Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-07-04
Personal.

| Personal.
JOAQUIN MILLER is writing new
| poem.
GEORGE SAND made 100000 by her
works.
ANNA DICKINSON will stump for Gree
| ley.
BAYARD TAYLOR sails for Europe short
ly, to be gone two years.
HISTORIANS are attempting to show
that Washington was an Englishman.
Hon. SAMUEL WILLIsToN will give
Amherst College half a million dollars.
CHARLOTTE RAY, colored woman, has
been admitted to practice at the bar in
Washington.
MRS. EMELINE YOUNG, Brigham's fa-
vorite wife, is on visit to her child
hoods home-Nashville, Ill.
LIEUT.. BRYANT, son of the great poet,
is on duty at Rock Island.
Mr.. FREDERICK HUDSON, for many
years the managing editor of the Her
aid, has written History of Journal
ism, which the Messrs. Harper have in
press.
Mr.. ZAccHEUs REED, of Westford,
Mass, who recently died, aged ninety
years, drove his cattle for sixty-four sue
cessive years from Westford to his pas
ture in New Ipswich, n. H.
IT is mentioned among the friends of
the late Mr.. James Gordon Bennett
that his will contains q bequest of two
hundred thousand dollars toward the
completion of the new cathedral in
Fifth avenue, besides liberal bequests to
other institutions connected with the
Catholic Church.
Mrs. CATHERINE MARSH, who was tried
in Baltimore last year for the murder of
her four children, and pronounced in
sane, is now confined in an asylum at
New Mount Hope, several miles from
Baltimore. Although only 20 years of
age, her hair, since the tragedy, has
turned completely white.
HORACE WHITE, the editor of the
Chicago Tribune, owns 35S shares in the
concern, and the other principal own
ers are Mayor Medill, 46 shares Gov.
Bross, so shares Mr.. Cowles, the bust
ness manager, 853 shares.
A STATUE of Elias Howe, Jr., is pro-
posed for Central Park, by several emf
nent New Workers, to be paid in one
dollar contributions from ladies who
are "conversant with the benefits de-
rived from the sewing machine"
HENRY HART, New York million
aire, is his own private watchman, and
does the travelling round nights among
his treasures.
THE marriage bond of David Crockett
is to be presented to the State Library
of Tennessee. 1t bears Davys sigma
ture.
AMONG the prominent Southerners
who by the Amnesty bill are restored to
all the rights of citizens are Alexander
II. Stephens, Henry A. Wise, Wade
Hampton, Barnwell Rhett, Henry S.
Foote, Roger A. Pryor, John G. Breckin-
ridge, John A. Campbell, John For
syth, George A. Trenholm, G. G. Mem
niger, and Gems. johnson, Bragg, Beau
regard, Fitzhugh Lee, Gustavus W..
Smith, and Hood, and one hundred and
fifty thousand others of lesser note. Of
those who are not amnestied are Jeffer-
son Davis, Yulee, Wigfall, Toombs,
Iverson, Benjamin, and several hun
dred others deemed equally obnoxious.
THERE is a publishing house in San
Francisco, which is owned by women,
| and almost entirely managed by women.
| 1t was incorporated only a few weeks
since, and is said to bid fair to succeed.
| This is a very practical way of extending
woman's sphere. There is no doubt
that she is capable of excelling at very
many employments hitherto denied
her. There is also no doubt that, at
present at least, she is inevitably
coarsened by engaging in those employ.
ments side by side with men. Such in
stitutions as the one we have mentioned
do away with this great objection, and
| yet give her the freest and fullest op.
portunities to test her capacities.
! THERE is considerable risk in seeking
matrimony through newspaper adver
| tisements, and there is also an uncer
tainty about it which months of ardent
correspondence cannot remove. For in
stance, youthful couple in Louisville
lately fell over head and ears in love by
this means, and great number of ten
der epistles passed between them be
fore either of them mentioned thei
real names. 1t turned out finally tina
they were brother and sister. They hac
been separated a number of years, anc
even an exchange of photographs die
not bring about recognition.