The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-04-06
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

MIR. Cyrus w. Field ia worth Sc, 900, 900.
day.
Sven Mr.. Greeley asks for an end to ",he re-
construction betlevilment."
-Hugcnic Is growing economical, and now
wears some OF her dresses twice.
MIR. a. T. Stewart paid $27O0 last year to the
police for watching his clerks
Hudson Z. Bridge was elected president OF the
Pacific Railroad Tuesday last, In st. LouIs.
"A French gentleman recently proclaimed
himself King OF Patagonia
Horace Grcecy's daughter Ida Is writing
"Tropical Skctchesn for the Tribune.
"A Chicago woman has procured q divorce he.
cause her husband would not lei her join ballet
troupe.
1t Ia understood that General Ames, senator
elect from Mississippi, is 10 be married to Miss
Blanche Butler, daughter OF General Prtler.
Tho French Prince Imperial Is said 10 be
clever with his pencil, ana has drawn portrait
of himself for his godfather the Pope.
Mr.. Charles Dickens, .Jr., has made such
marked success ms an amateur actor that a false
report has gained currency in England that he
intends to adopt the stageas profession.
-Elihu Burritt, the learned blacksmith, Is try
ing to induce the English to adopt our orthogra-
phy, by showing that it costs them s5o, 900 year
to spell labor with q n.
The German papers announce the death OF
Moscheles, the once famous pianist and composer,
and the tutor OF Thalserg nnd Mendessohn, at
the age OF sercnty-sx years.
The present Earl OF Derby Is disposing OF his
fathers stud Just as the late Earl disposed OF his
fathers nena.cric. The mares Rcpulsc and In.
spra,lon brought 1000 and eco guincas respcc-
lively. Thirty horses were sold for l84o cuineas.
There Is an old gentleman In Paris whose
only occupation consists in securing a copy Of the
hills OF fare OF all noted dnners He has collec-
ton Of these extending over forty years, with the
opnlons o: the dishes and wine expressed by
some of the guests.
"A Pennsylvania editor rejects an advertise
mcnt sent min by an Indiana lawyer on the con-
ditlon that he should take his pay In divorces,
saying, however, that he does so because he Is
batcbcor end the proposition is ''scandalously
premature"
New York papers give an account OF man
I'm Queens County, In that State, who was seized
with hydrophobia, and 1t becoming impossible to
relieve him, at was found necessary 10 cause
his death by smotherng him between feather
beds"
-Lamartine's estate and chateau OF Monceau,
near Macon was advertised to be sold by auction
last Saturday. The widow Of the improvldent
poet was Compelled to this sacrifice by the de-
mand Of the numerous creditors OF her late hus-
band.
John Powers, who murdered Catholic priest
In Bellefop,ainc, Ohio, last November, has been
acquitted on the charge Of insanity. 1t was tes-
fled on the trial that he was known In Buffalo as
"Crazy Jack;n that lie once thought lie had been
changed into statue; that he imagined lie had
big ny in his stomach, &c.
Melton Ellis, q son of the proprietor OF paper
nlll in South Dcdhan. Massachusetts,, last week,
got caught In the shaltins and was carried over
the shaft twenty times, striking violently against
the ceiling above and tile steam pipes below. He
was dcnulcd OF all his clothing except ono stock
inr and SHIRT sleeve. No bones were broken and
he is expected to recover.
The New Orleans Times says that ever since
the termination Of the war tile mind OF the Hon.
Pierre Suule has been unsettled, but during the
last Two years it has been completely unhnged.
Tho once great orator. uncqualled advocate, &C.
complished jurIst and scholar, dwindled Into
helpless and hopeless imbccile, and passed the
last two years OF his life in the most frivolous anu
imbccl.c manifestations OF tile complete over
throw OF his once magnificent powers.
cit is almost needless to state" says the
London Daily Telegraph, "that the paragraph
now going the rounds OF the metropolitan aHd
provincial papers concerning court honors to Mr..
Charles Dickens has no foundation In fact. We
shall probably run no risk OF error If we conclude
that Mr.. Dickens, visit to her Majesty was in obe-
dieuce TO the express desire OF most ardent ad-
m!rer Of Ills works, naturally anxious to make
the personal acquaintance OF their distinguished
authur