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

Joe Howard. Jr., has bought the New
York Star.
The widowed Marchioness of Hastings is Illus
tratng book of fairy tales.
brigham Young does the divorces in his do
mnons at ten dollars case
Jennie June says men should pay their wives
for household work The same rs they would any
one else.
-EX-Minister Harvey TO PortugaD whose salary
Congress stopped has received back pay 10 The
amount OF s2l, ,OoO gold.
The English poet laureate is building pleas
ure house on the Surrey hills not far from Godal-
ming. Mr.. Tennyson earns f40G0 = year by his
poetry alone.
-Thurlow Weed denies the report that he has
returned to the journalistic profession, and says
he is only engaged in preparing for publication
historical work.
Judge Grer has taken his winter quarters in
the capital, and asserts that his health is better
than it has been for years, and he doesn't mean
to resign to please the Radicals.
Miss Burdett Coutts, of England, has caused
an experiment to be made in Transporting cattle
by railroad. The trucks are provided with hay
racks, water troughs and other comfortable ar
rangemens.
Patti has declined an offer OF n million OF
francs 10 sing for ten months in the new serious
opera which 0nenbach has composed to libretto
by Sardou. Patti recently wounded her thumb
with q dagger which she held while playing the
part OF Gilla in "Rigoletto." The thumb hled,
but Patti went on with the performance.
The Baron dc Novo Friburgo, supposed to be
the wealthiest man in Brazil, died on the 4th Of
October. lie left instructions that his body,
placed in plain coflln, should be carried to the
grave in one OF his own carriages; also, that no
invitations should be issued to his funeral. His
dwelling house in Rio Janeiro is said to have cost
him 81 500 900; but he lived to enjoy it only year
or two.
The Paris correspondent OF the New York
Times says that Mrs. Grant has purchased In
France "somc six or seven thousand francs worth
OF dresses, bonnets, gloves, handkerchlefs, Shoes
&C., and as they have been selected by aperson OF
taste, and who knows Paris well, can promise
you that the wife OF our President will be one OF
the best dressed, if not the very best dressed,
women in the United States"
MFR. Paul Geraud, brother-in-law OF the Por-
tuguese Minister at Washington, is to be married
to-day to Miss Mary Worlnley, the daughter OF
rich and popular colored caterer, long resident
In Washington, and still in business there. &C.
raud is gentleman Of position and education
and is about twenty-seven years OF age. He Is
possessed OF considerable wealth, and has noted
connections in France, from whom he receives
life annuity. His future wife Is well educated,
her manners are pleasing, and she is described as
very handsome and very nearly white
-Giulla Grlsi, the once famous vocalist, who
died in Berlin on Monday last, was in this country
fifteen or sixteen years ago, where her brilliant
accomplishments made her one OF the greatest
favorites on the lyric stage. Grlsi was born in
Milan, In 1872, and was consequently ffty-seven
years OF age She made her debut in Bologna, at
the age Of seventeen years, and made great im-
preston by the grace and oveliness of her person.
her intelligence and fine vocal abilities Her first
appearance in Paris was In 1892 where she OBJ
tanned an engagement as prima donna Of the
Italian opera, through the influence OF Rossini.
Two years afterwards she appeared In London,
and both engagements were brilliant beyond ex-
pectation. Grsi was particularly great In the
part OF Norma. In the parts Of Semiramide, Lu-
crezIa Borgia and Elvira in the Purltani, the
latter OF which was written for her, she showed
dramatic capacities which made her scarcely less
attractive as an actress than as singer She
came to America in 1854, in company with Mario,
and returned to Europe after spending about q
year in this country, during which she sang in
nearly all the principal cities OF the United States.