Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1867-11-28
prRsoNAL pARAenAPHs.

DUDLEY MANN, of rebel notoriety, Is
planting corn in France. f@i4 ID
GEN. HOOKER is in Paris. and his
health not much improved, ti
If Dickens lives till February 9TH,
next, he will complete his 66th year.
Mr.. WIN. WINTHROP has been United
States Consul at Malta for thirty-three
years. ........,.....
FITz-GREENE HALLECK, the poet, died
at his home in Guilford, Connecticut,
last week.
CARDINAL ANroNELLI Is described as
man with smooth manners and win
ming smile.
SoHILLER's birthday was celebrated
in New York by masquerade parade Of
the Germans.
CELIA LOGAN, olives sister, is the
original of Constant Meyers picture,
Loves Melancholy.
CHARLES DICKENS will deliver a lec-
ture before the New York Press Club on
the Life of Reporter" r
Mr.. SHAW, proprietor of elegant pri-
vate gardens near st. Louis, intends be-
queathing them to the city.
A. II. STEWART, the New York dry
goods merchant, has Paris carpet worth
81 900 in one of his parlors.
MARSHAL O'DoNNELL, ef Spain, is
dead. For twenty years he has been a
principal figure in Spanish politics.
MIR. T.. p. wH1PPLE, at the request of
the family of the late Governor Andrew,
will write his biography.
CAPTAIN BARCLAY, the English ps-
destrian, walked one hundred and ten
miles in nineteen hours-the greatest
feat on record.
JOHN NJ. LANGsToN, the distinguished
colored lawyer and orator of Oberlin, had
an enthusiastic reception from the Re-
publicans of Wilmington, N. c., on the
14th inst. s. -., ,ga- ......- >.
SUNSET Cox is going to Europe for
! three months. He will run for Congress
next fall in the district which Henry j.
Raymond represented, after fashion,
for one session. nr
THE treasurer of Madison County,
! Montana, announces that he is about to
sell ut public auction one hundred and
three sacks of flour belongingto Brigham
Young, for an unpaid tax.
THE daughter Of Lola Montez, who is
to appear upon the stage in Paris, is also
the daughter of Mons. Dujarrier, the
right hand man of Emile de Girardin.
She is said to be very beautiful.
JOHN GLEN was in Pittsburg on the
9th. He is the boy who killed the rebel
Colonel at Chickamauga. Gen. Thomas
has placed him ut school, and intends to
procure him an appointment to West
Point when he reaches the prescribed
age. r..r". rEH ..
AT dinner to Mr.. Dickens, in Boston
on the occasion Of his first visit to that
city, the Mayor Jonathan Chapman
was called up by the following toast
"rhe horse that Mr.. Pickwick could not
get rid of, and the Mayor that nobody
wants to get rid Of"
THE Savannah (Ga.) Republican says
among the persons now attending court
in that city are A. II. Stephens, Linton
Stephens, B. II. Hill, Robert Toombs
and JOS. T.. Brown. What horribly
blood thirsty and tyrannical government
ours is which condemns these men to re-
sumo the practice of their profession,
when it might magnanimously admit
them to the criminals box. ...f. a.
LORD CHESTERFIELD happened to be
Mt q route in France where Voltaire was
one of the guests. Chesterfield seemed
to be gazing about the brilliant circle of
ladies, when Voltare thus accOsted him:
"NIy lord, know you are Judge; which
are more beautiful, the English or French
ladies?" "Upon my word" replied his
lordship, with his usual presence of mind,
II am no connoisseur in paintings"