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, congratulatng him on the production
of "Enoch Arden"
Mr.. James NJ Woodruff, of Covington, Ca,
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 the Virginia Valley Railroad.
Mr. w. F. Mason, most estimable young
citizen of Macon, Ca, was shot and instantl,
killed near that city, last week, by Mr.. Samuel
Colson.
Mr. Wheeler, of the firm Of Wheeler Il
Wilson, is to be brought forward as candi-
nor of Connecticut.
Archbishop McCloskey, according to a let
ter from Rome to q London journal, has hired
a carriage and span at 1900 francs month, to
facilitate his movements in the Eternal City.
-Koopmanschaap has appointed John
Ainsbe, OF Memphis, late president of the Ger
man National Bank, and business manager ef
the Appeal, his agent for the Southern States.
Brigham Young calls the roll of his chill
dren every morning at breakfast. When they
are all able to put in an appearance, there ore
sixty-eight of them there to respond TO the
call.
Rev. Barnas Sears, D. D., has declared, in
a letter to North Carolina, that no aid what
ever will be given from the Peabody Southern
Educational Fund to sectarian or denomina-
tional schools.
I'LL health is assigned as the reason for the
retirement OF Hon. John Bigelow from the edi-
torship of the New York Times. While he re-
NAMED in that position he received the COM
Portable salary of two hundred and fifty dollars
per week.
Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods
prince, recently said to an acquaintance: \
do business to establish principle. 1t is the
principle Of truth. am in a state Of continued
warfare TO prevent what are called white lies
being told in my establishment
"A monument which cost s25, 900, has been
erected in Laurel Grove Cemetery, near Sa-
vannah, over the remains Of the late Right
Rev. Bishop Stephen Elliott, Of the Diocese of
Georgia. On the front is cut the Bishops
mitre, and in the rear the cross keys, symbol
cal OF the Bishops office.
When General Chamberlain, Governor of
Maine, after one of the terrible battles Of the
war, lay upon hospital couch, shot through
The body, and as all supposed, very near his
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 himself, he said Gentle
men, / have made different arrangements.
invite you all to dine with me one week from
to-day"
There are men, here and there, who are a
little too smart, even for themselves. There
is will now under settlement in New York,
in which rich old gentleman very eflectually
rcvcnges himself upon a son-in-law. 1t hap
pened that the son-in-law got some hold upon
the old man whereby he compelled him 10
settle 100000 upon his wife (the old mans
daughter) before the affair was arranged. AS
in duty bound, the old gentleman ultimately
paid the debt of nature, and Of course the
heirs were wide awake for the will. There
were three daughters and one son. and the old
man left 10 the son 81 100000, to each Of the
two daughters 81 900, 900; but to the daughter
whose husband had played the trick upon him