Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-02-07
Personal.

| IEHkSONAL LIE
David Steward, native of Ohio,
but lately resident OF Iowa, has be-
come associated with Hiram II. Robin
son in the publication OF the Dayton
Empire.
D. The Prince of Wales and the Duke
of St. Albans (who is said to be very
fast young man) are quite intimate,
causing considerable anxiety to the
relatives and friends Of the former.
A Maine letter to the Boston Her
aid contained a notice of the presence
of ex-Vice President Hamlin at "sa-
loon dance" The Bangor Whig says
"for saloon dance, read salmon
dinner" r.4 fFtf lfpf.f.9 ,
The rebel Gen. Sterling Price has
arrived with his family at st. Louis
He intends to make that place his per
manent abode.
Nathaniel W. Morse, of ofNorridge-
wall, Me-, has recovered one cent dam
ages from thirteen citizens of the town
of Skowhegan, who was forced by
them to cheer the American flag after
he said he was glad of the assassina-
| ton of President Lincoln.
Colonel Darlington, commanding
at Fort Reno, New Mexico, has been
removed for alleged inefficiency.
"A story is told of Stewart the dry
goods millionaire, that knowing GER
tain article was rising, he sent to a
Boston merchant to buy up everything
of the kind at the hub. He overlook.
ed the putting up of his own prices,
however, to correspond to the rise,
the Bostonian found it out, and bought
half of Stewards own stock at two
cents yard less than market rates,
before the merchant prince found it
out. Stewart had to buy his own goods
at an advance.
"A dispatch announces the death
Of Chas. Augustus Davis, "the well
known author of Major Jack Down
ing's Letters. OF Mr.. Davis we have
never before heard. The authorship
Of the Downing Letters has always
been ascribed to Seba Smith, and we
believe correctly, the telegram to the
contrary Notwithstanding.
"A letter dated Montevideo, No.
vember 18th says: "Happening, while
in search of party, to step into 10 W
bar room, frequented by captains,
mates and river men, who should SEQ
laid out on bench, too drunk to
move, but that illustrious son of chiv-
airy, Captain Maffit, the former com.
mander of the pirate Florida"
The following is from the Zanes-
vile Times: Among the marriages
occurring in this city last week was
one of highly respectable young wo-
man to an individual who was a South
erner, and at the beginning of the war
slave, Notwithstanding the fact of his
having, to all appearance, no negro
blood in his veins; a curious history,
, no doubt, might be traced in this man s
birth, and parentage; the episode we
have given proving but one of the
thousand romances of the war.
"A Russian at Chicago skates on
stills.
President Lincoln's old home at
Springfield, ILL.,, is occupied by "fam-
lily who keep things as nearly as pos
sible as they were while he lived it 1t"
1t has been visited by over Fifty thous-
and people since the assassination.
The largest receipts ever taken at
Ristori performance were pocketed
on Tuesday night of last week, when
the great actress appeared at Chicago.
The amount was $4,000, Of which Ri
stori's share was $4,000, making S126,.
600 which she has personally received
in this country. Her next best house
was drawn in Brooklyn, and her third
best at Moscow, Russia.