Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-08-29
PERSONAL

At Louisville, last week, s. Holsclaw
aate of Magruder's staff was married to
Miss A. Lambert, niece of c. L. Vallan-
digham.
Mr.. Collector Smythe, successor of
Preston King in the New York Custom
House, received q day or two ago, a bag
OF shot, from an anonymous well wisher.
Both MI. Field and Mr.. Glass claim the
credit for successfully laying the Atlantic
Cable. Why not compromise by calling
it the HField-Gla Cable p
The reaper man, Mccormick, is enjoy
ing himself finely at Sheldon Springs,
Vermont. Perhaps it is because they will
let him wash his feet in the springs, which
they wouldn't do At Binghamton, New
York
The Executive Committee of the Board
of Regents of the Wisconsin State uni
versity recommend Prof Paul L. Chad
bourne, of William College to the Board
as President Of the University.
One of the most distinguished Ameri-
can ladies at present in Paris is Mrs.
Eorillard Ronalds, a few years since the
famous Boston belle, Miss Fanny Carter,
who married a young millionaire of New
York.
There is another Richmond in the
field The immortal " j. n. must look
to his laurels. DR.. Jacob Horlacher, Of
New Berlin, Pa, lectured on Thursday at
Dayton, in the character of " meditation
between the North and South
Miss Evans, the author of 'Felix Holt
the Radical is the daughter Of 8 dissent
ing clergyman in Derbyshire, is forty-six
years old, and besides English, is COM
plete mistress of three foreign languages
German, French, and Italian. She has
written six novels in ten years.
George Sala, it is said, is so near-sighted,
that, when engaged in writing, he places
/ the paper on a chair, and kneels down, as
if about to perform an act OF devotion.
| Miss Braddon, when similarly engaged,
seats herself on a low chair, puts a quire
of paper on a music-book, holds her ink
bottle in her lei. hand, and writes away
bv the hour.
Santa Anna lives in peculiarly luxu-
RANT style in Twenty-eighth street New
York. His residence is a good marble
faced building. In exterior it is second
class. In interior it is every class. You
enter and are met with fumes of good, bad,
and indifferent tobacco, garlic, oil, and de-
cayed fruit An air of very queer i'm
portance prevails with a class of the in
mates, who are of the female persuasion
and quasi ahelps"@speaking bad Spanish
and questionable English. No calico par
lor maids will please Santa Anna and his
suite. In his halls the cook wears silks
and satins, very short sleeves and low
neeks.
When the Gen. Lytle exploded, Mr..
Schlaret, of Madison, Indiana, was inform
ed that his son was among those killed.
He went to the wharf, and there saw the
corpse of a young maR, which, upon ex-
animation, he was satisfied was that of his
son. The body was removed to Mr..
| Schlaret's residence, and the family and
neighbors, after looking at it. felt perfectly
assured that it was the remains Of "Bub'
Schlaret. The family were in great grief,
the funeral took place, the body was bu-
ried and the family put on mourning sp-
parel. A few days ago "Bub" turned up,
having been at the South all the time,
alive and hearty.
An incident in the late war in Europe
is that General Cialdini, who was on the
bell tower of the Borgoforte monastery ii
Bohemia was suddenly astounded to find
a brisk cannonade opened against him
Having some suspicion that all was moi
fair he ordered 3 minute search of the con
vent to be made, and in q collar Was dis
covered a parish priest, who it appeared
had a subterraneous telegraphic appsra-
tus with which he kept the enemy in,
formed of all that was going on Being
spy, of course his life was forfeit and h
was, without any ceremony whatever
killed on the spot by the soldiers.
This is Queen Victoris's selection 0
novels and light literature for the hbrarI
ola w~orkingmen's club at Inverness
Scotland: aWsverley Novels" Scott.
Poetry aSmiles' Lives of the Engineers,
"Cooper's Novels (twoty-six volumes
any Schools and ~Seheolmasters ? NiHud
sons Twelve Years in India Grant
Novels nineteen volames), "Pickwick
and nicholas Nickieby,' Lights ana
Shadows of Scottish Lie "Aytoun'
Laws of tho Cavaliers" HGieig's Life 0
Wellington SCOTS Tales Of a Grand
father Marrystt's Novels thirteen vol
umes(, and "Bulwer,s Last Days ofPem
peir'"
Prince Charles, of the German Fedora
army, is known TO be man of decided,
sybaritic tastes. 1t is . positive fact tbs
he set out for Munich with no less thai
! nine tuns of silvea wsre for his table
. loaded on eight baggage-wagons. Hehai
a small company of laequeys with hin
/. A luxurious dinner. with all the delics
cies of the capitsl, and an abundance Z
the finest wines wss an indispensable
requisite for him. Thus, while the Pru.
slams were throwing shells into War
burg, on the 9th. the champagne AoweS
as usual. in streams at the general heai
quarters. The Field Marshalwould hsrt
" ever allow himself to be disturbed dur
I ing the night By official business. q
who attempted to break in upon his II
{ pose before ten in the morning, INQUIRE
The risk of his ~princely displeasRre.