The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-24
PERSONAL.

Gladstone has bought villa on the Rhine.
Patti is singing at the German watering
places.
Grants family are like Fundamentally
get all they az.
The head waiter ct Newport hotel makes
500 day in fees.
John Bright is happy. Victoria has asked
hin to be ''as friend"
They say in Paris that Patti-Caux is-wel,
as some ladies love to be.
-Bhcque Bey plays the best game of whist
at White Sulphur Springs.
>-Mme. Ristori is in Brazil, where che has
had an enthusiastic reception.
There is test case in Idaho, involving the
tax on Cinnamon and Buriingame's treaty.
The author OF 'Beulah," "St. Elmo, and
90 forth, is out with still another story. Great
'EvansiS
Poor Carlotta lad enough method in her
madness to smash bust Of L. N. B. at
Iarcken.
1t ls worthy Of remark that two Chinamen
should have been in business 80 many years
without breaking.
Louisa Muhlbach grumbles because Anne
rican publishers don't make her as big offers
as they did when her books sold well.
When Nilsson sang at the Crystal Palace,
she bad to come outthrough double line OF
police, so m1bbed was she by her admirers.
Simmons, the Hercules Of the Harvard
crew, now in England, lives at Hawthorne's
"Old Manse," and is third cousin of Emer-
SOD.
John Quincy Adams will accept the DEM
ocratic nomination for Governor of Massachu-
setts il rendered to him. though he does not
desire it.
-Sante. .Beuve, the distinguished French
writer, academiclan and senator, who has been
in q critical condition, is in lair way OF
recovery. 6.
Senator Sprague, OF Rhode Island, has
erected cottage near the camp-meetlng
ground at Nartha's Vineyard, which he will
occupy with his family this week.
The other day lady in the Dark Corner
Of Carroll County, Ga, gave birth to twins.
On the same day and in the same house two OF
her daughters brought forth twins-all boys.
Old Carroll is certainly the banner county.
The enemies OF NJ. Rourer charge him
with having made thirty millions OF francs
while in office. His friends alleae this to be
calumny, and assert that he is poor man, his
income not exceeding 500, 900 francs per annum.
Prince Nicholas Comnenus recently died
at Constantinople at the age of seventy-two.
he was descendant Of the Emperors OF the
Lower Empire of that name. Under the res
toration he was officially connected with the
French Embassy at the Porte.
DIR. Albert z. Weaver, OF Laramie, Illinois,
says the Memphis Appeal, is quite bigamist.
Returns from niue counties gle him six
wives, and the balance Of the State TO hear
from. He is in Jail in default Of $1,000 bail.
Numerous sympathiziug females cheer his
lonely cell by their visits.
The killing of the English traveller, Pow
ell, and his wife, in Abyssinia, was merciless.
After MIR. Powell and missionary had been
speared through by the natives, Mrs. Powell,
sitting in chair with rife in her hands be-
fore her, got spear in the breast, and, flying
to her husbands side. was stoned to death.
The Marquis of Butte occupies at Rome the
same palace that was occupied by James Stuar.
james III, as his partisans called him, and
the young Preterder. Charles Edward, who
died in this very palace in 1888, both collateral
ancestors of the Marquis. This palace has
another memory attached to it; it was the
home OF Edmund About's ''Tolla.'
Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stoves explorations
into the private infelicities Of the Byron family
will have two.fold result. Hi Lor l, the poet,
will now be read by thoueands who had pre-
viously neither leisure nor inclination for
'jinglng rhymes" and his adoring mistress
the Countess Gulccioli, or her representatives,
may safely count on an extensive sale Of her
book.
The following joke is too good to be lost:
General RDtler was taking tea at the house
of lady friend in Washington, the other day.
The general seemed to looked as though some
thing was lacking, and the following dialogue
took place: Hostess-'Can it be possible, gen.
eral, you have no spoonP Butler, rising in-
dignantly and holding out both hsnds-'No,
madam; il you don't believe it, you can search
me-"
The Edinburgh Review tells the following
story OF Walter Savage Landor: SIN bis garden
walks he would bend over the flowers with
sort OF worship, but rarely touched one OF
them. The form which the notoriety OF this
| sentiment took in the Florentine legend was
that he had one day, after an imperfect dinner,
thrown the cook out Of the window, and, while
the man was writhiDg with broken limb,
calculated, Good God forgot the flowers. ,"