Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-02-07
PERSONAL.

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of Howard College, Alabama.
Governor Brownlow is at present seri.
ously i'll at Nashville.
A brother Of General Grant, formerly
his partner in business, is now in Wash
ington, and submitting to considerable
lionizing at the hands Of the military and
civic authorities.
Rebel Gen. Forrest is reported to have
retreated from Memphis to Mexico, hear
ing that it was proposed to arrest him for
the Fort Pillow massacre.
DR.. Taylor Lewis, of Union College, so
well known as a Greek scholar, and for
his thorough familiarity with the litera-
ture Of the Bible, has recently received q
present of $4,000.
A daughter of Phalon, of the Night
Blooming Cereus family, has Just been
married in Paris to Count Narbonne de
Lara. Her sister was already V~iseountess
de Gabriac.
The salary Of Mr.. Greeley, as editor-in-
chief OF the Tribune, has been recently
raised to $1,000 per annum, and his judg-
ment is omnipotent on all matters con-
nected with his department.
The Lorain County Ne,Os says that Col
onel Ralph Plumb, late of the army has be-
come n of a Company, having a capital
of $500, 900, whose object it is to develope
coal fields in Central Illinois.
Rumor announces the impending ma
riage of Kate Bateman and q New York
millionaire, aged sixty years. Rumor has
already married Miss Bateman twenty
times, and will probably do so again if it
has q chance.
The Washington correspondent Of the
n. Y. Post says, that the senator Of the
grandest and most elegant hospitality here
is our wi senator from New York city
Morgan. The government, in its three
branches, executive, legislative and judi
cial, together with representatives to it
from abroad, and its private citizens, are
all sharers of his agreeable reunions, which
do 80 much to dignity social intercourse
and harmonic political opinions.
A New York correspondent tella the
following stories of Commodore Wander
bilt: "He has a will and an obstinacy that
cannot be equaled. He got mad with Col
Inns, and swore he would run his line off
the ocean, and he did it. Fifteen years
ago he held some Of the bogus stock of the
New Haven Railroad issued by Schuyler.
He demanded pay of the company. His
demand was refused. He told the Rail
road Company he would have it, if he
spent ell he was worth. So he has fol-
the company through all the courts
for fifteen years, and at the close of the
last term, the Court Of Appeals, the Court
Of last resort, gave him a decision by
which he gains $3.50, 900 and costs" Van
derbilt is a abig gun" but he will never
be translated on account of his amiability.
The widow Of Stonewall jackson ac-
the receipt of $526 in gold, as
3 gift from Texas.
Mr.. s. NJ. Clarke, who has been Con-
occasionally invested several times, but
come off first best, is to have his portrait
on the new five cent notes. Il
Hon. James B. Ricaud, a well-known
u American" member of Congress from
Maryland, 1855 to 1859, died at Charles
town, Maryland, on the 23d ult., aged
years.
General Schofeld has paid a visit to
Marshal Magnan, one of the few French
officers who always stood with the North
during the civil war.
Mr.. James Gordon Bennett was not
long since invited to deliver a lecture be-
lore a literary association at Princeton, N.
]. he declined, saying that his "time was
100 valuable, and leoturing was only the
business of literary Migrants"
If the bill making the office of General
passes Congress, and the title is conferred
ipon General Grant, Sherman and Sheri-
Ian it is thought, will be made Lieutenant
Generals, and Farragut a full Admiral.
The Countess Millehori, known by the
lame Of Rosins, is desd. Some years ago
he newspapers announced her m~organatic
marriage with Victor Emanuel, and the
lews was not c~ontradicte1. The Countess
two childten-a son and a daughter.
they have received the title of count and
A rumor is aloat on the street to-day,
apparently well authenticated, that Col. j.
Wood, proprietor of Wood Museum,
chicago, has been made the lucky heir to
property valued at $1,000 sterling, by
he recent decesse of an uncle residing in
Most of the property is under
TODD to be located in New York.