The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-04
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

rich.
Olive Logan has over one hundred engage
ments to lecture this season.
-Eugenlc borrowed s5O,ooo at Alexandria to
help pay her expenses homeward.
Anna Sten O German actress OF some re-
pute, recently committed suicide In New Orleans
Mr.. Edwin Booth and his wife live In ele-
CANT apartments at their own theatre in New
York.
Madame Ristori recently wrote to Miss ka te
Field: "Can l ever forget your dear country,
where passed year and half so delightfully."-,
receiving the warmest testimonies OF affection
from every class OF society, enjoying perfect
health, breathing In air charged With vitality, and
rcasting my eyes on skies rs blue as those OF
Italy always speak OF your
country with enthusiasm, bearing its emory en-
graved upon my heart, and wishing that pro-
.voEingly wide and indlgestlble sea did not sepa-
rate me from people that long to meet again."
The neurology OF the past year embraces the
names of the following statesmen, politicians and
dlplomatlsts of America: Juan Nepomuceno Al.
monte, Edward Bates John Bell, Nathaniel S.
Benton John Minor Bolts, James Topham Brady,
william Pitt Fesseaden, Benjamin Fitzpatrick,
Edison B. Olds,AFrancls W. Pckens, Franklin
Pierce, Thom2sG. Pratt, John A. Rawlins, Henry
]. Raymond Joseph Ritner, Lowell II. Rousseau,
lorenzo Sherwood, Edwin N. Stanton, Frederick
A. Tallmadgc, Isaac Toucey, Robert ]. Walker
and Charles A. WickliGe.
The Washington Star says: "The opponents
to George A. Pearre are making great efforts to
defeat his confirmation as Circuit Judge by the
Senate A circular is being extensively clrcu-
lated here purportlng to come from many Re-
publcans OF Western Maryland quoting from
all address made by Pearre, on November 8, 1867,
to the voters of Allegheny County, in which he
positively denied that lie was In favor Of negro
suffrage or negro equality or that he favored put
ting negroes in the Jury box. The circular also
charges that Pcarre stated to Mr.. Samuel Hal
lcr-a Republican member OF the Maryland Leg is
aturc of ,65-that the Civil Rights bIll' was un-
constitutional; aud IL lie were Judge no negro
could testify before him under it."
-"Mcdora Leigh: Diary and Autobiography"
is the title OF book to he edited by Charles Mac
kay and published by Bentley, OF London. The
veteran publisher recently telegraphed TO Mrs
Stowe an urgent request that she would postpone
the publication OF her book until she should have
had an opportunity Of correcting her impression
aud OF learning the origin Of the slanderous
charge Of incest brought against Lord Byron and
his hall.slster, the Hon. Mrs. Leigh. Medora
Leigh was the fourth daughter OF Mrs. Leigh. At
the age of fifteen, while living with her eldest
sister, the wife OF "the scoundreN rrevanion, she
was scduced by her sisters husband, who after
separating from his wife, carried Mcdora to the
south of France There the scducer and his victim
lived together for several years before. In order
to retain his hold upon her, Trevanlon invented
and told her the horrible story that Lord Byron
her father This story Medora communicated in
q rcproachful letter to her mother, who never re-
piled to it. Lady Byron subsequently heard OF
the story, hunted up Medora and brought her
home, but afterwards, In one OF her freaks, sent
her away Such, according to this "Dlary and
Autobiography which, brief and meagre as 1t is,
Mr.. Bentley believes to be authentic, is the story
which crazed Lady Byron and which, repeated by
Mrs. Stowe, has scandalized the world Perhaps
Mrs. Stowe will tell US something more about
Medora Leigh in her forthcoming volume
"A curious cause has just been decided by the
Civil Tribunal Of Orleans, France. A jeweller,
named Gilllon, sued the ex-Queen Isabella, OF
spa!n, the French Minister of the INTERIOR and II.
R. III. the Infanta Isabella Ferdinanda de Bourbon,
tile Queens sister.in-law, for the value of q set
of pearls and amcthysts and other jewels supplied
to the last named princess. Gilllon declared
that if he had been induced to give her credit,
1t was because, when she went to Orleans to
place her son ut q seminary and her daughters in
a convent, the Project OF the Department, by or
der of the Minister OF the Interior lodged her in
his house, and introduced her to the great local
fllnctionares who wed with each other In
giving balls and festivals in her honor. As
she coud not 60 to these without Jewels, and
had forgotten to bring her own, she all
dressed herself to NJ. Gillion. Part oil the
Jewels ordered were not ready when her Royal
IIighncss left Orleans, md were forwarded to the
Spanish Consul at Bayonne by whom they were
transmitted to the Spanish Minister of Foreign
Affairs by that functionary's express order. Such
were the grounds OF the action brought against
the cx-Quccn and the French Minister Of the In
terror. The tribunal, however, did not hold them
to be liable, and non-Suited Gon with costs so
far rs they were concerned. On the other hand,
il condemned her Royal Highness the Infanta to
pay the sum claimed, with interest," anu costs.
But as the said lnlanta was declared IN thc course
OF the trial, to be perfectly insOlyent and enor-
mollsly i'm debt anu possessed only ola yearly al
lowance made to her In her capacity OF Spanish
Princess and which could not be attached, tile
Orleans jewellers chances OF reimbursement APP
pcar 10 be OF the smallest especially as 1t must be
considered more than doubtful whether the new
Spanish government will continue to pay h. pen
-;o, af tlIna