Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-06-05
TILE FIRST NAN.
PERSONAL.

AdRh Isaacs Menken is lying danger
ously i'll at her uptown residence in New
York.
An admirable portrait of Gerrit Smith
has beenpainted by Gerrit Smith Loguen,
a son of the colored clergyman of that
name.
An English opera company is giving
performances at the new French theatre
in New York, in Fourteenth street. The
company comprises Miss Caroline Rich
ings, Miss Zelda Harrison, Mrs Marie Mo-
Fart, Messrs. W. Castle, s. q. Campbell,
and Ed. Seguin.
The Rev. E. B. Fairfield, President of
the Hillsdale College, Michigan, recently
delivered a lecture in Providence, r. L,
and gave the following sketch of a we'll
known American artist: "Harriet Hos
mer was a fast Massachusetts, girl, max
ing $4,000 or $4,000 a year by her
chisel, but never succeeded in living
within her income, while she had long
since exhausted her patrimony. She
drives the fastest horses i'll the place, and
she makes the most beautiful marbles
ever looked upon
NuLkG d SEAL1dlAOh was NAIbNOA l-O 1
day at New Bedford, Massachusetts, at
the sudden disappearance of Mr.. Jones
a deputy constable, whose business It was
to enforce the excise law. The Mercury
of hat place thus refers to him; st
turns out that tho blackmailing ex-Deputy
Constable Jones carried on his sponging
business from his first entrance into office
until he ran away. he WAS bold and
impudent in demanding hush money from
the liquor-dealers, collecting in cash, be-
sides his free dinners, &c, from $500 to
$4,000, For a clergyman and a temper
ance lecturer, this was hardly to have
been expected"
Chauncey Rose, Esq, a well known
Indiana, a short time since, proposed to
give $4,000 toward the erection Of first
class female college, provided a similar
amount should be subscribed by others,
to be located at such a point between
Logansport and Evansville as the sub
scribers should designate. The Lafayette
Journal is pleased to learn that John Per-
due, ESQ, a well known and highly es-
teemed citizen of that city, proposes to re-
spond to the generous offer of Mr.. Rose,
with $4,000 more, and the Institution is
to be located at Lafayette. It is under
stood that Mr.. Rose will increase his sub
scription to $4,000, and that Mr.. Perdue
will make his 100000, rather than that,
the project should fail. Several other
gentlemen propose to add liberal sums to
these m%unifcent subscriptions.
NJ. D. Conway, describing the Literary
Fund dinner, gives the following picture
of Swinburne, the poet, whose works have
attracted considerable attention during
the past winter: AFTER Charles Kings
lev, arose MI. Swinburne He spoke in
such a low voice that 1 could only see his
lips move and hear no word. But it was
enough TO see Swinburne's faee-especial-
" with his cheek and eye kindled-and 1
shall never forget it. A small, young,
even boyish man with handsome, regu-
lar features and smooth skin; with ewes
that glitter; with thin, flexible lips, whose
GOODNESS is in strange contrast to the pas
sionate intensity of his eyes; with a great
deal of reddish hair that surrounds his face
like . halo-he seemed to me like some
wild bird of rare and beautiful plumaCe
which has alighted in our unenngenial
cline, and is likely to die before it is ac-
climated. No one who has ever looked
uaon Algernon Swinburne's face would
ever doubt but that he is q man Of genius"