Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-04-08
Personalities.

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The Prince of Wales has signed
the pledge and got medal.
JEFF. Davis is living with his niece,
Mrs. Stamps, at New Orleans.
Minnie Myrtle Miller, Joaquin's
wife, is training her eldest daughter
for the stage.
fSothern writes:s aAmerica for me.
Easier work here, but not as jolly by
long Odds
A son of a former Governor OF Ice
land, named Bjornson, is teacher IN
a public school in Michigan.
General Burnside, says the Dan
bury News, was once a tailor. But ~
is as barber that he is best KNOWN
Mrs Cheney, mother-in- law of the
Late Horace Greeley, died few days
400 at her home in Litchfield, Con-
necticut.
A prominent Boston clergyman has
haen presented with check for $14,-
600 by a few of his parishioners to
pay off a mortgage on his house.
We read a good deal in the papers
of stylish turnouts in Washington.
Buffers turnout, though not stylish,
has been much admired.-4rcodiam.
The Arcadian is authorized to con-
tradict the report that Theodore Til
ton has been retained by the Hang
ing Committee of the National Acad-
emy of Design.
And now they are comparing Til
ton to Lord Byron-but in this re-
spect only: "Do 1 disturb you, By
ron?" SAID my lady once. "Damna-
bly, answered his Lordship, in his
musical tone.
Mrs. Consider Dickinson, whose
estate is worth about $4,000, and
who is eighty six years old, has wIlled
most of her property for educational
purposes in Deerfeld, Massachusetts.
The Duke of Wellington, in de
bate. remarked that two Irish cler-
gvmen had been murdered. A lord
exclaimed: "No no, one" "If / am
mistaken, l am sorry for it, rejoined
the Duke.
keep Your old quill 4 foppin', p"
writes an enthusiastic admirer of the
Chicago Inter-Ocean, AL the way
from Kansas. 'sAnd your ears, also,'
he might have added, says the st.
Louis Times.
While Mr.. Jones, Of Natchez, wa.
drinking his whisky he heard voice
call out: Jones prepare TO die!" and
he sank back on chair and died
Heart disease! Not by jug-full
;Old Renfew shot him. Detroit Free
Press.
A Southern citizen who proudly
bore the rank of General in the Con,
federate service recently joined the
United States army in New Orleans,
and to dav carries a musket as a pri-
vate soldier. He was not compelled
10 join the awkward squad. Poverty
was the cause.
The final settlement Of the estate
of the late Johns Hopkins, of Balti-
more, shows the property to be worth
$7,l45, ,S4l, even putting some of the
railroad stock at very low valuations.
The Johns Hopkins University gets
$3,14S,S40. and the Johns Hopkins
Hospital $3,076, 1877.
Bret Harte once worked for his
board mp in one of the Sierra valleys,
but the old fellow he lived with thinks
he hardly paid his way. ''Do you
see that fenceY" said the old man to
party of visitors lately, pointing to
a stump-and- brush affair around his
garden, swell, Bret staid with me
two year, an about all he done was
to help me build that"
A girl screamed in a lecture au-
dience in Lafayette, Oregon. Then
all the other girls screamed. Gene
raj CONSERVATION ensued, and a rush
for the doors. People we're bruised,
clothes torn, and the room at length
was emptied. The first screamer had
seen a rat-a real one.