Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-10-17
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personal PARAGRAPHS.

man.
GENlaal SHERIDAN was an old-line
Whis.
Mrs. SENATOR SUMNER has gone to
Europe. q HEls
DICKENS telegraphs he will be here in
December. -'N ra .. ha.taa
GEN. HARTsuFF has been quite Ill in
New orleans. -nsu.t.osat hut Lea
GEN. BANKS is announced to speak at
atemperance meeting in Waltham, Mass.
in favor of prohibition.
ELIAS HOWE, Jr., the inventor of the
sewing machine, died in Brooklyn, New
York, Thursday night. = 1CFt
GEN. BURNSIDE has accepted the Pres
idency of the projected railway from In
dianapolis TO Vincennes. H.
DIR. ELDER is editing tariff paper in
New York. Elder, and Carey are the
oldestpolitical economistsin the country.
CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, editor of the
North American Review, lectures on the
equality of American Culture" this
winter.
"KING PHIIIP" was the appropriate
name of the locomotive that drew the
train that carried our gallant "Phil' to
Boston on Monday.
Mrs. LIPPINCoTT, better known under
the nom de plume of Grace Greenwood" !"
is in Chicago. She has been seriously i'll,
but is now convalescent.
THE Madison Gnd.) Couriersays: We
have good authority, and tolerably direct,
that Senator Morton is in favor of Gen.
Grant for President in 1868.
THE New York Mail says: "In ap-
pearance Mr.. Emerson is more like a
sensible farmer than philosopher. lie
has an uncommonly shrewd face"
BLOT says the best dinner America
ever saw was that given by the New
| York Club to Gen. Grant. 1t took seven
French cooks ten days and nights to
prepare it. E|,. .tN
JOHN B. FELTON,, who is one Of the
numerous Democratic candidates for
Senator from California, two years age
was just as anxious to go to Washington
as a Republican. '.h t.HH I'D
E. u. G. JUDsoN, known as "Ned Bunt
! line," has lately been actively Mt work
in the Temperance ranks, In Westches
ter County, New York, and is q very ac
ceptable lecturer.
CHARLES DICKENS has an elegant
London residence, and the street in from
of 1t 10 often crowded with aristocratit
carriages and plain hacks, for he is fond
of giving receptions.
LADY BULwER has corpulent form
round face, radiant, deep blue eyes
and raven hair. Her cheeks contain
dimples, and she forms striking con
trast with her husband.
IT is q somewhat curious fact that the
author of the Bankrupt Bill, the Hon
Thomas Jenckes, Of Rhode Island, was
one of the first applicants for its benefits
in his State. The failure is disastrous
and said to be heavy.
Mrs. ELLA MERRIcK THOMAS, wifi
Of James Thomas, of Amherst Mass.
gave birth to daughter on the 18th o.
September. Mrs. Thomas is only thir
teen years of age, and is the youngest
mother In Amherst.
Ex-CoNFEDERATE General Joseph E
Johnston has resigned the Presidency O
/ the Alabama and Tennessee River Rail
road, from Selma to Dalton, and his
place has been filed by the selection o.
Franklin IL. Deland, of New York.
GEORGE AUGUSTUS SALA Is i'm the Lon.
uOh SOuTb III iAio NSpos
amount to 1850, and he replied to the
usual questions that he had no property
of any description. His largest debts are
to life insurance company and to two
newspapers to which he Is contributor
c. V. CULVER, of Reno, Pa, formerly
member of Congress, whose failure fol-
"a, 100000 caused such commotion, has
been fully released by all the Courts, and
with heroic purpose has consummated
q plan to settle his debts and place his
railroad schemein living condition again
AN aged Democrat of Concord, N. H..
who died recently, gave strict orders be
fore his decease that none but Dem ocrats
should offieiate as pail bearers ut his fu'
neral, and that no minister who med
died with politics should conduct religi'
Gus services over his remains. His wish
es were strictly observed by his family
SENATOR SUMNER has started on his
Western tour. He has some twenty ol
thirty engagements i'm Michigan, Illinois
Ohio and other States, and will he absent
until about the middle of next month
His lecture il entitled-"Are we Ma
tion?" 1t Is said to be an elaborate ex
position of the national theory, IA dis
tinguished from the State rights interpre
tation of tho Constitution. -.
BuLwRR lives In beautiful villa In
Fulham, near London. lie loves to si
by a Fireplace where bright coal fire il
burning. He has tall, slender form
which he wraps in asky-blue, soft-lineG
silken morning gown, which he fastens
with stout cord round the waist. Hi,
auburn hair flows in ringlets down or
his high, marrow forehead; his large
slender nose hangs over hissmall mouth
and his red whiskers fall from his long
and narrow chin on his breast He hal
q siekly appearance, and Is abstfacted.