The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-07
Personal GOSSIP.

John MOrrissey admits that he has lost
money in the last Wall street crash.
-Tennyson has written q letter to Edwin
Booth, congratuating him on the production
of Enoch Arden"
Mr.. James NJ. Woodruff, of Covlngton, Co,
committed suicide, last week, by blowing his
brains out with pistol.
THE name of General r. E. Lee is urged in
several of the Virginia papers for the presi-
dency of tho Virginia Valley Railroad.
|. Mr.. W.-F. Mason, most estimablc young
citizen of Macon, Co., was shot and instantly
Killed near that city, last week, by Mr.. Samuel
Colson.
Mr. Wheeler, of the firm of Wheeler G.
Wilson, is to be brought forward as q candl-
date for the Democratic nomihation for Cover
nor of Connecticut
Archbishop McCloskey, according to let
ter from Rome to a London journal, has hired
q carriage aud span at 1900 francs q month, to
facilitate his movements in the Eternal City.
-Koopmanschaap has appointed John
Ansbc, Of Memphis, late president of the Cor
man National Bank, and business manager OF
the Appeal, his agent for the Southern States.
Brigham Young calls the roll of his chill
dren every morning ut breakfast. When they
are oil able to put In en- appearance, there are
sixty-elght Of them there to respond to the
call.
Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D., has declared, in
letter to North Carolina, that no aid what
ever win be given from the Peabody Southern,
Educational Fund to sectarian or denomins-
tienal schools.
En- health is assigned as the reason for the
retirement of Hon. John Blgelow from r,ie edi-
torship Of the New York Times While he re.
mained in that position he received the COM
Portable salary Of two hundred and hfty dollars
per week. 1tlF.
Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods
prince, recently said to an acquaintance: 81
do business to establish principle. It is the
principle of truth. Iam in o state of continued
warfare to prevent what are called white lies
being told In my establishment
"A Amonument, which cost e25, 900, has been
erected In Laurel Grove Cemetery, near Sa-
vannahs over the remains Of the late Right
Rev. Rahop Stephen Elliott, ofAhe Diocese a
Georgia. On the front is cut the Bishops
mitre, aud in the rear the cross keys, SYMBOL
cal OF the Bishops office.
When General Chamberlain, Governor of
Maine, amer one Of the terrible battles of the
war, lay upon hospital couch, shot through
the body, and, ms all supposed, very near his
Il
end, the attendants began preparations for en-
balming his body, that It might be sent home
This was little earlier than the General de-
sired and moving fimselk, he said Gentle
men, i have made different arrangements. /
invite you qll to dine with me one week ftom
to-day.n ~. 4 -. ! :, vi.
There are men, here and there, who are q
little too smart even for themselyes ,Thess
Is a will now under settlement in!1yew York,
In which Srich old gentleman very ersctuaily
revenges himself upon Q son-in-law. Ithap1
pened that the son-in-law got some hold upon
the old man whereby Ne compelled him. to
settle tl00, 900 upon his wife (the OLD mans
dapghter) before the affair was arranged As
in duty bonnd, the old gentleman ultimately
paid the debt. Of nature, and OF course the
heirs were wide awake for the WILL, There
we're three daughters and one son, and the old
man len 70 the son u 100000, to each Of the
two anghtets n, ,Qoo, 900; but. to the daughter
whose husband had played The trick upon him