bride with a hand
some trousseau.-N J. Sun, Auo. 10
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
Selected Miscellany.
THE BABY,S- ORA WEIR.
By MRS. I. t. BUTTS.

THERE aiittle drawer in my chamber
Guarded with tenderest care,
Where the dainty clothes are lying,
That my darling shall never wear.
'H And there, while the hours are waning,
Till the house is all at rest,
SIT and fancy a baby EFG
Close to my aching breast.
My darling's pretty white garmentsl
l wrought them. sitting apart r4
While his mystic life was throbbing
a. Under my throbbing heart.
And often my happy dreaming
Breaks in little song, ,
Like the murmur of birds at brooding m
When the days are warm and long
,7at finished the dainty wardrobe,
And the drawer was almost full
With robes of the finest muslin,
And robes of the whitest WOOL
folded them all together, 49,
With a rose for every pair, W ~
Smiling, and saying, "Gem fragrant,
Fit for my prince to wear" -
All, the radiant summer morning, ~
n. So full of mothers joyi~
Thank God he is fair and perfect,
My beautiful newborn boy
Let him wear the pretty, white garments
s- = i wrought while sitting apart;
Lay him, so sweet and so helpless,
~ Here, close to my throbbing heart.
Many and many an evening
=" sit, since my baby came
Saying, "What do the angels call him!''
., For he died without name;
y Sit while the hours are waning,
And the house is all at rest, q,
- And fancy a baby nesting
Close to my aching breast.
-I1ltndp,'s MlJ1dzins
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03
p DODGEVIILE WISCONSIN, FRIDAY SEPTEMBER g. 1869

Plenty was to be placed on the monu-
ment in the Soldiers Cemetery The
remaining corner will be occupied by that
of Peace The statues of War and
History have, for SINE time, been in
position" ='he2-
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-09-03

AT Buffalo, recently, a pet Cushat dove
was lost for seven days, and when found
was between two closely joined houses. so
confined that it could not escape. The bird,
it is thought, had nothing to eat for the
seven days, but when rescued was as live
~ as O cricket,
The New York herald., 1869-01-25

On Friday morning last morse attached to lager
beer wagon, belonging to New Jersey brewer fell
ON the icy road In Canal street, near LaIght and
broke one OF his legs. The harness was taken or
and the driver went his way, Gndinz other means OF
taking his truck with him. and the horse iay In that
puDuc tnoroughare suffering great pain until half
past four O'Clock yesterday Afternoon hen it died.
For about seventy hours the unfortunate animal,
formed the nucleus OF attraction Tor OF chill.
dren, VINO INDUCED IN the promising sport OF kick
Ing pelting and pulling the aud tail OF the poor
beast to make IL rise TO Its ieet During
most OF the time the horse lay on its side q.
very unnatural position, and through the recent cold
nights Its covering was little straw. policeman
states thai on Saturday the owner Of the animal
came for the purpose OF removing It, but abandoned
the idea for the reason that the horse insured
for 5000, and he was afraid that II the creature
died while being taken away the Insurance com pany
would quibbe out OF paying the amount OF The
policy. Brutality like this gives an early turn In
many cases to the character OF boys. and twas
strange yesterday to see little children with sabbath
school books In their hands exulting over the
struggles OF dying brute This city has the reputa-
ton OF having = society for tho prevention u
cruelty to aninlala.
The New York herald., 1869-01-25

Average temperature on Saturday. SIX
SUDDEN NDEATH.-ADestati0 Welsh, aged nfty years,
was yesterday morning found dead in bed at as
West Thirty street.
held by Coroner Rollins. at No. 4sl East Fifth street,
over the body Of Henry Seitz, son Of Jacob Seitz.
who came TO his death from burns accidentally re-
celved Few days since.
FIRE IN THIRD AvENUE.-At eight O'Clock yester-
day morning nre occurred In the liquor store OF
Patrick Brady, e51 Third avenue. The damage to
stock and building about 81, 900, covered bv In
surance IN the Eagle insurance company. Inc
building was owned by Charles Murray
THE PARK METEOROLOGICAL REP0RT.-The report
Of the PARK meteorological department for the week
ending January % SHOWS o weekly barometrical
mean OF 29.954. The maximum, attained at seven
O'Clock A. NJ. Of the nth, 3o.19d, and the mini
mum, at two O'Clock p. NJ. OF the 10th, was 2J.6l3,
showing range Of 0.51s. The variation In the tenn
O'Clock p. NJ OF the 3lst being 42.5, and the mini
mum at eleven p. NJ. or the 22d falling 70 six de-
grees, giving range or difference or $3.50 snow
fell on the 18th, lSth 10th and Goth inst having
total depth Of 6.2 inches.
RElARKABLE EVENT AT POLICE HEADQUARTEas.-
The officials at the central Office were yesterday at
three O'Clock visited by singular intruder. An
officer OF the Fourteenth precinct found woman
named Catharine Atherton the corner Of BleccSer
and Mulberry streets very Ill. He conveyed her 10
the hall OF the central oIlce and lying her down
geltiy by the do or inspector Waings ONCE
started for Carnage On his return he opened his
eyes II aStOn5menL TO liud that his charge had ln
creased, ana he would be compelled to provide for
two passengers. Dr. Armstrong, assisted by
Captain lounr, Detective icman and Inspector
NaiiDg, presided at the ceremonies aud the lite
girl is the irsG white rose That has entered the
word through the Mulberry street gate, they pu-
pose TO hold public christening at an epry day.
me mother and caiid were retained ut headquarters
and cared lor.
The New York herald., 1869-01-25
Inf aunNs ANNIVERSARY.

ooay IA the 10th anniversary Of the blrtA OF
Scots's rustic bard, Robert Burns, and vii, ps a.
proprntel IN all the leading cities Of the
Union - well ~ In Great britain and the British
Colonies. Tonight the patrician admirers OF the
poet VIII hold high carnival at the annual Burns din.
nef 70 pe given at the Metropolitan Hotel and will
meu9urhte what promises TO bo at distant day an
emaolsned custoIn-that OF admitting ladies' TO par
tcipate q public banquets. At all the public din.
ners OF the present season ladies have been intro
dnced shortly before the removal OF the cIotn a.
have only INDUCED In 'the feast OF reason ana the
now OF sour which e presumed to follow the physl-
cal feasting. The old Burns Club, established up-
wards ol thirty years ago, will also Commemorate
the natal day Of their patron IA an entnuuastio o1d
stresk Vtrs u haGxis ostcnesks ~ ''pQTTit06.V
The New York herald., 1869-01-25
NEW BOOKS.

During the past week we have received tho fol-
lowing new publications, which will be noticed In
due Limc.--
MAJOR JONES' SCENES IN GEORGIA. Published By
7. b. Peterson Brothers, Philadelphia.
THE APACHE COUNTRY; ToUR THROUGH Arr.
IONA AND SONORA. Published BY Harper Brothers,
New York.
SWAMI DOCTORS ADVENTURES ~ rrE SOUTH
WEST, Published BY I. d, Peterson Brothers,
Philadelphia. .....-.
wonAS's CONFLICTS GUIDE TO rigALrH Pub.
lshed by w. A. Townsend & Adams, New York.
WHAT I Know ABOUT BEN EccLEs. Published
by J. B. LIppincott 4 Co., Philadelphia.
OUTLINES OF COMPOSITION. Published by Robert
$. Davis 4 Co., Boston.
HAPPY TaovcHrs. Published by Roberts Brothers
Boston.
The New York herald., 1869-01-25
ASTRONOMICAL EVENTS.
The Mctcors Of the Nights OF January 60 and
December 81.

from the Lockport IN. ~ Union, Jan. al
Those who were fortunate enough to De out Of
doors last night between ten and eleven O'Clock
were favored with pyrotechnical display on larger
scale than perhaps they had ever before witnessed
or win ever witness again. We were not one Of the
fortunate ones, but one Of them tells rs that the
sight exceeded his experiences; the whole heavens
were lighted up, while meteor crossed from hor )
xon to horizon, accompanied with loud report.
From the Progressive Batavian--Batavia, N. ~
On Thursday morning OF this week we heard our
citizens Qucrying OF each other whether the sharp
report and the after rumbling sound heard 30 gene
rally on the night previous was an earthquake.
Just prior 70 the report and the reverbcratons
teor shot athwart the heavens brilliantly illumnat-
ing them for . moment, and doubtless the sounds
heard were caused by its explosion. We saw tho
light heard the report and reverberations but there
was no jar accompanying - In earthquakes.
[Clinton, ontario lJan. 49, correspondence Of the
Toronto 0l0be.l
The meteor described by your Ottawa correspond
ent In to-day's issue seen here at the same time
viz, half past nve r. NJ 3lst December, apparently
about half the slze Of the moon. course overhead
from southeast TO northwest motion slow, trsvers.
Ing about sixty degrees; Of . greenish color when
first seen, gradually changing To light and then
deeper red; just before disappearing there was an
apparent explosion exactly ike that produced By 9
rocket, though without any sound; second after.
wards nash like summer itghtnlng succeeded aud
The meteor disappeared.
The New York herald., 1869-01-25
TINE OFFICE Of SECRETARY uf STATE.

From the Boston Traveller, Jan. asl
Because General Grant and his wife dined with
Secretary Seward on the 10th II ID argued that there
win be no change In the state Department on and
after the 4th OF March. II the Secretary himself is
OF this belief, he is great simpIeton a Attorney
General Writ showed himself to be In 1879, when he
supposed General Jackson would keep him in once
because he had been In II . dozen years. Perhaps
Secretary Stewards "clamsu 70 remain In place he
never should have held are founded on tue fact that
he has held It 30 long. He M the only man who has
held tbs ONCE OF Secretary Of State through two
oessve Presidential terms for sixty years, or since
Mr.. Madison left the State Department, In 1900;
for though Mr. John Y. Adams was the only Secre:
tary OF State In Mr. Monroes Presidency he did not
take charge OF the State Department tll ak months
AFTER Mr.. Monroe's Inauguration. He was minister
In England when appointed. Mr.. Madison and NJ.
ssward are the only fuItermed Secretaries Of State
mentioned IN our history. There have been twenty.
two secretaries OF state In eighty ycars-naDely,
Thomas yenerson, Edmund Randolph, Timothy Pick
ering, John Marshall James Madison, Robert Smith,
James Monroe. |! 2: Adams. Henry Clay Martin Van
Buren,, Edward Livingston, Louis AcIAne, John
Forsyth Daniel Webster, A. r. Upshur, John O. Cal-
1oun James buchanan, John N. Clayton Edward
Everett WIN. H. Marcy, Lewis Cass and VIM. II.
seward, the latter being now in Office the twenty.
third Secretary OF state VIII 10 known In March,
t,crhaps N February. :