Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-07-18
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General Steedman pronounces the
rumor that heI has urged the President
to remove Sheridan to be utterly false.
n --WillianI BAAstorreports an income
of 81 ,1l2, ,04b for himself, and about $50,
600 more os trustee for other persons.
"A convict in the New Jersey State
Prison has received information that he
has fallen heir to $3G,OOO. He has to
serve five years longer before he can en-
joy it. n l3aua.n9 u
Lady Dufferin an English author of
much talent, and a sister of the Hon.
Mrs. Norton, so well known by her poet
ry, is dead. These ladies were descend-
Iants Of the famous Sheridans, andl In
herited much of their genius. u al.rod
The Paris Kentuckian says: We
have been permitted to peruse letter
received from Hon. John @. iBreckin-
ridge. The letter was received from
Paris, France, and states that he is tired
ofthe hubbub ofthe Exposition, and con-
templated leaving for Switzerland. He
will sail for Canada in September with
his family. r.. -.4s1- r.ir ...
DIR. Lincoln GoodaIe, of Columbus,
is the only survivor of ali who came to
Marietta In 17SS-the first year of the
settlement. He will be eighty-five years
of age ON the 25th of this month. He
came to Marietta with his parents, with
the first women and children oftheset-
tlement, in August, 1883.
The cause of the death of the Arch
duchess Matilda of Austria, affianced to
the heir of the italian throne, has trans
pired. She was smoking cigarette in
1nr .o,In I,.yI, H.,
she hastily put it behind her, and her
dress, which was of light material, caught
fire and she was burned to death. She
was only eighteen, and very much be-
loved by the people. .a a. |s h.m
now much better than it has been for a
year past.
Gov. Ward of New Jersey was on
the Fourth of July the recipient of
beautiful saddle, present of the citizens
of Newark. .......
The Home Journal organ of FASH
iOnable society, says the hehandsomest lady
in America is Miss Emily Schomberg of
Philadelphia. ..7 "
1T is said President Johnson has par
doned Robert Toombs, of Georgia and
ex-Gov. Clarke of North Carolina.
The case of Gerrit Smith agt. The
Chicago Tribune, for libel in CONNECTING
Mr.. Smith with the John Brown Raid
into Virginia, has been continued to the
next term of Court. ..,u trlnp -'I
The New York Citizen says that Ben
Wood lost $45, 900 at poker at the same
table where he, notlongs since, won S12S,-
600, in one evening from John Morrissey
Miss Helen A., daughter of Hon. E.
r. Eckley, of Carrollton, was married
on the 9th ult., to DIR. James Westfall, ,
of Minerva, Stark County. .. ,.atI.
AT dinner given in New Jersey on
the Fourth of July, Brig. Gen. Oakley,
i'm response tOa toast, said :-"Ifthe noble
Phil. Kearney had lived he would have
been appointed Commander of the Army
of the United States after the battle Of
the second Bull Run. This know from
official documents now on record.
Major Gen. S. G. Burbridge, one of
the most gallant officers in the Union
army, Is now earning his living in a
Tennessee saw-mill.
The Milwaukee Wisconsin says:
"Mrs. Lincoln is now i'm Racine, board
ing at Congress Hall. She is simply
spending the summer there. She dresses
in deep mourning, does not receive COM
pany, nor appear at the common table.
1t is not true that she intends making
her home there. Her two sons are now
in Washington attending the Surratt
trial.
-Gerritt Smith recently enclosed ten
dollars in a letter, and sent it to Mrs.
Howarth, "Clementine, W of Trenton,
N ], He wrote that he had given away,
the bulk of his fortune, and was really
in embarrassed circumstances.
Prof II. w. Longfellow, of Cam
bridge, always sends to the printer very
clear copy. His MSS. is all written in
lead pencil upon large sheets of good
quality of book paper; each sheet con-
tains never more than two four-line
verses. The MSS. copy of his transla
tion of Dante, if bound, would make
several immense volumes.