Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-07
PERSONAL.

+ TEhSONN-tA.
4 WASHINGTON correspondent tell:
this story : The evening after the frs
election of Charles Sumner to the Sen
ate, Thad. Ste ems said to Massachu
setts man, who called upon him: 'Wht
Is this Charles Sumner? | know moth
irg about him. The greatest man il
! Massachusetts, excepting, perhaps
Ralph Waldo Emerson was the reply
>ouu after Caleb Cushing came INTO the
room, and Mr.. Stevens Put Il similar
iuquIry TO him. Mr.. Cushing replied
Charles Sumner is man of the great
-st mind IN Massachusetts, exceptin.
Char Is Francis Adams, who combines
he grasp aud energy of his grand 'athei
with nr learning aud experience of hi.
/ arhtr.
i FREDEKICK Won Fla low, the compO>
+ u. "NuIIna," anu ''AlessaDdrd Stiu
, Isl ID, vino got d.Vorct iron his hra'
y iie IN order To marry her sister, Is saI'
o nave treated his second wife with -,
mulch brutality that she has applied
To the Courts for Il divorce from him.
I Mrs. JULIA WARD HOWE will go tO
Berlin next year, US The American repre-
sentative TO the Wumau's Convention
TO be held there.
/ AARON Town, "a Boston barber, who
has Conducted his business in the same
place for over forty years, has been pre-
sented with a costly. silver service by
| his customers.
A VIENNA paper says: Bismarck 8
disease, as the French papers said some
time ago, is simply deiiriuDa tremeRs.
He can not hold d pen i'll the morning,
and he has to take strong stimulanls III
order to overcome his nervousness. He
can never make speech i'll Parliament
without previously taking strong doses
of Cognac brandy"
The Countess Bismarck looks consid
erably older than her illustrious hus-
band. Her only daughter bears striking
resemblance to the Count.
ALEXANDER DUMAS is the athor of a
novel soup made out of onions and
cream, now popular in Paris, and re-
commended as cure for the headache.
! REV. r. J. BRECKINRIDGE, the ven
cradle Presbyterian minister, has re-
signed the professOrship in the Theolog-
ical Presbyterian Seminary, in Dam
vile, Kentucky, which he has held for
many years.
HENRY WARD BEECHER'S first pas
torai charge WAS the Presbyterian
Church in Lawrenceburg, Indiana. His
| rare gifts as Il preacher at that time form
one of the pleasant traditions of the
place.
4 "GENTLEMAN" in a state of intoX-
icatiOn iell asleep on the sidewalk III
Main street in Wheeling, last week. A
photographer brought his camera to
isear Oh him and secured the shadow.
On being presented with the picture,
the 1usileer ''signed the pledge"
IN New London, Connecticut, the
Rev. MIR Howard charges Gilbert B
Allen with having said he /" wouldn't go
to hear the old mutton-head preach, "and
iays his damages, ior defamation ot
character, at S5, 900.
SPURGEoN is noted for his blunt and
fearless manner OF speech. AS an illus
iratlon, very prOmluent worldly man
+ouce asked him." where do you think
| would 90 if / should die now9r The
preacher replied with all promptness,
To heil aud he damned." Well"
tepiied the man, that Is frank; | liavt
asked several preachers that Question.
iiid they nave eruded II. ~
V..RDI IL To b. the edIto. us the ne,
.,a..an III I>.ctl IIrndi. tiIe VI Mchuiy. 81
.:e published at Padua.
COMMODORE W0RDEN, of Monte.
.me, IL 10 be Superin, ensient of Tia.
Naval Academy.
ANOTHER favorite Lradii ion is explain
ed away. The mystery thai attended III.
composition by Mozart of his famous
Requiem is at last explained by
foreign writer, who has discovered tina.
IL rich count who lost his wiie in 1871
decided to engage Mozart to compose i,
requiem, which he (the cOunt) meant l..
pass off as his own composition Henc.
,he mysterious messenger who hau
such All effect on Mozart, as recounte,i
IN all his biographies.
BAYARD TAYLOR will retire from the
lect; re field at the close of the coming
season, and devote himself thenceforth
exclusively to literature. He begins
his farewell course at Cincinnati about
the beginning of November.
EX-PREsIDENT PIERCE has been very
ill for som. weeks, and his physician
pronounce him very low. His disease
has assumed dropsical form and his
recovery is extremely doubtful.
THE following description is given OF
the present appearance of Mr.. Gladstone.
1t is said that 1.-The sunken eyes, the pale
face, The nervous glance, the shambliug
gait, the stopped shoulders, the quick, |
shirking movement, all betoken a nerv-
Gus system in a high state of tension,
and a physical frame in a condition OF
lamentable exhaustion"
THE venerable Peter Cartwright. of
Illinois has been presented with thirty |
three pieces of silver plate and chair
worth fifty dollars.
BY the death of Viscountess Palmer
ston has been swept away the old school |
of English ladies who gave tone to
society. On the death of her husband
removed the Duchess of Suther
land from the circle where she had
ruled paramount, and she dropped out
o. society as completely as though she
had herself died. But Lady Palmer
ston. at 50 y"arsof age, was in her fullest
blaze of glory, as her well known recep-
tions at Cambridge House down TO the
day of her husbands death amply
testified. Physically she was as re
markahle a woman as he was man.
and it is probable that no matrimonial
couple were ever more admirably
There is yet no l.; dy of the
present gent ration recognized as her
social successor.
GEORGE WIN. CURTIS, who has just
declined the Republican nomination for
Secretary of State in New York, is
Rhode Island man, the son of George
Curtis. formerly Speaker of the House
Of Representatives, of that State, and is
the grandson OF james Burrill, whose
brief hut brilliant career in the Senate
is one OF the bright portions OF Rhode
Island history. He has, therefore, the
best political antecedents, and his Wig
nrous pen and persuasive elouuaHre
have fully justified his lineage.