The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-11-29
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

David Dickson made eight hundred bales
Of cotton this year. This is suggestive.
Henry s. Foote, wearying Of Tennessee, has re-
moved to Mississippi.
-O'Donovan Rosa has been elected to Parlis-
ment from Tipperary, Ireland.
The Marquis Of Butte is to build large Catho-
lie cathedral at Oxford, at his own expense.
"A. T. Stewards bill for dry goods furnished TO
the Arlington House, Washington, amounted to
s7S,oOO.
Edwin Forrest has returned to Philadelphia,
where he is filing an engagement at the Walnut
Street Theatre.
The Duke OF Norfolk, the highest nobleman OF
England, not Of royal blood, succeeds to the Gar
ter OF the,late Earl Derby.
John Russell Young, formerly managing edi-
tor OF the New York Tribune, poes to Europe next
month as the agent OF the Kansas Pacific Rail
road
George Jones, an owner Of q third Of the New
York Times, and its publisher, is trying to buy
out the politicians who own stock in the paper,
and run it Independent of politics.
Hon. Geo. II. Pendleton intends to leave poll
tics and so into railroading, giving his whole at
tention to the Kentucky Central Raiload, OF which
he has recently been elected president.
Ashley, the impeacher, now Governor OF Mon
tana, and dcsrous of being sent, twhen the time
comes) to the United States Senate, has suddenly
"gone backn on the coored people, and, 1t Is
stated now repudiates them altogether
-Solon Robinson, OF the New York Tribune,
who has been in attendance upon fairs for q life
time, speaking OF the Georgia State Fair says the
appearance OF such a concourse, SO well and rich
ly dressed, in so short time after ruinous war,
is the most wonderful illustration OF the rccupe-
ratye energy of q people he ever saw. He could
never have believed If he had not seen It,
In q letter from Macon, Georgia, to his paper,
John w. Forncy tells OF New England man
whose large-heartedness would 10 honor to
British phianthropist Mr.. Denny saw letter in
q newspaper describing tile poverty ol Colonel
Robert Allston, of Georgia, once wealthy man,
and sent him q thousand dollars, begging him to
accept it az means OF restoring his shattered
fortunes. ''WOn by this unexpected Kindness,
the Colonel replied as frankly, telling his stranger
friend that one thousand dollars would be OF little
use. but that II he had five he wouldstart the
world afresh in good heart, and would honestly
repay the loan. By return OF mail Mr.. Denny for
warded the additional four thousand. The next
step was an invitation OF Colonel Allston, asking
his Boston friend to his home in Georgia; and he
came, in the seventy-ilfth year OF his age, with
his wife, to see the cx-Confederate whose honest
story had reached his heart, and whose honest
efforts were devoted to the restoration OF the
Union he had brayely fought to divlde.'
The marriages of the English Duke OF Aber-
corn's daughters affords significant proof Of
what beauty does fora family. While five of
these young ladies-by no means liberally dover
ed by their father-says the New York Evening
Post, are already married to wealthy peers, and
sixth is engaged to the heir OF duke, the eight
daughters OF Il marquis are without husbands.
Since the days of the celebrated Cummings, no
family hasin this respect been SO famous as the
Hamltons. Indeed, the latter are the more re-
markable Of the two; for while there were but two