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
-Grants family are like lumbermen-they
get all they az.
The head waiter at Newport hotel makes
*l00.a day in fees.
John Bright is happy. Victoria has asked
him to be "as friend"
They say in Paris that Patti-Caux is7-welI,
as some ladies love to be. r,-.s
-Blacque Bey plays the best game of whist
at White Sulphur Springs. .
Nine. Ristori is in Brazil, where she has
had an enthusiastic reception.
There is a test case In Idaho, involving tho
tax on Cinnamon and BurlinGame's treaty.
Tho author OF '.Beulab." .'st. Elmo" and
30 forth, is out with stil! another story. Great
Evans
Poor Carlotta lad enough method in her
madness 10 smash O bust f,of L. N. b. at
Larcken. tlr
lit is worthy Of remark that two Cinnamon
should have been in business go many years
without breaking.
Louisa Muhlbach grumblcs because Ame-
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 out through double line OF
police, 80 m7bped was sac by her admirers.
Simmons, the Hercules of the Harvard
crew, now in England, lives at Hawthorne's
sold Manse," and is q third cousin Of Emer-
son.
John Quincy Adams will accept tie DEM
ocratic nomination for Governor OF Massachu-
setts If rendered to him. though he does not
desire it.
-Sante .Beuve, the distinguished French
writer, aoademiclan and senator. Who has been
in critical condition, is in fair way Of
recovery.
Senator sprague, OF Rhode Islaud, has
erected sotlage near the. camp-meeting
ground at Martha'a Vineyard, which he will
occupy with his family this week. ,.,,
l. 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 III. Rouber charge him
with having made thirty millions OF francs
while in Office. His friends allege this TO be
calumny, and assert. that he is poor man, his
income not exceeding 800, 900 francs per annum.
Prince Nichulss Comnenus recently died
at Constantinople at the age Of seventy-tw
He was descendant of the Emperors OF the
Lower Empire Of that name. Under the reg
toration he was officially connected with the
French Embassy ut the Porte.
-Dr. Albert r. Weaver, OF Laramie. Illinois,
says the Memphis Appeal. is quite a bgamist.
Returns from nine counties, give him six
wives, and the balance Of the Slate, to hear
from,. BE is in Jail. in default Of $1,000 bail,
Numerous sympathiziug females cheer his
lonely cell by their visits. .S."r-ylr ,ust
The killing of the English traveller, Pow
ell, and his vito, In Abyssinia, was mercl1ess.
After Mr.. Powell and q missionary HID been
speared through by the natives, airs.. Powell,
sitting in chair with rifle In her hands be-
fore her, got spear In the breast, and, flying
to her husband's side. was stoned TO death. !,
The Marquis Of Bate occupies at Rome The
same palace that was occupied by James Stusr.
-James III. as his partisans! called, him, and
the young Preterder, Charles Edward, - who
died in this very palace in 1873, both collateral
ancestors OF the Marquis. This palace his
another memory attached to ft; 1t was the
home OF Edmund About's "ToiIa.''
Mrs. Harriet Beeoher Stoves explorations
into the private infelIe:ties Of the Byron family
will have two.fold result. MI Lori, the poet,
will now be read by thousands who had pre-
viousIy neither leisure nor inclination Tor
'.jingling rhymes" and his adoring mistress
the Countess Gulceiolt, or her Representatives,
may safely count on an extensive sale OF her
book.
| Tho following joke is too good to be lost:
\ General ButEer was taking tea at the house
# lady friend In Waahingt gton, the other day.
TIE general seemed to looked as though some-
thing vss lacking. ana the following dialogue
took place: Hostess 'CAn It be possible, gen.
erai, you have no spoon9' Boiler, rising in.
dignantly and holding out both hands-.No.
me.'"
The Edinburgh Review tells the following
story OF Walter ssysae IAndor: "In bis garden
walks he would bend over the flowers With q
sort OF worship. but rarely touched one oi
them. The form which the notoristy Of this
sentiment took in the Rlorenttne legend was
that he had ons day. sisef an I'm nne.s.1. as.....,
Htbrown tho cook out d, the window, and, While
Ne man WAS writhing With broken limb,
Ated, Good Godl ISorgos the aowsas,','