The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-09-03
Personal Items.


Elliot the portrait painter, lie very III at
Troy
Maggie Mitchell is building a block in
New York.
Anna Dickinson is visiting her brother in
West Haven, Conn,
A Cincinnati physician Of 70 now handles
his twenty-iirst baby.
The late Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt was
a cousin Of her husband.
Moon, the lannon's Saratoga Lake man,
has made over 5000, 600 there.
The Rothschilds have bought the finest
blue diamond known in Europe.
-Tanauschek will begin her next American
engagement at Boston in October.
A descendant OF Martin Luther is run
ming a provincial theatre in Wurtenburg.
Queen Isabella Of Spain, on state occa-
sions, wears diamonds worth. 100000.
The once celebrated McCracken, general
Inspector Of American Diplomacy abroad, ~
living IN New York.
The actor, Bandmaun, has been spending
n few weeks at lord Lyttat's couutry seat.
His lordship has written n play Tor him.
M. Thayer. the French Senator who lately
died, was the son OF a Bostonian, His
mother was a daughter Of Gen. Bertrand.
Rev. Samuel Dickens died in Marion
county, Ill.,, on the nth instant, aged eighty
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Oscar Becker, who, in 1861, tried TO shoot
the King Of Prussia, at B~adon-Baden, died,
recently, at Alexandra. The poor fellow was
insane.
The New York Commonwealth says Cor
nelius Vanderbilt has never paid Horace
Greeley the $4,000 his son borrowed OF the
editor Of the Tribune, and failed to return.
-"Carletoi,n the correspondent Of the
! nlnN.V N.agaml he aHan.LAI. 1nW EnuWnaaaa.
and will return wa the Pacific railroad, thus
completing his Tour Around tho World
Sir William Werner, SC years old, attoi
serving az a member Of Parliament for the
county of Armagh for SO years continuously,
now rotires to private life. He Ia the oldest
member OF the present House Of Commons
DR.. Elliotson, who has just died in Lon
don, beside being the inventor of tho stethO
scope, vas the friend Of Thackeray, and thu
DR.. Goodenough, OF Phillip" and others o.
his novels,
Madame Alexaudrme Briss has passed
brilliant examination before the Faculty o
Sciences in Paris, and obtained the degree o
Bachelor. She now intends to study medi
cine.
Miss Fanny Kemblo gave a reading a
Lennon, Massachusetts on the 10th, for tn,
boncht of the town library. Every tickle
was bought on the first dayon which any wer
for sale,
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self in a shop at Ems, crowned with laurel
Going in lie said 10 the dealer: Take off tn
poor mans head-dress; he does not like I
see himself made such a show"
Sir VIM. Yencr, &c years oil after sery
ing as a member Of Parliameutfor the com
~ q Armago for tlirty-six years ]continu
ouHly, now retiros 70 private life. He ts tn
oldest member Of the present House Q
Commons.
Peter Fleming, a colored man, free
some II or 10 years ago, recently reyisite
Lexington, Va, and finding his late master
grave unmarked by a single stone, cause
two marble slabs to be erected over IL at hi
own expense.
J, Henry Curtis, an old and respected citi
!, zen OF Saratoga, celebrated his one hun
, dredth birthday on Friday, the 7th instau.
One hundred relatives, by blood ms MAJ
riage, were present on this interesting ocet
sion.
The last time that Mrs, Senator Trumbu
was away from her residence was when ell
' visited Arlington Heights, on the goth day
May, and assisted in the noble work of strev
ing the graves OF ON brave soldier dead wit
' flowers.
Rev. Albert N. Fisher, a Gentle, latel
preached A in Brigham Young's Tabernacle,
Salt Lake, TO 5000 saints. He In the fir
4 GENTLE who ever preached there by i~nyitatio
\ OF brigham. His subject was the "Diyinit
4 of Christ .
The present Lord Mayor Of London Is M
duly sensitive. Some OF his acts were cri
/ cisod in the Daily News, whereupon he T,
o once wrote tho editor that no reporter frol
! that paper would receive a ticket to the nei
> public dinner.
. Cyrus Gates, of Hampton, VI, died SUI,
n denly on the 10th inst, while in the haryeI
field. He was out Just a. nightfallto shoe
Q up some wheat, and was found soon after J.
G ing upon the ground, ~lifeless, with the caI
70 sheaf in hls hand ready to place dpon Ii
/, shock. Heiwas 81 years Of age. ~
a. Mr.. Buchanan. and Mr. Stevens, thoug
" living in the same town 80 long together, ne
or spoke when they met in the street. Ne
ertheless, Mr., Buchanan admitted of his rivl
: ''rhaddens Stevens has a good head and
= good heart, and If il had net pleased Pro-
n laenee TO omit the moralparto of his nature,
would have been u great man.", q ~