The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-31
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

an estate of 81 100000.
James Gordon Bennett, Jr., advertiser
his famous yacht, the Henrietta, for sale.
The new Collector OF Customs at New Yora
received Is. .191 applications for Office on Thurs
day.
Alfred Tennyson is said to have recently
for the second time, refused the offer of
peerage.
Bismarck has new orgsn printed in Eng
glish, which is sent to all English admirers o.
Prussia.
-Delmonico pays Moses FL. Grinnell $27, 500
New York.
General sickles, at his' own request, has
been ordered before the Retiring Board for
examination.
"A newspaper in Berlin employs an "edi.
tori" whose duty it is to serve the terms OF I'M.
prisonment decreed in libel suits.
The North German Consul in New York re.
ceives salary of 5000 thalers in gold, and for
expenses 10, $40 thalers in gold.
-Ex-President johnson will have the plea
sure Of reading an obituary notice of himself,
ofa column in length, in the Chicago Tribune.
"A New Orleans paper says that Colonel
Casey. the new appointee to the New Orleans
Collectorship, sis not unccnpected with the
President"
Governor Bullock, of Georgia, is now in
Washington. 1t is said that he was q COM
positor in the Herald Office at Utica, New York.
few years ago.
Bishop Ames, Of the Methodist Church,
declared, in conference held at Alexandria.
Va, "that tobacco was doing more harm to
the church than whiskey."
James M. Mason, Of Mason and Slidell
fame. will leave Canada in q day or two, and
expects to be at his old home in Winchester,
Va. by the middle Of March.
The New York Post says Prince Louis of
Bourbon, reoently married there, is the direct
Eeir to the Brazilian throne in case the pres
eRt Emperor dies without heirs.
The tenants Of the Marquis Of Butte, who
toadied him SO amazingly on his coming of age,
have shot him in efigy on receiving the news
of his conversion to Catholicity.
Mr.. Samuel Miller, or Lynchburg, Va, re-
puted to be the wealthiest man in Virginia.
died last week. He was worth three millions
Of dollars, which he acquired mainly by specu-
lations in tobacco.
The great attraction Ct the Paris Hippo
girl, who is generally pronounced the most
grace full equestrienne that has appeared in
Paris for many years past.
w. w. Corcoran is aboat to erect a man.
moth hotel. to bear his name, on Vermont ave-
nue., near Senator Sumner's residence, in
Washington. 1t will be ready before the De-
cember term Of Congress-.
Olive Logan respondedito the toast, "The
Gentlemen,' at the press aid Sorosis banquet
in New York. Saturday evening. Olive said
she didn't know anything about them, which
Is lucky, coming from a dlvorass9Iady.
Statistics of the recent Eas elections
show that the Marquis of harrington paid
about seven doiiar sslecssss zech vote he re-
ceiyed. John Bright got in cheapy, paying
only about twenty-five cents for each of his
votes.
Mrs. jennings. formerly Nile. Henriques,
an actress, has sued her husband for divorce,
on the ground OF abuse. jennings is an Eng
glish editor, and married his wife while in
this country corresponding for the London
Times.
-Hickbackazoo, the ex-Queen of the Eng
lish g,psies, has arrived in this country, in
tending to end her days in Philadelphia. She
is addicted to short pipes and hot toddy. It is
asserted that tn ere are $4,000 European gipsioe
in his country.
Colonel A. r. Lamar. editor Of the Ccum.
bus Sun, has received the Democratic nom:.
nation for Mayor OF that city. He is President
Of the Southern Associated Press, and was vel
known throughout the country as Clerk of the
Confederate House OF Representatives.
The New York papers record the death o.
Mr.. Rodewald. He was formerly the head Of
the banking and foreign exchange house OF
RodewAld & Winterhof. Of that city. He wae
ESQ one of the Oldest and most highly respect.
cd members OF the Gold Exchange.
Somebody who wants to be notorious ID
trying to destroy Walter Scotts title OF author OF
Waverley. in commpnications to Boston jour
nal. He asserts that much Of the celebrated
novels was written by John Scott, brother OF
the great unknown, and his wife, who lived in
Q1ebec.
-Ex-Preeident johnson, in a private con.
versation on the tram, while going &c his home
in Greenvllle, said (: "There ia good deal o
life in me yet. II the people Of Tennessee
should require my services I would not fee
justified in refusing them in behalf of the pub
lie good"
"A friend, calling upon Attornoy-G Genera
Hoar, said that he hoped to see him before
long on the Supreme bench. MIR. Hoar, bear.
ing in mind the fact that the bill reported te
increase the number Of judges had not yet be
come q law. replied THAT is counting the
chickens, not only before they are hatched, bu|
before you've got q hen." &
The Emperor Of Russia thinks OF no mem.
Der Of mia family more highly than Of his sis.
ter, the Queen Of Wurtemberg, whom he con.
siders the brightest and ablest woman In Eu.
rope. In St. Petersburg they say that. in case
none Of his sons should be able to ascend the
Russian throne, he would rather have his els
ter on it than any OF his brothers.
Henry ID. Cooke, the banter, gave his an.
nual dinner to the prsss correspondents Il
Washington, last Saturday. Abont forty guests
were present. One OF the featutes Of the oc
casion were two beautiful vases placed ON tn.
table. which contained little cluster OF bushes