Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1867-03-15
CURRENT NEWS ITEMS.
Personal and Literary.

ANNE E. DICKINSON is writing novel
founded on her life, and developing her
mission.
4. T. STEWART has sailed for Paris as
one of the Commissioners of the Great Ex-
position.
THE Messrs; Moxon, of London, have
begun a subscription for a monument to
Charles Lamb.
GEORGE PEABODY says that after his
return from London he shall take up his
residence in Salem, Mass.
l. w. JEROME, of New York, has lost
within short period about 81 100000 by
the decline of Pacific Mail stock
IT Is said that the wedding of James Cor
don Bennett, Jr, 70 Miss Dix, will take
place In Paris early next April.
THE editor of the Discussion, OF Madrid,
has just been sentenced TO death for arti-
cles which he had published
Mrs HARRIET BEEcHER STOWE is going
to Florida, where she will reside until May,
and the family mansion at Hartford is for
sale
THE Prince of Wales not to be outdone
by Dickens or Dixon, is writing, for publ
cation, an account of his visit to the United
States.
ALPHoNsE kARR is now regarded as the
wittiest man in Paris, and the vainest. too.
Excessive praise has nearly turned the poor
fellows head
JOHN HANCOCK inherited his large for
tune from childless uncle dying without
children himself, his fortune descended to
those to whom he was uncle.
THERE have been fifty thousand books
printed about America since its discovery
by Columbus, and New York bibliopole
is publishing dictionary OF list of them all
The Hon. Clark E. Cochrsne, who has
has filed prominent space for some years
in New York politics, died at his residence
in Albany, on Tuesday, March 8, at the
age OF - His disease was said to be can
Ger of the stomach.
MARGARET TIME, the captain of
Dutch yacht which sails in the Mediterra-
neap, : about twenty-seven years of age,
and attracts great attention. Her suite is
composed of four black persons dressed in
picturesque costume, after the fashion of
the East.
RUsKIN is rich and liberal; his income is
$4,000 a year, and he spends most of it
in charity and in furtherance of art
Among the rest, he has established and
owns some of the best model lodging
houses in London, but out of these he
makes money.
Hon ROBERT c. WINTHROP, of Boston,
has contributed $500 to the Southern Re
lief Fund In a letter accompanying the
donation he SAYS Il fear that our people
are not sufficiently alive to the danger of
starvation which is impending over many
parts Of the South"
Lucy STONE BLACKWELL has been
addressing the New jersey LEGISLATURE in
favor of striking out of the Constitution
the words white male" The meeting
passed the Speaker vote of thanks, and a
number of members were "outspoken in
their wishes for her success"
NINE. MARIE ALEXANDRA DUMAS,
daughter of NJ. Alexandra Dumas, has
brought out novel, which is said to be in
teresting She married provincial gen.
tleman of fortune six or eight wears ago,
grew tired of married life, quit her hus-
band, and went up to Paris
Mrs. BETSY BAKER, daughter of Joel
Metcalf OF Providence, II. J., and who
braided, when twelve years old, the first
straw bonnet n the United States, having
as a model and guide only a bonnet i'm
ported from England, died at West Ded-
ham, Sunday week, aged eighty eight.
IT is reported that James Gordon Ben
nett has begun an autobiography, which is
of course history of the Herald as well as
its editor and founder; that he intends to
have the work published after his death,
and that in it he will refute mary of the
ideas popularity entertained of himself and
his journal
ALFRED WILD has realized the hand
some sum of S950,0O0 from the sale of his
interest in the Harmony Mills, at Cohoes.
When Mr.. w. first became connected with
the Harmony Company, twenty years ago.
was in he "a Dapify of CLARK Oft SSn nor
month He is now worth over 81, 000, 600
THE husband OF Harriet Prescott Spot.
ford was in Boston when he learned that
he had become father, by this dispatch
dated Newburyport Dear father, I came
to town this morning at IL o'clock, and
when you are disengaged, shall be happy
to be introduced to you Truly your aztec
tionate son, Richard Spoffard Spoffard"
1T is stated that Gen. Thomas Francis
Meagher is still in Montana Territory, nc
longer as Secretary and acting Governor
but as private citizen, largely interested
in developing the mineral resources of tina
country. He has every prospect of becom
ing millionaire, through the extraordi
binary success of some mines in which hi
interests are large
The Reading (Pa) Journal says "AIr
John Fritz, Superintendent of the Bethle
hem Rolling Mill, has just been offered b,
similar establishment in Baltimore a sala
~ of $4,000 per annum to engage witt
them He at present gets $4,000. Thi
demonstrates to what importance q maj
can advance himself by competence in hi
vocation-s12,0 900 year-$4 for each Ia
boring hour"
WHEN Mr.. Livingston, the American
Minister, who was quite deaf, was intro
duced at the Court Of Napoleon, ne ha
prepared to answer the question he sup
posed the Emperor would ask in regard {
his passage across the Atlantic Napoleon
accosted him thus: "How is Mr.. Jeffer
SON." "Very boisterous very bolster
Gus !" replied Mr.. Livingston, to the grea
amusement of nose present
THE grave of the Revolutionary hero
Gen israel Putnam, st Brooklyn, Conn
is neglected and in danger of being forgot
ten. The tablet which formerly marked
Is now locked up in store-house at tina
place, that visitors may be prevented fror
chipping to pieces. Some years ago tn
State made an appropriation to erect
monument To Gen Putnam, on condltio
that the people Of Windham county raise
an equal amount. which they failed to do
The New York Independent says: Mr.
Stowe was at one time paid more per pas
than any writer of the Atlantic staff Ann
Dickinson probably averages more con
pensation per lecture than any man now
the field Ristori is certainly paid mo-
than any male actor. Rosa Bonheur an
Harriet Hosmer probably obtain high,
prices for their works than if they WEI
men; certainly not less high And the'
professions are not yet filled, and snow 4
signs of being filed, by women"