The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-25
pERSON4L GOSSIP.

last year.
Mrs. Yclvcrton has gone from Salt Lake to
Nebraska.
-Gustave Dore is coming to study american
character.
Harriet Hosmer has chlselcd the world out
of Sll5,Ooo.
Wagner is getting his brain softened by
matrimony.
Tom Thumb and party are on exhibition
at Yokohama.
"A Tribune writer calls Morrissey's laurels
@green baize."
Professor Stowe generously endorses his
wife's Byron Story.
Prince Arthur was christened Arthur-Wil-
liam-Patrick-Albert.
Mrs. Amelia Bloomer is living at Council
Bluffs and is in ill-hcalth.
The christening cake Of Wales new baby
weighed siXty-fve pounds.
George Sand has been dining with Roche
fort and the young Hugos
An admiring African Prince has presented
Queen Victoria with live tiger.
1t is matter Of pistols and coffee to hiss
Lydia Thompson in New Orleans.
-Robeson and Cresswell are telling Forney
something to say in reply to Dawes.
Verdi has sent TO- 900 francs to Mile. Plare,
whose late father wrote his librettoes.
Lord Brougham used 10 say that the semi
colon had never had full justice done it.
Tile ladies in Rome arc in agonies OF envy
at the lace upon the Gcumcnical vestments.
-Juarez is going toiEurope with his family.
and thinks himself lucky that he goes volun-
tarly.
Kate Field is studying up Fechter with
the intention Of embaIming him as she did
Dickens.
There is much muttering about Dawes in
Congress-. but the Radicals dawsent openly
oppose him yet.
"A Young woman of Indiana keeps twenty
seven engagement rings hung up in her bou-
doir, the spolls of five years.
"A Michigan wife lately told her husband
that he didn't suit, and he left unconcernedly,
like a hired nian no longer wanted.
Mrs. DR.. Walker returned the entrance
money to disappointed audience at Jackson,
Miss, the other night. 1t was just 81 25.
st. Joseph, Mo, welcomes to her bar Ma
ior II. S. Foote, Jr., late Of Canton, Miss, and
son of the famous Ex-Governor of the same
name.
James Lynch. colored, had the biggest
majority on the Mississippi State ticket. 1t
was all on account OF the popularity of his
name.
wyoming offers to send Anna Dickinson to
Congress if she will come ont there and live.
She prefers to make $500 q night without
stealing.
-Special Revenue Commissioner Wells is q
man OF middle age, of rather tlorid complex
ion, and of dim cye-slght,. protected by pale
blue spectacles.
Tom Thumb has brought suit against the
Adams Express Company orecover the value
of quantity of photographs lost in transpor-
tation That's small affair."
The first discovcrcr Of gold in California,
]. w. Marshall, is living in Ell Dorado County
in destitute circumstances. and fund for his
relief has been started among the miners.
--Balasky won't marry the widow for whose
sake he was shot, until he gets well, be-
cause s'thcy will make second Richardson
case of 1t, and put us in the pictorial pa
pers."
-Raspail, who is not dead, was accustomed
to say that he had spent fourteen years in
nrison for political offences, ten in exile, had
been deceived hundred times and poisoned
seven.
-Reddy. the Blacksmith, doesn't keep his
nlcdrc. When the revenue officers went after
him the other day for selling liquor without a
license. they found him gloriously drunk in his
own cellar.
-Fontana, the Paris singing master, who
committed suicide, broke several nails from the
wall by his weight, and was finally forced to
hang himself to strong hook only three feet
from the ground.
Prominent among the kneeling multitude
when the Pope pronounced the bcnedictlon
upon the Council were two English girls,
perched high and scrntinizing the Holy Father
through couple Of field glasses.
General McClellan's recent visit TO WASH
inrton Is said to have been for the purpose OF
getting the sentence against General Fltz
John Porter set aside. General Sherman has
recommended 1t to the President.
Did Governor Austin, of Minnesota, intend
any insinuation when lie declined the New
Years rift of house with the remark, II a
public officer couldn't maintain himself with
ont presents, he had better resign?
Thomas Carlyle, having been asked by
letter! whether he had ever investigated the
phenomena of modern spirtualism, replied as
follows: by votn., or except passively, and
by accidt., never did; nor have the least in
tentn. of ever doing. T. c."
Bishop Duggans insanity has been proved
beyond q doubt. A recent visit to the Chicago
Insane Asylum says that the bishop is the most
insane person in that institution-an opinion
entertained by all of the unfortunate prelate's
friends who have visited him at his place Of
confinement.
1t is now said that Mr.. Carlyle did not call
sprituasm the Liturgy of Dead Sea Apes, :"
hut Liturgy of Dead Sea Apples" which is
equally Carlyleish. but less striking. man
with such style ought to write good hand,
for nobody could detect printers error by
any rule of sense or grammar.
The statement that Count Won Bismarck
intends to resume the whole of his former du-
ties in the course OF from eight to ten days, is
confirmed. The report of his intending TO give
nm n nort of them is entirely without founda-