Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-06-20
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Gov. Geary, Of Pennsylvania, has be-
come Good Templar.
j. NJ. Mason, of "Trent" notoriety,
is at present staying in Toronto. ,.-, !
-Maximilian according to the latest
Mexican news, is to be banished.
The Hon. Henry G. Deming of Con-
necticut will soon make his debut as a
lecturer. ..-... Y...a.p.t .... ..f
jefferson Davis was born in Todd Co.,
KY, and was sixty years old on the Sd
day of June.
Gen. Grant will visit Gettysburg on
the 10Th, and on the 29th he will go fish
ing up the Susquehanna.
Judge Kelley of Philadelphia has
been invited to deliver the Fourth of
July Grafton in Newark, NJ.
AT Grand Army festival in Rich
mond, Ind, Miss Jennie Prescott was
voted to be the handsomest girl in Amer
lea.
"A Cleveland paper of the 18th re-
ports the arrival in that city of Captain
Raphael Semmes, the Grover of the
Seas.
Madame c. D. Murat, relative of
the great Murat, of France, is very ill
with typhus fever. She is residing in
Florida. .4 ...... ..,.... ....
Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is going to
take up her abode in Racine, WISCONSIN.
Her hoaseh0ld goods at Chicago have
been Sold at auction.
"A ,caricature in ;. the ,news-dealers'
windows, of III. G. embracing j ID. ,un-
der a;sduE apple tree, Indicates Che man
nef in Which treason is to be made obi
Gus. :"
The artist Carpenter is painting a
portrait of Horace Greeley. 1t is said
that the philosopher troubles the artist
very much by dropping asleep us soon as
he sits down in his chair. a..
The Albany Evening Journal says
that Gen. Grant Islands alone and prom
inent like .ChinbOrusO among the noun
tains." The Argus says he smokes like
Vesuvius, and if he is nominated Chase
will show "a loftier pique."
The Hon. Charles d. Drake, United
States Senator from Missouri, is now
sojourning in Philadelphia. Senator
Drake is the guest of Commodore oliver
S. Gibson, with whom he served as q
midshipman more than 30 years ago.
Thomas Brown, Esq, of Cleveland,
publisher, in 1850, of the True Democrat,
the Free Soil organ of Northern Ohio,
founder of the Ohio Farmer, and latterly
employed by the Treasury Department,
died in Brooklyn, N. Y, of typhoid fever.
The Raleigh IN. C.) Standard says
that Chief Justice Chase attended the
African Methodist Church in that city
on Sunday last. The services were con-
Quoted by the Revs. Robert Lucas and
Nelson Farrow, both colored, and folm-
erly slaves.
--EX-Gov. Letcher, of Virginia, says
that in the early days of secession many
persons, since in high civil and military
positions in the North, wrote'encouraging
letters to the secession leaders. Thedoc-
umentary proof of such aid and comfort
was contained in the correspondence ad
dressed to the Governor, which he had
prepared for publication, but which was
totally destroyed when Gen. Hunter
burned his house in 1864. '"
The sculptor Thompson has modelled
statuette of Gen. Sedgwick, which, at
the order of officers and men of the old
Sixth Corps, is to be reproduced in CO.
lossal form, and erected in Il place of
honor at West Point. Mr.. Thompson
has discarded the traditional heroic style
of costume, and gives us the soldier in
his blouse, and high-topped boots, and
slouched hat-in the uniform in which
he moved among his men, in which he
worked, and fought, and died. 077 n
Colonel Forney writes from London:
John G. Breckenridge is frequently seen
at the Langham Hotel, where am stop
ping, wofully changed in appearance, if
net in opinions. A gentleman who con-
versed with him a few days ago says that
Breckenridge did not hesitate to declare
against the good taste of the defeated
rebel leaders claiming any rights under
the Constitution which they had re-
pudiated and the Government they had
vainly fought to destroy, and that, what
ever others might do, he proposed to
submit to fate
,i Hon. Benjamin II, Flanders, appoint
ed by Gen. Sheridan, Goyernorof Louis
iana In place of Mr.. Durant, is a native
of Bristol, N. H., and graduated at Dart
mouth College in 1912. He studied law
and settled in New Orleans, where he
taught school; subsequently became edi-
tor of the Tropfc newspaper, served as a
member of the City Government, was
Superintendent of a public school and q
railroad company, and In 1862, under the
new order of things, he was elected a
representative from Louisiana to the
Thirty-seventh Congress. nlad so
SAYS Copperhead exchange, "rGen-