The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-04-04
PERSONAL ITEMS.
A son has been lately born to .Jeffer-
son Davis,

"A ,Vii HIS Utcti ldlety DOrIl W .|eHef-
son Davis.
Humphrey Marshall has opened
law office in Louisville.
A brother of DR.. Livingstone is in
trade in small town in the backwoods
of Canada.
Spurgeon is going to Paris to preach
during the exposition.
The French mint 'sdisloyalIy'' refus-
ed to strike a medal commemorative of
the late lamented Lincoln.
George l.. Stearns has turned aside
from THE Right Way, the Boston uni
versal suffrage paper.
Why is a newspaper like wife? Be-
cause every man ought to have one of
his own.
1t is believed that Gov. BrownloW
can not live much longer. His present
nervous disorder grows more and more
threatening.
Polly Heckenwelder, the first white
child born in Ohio, is living in the Nor
avian Sisters Home in the town of
Bethlehem, Pa.
There must be some latent swindle in
the bill making an appropriation for
the relief of the South. Forney approves
of it.
A man in Cincinnati has sued anoth
er for selling him hooking bird that
would. not sing, The bird will be in
troduced as witness.
A woman died recently near London,
who every day, for thirty years, had
followed about man who had agreed
to marry her, but broke his VOWS.
The Menken has stitch in the side
of her ear, put there by the surgeon to
whom she applied after her fall in the
Partisan theatre.
Molie Trussell, it is said, missed the
way to the Convent of the Sisters Of the
took the steamer to San Francisco in
stead. Perhaps there is a convent there.
A Vermont man recently bought
tWenty-six railroad tickets, intending
to take his wife and twentyfour chill
dren to the West. Among the two
dozen are eleven pairs OF twins-all
boys.
Rev. DIR. Cox and Rev. DR.. Spring,
two of the oldest clergymen, of New
York, are still as strong and sprightly
as they were twenty years ago.
Mr.. Carlyle has gone from Nice TO
Mentone, on the Mediterranean, and
his health is steadily improving. It is
said he is employing himself on a vol
ume of "reminiscences.
1t is said that in one hour the Hudson
bank defaulter would be praying fer
vently at the rooms of the Young Mems
,usc ov1A fhn fon
ping the bank for money to satisfy his
demands.
A gentleman from Portland, Maine,
who went to Gardiner to attend mas
querade ball, chose to disguise himself
as an ape. After dressing himself in
the character he was passing through
an entry when large Newfoundland
dog attacked him, and he YVES obliged
to rival the agility of the real ape toavoid
being torn to pieces.
We regret to learn from the Wa h
ingtOn correspondence OF a Radical pa
per that DR. Butler has been grossly
insulted on Pennsylvania avenue by a
New Orleans rebel named Wood" But,
in the interest of public order, we re-
joice to be able to add, that the Doctor
''tool no notice of the blackguard." If
he had
Madame Patterson Bonaparte lives
| in Baltimore boarding house in a rath-
er parsmonious manner. Though she
is seventy EIGHT years old, she retains
the liveliness of her air, and all the ele-
gance of her ancient regime manners.
One Of her grandsons is with her, the
other is in the French army.
Judge George II. Lee, of West Vir-
ginia, formerly of the Supreme Court
of Appeals of Virginia, was severely in
jurod last week by a fall upon the plat
form of the railroad at Grafton. His
condition is now somewhat improved.
but he must still be necessarily confined
! for some time.
A statue of Henry Clay is to be inau-
gurated in the courthouse at Louisville
on the 10Th of April. Robert c. Win
throp will deliver the address. Willard
Fillmore and A. II. Stephens are ex-
pected to be present.
The Houston Telegraph says: "The
man who shall attempt to murder citi-
zens of Texas by military commissions,
! in violation of the laws Of the land, will
have Il sweet time of it, or we are no
prophet"