The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-01
PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS.


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Mons Berger, who defended Montalembert SO boldly
also defended Louis Napoleon when tried for his ridc-
lous Boulogne failure.
Grand Master Robert Morris was publicly installed the
officer Of the thirteen lodges in Louisville on the 2sth
1t was an imposing pageant
Sakoschs opera troupe is broken up Brignoli is en-
gagged by Ullman and Strakosch with his wife, Parod
DE Wilhorst and Amodio, has gone South concert
tour.
Master AIallarat the Brooklyn boy who was sent TO
Europe by the members of Henry Ward Beecher Sunday
school, to obtain complete musical education is doing
well.
Mr.. Jacob Wortendyke, grandfather of Hon j. r. Wor-
tendyke died in Washington, Bergen county New
sey on the 18th instant aged 90 years His wife
vived him. after matrimonial connexon of nearly 10
years
John ii. Warland formerly a popular editor at Glare.
mont Lowell, Boston, and of the army paper in Mexico
and author of good poetry, is in the insane
hospital at South Boston, the victim Of intempcrance.
r. Boston Buchanan, esq., formerly IT, s consul ut La
Rochelle, France, died on board the steamship Al.s d,
ring her recent protracted and stormy passage from
Hayre to New York The deceased was nephew of
James NJ buchanan esq, of Baltimore present Min
lister to Denmark
Capt D. Adams has publicly requested the planters
along the Arkansas, between Pine Bluff and Napoleon
Arkansas not to water their stock ont of the Arkansas
river every drop of water equ red keep his boat
the Titan, aloat
John Prentice, whose house suspended last fall with
liabilities OF nearly million of dollars, gives notice lin
the New York papers that he is ready pay in full Oil
demands, whether compromised or otherwise.
Rev. j. A. McKenny, d. d., formerly superintendent
of the Maryland Institute for the Instruction of the B
has been appointed to the Church Home and Inrnaty
by the trustees of that institution and the appointment
has been confirmed by the bishops Of the diocese.
Madame La Vert, in of her charming pictures of
Cuban fe says the women there have a noble trait
fhnu ,,,x1,n
ways find palliaton for the of their
We are for immediate annexation want the gem loi
the Antilles, its wealth of sugar plantations and its Jewels
of women
Rev John Larkin, learned Catholic priest died lin
New York on Saturday last of apoplexy. He was $,n
Engshman, and fellow pupil of Cardinal Wise,aan
Early in life he entered the Society Of Sulpcious but d.
forwards became Jesuit and for several years EN-
poyed as visitor among the houses Of his oreran office
which ranks next to that Of general of the whole society
He at one time chosen Bishop of Toronto but DE-
clined and his resignation much difficulty Was
accepted by the Pope In private life he noted jor
gentleness, hencvoencc, and sweetness of manners
truly good man.
Mrs. Rebecca Outright died in Upshur county Va, On
the 9Th instant at the extraordinary age of hundred
and six years She the first white woman who set
tied in the valley of the Bnchhannon river coming TO
western Virginia when quite young and living with her
husband in hollow tree at the mouth of Turkey Run,
in what is now Upshur county. The deceased retained
all her faculties in vgor until the close of her long and
eyentful life, and the morning Of her decease was Or
ressng one OF her great grandchildren when, feeling
weary, she requested the child ito be quiet while graz
ny would lay down and sleep The venerable old lady
then laid down upon her bed and slept the sleep thst
knows no waking the vital spark had flown and with
out sigh or struggle the old lady passed from eark P
heaven Her descendants number between four and HE
hundred souls MI
Nj Ferdinand de Lesseps, after having canvassed III
question OF the canal of the Ishmus of Suex both in Lt
don Paris and at Constantnope, has returned to Eu
rope where he endeavors to incline the public suppos
that he has obtained the permission sanction Of the
Sultan to his favortc project Whatever favor the cana
may have found in the great commercial capitals of Eu
rope it is believed that SO long the British govern
hent continues TO hold the island Of Pei Ia Che Rcd
sea- the Ottoman government will withhold its sanction
to the French project of canal the isthmus Tie
Porte has no objection to the canal but finding that
work which would promote foreign commerce between
Europe and india and only benefit Turkey incidentally
woud, in all probability, render Egypt the theatre of a
contest between two Of the greatest powers Of the globe
she prefers TO defer her consent in tho hope that events
may arise for her relief and tue preventing OF the evil
which menaces her tranquility.