Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-04-07
preuiHes.
Personal Items.


Victor Hugo has the largest head among
| living French authors.
--Fx- Postmaster General Randall, ii is said,
has taken up his reaidence at Emira, NJ Y.
Mr.. VIM Page is painting portraits of
Wendell Phillips and of Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher. W N6t Er
--Gloy. Bullock, of Georgia, was a compost
tor in the Herald office at Utica, N Y a few
years ago.
--Fields Cook colored man, announces
himself as candidate for Congress from'the
Richmond, Va, district.
Charles 0'Conor succeeds to the late
James IT. Bradys post, OF President of tho
New York Law Institute.
The proprietors, of the La Grange (Ga.)
Reporter, boast OF ten sons, all at work in
in the office, WELDING pen and type.
"A dlssipatod young man, named John
KoefLer, died day or two since, st. Louis
from apoplexy, caused by hard drinking.
Mr.. Boutwell, has dissolved his business
| connections in Boston in order to give his
whole time to the duties of his new office.
Col. May, formerly of the U. s. army, has
been arrested in Mexico, on charge of at
tempting to carry his regiment over to the
rebel General Negrete
| The Hon. John Conness, OK United States
Senator from California. was married on
Tnesday TO a daughter of the Hon. Wendell
T. Davis, of Greenfield, Mass.
Edwin Thorne, of Duchess county, N
Y, values his horse Hamlet at $4,000, and
Allen Goldsmith would not sell his Volunteer
for $4,000.
Wales is trapping crocodilos in Egypt
An exchange says some enterprising crocO-
die might do England good turn by re-
turning the favor
Two magnificent marble busts of Pom
pey and Brutus have been discovered at
| Pompeii. They are finely executed and are now
placed in The museum at Naples.
President Grant was quite indisposed on
Saturday, and no visitors were admitted
The incessant labors since his Inauguration
have beontoo much for him. t
Gov. Reed of Florida, has offered re
ward of s., 1000 for the apprehension of the
assassin of DR.. Finlayson, who was murder
ed at Mariana, few nights ago.
Mrs Howe's famous "Battle Hymn" was
hastily written between midnight and dawn,
after a visit to the "hundred circlng camps
about Washington, in the winter of 1852.
"A Gladly" well dressed, very drunk, and
with eight thousand dollars in her pocket,
was arrested in the streets of Alexandra,
Va one day last week. After SOLDERING Off
home.
= The collection of leadcn and china toy
soldiers owned by the King of Prussia is
eaid to have cost upward of $4,000. 1t fills
two large rooms in the royal palace of Ba-
belsburg.
Capt. James F. Armstrong, who shed
tears on surrendering Fort Pensacola to The
rebels, has resigned his commits on in the
regular army, having inherited fortune
from near relative.
John Thomson, the husband of the only
surviving daughter of Robert Burns, died
recently in Scotland. Last May his friends
celebrated the Goth anniversary of his mar
rage with the poets daughter.
Gen E. Alcorn, of Coahoma county,
Miss, who followed Longstreet out of the
Confederate ranks, has had two-story resi-
dence. 900 cotton gin, and all his negro
quarters burned by the Ku-Klux.
The grand-child of the Emperor Alexan-
der. of Russia, received Christmas gifts
worth over 100000. The little fellow,
sickly, puny child, is not yet year old, and
will hardly grow up to appreciate the pres
ents,
The Duke of Hamilton, the drunken and
dhssipated cousin of the Empress Eugenie, )
has been ordered by the Emperor to leave
Paris, in consequence of the nocturnal dis
turbance which he raised some time ago
in front of one of The Partisan theatres.
"A once famous Bohemian man of etters,
named Chavannes, died recently in Paris,
leaving the following burlesque will, which
was found under his pillow II have nothing.
leave it all to the SOciete des gems de lettreS,
and the rest to my creditors.
Mrs. Blackmore was attacked with paraly-
sis while attending a prayer meeting near
Kookuk Iowa, ON the 11th instant, aud died
that night. No change having taken place in
the appearance of the body, her husband will
not permit the burial to take place.
-Rochefort speaks in La Lanterne of the
mother of Napoleon III. as "that female OF
very loose morals, and, for year or two
mistress of rakish Admiral, named Yer
huel, whose illegitimate son is so ashamed OF
his father that he does not even bear his
name."
-Lindsley, a valet of Lord Byron, who was
present at the poets death, aiterward
member ofAbraham Lincoln's company in the
Black Hawk War, and still later a member
of the Goth Illinois regiment during the
late war, is sick and destitute at hospital in
St. Louis. .
A meeting of prominent members of
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, has been held
to raise the sum of $4,000 for colossal
statue of Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, which
figures designed to adorn the National Lin
coin Monument at Washington.
Mrs. AMMO Parker, daughter-in.law of
Harvey D. Parker, of Boston, was marriedIn |
Paris, on Monday, according to the rites of
the Catholic Church, to Mr.. E. DeChamps, |
one of the Secretaries of the Chinese EN-
bassy. Ambassador Burlingame and the en-
tire Embassy witnessed the ceremonies.
H. r. H. Prince Arthur, aged 10 years, is
coming 10 Montreal to reside while. He
will be attached to battery of artillery, and
it is to BE- hoped that he will teach tho officers
at that point some salutary lessons in morali-
ty and respect for virtue two qualities which
seem to be entirely lacking among those
persons at present.
1t is said that Mrs. Moulton, formerly
Miss Greenough, of Boston, is coming home
from Paris this spring, and that if her health
permits she will sing here for charitable OBJ
iects Her voice is described as the finest
that America has produced, and her face as
one that throws trouble into the inneTmost
depths OF the soul OF man.
John Macarthur, son Of John 3. Near
thur, councilman from the fourth wal1 of
while hunting abont a nile
north Of the city, put his gun through the
fence, and, in climbing over, fell upon it,
The gun was discharged, and the entire load
entered his left breast near the heart, caus-
ing his death instantly. @
"A Mis-. Shoaff, highly respected lady,
wife of an extensive farmer, residing ten
miles north OF Fort Wayne, Ind, was found
in closet In her house day before yesterday,
having been shot by some person
Her husband was the first one to
discover her dead body, ON returning from
work on the farm at noon.
Rev. w. ] Grout, pastor at Carbondale,
Ill.,, writes as follows: II received a note
from Gen. John A. Logan who is q resident of
our town, in which he requested his name to
be enrolled as probationerint the Methodist
Episcopal Church at Carbondale. II was
done. We shall build new church in the
spring The wife Of Gen. Logan has long
been an active and faithful member"
Chang and Eng are married to two Bis.
ters, the daughter of an American clergy
man. Each brother has nine children. The
family of Eng consists Of six sons and three
the family of Chang consists of
three sons and six daughters. Their first
nhilarnn ware horn within three or Rnur dnpa