Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-05-09
PERSONAL.

Agricultural Commissioner Newton is quite III.
Judge Kelley starts on his Southern tour, to-day.
The World calls Tuckerman'the American Tup-
per-"
General Butler has letters OF finvitation from the
South.
Lord Edward Russell Is now senior Admiral OF
the British navy.
Charles Godfrey Leland Is managing editor Of the
Philadelphia Press.
Patrick McGratte, the last Of the convicted To-
ronto Fenians was sentenced to death Tuesday
Prof. osmond rival OF Professor Blot, has been
given lessons on French Cookery at Providence.
Secretary Browning is recovering from his serious
illness.
Neal Dow is making temperance speeches in Eng
land.
The rebel General Ewe is running a large sto,
farm near Spring Hill, Tennessee.
The widow OF Bishop Polk is teaching school in
Tennessee.
-Quartermaster General Meigs is too unwell to at
tend the Exposition, to which he is a Commissioner
Senator Sumner is preparing pamphlet on the
Russian America purchase.
Miss Margaretts Fox-of DR.. Kane celebrity-has
taken to 'spirt rappings and knockings" again. She
Is announced to appear at Rochester.
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has purchased
place on st. Johns River Florida, where she intends
to take her residence.
MIR. Astor, of New York, owns real estate valued
at $6o 100000 and with the interest of his wealth Is
continually buying more.
The poet Longfellow has given five hundred dol
lars toward the fund collecting for the Bowdon
College memorial fund.-
General Ewsll, residing Spring Hill, Tenn,
is succeeding well farmer. He manages his freed
men with hrmness and kindness duly combined. His
wheat crOp ia excellpnt and his cattle fat
Gen. Geo. B. mcclellan is now somewhere on
the Mediterranean with his wife and child. Mrs
Mcclellan is in very bad health. The General expects
to return home next fall.
Pierre Lorilard, of New York, whose yacht Vesta
young Bennett beat, has launched another, not YET
named. She Is to be tested in the East India frui
trade and II faster than the pesta the latter will b.
sold.
On Thursday last brilliant wedding took pac
In Chicago between Gen. VIM. Strong, Of Racine
Wis, and Miss Mary, daughter Of Nation D. Ogden
Gems. Howard, Sherman and Hcksnlooper wsr
among the guests.
Captain Duncan, who is to be Commander Of the
Quaker City, must be remarkable man. The Indc
pendent says: SIN addition to his practical ability
seamanship, he carries in his big and rather hand
some head cargo OF anecdotes packed like ses
biscuit"
The reports for some time In circulation that Ger
eral Steadman, Of Freedmans Bureau notoriety
willing to enter into full fellowship with the republ
can party, are thought by some persons to find col
nrmaton in the fact that in his capacity collectc
Of New Orleans he has made appointments entrel
satisfactory to the radicals of that city.
Senator Sherman Of Ohio seems not to be pop,
lar man with the Republicans South. AT a recer
Richmond Convention, black speaker said:
Mr. President: We's beeve in giving to Caesar
that which am Caesars. Now, what's dc fact in tn
casef Why, sir Mister Stevens, God bress him. shape
de bill and carried 1t on. Mister Shellbarger, he ali
ed in putting it tro, while Mister sherman-well
and here the speaker paused with droll look Of hes
tation-"he sir. took In Its present shape because
couldn't help It,"