Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-10-31
Personal PARAGRAPHS.

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GENERAL MCCLELLAN has arrived In
Paris.
ANNA DICKINSON ia lecturing In The
small towns of Connecticut
A VOLUME of Mr.. Robert @. Wlnthrops
speeches viii soon bepublished in Boston.
IL the play Of Marie Antoinette,n
Ristori wesrs seven dTesses, worth, In ALL
5000.
JULIA WARD HOWE received only Ss
for her famous Battle Hymn Of the Ro-
public"
A Missouri paper SAYS General Ere
mopts fortune is two millions worse than
nothing.
II is reported that Gen ersl Sherman Is
writing BOOK Oh the war, TO bs publish
ed po5thumously.
AN Ohio Democrat came home all tbs
way from Chill, South Amezioa, to vote
the straight ticket.
Hon. JOHN HICKMAN Is a candidats
for the speakership OF the Pennsylvania
House Of Representatives.
Hon. D. w. VOORHEES, is suppeste6
by the Terre Haute journal for position
in the new johnson Cabinet.
PRoF. NEWMAN HALL says that If
John Bright was to come to AIN ,rias he
would he Gilled-by kindness.
A REPUBLICAN wag, who has no ss-
peclal love for General Butler, says:
~ ~Of all the sad Vords Of tongue or pen,
Ine s4dde5t are these: " might have BeA.iy
SHERIDAN kissed little girl at West
Brookfield, Massachusetts and remark
nHs he. ed h1t H.
other size won't"
Frederick HUDSON, late managing edi-
tor of the Herald at $40, 900 q year, began
in that office as messenger boy at =
salary e.'a2 a wesk.
GEN. STERLING PRICE died poOx, and
the obituary notice requested that A.
many who attended as were abls should
employ saeir own carriages.
DANA's projected new paper ia Nsg
York has received over furty nam9a from
the press, and has had two hundred and
forty-thrae editora assigned to b.
F.. H. CsDERwcoD, the frat editor of
the Atlantic Monthly and once music
al critic OF the Boston pIess, is now Clerk
Of the Supreme Court in that city.
GEORGE W. KGNpALL, editor of the
New OrleanS Pioayune, died Of congss,
tive chills at his residence in Tsxas, on
Monday, at the age of 90. He left a wife
and four children.
THE Democracy ara talking of Fallatt,
OF Licking, or Hughes, Of Butler, fer ths
next Speaker of the House. Gould, edi-
tor of the Washington Register, Ii als9
eanvassing for CLERK.
Hon NJ. RUSSELL THAYRR, Of Phil2-
delphia, late Member of Congress, and
defeated in the last election for Judge of
the Common Pleas Court, is urged for
appointment by Gov. Geary 10 the bench
of the District Court, Uicc Sharswood,
elected to the Supreme Court.
WHEN Artemus Ward lay Oh his death
bed at Southampton, he turned to friend
by his bedside, and murmured: What
hSveI done that should die 80 young? l
never was guilty of burglary, or COM
mitted the minor offence Of killing u
publisher or even q newspaper man.
Fl is fortunate for Vallandighatn, say.
the Providence Journal, that Morgan.
who made the raid into Ohio, and was
captured and escaped, has not become
citizen of the State. His claim would
have come in direct competition with this
acknowledged leader OF the Ohio Dem
ocracy.
THE Lebanon (O) Star says: "Two
members of the society OF Shakers vOtad
at the last election, their ballots only con-
tanning the words For the Constitu-
tional Amendment, Yes They consid-
cred the question involved in the amend
ment one OF principle, and of such ma
ture that they We're justified in voting"
THE President has appointed the Hon.
James Brooks, OF New York, and Samuel
TnI Of .pn.y-lUnpio a,pt
Directors of the Union Pacific Railroad.
This makes up the five Directors on the
part of the Government. The other
three are George Ashmun, of Massschu-
settes; John 5. Rollins, of Missouri and
Jesse l.. Williams, of Indiana.
THE venerable Auber, ten years oldex
than Rossini, has a new opera inerehear-
sal which, he says, will be his last. II
is to be called UJ0,r de Bonheur. Auber
was born in 1882, and is consequently S5
years old gets up at five in the morning
TO work at his composition; and every
afternoon he may be seen holding the
ribbons behind pair of particularly
high-spirited horses, bowling along st
Bois de Boulogne.
JAMES GUTHRIE, when Secretary of
the Treasury, one day sent letter TO
friend III Baltimore. The next morning
its recipient appeared in the Department
and handed back the missive. "MY.
Guthrie" said he, "I can't make out one
word of your letter but the signature, 80
have brought it for you to translate"
! The Secretary knitted his brows and
puzzled over it for some minutes. AZ
last he gave it up. Hang me if can
read it either! l have forgotten Its eI.
act contents, but / know what wanted
to see you about. Sit down and I'll tell
YOU" lr-
ADELAIDE RIsToRI was born a gipsy,
in the little town of Cividale dol Friuel.
Her father and mother were both actors
in a wandering company. She made
her first appearance on the stage when
two months old, being introduced In o
! basket of flowers. At the age Of four
years she was an actress, but showed
! much greater love for music :han the
stage; and there Is little doubt tn Mt chs
would have been q pr.ma donna had she
not been an actress; for nature endowed
her with magnificent mezzo sopr ano
voice. AS a girl, che was wont TO Intro
duce songs in certain comedies, ac com
panying heTaelf upon tho pisno-fdfte,
singing and playing entirely by esr, not
knowing one note OF music frorn another,
yet producing more effect and throwing
more feeling into hsr songs than msnv