The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1870-09-30
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Personal Notes.

lHE hLn- OF OWousH ID Ill huNOCdto "
WOmans suffrage.
Mrs. ODoNAvAN Rosa died recently il
! Charleston.
THERE are good many English tourists
+ in Chicago at presem.
Mr.. ]. S. CLARKE anil the "BritisI
Blondes" are defghting st. Louis.
Now that Napoleon is off, Rocheiort will
be hard up for personals.
A LOCK of SchilIer's haiI is to Ee raffIed
for at the German fair in Chicago.
The actor Macready is preparing n vol
ume Of his "reminiscences of Charles Dick
ems,
Tue Duke of Edinburgh at last accounts
was at Wellington, New Zealand.
CONGRESSMAN LYNCH has disposed of
his interest N the Portland (Me.@ Daily
PTess.
GEN. S. A. DOUGLASS has resigned ms
Aide-de-camp TO Gen. Holden of North
Carolina.
LEDRU RoILIE has bseu such rolIin
stone that he has gathered scarcely any
Iaoss.
QUEEN VICTORIA pays literal pensions 20
seventeen old servants of Prince Albert in
Germany.
SENATOR Ross of Kansas is setting type
ut Topeka, the printers OF that place hsv-
ing struck.
Miss EMMA ABMAUCEE, OF East Saginaw,
Michigan, Is in the insurance business,
duly licensed.
ME. AND MRs. Howard PAUL are making
provincial tour in England with great
success.
M
Wall Street is well spoken of by the Eng
ljsh reviewers
\ BROTHER of General Grant, leather
dealer IN Chicago, is about starting tan
merry at Geneva, Illinois.
WILLIAM CULIAN BRYANT is the richest
! poet IN the United States, his last years
income being $4,000
| GIANDMASIA BoNAPABTE is confident that
her grandson, the Baltimore Jerome, will
yet be ruler of France.
TUE Duke of Sardinia started for Lon
don, recently, tc fill the post of Portuguese
Ambassador at the Court of ST. James.
MADAME TATIANA SwEroFF, Russian
author has published IN the Rivista Euro
pea an interesting paper on Thackeray aud
Dickens.
RoBETTsoE's "M. p" received its first
representation in America at the California
Theatre, San Francisco, last week.
NAUGHTY. NAUGHTY. but oh so Nice,
IS the title of new English novel, the |
authorship of which is attributed to Lady |
Di Beauclerc.
AFTER ALL, the present, and some people |
think, premature, declaration of French |
republic is only discounting the death Of
Napoleon.
VICToRIEN SABDoU's ''Patrie" was trans
lated for the Russian stage, but the govern
ment censor refused to permit its repre-
sentation.
Hon. WM. Ii. MILLER, of Harrisburg. Pa,
a lawyer of distinction, and formerly
member of Congress, died recently.
QUEEN Victoria has presented a sword to
the leading friendly chiefs of New Zealand, |
for their efforts in suppressing the native
war.
Mr.. WAsHBURNE, tho United States Min
lister, was the recipient of another enthu-
siastic ovation from the Paris populace
recently.
The Booth fuTOr in Chicago is almost /
unprecedented. Mclicker's is crowded
nightly 10 its utmost capacity by brilliant
and critical audiences.
The Prince of SAKE -Wiemar arrived at
Aberdeen the other day, on his way to
Birkhall, which lie is to occupy during the
summer season.
\ NEW drama 10y Mr.. Bourci;ault, enti-
tied the ''RappGrco," was played at the
opening Of the Princess Theatre, London,
on the 9th of September.
JoHE ?. DURDrN, JR., son of Rev. DR..
DUrbin, secretary of the Methodist Mis-
siou Society, died of apOplexy at Saratoga
on Saturday night.
SENATOR PRATT, of Indiana, has been
sued ior libel, for saying that John Mussil-
man, Of Logansport, was insane, and hon
est because of statutory terrOrs.
II. G. LAssANY, a writer of some distine-
ton, has died at Athans. According to his
will. his fortune viii ai his wile's death 90
to the University of Athens.
WENDELL PHILLIPs prOclaims himself a
Socialist. IL was the danger threatened by
such doctrines that chiefly led to the for
nation Of the Second Empire III France.
a NEW comedy 10y Tom Taylor, entitled
Handsome is as Handsome does" was
produced at the Princess Theatre, Man.
chester, England, on tue 18Th Of August.
Mn HUGHEs, better known as tom
BrOwp," has lately been visiting James
Russell lowell IN Boston. He is 10 open
the fraternity course Of lectures on the
1Ith Of October.
Mr.. A. w. YOUNG, the adapter OF DAN
geTous Game" and other plays, has writ
ten, in conjunction with Mr.. J. NJ. Nor
ton, play called "The Threepenny Bit"
in which Mr. SOthern has made quite hit.
GENERAL SHERIDAN, it is said, has writ
ten private letters to his friends, in which
he gives as his opinion that the Prussian
army will not lombard Paris, but will en-
deayor to starve it into submission
Me-. CHARLES FRANKS, formerly repre-
sentative OF the Sixth Ward in the Brook
lyn Board of Aldermen, of which he was at
cue time President, died at his residence,
II First Place, Brooklyn, on the 11th.
ADAM X. SPENCE, for several years past
professor of French in the Michigan Uni
veTsity, has resigned his positi' n He has
been appointed President of Fisk College,
Nashville, Tenn. an institution for the
education of freedmen.
CAPT. f. SLATTERLY has arrived in Omar
ga. ILL.,, with five magnificent PercherOn
Norman stalliOns. They weigh from ], $50
to /, 800 pounds. They were shipped from
France, August 1, and arrived in good con-
ditl0h.
A BOY raned George Reed, aged fifteen
years has been arrested for setting fire to
the Uxbridge (Nass } AlmshOuse, which
was destroyed last week. He has con-
fessed the act. He was formerly an inmate
of the asylum.
The Pope of Rome will retire TO Castel
GondcIfo il tho Italians take possession of
Rome IL is worthy of note that as yet
Plus TX. has given no public expression of
his viows on the downfall of the ''eldest
son of the church"
Frederick SAUNDERS, author of "Salad
for the Solitary" and 'TSalad for the So
cial, has published in London new vol
ume entitled Evenings with the Sacred
Poets" The contents are well arranged |
and attractive.
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