The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-10-15
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Napoleon has forbiddcn Engcuie to gam.
bic in stocks.
THE Pope is the only European sovereign
WHO does not smoke.
-'rhurlow Weed thinks he will come home
to vote 10 November.
F ~ Davenport, the actor, proposes
opening a theatre In San Francisco.
The heir OF the Persian crown, son OF
Shah, died OF cholera at Teheran, September
first.
-Janauschek has settled down in New
York ~ her home, with q New Yorker as her
husband.
Charles Dickens is TO receive 500 0 for
his series ofone hundred farewell readings in
Englan |.
Miss Lonllard Spencer, a pretty New
Yorker, is to marry one Of the Counts Cenci
i'm Rome.
Rev. Thomas Hill has resigned the pres
idency OF Harvard College, and The resigna-
ton has been accepted.
The German tenor Waebtel, who was q
cab-driy9r a few years ago, has just pur-
chased a handsome villa near Wiesbaden for
10000 forms.
The Emperor OF Austria was robbed OF
his rifle, game bag, powder horn, etc, by
two bold robbers, whilo out hunting, the
other day.
-Nntts hthf ne tkolN la Nll0Nt 10 start may
a2lne ut New York to be called Onward. II
will be illustrated by artists brought from
England.
George W. Curtis prefors the inscription
on his graye-stoue: Here lies one who,
early aud late, did all he could TO see that
other men had fair play"
-Ex-proeident Hickok, Of Union College,
schenectady, has gone to Amherst, Maasa-
chusettg, with HE family, to reside. He is
engaged upon another metaphysical work.
George W. Jamiaun, n well known actor,
was run over and instantly killed, at Yonkers,
near New York, on Saturday evening, by an
express train on the Hudson River Railroad.
Gen. Lee gets a salary OF s3, BOO a year AZ
President Of Washington College. His son,
Curta Loo, q professor In the Lexington
Virginia) Military Institute, has a salary OF
Mrs. Anne stout, daughter Of Francis
Hopkiusou, one of the signers Of the Declar-
alton of ! dependence, aud sister ofthe we'll
known Judge, died = few days ago In Borden
town, n. ", at an advanced age.
DR.. Francis T.. Spring. probably the hoav-
lest man in Boston, died Of ~apopleNy, on Sat
urday. He was six feet i've inches high, and
weighed $50 pounds, He was very Hkillnl in
curing contagious diseases.
Mr.. Longfellow, at the last ~accounis, was
soionrning in Vovay, on the borders Of Lake
Geneva. Next month he will probably spend
in Paris. His new book, oThe New England
Tragedies, viii be published on the 10th Of
October, in London. Loipsic, Paris aud Bos-
ton.
Mrs. Mary Small, OF Ludlow, Me, now 50
years old, has borne 10 her husband, who diod
At a, twelve children, all of whom are now
lying; she has also ninety-two grandchildren.
one hundred aud nineteen great grandchil
dren, and eight great-grcat grandchildren.
1t. Fred H.. Becchcr. killed by the lndi-
ans on The Republican River. kansns, was a
son Of Rev. Chae, BCechcr, Of Georgetown,
Mass. Tie graduated al Bowdoin College,
entered the service IN 1861, was wounded se-
ygroly at Frodriclsburg aud At Gettysburg.
Ills wounds Worc Ho severe 8s 10 occasion HE
transior 10 the Veteran Reaerve Corps. He
had iist boon ordered 10 duty Ia the signal Of
fee 40 Washington, but was killed before IN,
could obey toe order.
Bridget OGurman, lately Sister Teresa.
IN the convent of NOtre Dame, New Jersey'
has lnbt recovered s 5000 damages from Row
Mr.. Walsh, spiritual adviser to the nupa for
her seduction. He sent her To Liverpool 10
Stt hcf ont 81 the way, but the giTl's niends
brought her back, aud an soon az shc com
menced the suit, Walsh paid mp 10 escnpo
further trouble. He has been suspended nom
the ministry.
Miss Lydia Becker, tho suffrage a~pitator
OF Manchester, England, 10 plucly and ingeni-
Gus. Before the Registration Board she
argued that where the term man was uged I'M
q statute It included woman. Furthermore
she based her claim on sexual neutrality.
She asked TO have her name recorded, not as
that OF q man or n woman, bat Ns that 81 n
rate-paying householder. 1"Yon have no
business, said Lydia, "to know that | am a
woman, But the casu was determined
against Miss Becker IN advance, and her aln-
quonoo was wasted.