The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-12-03
Personal GOSSIP.

Joe Howard. Jr., has bought tLc New
York Star.
Ire widowed Marcl,ioncss Of Hastings is illus.
tratins Il book of fairy tales.
-Brisham Young does the divorces in his do.
minionS at ten dollars 81 case.
Jennie jane says men should pay their wives
for household work the same ~ they would any
one else.
-EN-MiniSicr Harvey ito PortugaD whose salary
Congress stopped, has received back nav 10 tie
amount or -, ,oUp, gold.
Tho English poet laureate is building n pleas.
urc house OH the Surrey hills not fur from t;oal.
ming. Mr.. Tcnnyson earns GlUOo a year by his
poetry alone.
-Ihufi0w Weed denies the report that he has
returned to the journalistic profession and says
he Is only engaged in preparing for publication u
hist orlcal work.
Judge Gricr has taken his winter quarters In
tac capital, and asserts that his health Is hotter
than II lias been for years, and lie doesn't mean
TO resign to please the Radicals.
Miss Burdct Coults, OF England, has caused
an experiment to be made in transporting cattle
by railroad. The trucks are provided with hay
racks, water tr0ughs AMI other comfortable ar
rangcmcns.
>--iatti has declined an offer OF a million OF
francs to sing for ten months in the new serious
opera which 0iTenbuch has composed to iibrctio
by Sardou Patti recently wounded her thumb
wt'' dagger which she held while playing the
par; OF G!l'la in ''Iligolctto." The thumb b,cd
bnt Patti went OH with The performance.
Tile Earon dc Novo Fribu,go, supposed to he
the wealt!'iest man in Brazil, died Oh the lih OF
October. lie left instructions that his body,
placed in plain conln, should bc carried To- the
grave i'll one OF his own carriages; Also tina, no
Invitations should he issued to his funeral Hi,
dwelling house in Rio Janciro is said to have cost
him Sl.5Oo,OoO; but he lived 10 enjoy it only year
on two.
The Paris correspondent, of the New York
Times says that Mrs. Grant has purchased In
Frai.ce 'somc six or seven thousand francs worth
of dresses, bonncls, gloves, handkerchiefs shoes
&c., and rs they have been selected by person of
taste, and who knows Paris we'll | can promise
you that the wife Of onr President will bc one of
the best dressed if not the very best dressed
women In the United S,atcs.-
Mr.. Paul Gcraud, brothcr.in-iaw Of the Por-
tngucsc Minister ut Washington is TO he married
to-day TO Miss Mary Wormlcy, the daughter OF a
rich ana popular colored caterer, long resident
in Washington, and still In business there. &c.
raud is . gentleman OF position and education
AMI is about twenty-scvcn years of age lie is
possessed OF considerable wealth, AMI has noted
connections In France, from whom he receives q
iiic uHHullS' MS luturc WIG Is well educated,
her manners are pleasing, and she is described as
very handsome and very nearly white.
-Gua Grls, tile once famous vocalist who
died in Berlin on Monday last, was in this colntry
fifteen or sixteen years ago, where her brilliant
accomplishments made her one OF the greatest
| favories on the lyric stage. Grisi was born In
Milan, In 1872, AMI was consequently iifty.seven
years OF age. Sic made her debut In bologna, Mt
the age OF seventeen years, and made Il great inl.
preston by the grace aud lovelincss of her person.
her intelligence ana fine vocal abilities. Her first
appearance In Paris was In 1892, where she oh.
tancd an engagement Us prima donna OF the
Italian opera. through the influence of Rossini.
! Two venus alterwaius she appeared in London
! M" ~ hgagemcss s:4-,'erc brilliant beyond OK
| pcctatton. Grlsi was particularly great In the
part oi Norma. IN the parts OF Semiramidc Lu
crezia Borgia and Elvira in the Puritani, the
| latter OF which was written for her, she showed
dramatic capacities which made her scarcely less
| attractive MS an actress than as singer. She
| came TO America In 1854, la company with Mario
aud returned to Europe after spending about q
| year III this country, during which she sang In
nearly all the principal cities OF the United States