Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1868-04-02
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perrin8eL who Invented Q pistol,
died in Philadelphia recently. ~
Lord John Russell has Just been
made the grandfather Of twins.
New York has one thousand one
hundred John Smiths.
Miss Anna Raymond is the fashion
editor OF the Evening Post.
The recent death is ammo inced OF
Joel A. Turner, a prominent Gsorgian
editor. ta Ieff
Prois. Tyler ana MatheF, Of Am
herst College, we're elected constables
of the town on Monday.
Mrs. Lander is saidto need some
new plays, haying exhausted all the
old ones suited to her characteristics.
Weston is going TO show bis walk
and conversation at Westport, N. Y,
for the benefit Of the Episcopal al'church.
The daughter of Horace Smith,
who wrote the Rejected Addresses, "
has written an operetta called "The
Rainy Day" g.an
-Neapolitan newspapers announce
the arrival there OF General Hooker,
and says he is known at home as "Fy-
tin Joe. Z"
--Mr Dickens is TO receive the CON-
pliment of n dinner to be given him
by the press in New York on the 18th
of April Dat t,
Mr.. L. W. Jerome has been fined
$3.50 for tapping an aqueduct for the
purpose OF supplying his race-eourse at
Fordham.
--The death is announced of Mr.
Eyre Evans Crome, the editor of the
London Daily News, and author OF
"History of France" vs
John r. Thompson, formerly ed
itor OF the Southern Literary Messen.
ger, will assist Mr.. William Young in
conducting the new evening paper,
Every Afternoon, just started in New
York city.
-Pere Natural, the best cook in
Paris, is sent for whenever a great din
ner is given anywhere, even at the
Tuileries, and makes $1,000 year by
going out ON 'jobs. gt'
Lord Arthur Clinton, who has
hitherto been known only as an anna
teur actor, has come out among the
wiseacres in Parliament who possess
infallible nostrums for the grievances
of Ireland.
-"Parson White" OF Richmond,
who challenged Gen. Butler, is said to
be the best pistol shot in Virginia, and
it is said that he cracks hickory nuts
with facility, by shooting them when
thrown into the air before they reach
the ground. ag
Howard, the New York Bohemian
who got into Fort Lafayette for forg.
ing a proclamation, recently applied
to publisher for a job in biography:
and was answered: "Ahl yes, Howard,
write about Lafayette; that's your fortei"
Howard subsidized.
The Emperor Napoleon makes a
note OF every thing no wishes to re-
member in his memorandum book. As
soon as he has filled up page of it he
tears it out, reads it over, and then he
tears it TO pieces. He says he never
forgot any thing noted down and read
over in this manner. d..sytot III
Lord Brougham has gone to law in
his old age, with aliterary gentleman,
one DIR. Chauvin, who has assisted him
in preparing his memoirs, has read
and arranged thirty thousand letters in
The course Of the work, and claims
thousand guineas for the job, which
the ex Chancellor thinks enormous.
-Eoglish papers bring notice of
the decease OF Sir William Shea, of the
court Of the Queens berch, England,
which took place suddenly, of apoplexy,
OF London, on the 14th of February.
He was the intimate friend Of O'Con-
nell, Mr.. Sbiel, and Cardinel Wise
man, and man of unusual ability.
Rev, James Lynch, the we'll known
colored preacher, has challenged any
gentleman in Mississippi to canvass
the state with him and discuss univ r.
sal suffrage. Hesays: fMy color
alone should be no objection to au ac-
ceptance of this challenge, inasmu oh
as it will take no part in the task. 1
will ONLY use my heart, my brains and
my tongue. "
That venerable belle of Baltimore,
Madame Bonaparte, widow of jerome,
preserves her face from wrinkles by
abstaining from both laughter and tears. |
She also nightly encases her taper fin
gers in metallic thimbles, and has done
so for the last forty years. "Conse-
auently, says Jenkins, "her hand re-
tains much of its original symmetry, |
and the decay Of her charms is as
sweet and as faultless as the falling |
leaves of the rose"
The Chicago tribune tells an in
credible story of a girl mot yet twelve |
years Of age" who ran away from home |
about year ago, and who was discov.
cred the other day, proprietress of three |
establishments OF prostitution, the in
mates of which were girls ranging be, |
tween fourteen and sixteen years of |
age. She is said to have exhibited q |
respectable roll Of greenbacks when ta-
ken in charge.