Democratic enquirer. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1867-1873, 1869-05-19
Personal items.

| Anxiety has worn upon Montpensier anc
he has become quite gray.
aides Fayre will beia candidate for The
Corps Legislatit for seventeen constltuT
enciee E wa b X
--Speaker Blaine has purchased o $4,000
housein Washington, which he willoccppy
next winter, S & y t,s
"A Brussels paper says that Gustave Dore
has the face OF young man OF twenty,
crowned with the hair of man OF sixty.
Jacob Friez, who died last week in
| fredericksburg at the age OF ninety-tive, was
in the Russian campaign under Napoleon and
saw Moscow bum. pN
AN American LADY, Mrs, Van Zandt, is
singing in q London opera company as Nine.
yanzini, and ia highly commended by tho
English press, 9't'. ~
Nelson IIarsts house at Poplar Plains,
Kentucky, was burned few nights ago, and
four Of his seven children perished in the
flames. ~ il,gsY
Postmaster James Kelly, OF New York,
has given the Free Academy OF that city
, $1,000, whose interest ia to be annually ex-
pended in procuring two gold medals for the
best debaters in the institution. fi
-one of the friars at the Convent at Pres
berg, Hungary, was recently poisoned while
partaking OF the sacrament. A servant had
poured sulphuric acid into his cup.
THE conductor of concert, given before
the Empress Eugenie at the Tuileries, was
recently 80 excited that he accidentally ran
his baton into his eye, nearly putting 1t out.
= Samuel Bowles of the Springfield (Mass.)
Republican, intends TO spend the summer in
& L. L..H. n Nis.a NsautIn nn
Denver, and will take his family there in
June.
Rosa Bonheur has received by the will OF
an enthusiastic Russian admirer legacy or
twenty thousand francs and some valuable
oil paintings.
"A young clerk in the Central Telegraph
Office of France has discovered very inge-
nious plan for the rapid self-printing Of dis
patches, and has been offered 100000 francs
for his patent.
John Henry Stumpf, aged sixty years,
committed suicide by hanging himself to q
beam in the cellar OF his residence in In
dianapolis, Ind, about six o'clock last even-
ing. Temporary insanity is the alleged
cause.
The Rome correspondent Of the Pail Mall
Gazette says that among the recent converts
to the Roman Catholic Church In that city
are 'Etham Selim, Turk, son OF the Pasha
of Salonica and Mrs. Strong, leader OF
fashion in New York"
Marshal Massena's grandson, the young
Duke de Rivoli, lost, recently, at the Carcle
Imperial, ninety thousand francs In one.night,
His mother paid the sum for him the next
morning, but said II would be the last time
she would assist him in this manner.
General Thomas s. Raymond died in
Richmond, Va, on the 21st, aged 7G years.
He served in the war OF 1912 was member
of the Virginia Legislature was elected to
Congress in 1849, as Wing, and was an init
mate personal friend OF President Fillmore |;
subsequently Joined the Democratic party,
and was several times reelected to the Leg
islature.
When Queen Victoria was married, twen-
ty-nine years ago, she had twelve brides
maids. Every one Of these young ladies has
since been married; one has been married
twice; one is now widow; and three are
dead. In dozen maidens selected at ram
dom from any class of American society, the
statistics, after such lapse OF time, would be
likely TO be very different.
-dThere is young, unmarried woman, o
shoe manufacturer in Lynn, who makes fine
serge button boots. Her goods are made ex-
clusiyely TO fill orders for some OF the largest
retailers in Boston, aud she makes frequent
visits to that city in the transaction OF her
business. She formerly lived in Recalling
(now Wakefeld), where her father manufac-
tured shoes, and where she acquired q
knowledge OF the business She prefers this
independent way of getting living to that
of working for others.
Mrs. Frances Carey Cotton, wife OF Mr.,
+. Cotton, United States Consul at Venice,
died at Paris, March 2l, after sixteen months
ofsuffeTing. The most eminent medical men
of Europe Gncluding Queen Victoria's ply
slcian) were consulted in her case; but her
malady-Roman fever and heart disease
proved beyond cure. Mrs. Cotton was q most
the Northwest will be exceedingly panied to
hear of her untimely decease. she was for
mery a resident Of Galesburg III.