The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-28
Personalities.

Robert j. Walker is ill.
Mr.. James Parton is in Boston.
Ex-senator Bayard is now well.
Congressman Niblack is in California.
Mrs. General Gaines is coming North.
Hon. l. N Morris is preparing yet another
report
Mrs. Harriet Prescott SpSfford is at work on
a new book.
Frederick P. Stanton, formerly of Kansas,
talks of going back there.
Chief Justice Chase and Mrs. Senator Sprague
are stopping at Concord, n. II.
Hon. D. w. Voorhees, is collecting facts and
figures for his financial plan of next winter.
Miss Mary Putnam, daughter of the pub
Usher, is a medical student at Havre, France.
Senator Buckingham of Connecticut, has
been i'll, but is better.
Senator Sherman is to join the Pacific squad
before summer is over.
Mr.. Swinburne is i'll, and his friends fear
that he has written his last poem.
Bishop Simpson is soon to come out against
the doctrine of perfectibility, II report speaks
right.
Mr.. Robson is as literally and wholly under
the thumb of Porter as was the good-hearted but
flaccid Mr.. Borie.
Mrs. DR.. Mary Walker thinks shat the death
of the Presidents mare was judgment on him
for not giving her an office.
Mrs. General Williams, formerly Douglas,
is at the Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs also
Mrs. General Green, of North Carolina.
Colonel Charles d. PennybackeT, State
Agent for Kentucky, is dangerously ill at Wash
igton.
DIR. Daniel Read has been reelected Presi-
dent of the University of Missouri, at Columbia,
and in letter reviewing his labors in the insti-
tuition accepts the position.
Ex-senator Henderson has taken up his
residence in st. Louis, and intends to run
Walker-wise and Senter-wise for Governor of
Missouri.
1t is announced that in Mr.. Raymond's
papers was found a very entertaining and en-
livening sketch OF his first experience as local
reporter.
Hope Markins, of Marysville, Ky, is the
colored mother of five children at one birth, and
is now hunting through an almanac to find
names for them.
Miss Bessie Bisbee, one of Miss Anthony's
disciples, but beauty and saucy Withal, is
quoted as having perceived the error of her
ways, and that she will not do so any more.
Mutual friends are making an effort to re-
conce the slightly professional rivalries of Ole
Bull and Camilla Urso, and to bring them into
one company.
Commodore Case and not Captain Scott, as
has been published, is to succeed Admiral Dahl
gren as Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance of the
Navy Department.
The Board of Trustees of the Iowa Univer.
sity located at Mount Pleasant, has elected Hon.
James Harlan, United States Senator from that
State, president OF that institution. 1t is not
known whether he will accept.
The old war-horse of the Illinois Democracy,
William A. Richardson, says neigh to an attempt
to send him to a recent county convention. In
his letter declining nc says MS puoIC llle 10
losed.
Wade Bolton, who was shot some days since
at Memphis, Tennessee, by Mr.. Dickens, died on
Friday. In his will he bequeaths 800 0OOto charit-
able purposes, including $4,000 to Mrs. Stone.
wall jackson, and ten acres of land to each OF
his former slaves.
The Common Council of the city of Portland,
Oregon, has appointed a committee from their
body to receive Hon. William H. Seward on his
| arrival, and tender him the hospltaities OF the
| city. The citizens of Victoria, Vancouvers
| Island, have also made similar preparations TO
| give him generous reception.
| Alexander II. Stephens is not recovering
| from his late illness very rapidly. He has not
| been out of the house since February, and before
that carried out with great difficulty. ne is
| still daily engaged on the second volume OF MS
| look, and his friends think that the labor re-
| tards his recovery.
The New Orleans Picayune says that Gene-
! raj and Mrs. Bragg have left for Canada Inc
| General seeks this change that he may restore
| his impaired health. Mrs. Ellis, the mother OF
Mrs. Bragg, with her daughter, Miss Mamie
| Ellis, accompany the Generals family, ana Will
pass the summer travelling through Canada ana
| some of the Northern States.
Duke Louis of Bavaria, who was dlsgraced
| at court for marrying the actress Mad lie Men
| del has been restored to favor through the IN
teryention of the Empress of Austria His wife
Is said to be the most beautiful woman in Ger
many, and has always borne an unsullied repu-
tOtion.