Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-07
PnnsoNAL pAnAanApus.

SOME of the Iowa papers are naming
Senator Harlan for the Presidency.
ALL the Kentucky rebel Generals have
been pardoned except Breckenridge and
Buckner.
AGAssIz was born ia Switzerland in
1907. Instead of sixty years old, he looks
about forty-five.
THE Pittsburgh Gazette, in a two COL
umn double-leaded editorial, nomi-
mates Gen. Grant for the Presidency.
Jo,IF WENTWORTH has given Dart
mouth College $4,000. Tho nominal
price of an LII. d. parchment is $40.
MIR. DICKENS eomposes In the forenoon!
lunches ut two o'clock, takes q walk in
the afternoon, and spends his evening
socially.
THE author of"Lise in the Iron lfills,"
Is bright eyed brunette, well formed,
less than 80 years old, and Mrs. Rebeoca
Harding Davis.
A PARrsrAN has wagarod $1,000 that
Grant will be Emperor of the United
States i'm five years. Napoleon viii be a
galley-slave frat.
SOME elegant clitic says Parepa- Roaa,
in Norma, looks pretty; but in the pas
Of an enraged baby.
THE "Fat Contributor" A. N. Grk-
void, has made fifty engagements for
the forthcoming lecture season, and is
anxious to make more
THE Independent pays Tilton 5000,
and the Tribune pays Greeley s., 800, but
Julius Wilcox thinks journalism in the
United States does MT pay.
Mr.. JAMES PARTON, the biogranher,
was born in England in 1922. He began
his LFe Of OTeetey at the same time hs
married " Fanny Fern. E" .
SPEAKER CoLFAX will keen house ep-
posite Secretary Seward in Washington
this winter, and he'll keep opposite Sec
retary Seward in many other things
A NUMBER of Republican journals In
Northern Pennsylvania are suggesting
ex-Speaker Galusha A Grow as a very
proper candidate for Vico-President. =
MISS KEARNEY, daughter of General
Phil. kearney, who lost his life at Chan
tilly during the war, has married Mons.
de Kernel, u wealthy Norman gentle-
man.
BENJAMIN T. TAYLOR, ESQ.,, the poet
and writer, now resides at Laporte, Ind,
where he issues from his quiet retirement
only to fulfill occasional lecture engage
ments.
Be- PRESIDENT SMITH, of the Vermont,
Canada d Central Railroad, and Gov.
Page, of the Rutland Road, have furn-
ished each station on their roads with an
, elegant Bible.
Rev. ROWLAND CoNEoR in his lecture
| on "The Good Old Days. announces
Wendell Phillips as one whose fame is
to eclipse the Greek after the centuries
have moved on a little. .t
Ma. JAMES HOWE, one Of the publish
ers of the New York Spirit OF the Times
at the time Horace Greeley was, s,empioy-
ed on it ss journeyman printer, now
lives in Lafayette, Ind.
Rev. DIR. HALL, of Ireland, the emf:
nent Presbyterian divine, arrived in New
York on the ed ut, and assumed pas
toral charge of the Fifth Avenue and
Nineteenth Street Presbyterian Church:
w. B. BRoUN, formerly a prompt and
| faithful carrier boy of the Providence
! Journal, has the pleasure this year Of
paying tax on an income of Sl25, 1873,
| in San Francisco-the second in amount
in that city.
LEONARD JERoME's mustache meas
ures nine inches from tip to tip. AZ
country papers say when they receive
specimens OF long wool from some noted
sheep, If any other buck can do better
we shall be happy to record it. =
Miss EDMoNIA LEWIS is colored girl
studying in Rome. She has sent to Bos-
ton very praiseworthy marble bust Of
! DIR. Dio Lewis. Charlotte Cushman per-
mits Miss Lewis letters to be forwarded
| in her care. Now howl again, Democrats.
NJ. RENAN, the famous French author,
is a stout, heavy man, with rather dull
appearance until he begins to talk when
his features light up with o wonderful
intellectual brilliancy, and his whole
bearing and aspect manifest the scholar
and Independent teacher.
MANToN MARBLE, the editor of the
| World, began his newspaper life by writ
ing two column criticism on Forests
"Lear" for the Boston Traveller. He
now controls the political and iournalis-
tic course of the World, and is generally
supposed to own at least quarter inter-
est in that newspaper.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN A. ANDREW. OF
Massachusetts,, died at Boston mt o'clock
last Wednesday evening. The meager
dispatches only announce that or the
previous evening he felt the pcemOnitory
Symptoms of an attack of apcplexy, re-
| Queated q friend TO 90 Tor doctor, ana
from the time of the attack was unconr
scious until his death.
EDwIr p. WHIPPLE in his lecture at
Boston, on Monday evening, on shoddy
-"Shoddy politics, shoddy generslshiP,
shoddy literature, shoddy ethics and
shodtiy religion" said that "the past has
furnished us five generals OF The first
class-Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Fred-
erick, and Napoleon-and our wsr did
not bring out the sixth" He reekons
Grant and Sherman among the second
class generals, with Scipio, Pompey,
Turenne, and Wellington, but puts Far
ragut with "the first and bravest naval
officers of the world. Ia! t
Mrs. ELLET's "Queens of American
Society,"" to be soon published by Messrs.
Scribner & Co., will contain sketches and
portraits of the following persons: Mrs.
Judge Roosevelt, of New York Mrs
Sallie Ward Hunt, of Kentucky; Mrs.
Judge White, of New York Mrs. b. Fl.
Field, of New York; Mrs. President
Polk, of Tennessee; Mrs. Senator Crit
tenden, of Kentucky; Mira. Harrison
Gray Otis, Of Massachusetts; Mrs Wad-
dell, of New York Mrs. John Hancock,
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