The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-13
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

Madame Rlston is said to have made
$4,000 In Buenos Ayrcs.
champagne Charley" is evidently Charles
lledslck.
The Plymouth Church people propose to add
$4,000 to Mr. Beccher's salary.
DIR. Livingstone Is to Dc Sir David Livingstone
II he ever gets back to England.
The Queen OF Madagascar has accepted Chris
tlanlty, and burned oil her IDOLS
Manager Bateman has been dismissed from
the Manhattan Club for his assault on Cranston.
The new French coinage Is to bear the pro.
files of tile Empress and the Prince Imperial
alongside that OF the Emperor.
1t looks as II Mr.. Edward Thornton, the Brit
ish Minister at Washington, had life office. 1t
Is announced that lie Is to remain IN his present
position till the Alabama question Is settled.
The birth Of the infant princess of England
happened quite unexpectedly. The Prince and
Princess OF Wales having been ont, returned home
ut IL P. NJ, and an hour afterwards the infant
was born.
Sam Collyer, of Baltimore, has been matched
to fight Billy Edwards, OF New York, for $4,000
side and the light weight championship OF Ameri'
ca: tile fight to come or in seven weeks from next
Wedncsday-March 2d.
After an intermsson Of eighteen hundred
years, LaugIni reopens the Pompeii Theatre with
"The Child of the Regiment" solicits the contlnu-
ance of the patronage bestowed ON his predeces'
sor, Marcus Quintus Martius, and promises to
equal the efforts OF that eminent manager.
The precise period at which the unmarried fe-
male Is willing to confess that she Is an old maid
has at last been ascertained. Miss Jelf OF Eliza.
beth, New Jersey, who has just passed her one
hundred and fourth birthday, admits that she
was an old maid at least four years ago.
General Joseph E. Johnston has definitely de-
clined TO accept the protiered presidency OF the
University of Nashville, Tennessee. At first lie
intlmated his probable willingness to accept II,
but lie has decided that the business engagements
he is at present under bind him in honor to de-
cline it.
Mario did not poison himself for grlel al
Crisis death, but is singing away in the opera at
st. Petersburg as il nothing had happened, Next
season he goes to London, but at the close OF the
engagement will retire from the stage in order to
indulge his postponed grief In decorous and
fashionable manner.
Albert Pelham Clinton Is youthful English
Lord. As usual he is in debt He is also pedes-
trian. lie recently walked ten miles on wager,
winning fo5O. This he handed over to his credi.
tors The Pail Mall Gazette urges him to keep on,
and in time he will walk out of debt If not out
of reach OF his creditors.
The New York papers say divorce suit,
which promises some rich developments, is about
to be commenced in the courts OF New Jersey.
The parties in the case are rather aged and
we'll known man, q director OF the Erie Railroad
Company, reported to be worth five million dol
lars, and his wife, young woman OF about twen-
ty-eight years, a descendant OF wealthy Dutch
family of Bergen. The husbands time was
wholly engaged In the interests of Erie and in
amasiing wealth, and his wife attended balls,
parties and amuse uents, drew around her plenty
Of admirers, and CO a result was finally driven
from her home.