The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-13
PERSONAL.

Basil Dukeis member Of tLe new Ken
tucky Legislature.
An Illinois farmer has willed forty thou :
sand dollars to the Pope. Ia
Ono of the sons OF the viceroy of Egypt is
going to enter ct Oxford.
Mr.. Saul 8. HenIrel, OF Ohio, has bought
the debris OF the late National yntelligencer.
Jefferson Davis is now making tour
through Scotland. accompanied by d. Charles
Mackay.
-Abbe Lisz.'s new oratorio Of ''Christ" is
said to be the most extraordinary piece of So
called descriptive music ever composed.
Isaac ". Fowler. once New York Postmas-
ter, who had q misunderstanding" with the
government about his accounts, ia now in San
Francisco.
Frederick Douglass, the greatest s'colored''
orator in the United States, in his late speech
at Medina. N. Y. invariably speaks Of the
blacks as s'negroes.''
-vieuxtemps recently paid SO 575 for q
very old violin. He can buy braanew fiddle
almost anywhere for dollar. But these al lists
do not appreciate the value OF moHey.
Mark Twain says that the distance per rail
from San Francisco to New York is equal to
two hundred and eleven games Of euchre, one
hundred ard seventy-three drinks, and one
hundred and seventeen cigars.
Marshal Serrano is fast acquiring the style
Of sovereign. He is to occupy the royal
residence at La Granja, and has been pleased
to command s'that all official acts shall hence
forth be in the name Of his Highness the
Regent" =
A letter from St. Petersburg states that
K<r,inorouu no r,oouopt evIO rnvn1 Tho EFo ~
the Gear. did not commit suicide, but was MUIR
dered by being hanged in his own house and
that several persons have been arrested as &c
completes in the crime. .a.
The "Avenir National" is bold enough to
mention the death or Cautillon, the man who
fred of the Duke OF Wellington. and to whom
Napoleon left ten thousand francs year in hs
will. In consequence Of q question asked in
the House Of Commons the annual payment
of this sum was discontinued few years ago,
Cautilon ecsiving the capital of this infamous
legacy. -
To q oonvocatidiR OF the University Of Oxford,
the honorary degree OF d. G. T.. was conferred
on Mr.. 81. W. Longfellow. the American poet,
who was unable to visit Oxford at the COM
memoration of 1885, The poet was presented
by DR.. Rowden to the Pro Vice-O Chancellor, (Dr.
Plumtre) who duly admitted him. There was
large attendance Of ladies, and most Of the
senior and Junior meinbers of the university
who happened to be in attendance were pres
ent. MIR. Lonefellow. and his daughters are
staying in Oxford for short time.
-"How," asksla fast young Parisian OF his
friend, 'tdo you rid yourself OF an attachment
which you don't cara to continue y" s'I have
an excellent way. Iwrite to the postmaster at
st. Petersburg asking him to send me Rus
sian postage stamp to pay for o letter from
Moscow to Paris. Then Iput this stomp upon
letter which i have written to sttse Lair one,
III which say that urgent business compels
me to pass the next seventeen y6ars ont OF
France This send to the postmaster ut
Moscow, with the request that he will drop It
in the mail, and the thing Is done" stThere is
q much simpler way than that. write to my
lady, Il know all. Adier.' In twenty cases cut
of twenty-five there is something to know. At
any rate it has always been successful in my
case."
Queen Isabella, her husband, and her son,
the Prince of Asturias, dined at st. Cloud ON
the 26th ult This event may reasonably be con-
strued as confirmation of the rumor that the
Emperor connived at what is called the ''es-
cape" from Paris Of Don Carlos, in the hope
and full expectation that by the aid of infor-
melton furnished by the French police he will
very soon be extinauished, and that the COM
motion caused by his attempted civil war will
afford an opportunity for a. restoration in the
person OF the Prince OF Asturias. The Duke
of Montpensier or @ republic would be equally
diatasteful to the Tuileries. The combination
which the Emperor leans to is the abdication
OF Isab ella and the enthronement OF her son,
with his uncle, Don Henry de Bourbon, for
Regent. n.
A traveller in Paris, having occasion Roe o
hair cutter, sent for one. At the appointed
time an elegantly attired person arrived. and
the gentleman sat down before his dressing
case to prepare for the operation. The man
walked round his Uclient" ones or twice, and
finally taking his stand at some distance. atten-
lively scrutinized the gentleman's face with
the air Of q connoisseur looking at picture.
SWELL" said the traveller, impatiently. ''when
are you going to begin 2" ssPardon me, SIR
was the polite reply ST am NOS the operator.
but the phyaiogaomist4 4ass ssAslolpnei" he cried
out, and o sleeved and aproned barber entered
from the hall. s.ta la urgill" With this
the gentlemau's hair was to. basarrapged, the
artist tetired.
Madame Dora dIstrie WFites as follows on
the woman question /: SIT villa be with The po-
litical status of woman as with that og the col
cred race. The Gravass objections might no
doubt have been urged against the latter.
Physiology, politics and history supplied spe.
cious arguments 20 their opponents. But
when certain currents are onoe formed in the
public mind, they end by sweeping away all
obssacles. even those that we're regarded as
impregnabse. This is sufficiently exempliied
by the progress or universal suffrage, Thirty
years ago this was regarded al over Europe as
o vain illusion, unworthy tho consideration of
o thoughtful statesman. Nevertheless, ii has
aiready made suficitmt cona1ests Ia western
Europe TO Justify the predicti0Hp that eastern