Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-01-21
Personal.

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tennial Fund.
DIR. Harriet Keziah Hunt left IL
ont;onal with her patients, by her
will whether they would pay up or
not. :.
An urchin being rebnked for wear
ing out his stockings at his toes, re-
nlied that it couldn't be helped;
s.toes wiggled and heels didn't"
The Praying Women's Temper
ance Union, of Worcester, furnishes
the firemen of that city with hot cof-
fee at every fire, the aim being to
forestall the demand for intoxicating
beverages.
Miss Jennie Britton, of Lewisburg,
Pa, has gained an extensive reputa-
tion as = skater by propelling herself
thirty-two miles on the ice in three
hours and thirty-fve minutes the
other day.
DIR. William E. Rosseter, of
Bridgeport, CT, has just died from
the effects of inhaling ether, which
he was administering to a patient
four weeks ago. 1t produced symp-
toms similar to those of typhoid te-
yer and diptheria.
Gen. George W. Chambers, one OF
the oldest citizens of Louisville, and
well known to nearly every inhabi-
tant, died at his residence, on the
corner of Twenty fourth and Madi-
son streets, on Friday night last, hav-
ing reached the age of eighty-two
years.
Ofall the women who served in the
war in various capacities only one was
pensioned for physical disabilities
Mrs. Isabella Fogg, of Maine, who
was so seriously injured by fall in
Louisville, while engaged in hospi-
tai work. She died in Washington
last summer.
Crocker & Brewster, of Boston, is
the oldest publishing firm in the
country, the members being respect
lively seventy eight and seventy-seven
years of age, and having been in
business together for fifty-six years,
besides being apprentices together
seven years before going into part
nership.
The last King of Spain, before the
one just proclaimed, bearing the
name of Alfonzo, was Alfonzo
XI., historically known as the
Avenger, who reigned from 1924 un-
til his death before Gibraltar, in
1850, so that between Alfonzo NJ.
and Alfonzo NIL, there is only the
little period of 525 years.
Martha C. Wright, President of
the Woman's National Suffrage Asso-
citation, died last Monday at the resi-
dence of William Lloyd Garrison,
Jr., Roxbury, Mass. She was sis
ter of Lucretia Mott, and like her
was an active worker in the cause of
woman suffrage. She leaves a hus-
band and several children.
The Diritto says that the Pope's
physicians have lately noted him in
an almost insensible increase of
weakness, which, however, occasions
no present apprehensions; only it is
feared that if he continues to lose
strength he may he exposed to a
fresh attack of his usual malady, |
which might at any moment prove
fatal.
Capt. Samuel Green, the famous
printer, of Cambridge, Mass, came
over with Governor Winthrop in
1880. His family was remarkable,
consisting of nineteen children by
the first wife, and eleven by the sec
Ond, two Of whom died young, while
the remaining ones attained good
old age, not death happening in the
family for space of fifty-two years.
A case of sickening cruelty on the
part of the Sheriff of San Antonio,
Texas, toward prisoner confined in
Jail, is reported. The prisoner was
held for murder, and when 4 circus
came to town the other day the Sher-
iff refused to allow the man to attend.
Public indignation is naturally arOus-
ed by this barbarous and heartless in
nOvatiOn.
The Roman correspondent of the
London Tablet (Catholic) states that
the want of priests is becoming per-
ceptible in all the dioceses of Italy.
In Rome every year the number of
deaths in the priesthood is three
times as great as the number of or
dinations. One of the reasons he |
gives for this falling off is the new
Conscription law which spares no
one.
Miss Clara Hale is the beautiful
huntress of Harrisburg, Pa. She
carries one of Remington's hand
some fowling pieces, and seems great
ly attached to her two canine com
panions, who answer to the names of
Efois and Skippo. She bagged six
Ceeh partrlSeS, tnfee squirrels, ana
eight muskrats the other day, and
can hit cent at forty PAGES eight
times out of ten.
The Dayton Democrat says: "We
are reliably informed man engaged |
in cutting ice at Stickle's Brewery in
the southern part of the city, on
Saturday, met with the following sin
gular experience: He kept his
mouth open while at work for awhile,
and, upon attempting to close it,
found it frozen in that position. He
was taken to the brewery and thawed
cut before he was able to talk or even
shut his mouth"
The Mobile Register asserts that
the term earpet-bagger was coined by
Colonel George Reese, of Chambers