The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-09-30
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

MIR. Henry W. Raymond, son OF the late edi-
tor of the New York Times. will assume, next
month, position on the editorial staff Of that
paper.
Mile. Nilsson has entered into an engage
ment to sing at various places in England from
the 18th OF September to the 18th OF Decem Der
for the sum of 100000 francs.
George Washington has just been sent to
the virginla State Prison. Thomas Jefferson
Daniel Webster, and John @. Calhoun were al
ready there, and Napoleon Bonaparte and Wade
Hampton have received tickets of admission.
1t is rumored that Mrs. Stowe is engaged
to write new life Of George Washington,
showing him up in the light Of voluptuary.
It ia said also that she has fastened her clutch
on the prophets of the Bible, and expects to
write up their amours in style that will
make sensation in the Massachusetts board
ing-schools.
Boston tells the story OF man, aged one
hundred and four who, on his one hundredth
birthday, ordered a pair Of shoes, saying he
wanted them, stoutly built. The shoemaker
remarked that he might not live to wear them
out, but he sharply retorted that he began
this one hundred years a good deal stronger
than he did the last one.
Mr.. Alfred Austin, who wrote poem call
ed 'The Season." has felt called upon to pub
lish q vindication Of Lord Byron; Mr.. William
Howitt and about dozen others are writ
ing letters on the same subject to the London
newspapers, and Mr.. John Camden Hotten, OF
Piccadilly, has collected and is going to pub
ish in volume everything on the topic that
everybody of note has put forth.
Professor Faber's speaking machine is to
be exhibited at Hamburg during the Interna-
tional Horticultural Exhibition. 1t is said to
articulate various words, and even to answer
questions by simple sentences with wonderful
distinctness. This is not the first invention OF
the kind that has been exhibited. Wolfgang
Won KempeIen, the inventor Of a chess auto
maton, who was born at Presburg in 1874, and
died at Vienna in 1904, constructed machine
of the kind, and wrote on the subject. The
machine about to be exhibited ut Hamburg is,
however, reputed 10 be more perfect than any
previous invention of the kind.
"A lesson for the sedentary and for lazy
young men is taught by the feat just now per-
formed in England by the veteran pedestrian
Mountjoy. He is over sixty years OF ago, and
vet he undertook to travel one hundred and
fifty miles by foot in three days. He started
from the Bellevue Hotel, Clapham-c
On the first day he traversed fifty miles in thir-
teen hours and forty minutes on the second
he occupied fourteen hours in the fifty miles
tourney; and on the third he finished the one
hundred and fifty miles, and performed fifty
miles in thirteen hours, and at O'Clock he
came to the winning goal and accomplished his
feat. A large number Of spectators were pre-
sent.
"A correspondent OF an English journal
gives q dismal account ol the appearance OF
MIR. Gladstone, who has been striving to build
ND his health at the seashore. This writer
says that the three weeks OF absolute repose
and sea air have apparently done nothing to-
ward improving bis health, and that he looks
Infinitely more careworn." and seems to pos
sess sc zen less constitutional vigor than ht
presented q few days before the close Of the
session." The correspondent says he has seen
MIR. Gladstone seven times since his return to
London, and that "the sunken eyes, the Pelt
face, the nervous glance, the shambhng gait
the stopped shoulders, the quick, shirkine
movement, all betoken q nervous system in {
high state of tension, and a physical frame in
condition of amentable exhaustion" Eng
land can ill afford 10 lose the services OF Mr.
Gladstone; and we trust that this picture
though sketched by friendly hand, is over
drawn.