The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-04
PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Senator sprague has had a daughter be

PERSONAL GOSSIP.
Senator Sprague has had daughter bor1
unto him.
John SHORTCUTS, Gentleman, writes to tn,
London Times complaining that the Herald's Col
lege won't change his name to Brown. He say!
his sons are teased by his schoolmates and no
body will marry his daughters.
Mrs. President Grant is the chairwoman OF 8
committee Of ladies appointed to raise $4,000 tc
pay of the debt Of the Methodist Metropolitan
Church In Washington. The committee appeal to
five thousand Methodist women to send $40 each
to lift the burden.
| Louisa Muhlbach, whose historical novels have
been 90 widely read, has abandoned her intention
Of making lecturing tour through the United
States. professor of medicine in the Berlin
University is responsible for this change OF plan;
| for he has induced Miss Muhlbach to marry him.
"'Twas ever thus.n
-Advices from Tennessee regarding the future
movements of ex President Johnson are decided
| ly contradictory. It Is asserted, among other
things, that he will settle in and run for Congress
from the Nashville district; that he is absorbed
with projects regarding the Tennessee Constitu-
anything at present which may complicate his
chances for the next vacancy in the United States
Senate.
-0fenbach, as is well known, was musician
from his childhood. When only ten years old he
volunteered to play the vloincello in quartette,
the person who was to take that instrument not
making his appearance. He did SO well that he
joined the quartette. 1t is said that, while in the
orchestra Of the Opera Comlque at Paris, he
shared the desk OF Segmann well known
violincelllst, and the two used to amuse them
selves by playing only alternate notes, instead Of
each playing the entire part, which almost drove
the conductor into lunatic asylum.
When General 8. B. Buekner came South dur
ring the war, he conveyed HE. Chicago property,
which really belonged to his wife, to her brother
to hold for her. The brother subsequently mar
ried, entered the Union army, and was killed at
Gettysburg. His widow had son few months
after his death, and 1t was claimed that the child
was the heir'of all his property. Shortly after
the child died, and the mother became his heir;
and not long after that the mother died, and her
father now claims to be heir OF all his daughters
property, and consequently OF all General Buck
ner's property, derived as detailed General Buck
ner hopes to recover it for his wife through the
courts.
The youngest son Of Prince Lncien Murat has
become common sailor, and gone to the West
Indies. He is the brother OF the Baroness Chassl-
ran, of the Ouch .ss de Mouchy, OF Colonel Prince
Joachim, married to Mile. Berthier de wagram,
and OF Prince Achllle Murat, married to the PrIn-
cess OF Mlngrelia. The sailor prince is eighteen
years Of age, and has great love for the perndious
waye. His father, Prince Lucien, one day meet
Ing the Marquis de Boissy dressed In the style Of
Louis XIV, asked him rather mallciously 'Is
that the coat OF your grandfather fn "Monsgneur
replied the Marquis) If everybody here wore the
coat OF his grandfather it would not be ME who
would be most ashamed.n
Eugene has, In her extensive wardrobe one
dress especially that has caused great excite
ment among the Partisan ele0antes 1t is made
Of o beautiful silk of "Nile water'' color, mix
ture Of gray and green, one melting into the |
other with sllvery glaze, which, at the least |
movement OF the body, gives to the dress the |
aspect Of an undulating wave. The |
skirt is long, with long train, without other Or
nament than 6ouflion Of water-green gsuze at |
the bottom; no puffs, simply belt OF aauza- |
eauze that allows White ace bofder
to be seen. At the bottom of the wide sleeves |
the same Oouillion is found.
The Marquis Of Sligo lives in westport, Ire |
and. He owns the town, and the bodies, If not |
the souls, of the inhabitants. They cannot sell |
anything without his permission, and when he |
graciously accords that, he makes them pay for |
L according to tarin posted conspicuously upon |
the gateway leading TO his palatial residence. To
seI calf the fee Is one penny; to sell leg OF
mutton ditto; TO vend molasses or hobnals In |
tent Is one shilling. The List is long one, and
he best commentary on the federalism Of Ire
ana. The rule applies to all persons, whether
hey live in or out OF the town. The New York
York Express thinks that the Marquis Of Sligo
would make a good man to hold once In the |
south and reconstruct" the whites there.
M. De Lesseps, Of Suez Canal celebrity, has
ust taken to himself, in Egypt, young bride.
Letters from that country state that the bride is
beautiful creole, twenty-five years OF age. The
distinguished bridegroom Is sixty-four, but his
iears sit very lightly upon him, and that his ener-
yies are in no wise impaired by age Is testified by
he unnagging tenaclty with which he pursued
he great purpose OF his life-that OF connecting
he Mediterranean with tile Red Sea. In his pre-
,ious marrlage-this being his second one-M. De
Lesseps was peculiarly happy, his wife having
,een q woman of remarkable amiabillty and force
,f character. This, as a French paper remarks,
insplred him with faith In conjugal bliss" and
70 he rlsked once more the matrimonial tie. 1t
would seem az though the management OF great |
public enterprises were promoter OF May and
December marriages; and SO it is that, If we have
our Vanderbilt, Egypt has her De Lesseps
Count wratislaw- -Mitrowitz, royal and i'm
perial prlvy counsellor, curate' OF the Austrian |
and president Of the Vienna Bank, was |
found dead in his study last week. He had stabbed
himself once in the neck and once in the breast, |
near the shoulder, with stout, sharp dagger; but
neither Of those wounds, though both were severe,
having proved mortal, the Count, with grim deter
mination had contrived to gather up strength
enough to force his dagger, literally like screw
driver, between two OF his ribs, into his heart
His suicide is result Of the recent financial
manic. The Vienna Bank suffered tremendously
In the financial crash-the decline in Austrian Sc
curities for O single week, from the 10th to the
Goth September amounted to no less than $685.
600 600 of gulder, or about S175,000,000. Count
Wratislaw himself, it seems, was involved in the
general catastrophe to the extent OF some three
milllons and finding that he could not meet more
than two-thirds of his obligations, he gave way
IN q sort of DESPAIR. It was testified at the in