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The Daily Dispatch: February 6, 1865., [Electronic resource], article 3 (search)
the friends of the deceased, and to obtain from them such information as they might be willing to give. From them we learned that Mr. Burroughs was the brother of Dr. Burroughs, President of the Douglas College, a Baptist seminary, at Chicago; that he did beside for a considerable time at Burlington, Iowa, where he became acquainted with and much interested in Miss Mary Harris, befriended her in various ways, especially against religious persecution by some of her relatives, who were Catholics; subsequently aided her by his social influence and otherwise in Chicago, and that she attended his brother's seminary at Chicago. They also State that Mr. Burroughs frequently told Miss Harris that he could not reciprocate her attachment, and could not marry her; notified her of his intended marriage to the lady (now left a widow by his sad decease) a short time before the wedding, called upon her with his bride soon after, and was well received. We are also informed that when M
The Daily Dispatch: February 18, 1865., [Electronic resource], Religion in prison. (search)
Religion in prison. --There are in the prisoners' camp in Elmira, New York, at the present time, one thousand six hundred and eleven rebel prisoners who make profession of religion. They have come from twelve different States--Virginia and North Carolina furnishing the largest number. --Five hundred and forty-two are Methodists, five hundred and forty-seven Baptists, one hundred and ten Presbyterians, two hundred and forty-two Catholics, and the remainder are distributed among the less prominent religious denominations.
The Daily Dispatch: March 29, 1865., [Electronic resource], A Carnival ball in Paris. (search)
lace bands — the whole trimmed in the purest style with flat pearl beads; a narrow ribbon of exactly the same shade, dotted with pearls, tied around the neck, with long floating ends; three rows of the same ribbon, with pearls, in her hair, which was dressed with light curls. During Lent, a succession of brilliant concerts will be given at the Tuileries and at the Hotel de Ville. In fact, there is no real cessation of entertainments during the Lenten season, except among very devout Catholics. The beau monde continues its gay career until Holy Week, when a general feeling of remorse and penitence seizes upon it, and it cries "dust and ashes" for a whole week, recommencing with Easter Monday the distractions essential to its very existence.--American society has all winter had no salon of reunion to replace that in which Mrs. Dayton welcomed her guests with so much distinction and kindness, and which will always be remembered as the most agreeable soirees ever given at the Amer
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