Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-10-14
PERSONAL.

/ PERSONAL.
George D. Prentice is in unusually good
health.
/ Peabody intends TO pass the winter in the
South of France.
The wife of Gen. Pillow died, last Sunday
night, OF apoplexy.
-Gobright is the Oldest Washington newspa-
per corr spondent.
General Braxtop Bragg has returned from
Canada to theSouth.
short stay in England.
A monument to George Peabody is proposed
| ior Druid Hill Park at baltimore.
Gen. D. H. Hill proposes to open school for
young men at Charlotte, Virginia
! Gov. Walker, thirty-seven, is the youngest
/ Governor the Old Dominion ever had.
"A. o. P. Nicholson declines to allow the use
of his name for the Senate from Tennessee.
Boomers bid for horse stands next to that
| of Richard Ill, though there was o panic in the
market at that time.
Lille Mcdonald, of Jeffersonville, Indiana,
is ten years old, and weighs one hundred and
twenty-four pounds.
$. S. Conant, formerly managing editor OF
the New York Times, has been engaged in
literary capacity by the lIarpers.
Brick Pomeroy is lying very low at his resi-
A.
lungs, aggravated by bilious intermittentfever.
Mr.. Carl Rosa appeared at the City Hall on
Saturday, Oct. 7Lh and filed a declaration of his
intention To become an American citiZen.-tN-
Y. Tribune.
j Ross Brown, late Minister to China, has
nung out his sign in San francisco as special
examiner of agricultural lands. ranches, and
mining properties.
Charles Summer is to deliver the first of q
series OF Bay State lectures in Boston, and is to
get four hundred dolIars for 1t. Subject: "The
Question of Caste"
invited to visit Mississippi and Texas this fall,
md Will probably do SO before the elections are
neld in those States.
Schuyler Colrax got into fight in the Afri-
ean Methodist Church in HawkinSville, Geor-
yia by reason of having Toured his face in order
10 pass for white man.
1T is said that Adelina Patti is 10 receive
10000 in gold for an American engagement of
one hundred nights. How can she sing with SO
much gold in her head? .-..--.
-Horatio Seymour has gone to Wisconsin to
speak at the state Fair and avoid committing
uImself to either Tweed or Belmont in the New
York Copperhead wrangle.
One of the Democratic weeklies of New York
~peakS OF August Belmont as simply the golden
all OF Moses erected in the ewiIderness-gorge-
GUS to look at. but Incompetent to assist.
The statues of the "Sailor Boy" and mid
>iipnIan," for the monument of Commodore
Walcntf. The sculptor, are now completed in
New York. -
The New York Express says the female faces
ON the new ten cent and fifteen cent notes are
portraits Of two of the most notorious denli-
nionddtnes of the capitol. The story is authors
latlvely denied.
The Richmond Whig says that the disabili-
lies of Hon. Alexander Rives will be removed
and that he will he appointed one of the nine
Circuit Judges TO be commissioned at the COM
ing session ofCongresS.
The oldest clerk in the departments at WASH
ington is John Barclay, Chief Clerk in the office
of tise Commissioner OF Customs, who has been
"a clerk for sixty-hve years. Charles Vincent, of
me Third Auditors Office, has been there fifty
eight years.
MIR. Greeley gives notice through the Tribune
that being convinced that the proposition TO
elect him 10 the United States Senate from Vir-
ginia is In earnest, he will not under any cir
cumstances, not even if the tender was made
lanimously, accept 1t.
The Knoxville Press and Herald says that
during last week Senator Brownlow was confin-
aside Dc rS fro1 % increassd debiiry had taken plee
IN his condition. He confidently expects 10 re-
sumo his seat in December.
-Johny McKibben. an Iowa dwarf, made a
friendly call on Gen. Tom Thumb and Commo-
dOre Mutt, during their recent visit to Des
MoineS. They received him very cordially,
and the General offered him $500 year 10.
travel with his party. Johnny, however,
couldn't see it." and the smallest man In the
Unred States is still a citizen of WinterSet.
Iowa.
-RothschiId and the archbishop of Paris met
1T public dinner, some time since and arrived
Il the same moment at the door. Neither wish
ed to enter first-the Jew showing respect, the
Catholic tolerance. Finally, the archbishop
cried out: m. Rothschild, you are the son OF
Moses; am the servant OF Jesus; you have the
venerable than the New" And the banker
went in FIRST
"A few days since wel-known lawyer Of
Waterbury. Conn, bought railroad ticket for
New Haven and after taking q seat in the car.
found on looking over his change that the agent
had given him one dollar too much. He accord
ingly returned, and, after informing the agent
OF his mistake, handed back the money For q
moment the agent stood Speechless. then he
srasped him by the hand and exclaimed:- =
:" Please stand still. sir, and let me look al you
and lawyer, tool"
Mrs Ottendoffer is the sole proprietor Of the
largest German daily newspaper IN the city o.
New York. Many years ago her husband died,
!eavin. her q large family of children and q
small naper. She went earnestly to work at
Jnce attending herself TO all the details OF the
office. and she now controls very rich and pow
Arful journal. She drives to her Office in the
morning. louks after its multiIudinous affairs,
- "einrns to her house at three o'clock in the
afternoon.
Miss Maggie Carmean. formerly of Kingston.
Ross County, Ohio, having some time ago re-
moved to Saline County, Missouri, was there
married TO a young man named W. s Stanley.
who was in rather poor circumstance About
iree weeks ago Stanley received notice from
england that bis fathers brother, lately deceas-
ed had left him, by Will, pr periy 10 the amount
oI from ten tD fifteen million dollars. a sad
warming to all young ladies against marrying
young men in poor circumstances.
1t is stated Charlotte Cushman is on her
leath bed. She was born in Boston July 3,
1916, and was only Twelve when she became
vocalist for the support of her fathers family
she sang al a concert with the celebrated Mrs-
Wood. who prnnounced ner the NJ e u contralto
she had ever heard. The failure OF her voice in
opera drove her to the spoken drama: in which
She soon became IA orite. and rapidly rose 10
IN enviable fame in high comedy and tragedy.
she has resided AT Rome for several years past.
During the recent gold panic a frugal efiice
clerk in u New Yoi K bank drew all his savings.
to some S660. and speculated In the
street FOt tune smiled on him, and by Friday
morning he had made $4,000 profit. His en-
pioyers snrPrseg NJ nrS gt g111 s1 anu the%
would make "a SlO0,Oo for him." He very
nsiyely replied: Charley has made nfieen
was worth Sl5.0UO-Charley's employers not rf-
teen cents.
The Colorado Herald of September - says;
"a Anna Dickinson created a sensation in George
town yesterday morning, by mounting on
large horse straddleways and riding away for
the Range, at o'clock in the morning. She
mans overcoat. Her delicate little foot and
finely turned ankle were encased in substantial
boots, with buttons up tne sides An eyeo%1t55 5
a half The same reporter, who's be relied on
for verncity. says she has a glorious calf
The press throughout the State have noticed
the death of our distinguished ed t0wnsman, Judge
Cowen, Sr Mr.. William c. Howells, of the ASH
tabula Sentinel. says of him: He was man
Of clear understanding, with great executive
ability and scrupulous integrity. In politics.
he took decidedly anti-slaVery ground at an
early day, though his natural prudence Kept
him IN a somewhat conservative relation TO his
co. workers. Our first acquaintance with him
was that of q neighbor. in lSsS, since which
time we have known him more or less tntfmate-
ly and always rs the talented member of his
Profession the upright business man. and the
and enlightened Christian"
hest
gentlemen and a worthy merchant, of New
Orleans whose great ersonal carr of himself
and addiction TO nne living have procured for
MIN "A rotundity which, while IL detracts moth
his ..ncd looks utIarly cnncealS from