The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-03-06
Personal GOSSIP.

| ly too fond Of old port.
Miss Susan 3. anthony is in favor OF wo.
men riding aslride on velocipedes.
King John, of Saxony, has set about trans
lating all of Shakespeare's plays.
The well known Marshal George P. Kane
is candidate for Sheriff in Baltimore.
-Gounod, tue composer Of 'Faust," is o
vegetarian, and has not drunk any wine for
many years.
Henry Ward Beecher made $4,000 last
year, of which s19 600 was made by preaching,
and $2S, 900 otherwise.
Mrs. Beecher Stoves celebrated farm in
Florida is for sale. 1t is said to have proved
anything but a success.
-Giacomo Meyerbeer, it has now been as-
certained, left to his family fortune Of nine
hundred thousand dollars.
The Austrian ambassador at Rome paid
$50, 600 for his servants iveries on the occa-
sion Of his recent presentation to the Pope.
The Rev. d. W. Beecher said in his ser
mon delivered two weeks ago, II hate black.
It is not Gods color. Wtiie is Gods COLOR"
One banker II Paris, NJ. Thibaudeau, holds
seventy thousauu pounds worth of Confede-
rate bonds, for which he paid fifty per cent. Of
their face.
-Modesty is Carl Schurz's strong point. At
complimentary banquet in New York, he
asserted that the Germans emigrating to this
country possess a cultivation unknown to
Americans, adding that he was going to Con-
gress to prove it.
A once famous Bohemian man of letters,
named Chavannes, died recently in Paris,
leaving the following burlesqne will, which
was found under his pillow: II have nothing.
lesve it all to the Societe de gems de Letres,
and the rest to my creditors"
The leading feuilletonist Of the Gaulois,
who receives fifty thousand francs year, is
beardless youth, who left the st. Barbe College
two years ago. Hewrites under various noH,s
de plume and is considered the most talented
of the younger Parisian journalists. His real
name is, for some reason or other, concealed
from the public.
"A more astonishing musical prodigy than
Mozart is little Susie Medberry, Of Baltic,
Mass. Before she could speak words, when
but ten months old, she would sing entire
tunes correctly. At two and half years old
she sang publicly before large audiences, and
now, at four years Of age, plays upon the piano
or cabinet organ with marvellous talent.
-Auber, Gounod, Verdi and Wagner, the
four great composers, are worth together over
two million francs. Ofenbach hes not saved
much money. he is stock gambler, and has
been unIucky. He has also mado some disas-
trous theatrical ventures. Aubor despses
Ofenbach's works, and predicts that their
author will live to see the day when they are
forgotten.
Henri Rochefort lives at Brussels in very
fine house, for which ho pays 20 600 francs a
year rent. He keeps splendid carriage, half
dozen servants, and gives expensive enter
tainments. The Dix Decembre, the Bonapart-
ist weekly, OF Paris, calls upon the French
Democrats no longer to patronize man who,
while pretending to be their special champion,
leads the life of Sybaritic aristocrat.
-Miss Keiloggs temperance at the Acade-
my Of Music Monday evening was decidedly
the musical event of the year. Not only was
every seat in the opera house occupied, but
every foot of standing room was crowded, aud
already very large proportion of the seats
have been sold for the rest Of the season. The
Tribune says the acting was natural, the vocal
ism unaffected and simple, and that Miss Kel-
logG achieved not only fashionable, but an
artistic success.
Count Beust's personal appearance has re-
Gently undergo one very marked change. His
hair is turning very gray, and his handsome
face is becoming very angular and emaciated.
Hard work is believed to be the cause. Beust
is thought to be the most indefatgable Of Eu-
ropoan prime ministers. He generally works
in his cabinet until one in tho morning, and
rises again at seven. TIE Emperor entertains
the liYeiest admiration for him, and often
saws that he believes Beust to be the public
functionary who earned his salary moro hon.
estly than any other official in Austria.
"A New York letter speaks Of Roger A. Pryor
as follows After the surrender OF Lee and
Johnston he came North, and has lived here
ever since. He says the South was whipped;
that he has accepted the situation, put the Bit
ter past behind him, and gone to work, and
thinks it would be much better II his late COM
pauions-in-arms would do likewise. Pryor has
little of the old swagger, the overweening van
ity, the supreme self-consciousness OF other
days. He takes no part in politics, writes no
letters, gives no counsel, but very wisely keeps
silence, and submits gracefully to the ineyita-
bio. Pryor is picturesque-lookins brunette;
slight, erect and graceful in figure; has an in
tellectual face, with quite prominent featuress
wears his hair long and behind his ears; is an
interesting and fluent talker, winning in man
nors, and socially a very pleasant fellow. H
has wife and family, and is getting good
practice. On the whole, he is one of the best
specimens I know OF reconstructed rebel,
and shows how much improved man may
be when he has had the nonsense fairly taken
ont of him" :"