Delaware tribune. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1867-1877, 1867-04-11
PERSONAL.

Alexander Dumas keeps his bed till afternoon.
Mr. u Mrs. Senator Sprague sailed from New
York, for France, on Saturday.
President Johnson will make n strictly private
visit to New York. as soon as the Senate adjourns.
Senator Sherman and Ex-Congressman Kasson
are among the filters to Europe.
The SMALLEST Methodist Minister in the world"
is In London, one inch taller than Tom Thumb
General Butler and wife remain in Washington.
The latter has recovered from a recent illness.
1t Is said Raphael Scmmes and his Memphian
Bulletin are not making a big swim.
Ralph NJ Townsend, Of Philadelphia, will re-es-
ablish the Daily Wauea Cape May the coming season.
Harriet Beecher Stowe is announced at Macon
Georgia.
The Prince Imperial Of France is in poor health,
and serious fears are entertained concerning him.
The colored barber of Concord who ran for Mayor
got four hundred votes the Democrats all support
ing him.
Admiral Farragut was 65 years and months old
January 1, 1867. He entered the Navy as a midship-
man December 10, 1916.
Eek. Gov. A. j. Hamilton. Of Texas Is to be APP
pointed Register in Bankruptcy for Louisiana. and
has gone to New Orleans.
The President Is said to have added fifty-seven
thousand dollars to his bank account since last Sep
TENDER.
Surprise arises from the fact that Punch publish
ed no obituary of Artemus Ward and OF its
tributors attended the funeral.
The Richmond Times the meanest paper in Rich
mond, denounces with bitterness Senator Wilson's
speech at Petersburg.
The little paper published by the convicts in the
New Jersey State Prison, called the Sunbeam, has
ceased ISSUE
The Pail Mall Gazette, of London, publishes its
"Notes from Washington" as regularly as news from
Paris.
| Frederick Hudson the managing editor of the
New York Herald who retired from that position last
year, account of III health has quite recovered.
American thieves in Paris, during the EXPOSE
tion, will be watche dby Boston detective He we
presume will be in turn attended to by the French
police.
AT a dinner given by John Quincy Adams, at
Washington. in 1885, John c. Calhoun proposed
the sentiment" Universal Suffrage and UNIVERSAL
Education"
Mr.. Greeley has presented an elegantly bound copy
Of his american Conflict to Governor Geary, who IL
one Of the conspicuous characters in the scenes
faithfully described.
The friends Of Ex-vce President Foster, deny
his unaithfuness to Republican doctrines and assert
that he was warm friend OF Governor Hawley.
They say the reason he did not speak in the campaign
was because he was not asked.
That faithful and staunch advocate of Republican,
ISM the Washington Chronicle, appears in handsome
dress of type, and evnces determination to en-.
ter with renewed yigor on the campaign Of Recon.
struction in the South.
1t Is said that on his recent visit to the British
Parliament 'Careton" &c. c. Cofin) the correspon-
dent Of the Boston Journal had seat between the
Prince Of Wales and the Bishop Of Oxford. So says
the London letter Of the Boston Commonwealth.
Rhode Island has new Grace Darling, in the
person Of Miss Ida Lewis, the daughter Of the keeper
Of the Lime Rock lighthouse. She rowed out to 0
distant island last Sunday morning and rescued man
who for four hours had been lying upon the rocks wei
from the Storm This is said to be her fifth rescue
The New York Gazette has curiously got hold Of
the wrong end of the story and states that Mr.. Geo
L. Stearns, late Of the Boston Right Way, has pur
chased the Hannibal {Mo) Courier which he will
hereafter conduct" or course the Gazette means Mr.
W. W. Thayer, who conducted the Right Way for Mr.
Stearns,
COL Robert Ii. Ramsey, graduate Of the office
has purchased cne-half of the Miners journal esab
lishment at Pottsyille The new firm will be Bannar
& Ramsey. Mr. Bannan purchased the establishment
in 1922 when the materials in tho Office press inclu
ded, worth about $500, aud the subscription lis
numbered 100. The latter has increased to 1000
Senator Wilson went home to Boston, on Tues
day, to be present at grand temperance demonstra
tion in that city next Monday. He will return +,
Washington on the goth inst, and then contemplate
an extensive tour through the South, as far as New
i Orleans He has appointments to fiji at orang
Court House, Lynchburg, Richmond, and all othe
E prominent points on the route.
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