Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-08-01
PERSONAL.

| Dan. Rice said in his circus that he
was not going to defile the fair record of
thirty-seven years, as q respectable show
man, by becoming d member of Congress-
| There are sour grapes i'm this joke. Dan.
Rice has been standing candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Congress
every campaign for ten years past. Two
years ago he was so anxious to run that
he presented himself as an independent
candidate.
Mr.. Greeley says in the Tribune that
the nomination as Minister to Austria
was as much surprise to him as to the
public. He is much obliged for the COM
pliment, but says he cannot be induced
to leave the country at present.
The house of Greeley is divided
against itself. Horace, as chairman of
the Suffrage Committee of the New York
Constitutional Convention, reported
against giving the ballot to women.-
Last Tuesday petition for female suf-
frage was presented. II was signed by
Mrs. Horace. Whereupon the Conven-
tion laughed loudly and Horace woke
up.
The Vienna Morning Post says that
the insanity of Carlotta has become so
confirmed and so violent that she cannot
be left alone for moment. She is con-
stantly endeavoring to destroy herself.
AT rare intervals she has sane moments,
in which she declares, "I do not want to
live. prefer death to such life as this.
Where is my husband? Shall [ never
see him again? No, no; he is dead, and
yet L still live" Not a quarter of an
hour passes but what the unhappy Prin-
cess demands news of her husband. Her
bodily health has suffered sorely, and it
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husband long.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has written letter
from Chill, to which Republic he is Uni
ted States Minister, denying that he gets
drunk, as has been charged, or that he
Chill or in the army. The New Orleans
Republican copies Gen. Kilpatrick's
statement, andadds: "The writer of this
paragraph campaigned with Gen. Kill
patrick, and can bear testimony to the
fact that he uniformly refused to drink
whisky, or any other intoxicating bev-
erage, during that service; and to those
who know him the charge that he is
drunk every day is simply ridiculous" 1"
"A Mrs. Van Patten, of Chicago, saw
her husband in company with lewd
woman at picnic, and drew a revolver
with which she fired two shots. She did
no harm other than to throw ten thou
sand people into confusion.
Mr.. Seward, accompanied by Fred
erick, has gone to Auburn for few weeks
of rest and recreation.
The widow of Stonewall Jackson has
sold the horse superior" ridden by him
during the war.
-Napoleon's letter of coincidence to
the Emperor of Austria states that his
grief is the more poignant on account of
his agency in sending MaXimilian to
Mexico, but he calls God to witness that
his only object was to extend to the Mex
leans the influence of French civiliza-
tion.
News from Mexico 10 the 18th, via
Brownville, say Escobedo has been placed
in command of the army, and that
JuareZ has consented to be candidate
for re- election to the Presidency.
The bodies of MaXimilian, Mejia and
Miramon were embalmed.
Two of the Fenian prisoners in Ire
land have gone crazy.
1t is reported in Paris that Mazzini
has gone to Italy to join Garibaldi.
The North American Review says
that Rousseau was the intellectual father
of Chateubriand, Byron, Lamartine,
George Sand, Jefferson and Thomas
Paine,