, 1870-05-18
Personal

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4 Mexican offers to shoot Juatez for $500,
The Madrid journals announce the arrival
Of A. Dumas, ST., who is collecting materials
for = work entitled "The Past, Tho Present,
and the Future Of SPAIN
General Goiconria was captured, by ono
Of the gunboats built in this country for
Spain. :
Pope Innocent XII. e1communicatcd al
who used tobacco in any form, while Pius TX
uses snuff and smokes.
Edward BurliDgame, son OF the late Minis
tar, ia going to look after the San Francisco
property purchased by his father there four
years ago, and which Californians declare is
now worth SS00, 600. : :.
The London Court Circular, o. April 23,
says N A marriage is arranged between the
Hons Henry CoWper, NJ P, brother OF the
Earl Cowpcr, and Mrs. Ives, daughter OF his
E1cellency Mr. Motley, the United States Min
isters
The Nashville Ban,se7. announces that. the
l1nees Of the Hon. Gustavus A. Henry, .tthe
eagle orator Of Tennessee" ia Of such = -seri-
Gus character (cancer OF the stoMach) that he
can 1.-Two but = few days.
! -Ma1in,iHsn's Quartermaster, once q
wealthy French merchant, is selling soda for
living in Texas.
Brick Pomeroy says John Mor1issoy does
not make q living by his toll. bat br his tolls,
. .-Edward palclfo1d, Of Savannah, Ga, has
given $10. 900 for the erection OF church for
puorsand infirn freedmen
-Dr. 4. 7. Helmbold, Henry Clewes, Geo.
Osborn. Professor Eastman, Pap Gilman, and
Potter Palmer. will each sport a fou1-in-haud
-Genelal p1aft, the sGreat American
IraTef16r," says that, "after thirty years. ex-
pe1ience, enough to put down million ortli-
nary: men forever, be has como to the conclu-
sion That American politics is hell's g1ist mill
to grind up devils in"
Han n1r ntt so ,
the beat ahot in America. He can knock the
ashes OH any mans cigar at thirty PAGES, who
has courage enough to hold it ii his mouth
when the Recorder fires- Very confidential
friends have allowed him to shoot dime from
6etween their fingers; and after dinner, young
apple on the top Of his head.
Tile Belgian, Lathaumos, who was recently
convicted and sentenced to death for the mur-
der Of a1me- Lombard, and tho attempted mur-
der OF fellow-seTyant, received 8 remission
Of the capital sentence. 6nd WAS brought before
the Criminal Court that the Communication to
forced labor for life might be formally an
bounced to him. When the decree apazing hlB
hfe was read he evinced no emotion, but told
the oflicera who guarded him Tint he had only
one cause of regret, and that wns that he had
failed to IN his felow.se!v4nt, NJ The eook.;*
is said to possess remarkable talent, is about
to enter the literary field IL 3 juvenile novel;
ist, her book being now nearly ready for prees,
to be Illustrated By herself with much humor
and spiris; Miss, Greeley, daughter Of Horace
Greeley, 1s also writings book to be called
Tropical Sketches-":
A young man named Frank Thorne, now
stopping in Buffalo, has concluded arrango-
ncnts with parties at Niagara Falls, to make a
leap from the new suspension bridge into the
river, distance OF 100 feet, on the 18th OF
next August. Seats sufficient to accommodate
several thousand persons will be erected along
both shores. TAorue Is to receive the sum Of
$40, 600 for tho undertaking.
"A despatch from Paris announces tho,
death Of Baron Ernest John de staclelberg,
Russian Minister to- tho Court OF Napoleon
III; Baron de Stscke1berg occupied the posi-
ton Of Ambassador Extraordinary, and, Minis
ter rlenipoteutiary for more than two years:
prerious to being sent 10 represent his 1mpe-
nal uastcr at the French Court, le occupied
The post Of Counsellor OF State Of tho Russian