Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-05-28
aREvIvIEs.
PersonaI lions.


Miss Braddon, the authoress, vaa
once an actress in Aberdeen.
o REILLY has Boughta tobac
90 farm Of seven hundred acres about
sixty miles south Of Richmond
William Tracy, the hero Of Eve
bounties ia the war, is Ia jail az Gales
burg, Mich, asthe hero Of fonf wives
since the war. n3
Baron Won Holstein, whose name
was mentioned last summer in connec.
tion with Mrs. Sumner, has been killed
in duel near Berlin.
Mr.. William Chambers, the Edin.
burgh publisher, is busy on his auto.
biography, which will appear some
time during the present year. a.
Capt. Mayne Reid is in New York
for the first time since he left here in
l849, to go to help in achieving the in
dependence of Hungary.
-Hr Hugh j. Hastings, OF the AL
bany Knickerbo6ker, is reported ID
have purchased controlling interest
in the New York Commercial Adyer-
tiser.
Professor Oouington's translation
Of Virgil's Rneid promises to become
as popular as Lord Derby's "Homer,
1t has already passed through three
editions N Hl
--Rosamond Dale Owen, the daugh,
ter OF the celebrated writer, Robert
Dale Owen, made her maiden literary
effort in the last number OF Lippincottl
Magazine. ;eJ
William B, Astor's income las
year was SOFT, 452. The lowest esti
mate Of his property 10 $4,000, 900,
He makes, then, less than two per cent
a. year out of it. Bad business man
agement that.
Prince George Of Prussia, o cousir
of the King, has written tragedy
which IS very well received by bott
critics and public. II is called "Ph@dra,
and has been repeatedly performed al
the Royal Theatre in Berlin.
The Quincy Herald mentions {
rumor that the equestrian James Mel
vile, connected with Yankee Robin
sons Circus, had been killed at Car
thage, ILL.,, on Wednesday, owing to the
tent having been blown down during {
storm. aa "H 'e"
Rev. DR.. johnson, young preach
er OF marked ability, succeeds the emf
nent Rev. Albert Barnes in the pastor
ate OF the Old Washington Square
church in Philadelphia, and delivered
his first seru on on last Sunday.
Nv. s. Lingle, OF the Lafayette
Iud.) Courier, has purchased foul
hundred acres of land in Union town
ship, Benton county, in that state
The land was formerly given to Yale
College by the will Of the late Henry l.
Ellsworth.
u. Hammond Trumbull, of Hart
ford, Conn , is said to be the only liv
ling person who can read John Eliot'l
Indian Bible, copy Of which was re-
Gently sold for $1,130. He has com
piled from the book q dictionary O
1900 words. .gi
The Hon. William B. Reed hal
presented to the New York Historical
Society the entire collection Of manu-
script papers Of his grandfather, Presi
dent Joseph Reed, of Pennsylvania
extending from 1853 to 1884. It com
prises an extensive series of autograph
letters from Gen, Washington.
"A statistieian, who must be some
what of an enthusiast in his peoulia
walk, has been ascertaining the de
nominational .leaDings of the inmate
of the Iowa State Prison. He find
that the institution contains SO Romal
Catholics, "a Methodists, 18 Baptists
IL Presbyterians, 5 Episcopalians,
Quakers, besides many persons O
strange doctrines. s
M. Henri Didie,, member of th
French Legislative Corps, died recent
leaving 800, 900 to be divided as fol
lows: Twenty parts to Alexande
Dumas, Jr.; three parts to Edmun
About, the author; three to M. Beau
mont, an artist; five to NJ. DarimaI
twenty to Mile, Denian, an attress. an
three to NJ. Hsridon. He also provid,
for his brother. To NJ. Haridon, h
makes hequest 'on account OF servic
which he rendered me twenty year
ago, aud has never spoken Of since.
Mr.. William Talleck is about
contribute his mite to Quaker literatur
> by volume with the title of "Georg
Fox, the Friends, and the Early BAI
tists," wherein he is said to hav
1 traced, for the first time, the doctrin
/ and the constitutionalism of Quakerisl
TO the old-time Baptlsts. His fortl
coming work is said to be the result I
special study OF widely scattered mi
Q terial, Illustrating the personal chara,
G ter and private life Of George Fox, an
Q his influence on the religious life Of b
4 time. q a j f.f -ita 9
, The health of the Archduche
: Corlot.a continues to improve so stea'
. ily that the best results are looked 70
= With the exception OF certain fits I
! sullenness, which are becoming le
u frequent, the Princess feels nothing {
!, the painful malady from which she hi
7 been suffering. She sleeps well, al
her appetite has returned, and Wi
8 this taste for study. She passes a
Q most the entire day in her reading al
Q writing room, aud receives no one e
cept members OF the royal family.
d A GoAT IN Court, While sever