The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-01-22
ntnth in eittIe.


Personal Items.
Seven Jews, all liberals, will sit in the
new Parliament.
-Ex-King Francis Of Naples is selling his
plate TO raise money.
Sarah Boyd, an old Irish woman. starved
TO death In Nashville last week.
Tho goesips say that Brignoli. the great
Tenor, is TO be married this winter.
Princess Elizabeth, eister Of Iouis
WI. OF France, ia to be canonized.
-Bierstadt il still in Paris. and intends to
spend most Of the winter in that city.
Five rows Of diamonds the Empress Eu-
genie now wears on her wfinklod mock.
Charles H.. Poor has been confirmed a
Rear Admiral in the Navy.
Laura Keone has been playing in Balti-
moro in "She Stoops 10 Conquer.
Humphrey Marshall's daughter. Nellie,
has conceived another southern novel.
P. II. Barnum's monogram upon his
door.boll knob is translated "Pull tie Bell"
Sir Walter Scotts centenary will be cele-
DRAFTED extensively on the 18th of August,
1871.
Another Vanderbilt wedding Christmas
Eve. This time a grandson of tho Commo-
dore
Helen Western died in great poverty
Her effects woro pledged TO pay the under
taker.
-Eugenie is just the least bit bald. and
covers the damned spot with a frizzle and
a rosetto.
The Home Journal saws that Htz-Greeno
Halleck was a Roman Catholic, and n thor
ough disbeliever in democratic government.
Tho first and second books Of "The
EuCid Of Virgil have been translated into
SpenseTian verse, by Edward Fairfax Taylor.
Queen Victoria has given Mrs. s. c. Hall,
tho moral novelist, a pension Of one hundred
pounds a year, as a reward of genius ana in
dustry.
"A statue Of James Watt, tho inventor Of
the steam engine, has been unveiled az Dir
mingham, England, and ono of the Prince
Consort at Hull.
Tho Prince Of Wales distinguished him
self by his dancing at the French Court, and
Marshal Bazaino was tho next most noted
on the light fantastic
Mrs. @ n. Gaines docs not yet handle
any II her great N~v Orleans fortune.
Heavy debts, slow judges and cunning law
yers Keep her out Of her owl.
"A Now York banker, nearly eighty years
OF age, who three months ago was accounted
o millionaire, went under last week, and can
not pay five cents on a dollar. He was ruined
by Eric.
The will Of Madame Ohonbaoh's great.
rrent-grandfathor, who died 200 years ago,
has inst been proved in Madrid, and the wife
Of the composer of tho "Grand Duchess" il
500 600 richer.
-Edouard Laboulaye, the eminent Fronoh
author and devoted friend Of tho United
States, 10 in such feeble health that his ply
sicians have advised him TO abstain from all
literary occupations.
Pope Urban ". il TO have n statue at
Troyes, tho place Of his nativity. He was
the son Of a poor shoemaker, roso to the dig
nifty Of Patriarch Of JcruanlCm, was elected
Pope in 1861, and died in 1865.
Gov. Ward, Of Now Jersey, owns the fin
est collection Of paintings in that stqtc,-
Among them are several valued ut So, 600
each. Tho Governor has also several worka
byThomas Buchanan Read, who is n protego.
Tho eldest son of tho Duke Of Richmond,
one Of tho highest Poors IN England, has
created a sensation by marrying the pretty
daughter AT n London stock broker. Mono
Of the groom's family would so to tho we'd
ding.
-Barnum il in trouble with tho insurance
companies. They say tho burning " his
museum was only q now humhug. Tho case
IL Ia the courts. The aggregate Of the poll
cies Is S~l30,0OO, while the loss was set at
$500, 600.
In August last the Empress Eugene said
~ VI Darimon, tho Fr0nch Deputy, MY
God, | dom know why people mako such a
fuss about this man ROchefort's Lanterno.
| think II IL verv heavy and uninteresting
lftAllllks f"Ah nun lA'bhbAF AhAhb Va ~
this time.
a young ladyi an Tennessee had a curious
love experience. BY hor friends wish, shc
Tilted the man she loved and married anoth-
or. Soon she obtained a divorce aud married
her own truo lover. Thon her second hus-
band died, and now she has ro-marriod hoI
first husband.
-Fiiteen years ago Merry, who was a great
admiror OF Iiopsini, obtained two slipaof Tau
rel, ono from Nirgils tomb near Naples, and
the other from tho tomb Of Tasso, and plant
ed them in tho composor's garden Mt Passy
The crown which was placed upon Ros-
siui's coffin was procured from these two
trees.
Senior Mauricio Lopez Roberts, the new
Spanish Minister to this country, ia the de
ecendaut Of an English family, which settled
in Cadiz toward tho end Of tho last century,
and which became extensively engaged IN
commerce.. He IL n young man, very hand
some, speaks English hucuily, and has
passed some time in tho United States.
Mr.. Fernando Wood has purchased ar
elegant house In Washington, corner Of / anC
Fifteenth %str0ots, which no is about to fit NJ
in lavish style M n private residence, II IL
opposite Senator Morgan's, and is one Of
now row Just finished, after tho pattern Of
the most sumptuous Now York residences.
-Regnior, the brilliant actor Of the Froncl
Comedy, Paris, who has played at that tho
afro for thirty-oight yosrH, recently asked fol
his retiring pension. The manager refused
to entertain his demand, and all the company
went in Il body to HIM 10 request him 10 with
draw il He has agreed TO postpone It fol
two years. Ho will then have played forty
years at the French Comedy.