Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1871-01-13
CHICAGO CORRESPONDENCE.
Nilsson Concerts and Reception - Col
Weather-Christmas- Business Failures
Rents-Amusements.


ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
CHICAGO, Dec. 9th, 1S70.-The sensations
of the past week were the Nilsson concerts
at the Opera House, Tuesday. Wednesday
and Friday evenings, and Saturday after
noon, at Farwell Hall, and her reception by
the Scandinavians at the German House
Thursday evening. Her concerts were very
fully attended, and unsteady, popularity and
pecuniarily were great success. She was
assisted by Miss Louisa Carey, Brignoli,
Verger and Vieuxtemps. She gives two con-
certs this week, Thursday and Friday even
ings, and matinee Saturday afternoon, at
Farwell Hall. No singer has ever given the
citizens of Chicago so much as Miss Nilsson.
THE NILSSON RECEPTION
was great occasion among her countrymen.
Music, feasting, toasts and speeches were the
order of proceedings, and Miss Nilsson was
presented with a laurel wreath of gold, beau
tiful and costly.
THE COLD WEATHER
the past week came upon Us suddenly and
severely, the thermometer Friday morning
varying as low as seven degrees below zero.
With the opening of this week the weather
began to moderate, till to-day it thaws in the
streets. About six inches of snow fell week
ago, and an inch or two more last Sunday,
but very few sleighs are yet seen in the
street.
CHRISTMAS
was quite generally observed both on Sunday
and Monday, the stores being generally
closed, and the week day kept as holiday.
AS usual, there was some dissipation, and
one case came to my knowledge where wife
fed to a neighbours to save her life from the
fury of drunken husband.
BUSINESS
is now at the dullest season, sales are moder-
ate and collections slow. But the pork
packing business, whiclAhas now began in
earnest, will distribute vast deal of money,
and make money plentier in the country.
There have been several recent
FAILURES
of merchants, though none of very large
amount Some have wound up and others
compromised with their creditors and gone
on again. The high price of
RENTS
is great load for business men to carry,
cutting up their profits and in some cases
diminishing their capital Landlords will
will have to reduce their rents, or have emp
ty stores or bankrupt tenants.
PHOTOGRAPHY.
The art of transferring the likeness of the
human face and form has reached great
degree of perfection. In canvass painting,
where the eye guides the hand in thinning
the features and tracing the shape, size and
relations of the different parts, there is ne
cessarily more or less imperfection. But
when the sun was made pencil-holder and
painter the likenesses were true to nature,
and daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and photo
graphs succeeded each other, and now pic
lures are taken on wood, porcelain, and the
different metals. There are several styles OF
pictures, recently introduced by the best
artists, that are deservedly popular.
. l. THE REMBRANDT, or shadow picture, so
called because the. lights and shadings are
after the style of the great master. These
pictures are very fine, and the artistic effects
most striking.
2. THE BERLIN V1GNETTE very large sized
heads, from retouched negatives. A peculiar
style, very beautiful and popular.
8. MEDALLION HEADS, resembling the Ber-
lin Vignette, but differing from it in the
style of. printing.
4. VIcToRIA CARDS, in size between the
Carte de V1site and the Cabinet-the largest
size that can be put in letter envelope, and
very appropriate for the large Berlin Wig
nette or Rembrandt.
S. PORCELAIN PICTURES, of all sizes, from
miniature to life, the most beautiful OF all
styles for portraits, for they can be finished
equal to the finest ivory pictures.
A great improvement in photography is
the retouching of negatives before painting.
To do this successfully requires the highest
skill of our best artists. The best specimens
of the art, in the various styles of pictures,
can be seen in the photograph studio of
s. w. SAWYER, "a WASHINGTON STREET,
successor to j. Carbut, whose well-known
Photographic Art Gallery he has purchased,
with all its art treasures, improved upon its
methods and increased its reputation and
attractions. Mr.. Sawyer, though a recent
conner, is pioneer in the art, took the silver
medal for the best daguerreotypes, ambro-
types and photographs, at the Maine State
Agricultural Fair, in 1859, and stood in the
front rank of his profession, at the East. He
excels especially in the Rembrandt and Por-
celain pictures. I saw some exceedingly
beautiful pictures in these,-as well as other
styles there, eXquisitely finished, with
perfection of light and shade, softness and
naturaIness of flesh tint, with glow of life
which no artist could equal on canvas, and
which rival the finest ivory portraits. He
has also special arrangements for taking
children's pictures, and ample facilities for
executing work in every department. OF the
Photographic art. Using only the purest
chemicals, and the best stock, and employ
ing only the best artists, his Gallery is the
favorite resort of the lovers of art, and those
who wish the finest pictures, at reasonable
prices, should visit his studio, when they
come to Chicago.
ADJUSTMENTS.
All through this week the theaters and
places of amusement present unusual attrac-
lions. Fisk's Opera Troupe of Blondes open
their season at Crosby's Opera House We'd
nesday evening, the 28th inst, in the grand
pageant of Twelve Temptations.
j. X. Emmett is starring it at McVicker's,
in SO Our Cousin German"
Aiken's Museum has great variety of at
fractions.
Manning's Minstrels, at the Dearborn,
have some new and mirth- provoking per-
formances, and
Aliens Globe Theater, on the West Side,
are running Paul Pry, and the Omnibus and
The Thicket-of- Leave Man. b.
Iowa MARRLE=We SAW at our State