The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-04-02

personal Items.
lAcThe Kins Of Burnah is building school
houses.
living French authors.
l. -Ex-Poetmastor General Randall, itissaid,
has taken up his residence At Rlmira, N y.
Mr.. VIM. Page is painting portraits Of
Wendell Phillips and OF Rev. Henry Ward
Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, was compost
tor in the Herald Office at Utica, N. Y a lew
years ago. Gle
Fields Cook, a oolored man, announces
himself as a candidate for Congress from tho
Richmond, Va, district.
Charles O'Uonor succeeds to the late
.IRules r.. Brady's post, Of President Of the
New York Law institute.
The propriotors of the La Grange (Ga.)
Reporter, boast OF ten sons, all at work in
in tho Office, welding pen and typo.
"A dissipatod young man, named John
Koefuer. died a day or two since, in 81. Louis,
nom apoploxy, 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 y. 3. army, haa
been arrested in Mexico, On a charge Of at
tempting to carry his regiment over to tho
rebel General Negrete.
1.-The Hon. John CONFESS, ex-Unitcd States
Senator from California. was married on
| Tuesday TO a daughter Of the Hon. Wendell
4. Davis, Of Greenfield, Mass.
Edwin Thorne, Of Duchess county, N.
Y. value HE horse Hamlet al $4,000, aud
Allen Goldsmith would not sell his Volunteer
for $4,000.
Wales is trapping ctocodnos In Egypt
An exchange SAYS some e"ntefpriHing croco-
Ill UutnIN 1R IuUlan1 n mnuH fmrn nv re-
turning tho favor.
Two magnificent marble busts Of Pom
pey and Brutus have been discovered at
b0mpeii. They are finely exeuted 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 HE Inauguration
have been too much Tor him
Gov. Reed, OF Florida, has offered a re
ward OF $1,000 for the apprehension of the
assassin Of DR.. Finlayson, who was murder
ed at Mariana, a few nights ago.
-Mrs. Howe'a famous BATTLE Hymn was
hastily written between midnight and dawn,
| after 1 visit TO the "hundred circling camps
about Washington, in the winter Of 1862.
A Gladly well dressed, very drunk, and
with eight thousand dollars in her pocket,
was arrested in tho streets OF Alexandria
Va, one day last week. After soldering of
IN The lookup, she was permitted 10 60
home.
The collection Of loadon and china toy
soldiers owned by the King OF Prussia II
raid 20 have cost upward o. $4,000. II fills
two large rooms in the royal palace Of Ba-
belaburg.
Capt. James T. Armstrong, who shed
tears on surrendering Fort Pensacola TO the
rebels, has resigned his commi on in the
regular army, having inherited a fortune
from d near relative.
John Thomson, the husband Of the only
surviving daughter OF Robert BuTna, died
recently in Scotland. Last May his friends
celebrated tho Goth anniversary Of his mar
rage with tho poot's daughter.
Gen f. Alcorn, Of CoShoma county,
Mise, who followed Longstroet out of tho
Confederate ranks, has had atwo-story rosi-
dence. a $751; 600 cotton gin, ard all his negro
quarters burned by the Ku-Klux.
The grand-child of tho Emperor Aloxan-
der, OF Russia, received Christmas gilte
worth over 5000, 600. The little fellow q
sickly, pnny child, is not yet a year old, and
will hardly grow mp 70 appreciate tho pres
ents.
The Duke OF Hamilton, the drunken and
dissipatod cousin OF tho Empress Eugenio,
has been ordered by the Emperor TO leave
Paris, In consequence Of the nocturnal dis
turbance which he raieed some time ago
in front Of one ofthe Partisan theatres.
"A once famous Bohemian man OF ettors,
named C~havannea, died recently in PARIS,
leaving the following burlcsqne win, which
was found under his pillow: n have nothing.
| leave 1t all to the lSociete DIES gems De ieares,
and the rest to my creditors"
Mrs. Blackmore was attacked with paraly-
sis while attending a prayer meeting near
keOkuk, Iowa, on the 18th 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 In Lanterne of tho
mother Of Napoleon III. az "that female Of
very loose morals, and, for a year or two
mistress of a rakish Admiral, named Yer
huel, whose ilegitimAto son Ia 10 ashamed Of
his father that he does not even bear his
name
Lindsey, a valet Of Lord Byron, who was
present at tho poets death, aitcrward a
momber Of abraham IincOln's company in the
Black Hawk War, and still later a member
Of the Goth illinois regiment during the
late war, IL sick and destitute At a hospital in
st. Louis.
IA meeting Of prominent members of
Plymouth Church. Brooklyn, has been held
TO raise tho sum Of $1,000 for a colossal
statue of Rev. Henry Ward Beoohcr, which
ia to comprise one Of the thirty-six
figures designed 10 adorn the National Lin
coin Monument at Washington.
Mrs. AMMO Parker, daughter-in.law Of
Harvey ID. Parker, Of Boston, was married. IN
Paris, on Monday, according TO the rites of
the Catholic Church, to Mr; r. DeChamps,
one OF the Secretaries OF the Chinese En-
bassy. Ambassador Burlingamo and the en-
tire Embassy Witnessed the ceremonies.
H. II. II. Prince Arthur, aged 10 years, is
coming to Montreal to reside a while. HI
will be attached to a battery OF artillery. and
it is to be hoped that he will teach the officers
at that point some salutary lessons in morali-
80 aud NlunaaN for uaNNUNn NuWa aV.alsNg.. .Nga
seem to be entirely lacking among those
persons at present.
1t Ia said that Mrs. Moulton, formerly
Miss GreenOugh, Of Boston. il coming home
from Paris this spring, and that il her health
permits she will sing here for charitable oh
jects. Hor voice ia described as tho finest
that America has produced, and her face an
one that throws trouble into the inncrmost
depths of the soul Of man.
John Macarthur, son Of John b. Near
thur, %councilna an from the fourth ward of
Indianapolis, while hunting about a mile
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, 4 highly respected lady,
wife Of an extensive farmer, residing ten
miles north Of Fort Wayne, Ind, was f0und
In clOset m hor house day before Yesterday,
murdered having been shot by some person
unknOHn Her husband was the first one 10
discover her dead body, on returning from
work on the farm al noon.
Rev. W. j Grout, pastor at Carbonate,
H., writes as follows: 81 received a note
from Gen. John A. Logan, who ID a resident of
Our town, IN which he requested his name to
be enrolled ~ a probationary the Methodist
Episeopal Church at C%arbondalo. II Was
done. We shall build a now church in the
spring. The wife Of Gen. Logan has long
been an active and faithful member"
g. Chang aud Eng are married 10 two sis.
tors, tho daughter Of an American clergy
man. Each brother has nine children. The
family Of Eng cOneists OF six SOM and three
dauahfara. tha fan,ty ~ luhan. .,..g-