The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-02-12
Personal Items.
-Pfau aud tho Hanlons arc doing a great
trapeso business In Now 0rleans.

-Pfau aud tho Hanlons arc doing a great
trapego business In Now orloans.
John Howard, the oldest man In New
London, o., died last week. He command.
oil an American blockade runner Ia tho war
Of 1872.
Petor silcrat was lately hooked by an In
dian COW through the left eve, the point OF
tho horn coming through the top OF tho
head. He Ia living.
-Prince Louis; son of Prince Alexander of
Hesae, has gone through the English naval
school at Portsmouth, and has joined tho
Ariadno as a cadet.
The Second Uniyoraalist parish Of Port
aud, Maine, has extended a unanimous cali
to a woman, Mrs. Z. A. Hannatord, of Hing
ham, Massachusetts, to become its pastor.
Charles Dickens SAYS he can always Judge
OF the character ofa hotel or restaurant BY
an inspection OF tho castor, Tho mustard
pot aud oil cruet are infallible tosla.
On New Years Day the Prince Imperial
presented a volocipedo to the Prince Of the
Asturias, the eldest son OF Queen Isabella,
aud taught him how to ride II. The two boys
are constant playmatea.
M. Laboulaye has accepted a liberal offer
to undertake a lecturing tour in tho United
States. All his travelling and hotel expenses
are to be paid, and tho sum OF S1c0 In gold
will be guaranteed to him tor each lecture.
-Justus Won Liebig, the celebrated Ger
man chemist, recently told a friend that
during tho last ten yearA, he had received
seven calls from American univorsities, and
that twice he felt strongly tempted to 90 TO
the United States aud accept there a profes-
sorship.
An Indiana wo%odehopper has become
suddenly rich, claiming TO have found $50, 600
which was hidden during tho war. Express
robbOriea arc not of iniTequeHt occurrence In
that state, and 1t will not be a bad idea, por-
| laaaa N lanE aannNullUF ~ H. 800 u.
this lucky ~woodchoppor passes.
General Dix, American Minister TO
France, at u public banquet in Paris on We'd
nesday evening, made a speech In which he
declared that the cause OF tho 0reek's was
identical with the cause OF liberty through
ont tho world, and he assured the people oil
Greece that they had the sympathy OF Amer
Ia
-Whitelaw Reid, author of "ohio DuriLp
the War, " has accepted a prominent position
on the stan OF the New York Tribune, viz:
that OF chief editorial writer after Mr.. Gree
ley. MIR. Reid Is a young man, tall, dark, and
slender, with a refined face, bright, Keen
eye, and gentlomanly presence, and evidently
may b. called a rising man.
When the present King of Prussia was
young, he and his brother Charles had a
quarrel about a pretty girl whom both Of
them wished to marry, Charles dealt Will
lam a blow on the forehead, and the mon.
arch carries tho scar to this day. The lady
was a poor professors daughter, and Is now
a middle-aged school ma'am.
The TerIe Hauto Qnd) Express says
that VIM. II. Jones took a dose of arsenic on
Sunday last in that city, but a physician was
called In who gave an emetic, which will
probably give him another lease of life. He
had been married but ten days, and his wife'l
extravaganza and his inability to supply her
unusual demands sthe alleged cause Of the
effort to destroy his life.
Another collection vet of Mondelssohn'
correspondence IL TO be published, and will
90 hailed with delight by the many who have
found him not less charming as a letter
wrltor then as a composer. The letters arc
those writtent to his very intimate friend, Ed
ward Deyrient, who made several attempts 10
furnish Mondelssohn with a suitable li6retto
for an opera.
The Hon. and Rev. Francis Richard Grew,
Rector OF Morpeth, England, and an uneom'
promising Rltnahst. in a sermon, delivered a
few Sundays ago epOke of tho Judgment OF
the Priyy Council In the MackonOclio case,
as an 'unrighteous Judgment" and avowed
his intention at preaching the doctrine OF the
r9al presence more strongly than ever
Upon this there was a cry Of Treason, trea-
son and several porsons left the church.
AT a recent grand ball at tho Tuileries,
the Princess Metternich was attiTed in a deeI
Tose-eolored velvet skirt, looped up at the
sldes IN mont, 30 as to show a white satin
pettieORt and a sash OF black ribbon, thu
whole dress covered by q gauge tissue-whitt
shot with silver. Her ornaments were a dla'
mond feather over a scarlet one IN her hair
dnd q row OF diamonds on black velvet Toun(
her throat, with alternate strings of pearl
and diamonds hanging down low on thu
! breast.