The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-02-26
PERSONAL GOSSIP.

General Lindsay has been appointed COM
mander of the forces in British North America.
Margaret Stuart. of ofPhadelphia, has struck
Billy Patterson for SIS, 900 in breach of prom
Use case.
General Beauregard's matrimonial engage
ment with Mrs. Haas, Of New Orleans, has
been announced.
"A tantalizing old fellow in Nashville has
left six widows $4,000 apiece upon condition
that they shall never marry.
General Wade Gampton g on visit to
New Orleans, and receives the cordial atten-
tions and hospitality which are due to his
character and genial qualities as gentleman
and soldier.
The negro senator Revels, 'of Mississip-
pi," has ceased to be the eighth wonder of the
world He crawls daily inlo the Senate
Chamber, skulks into corner, and sits quietly
without molestation or even notice.
Now, just as Paris letter-writers Of forty
years ago were wont TO mention, NJ. Theirs
carries his head proudly, his fiery eyes shine
through gold spcctaclcs. and his coat is worn
snttoled to the chin,
General Grant walks about the streets OF
Washington in an unbrttoned trock-coat, ill
fitting pan.aloons, q stove-ppe hat well down
on his head, and with his ungloved hands
clasped in the small Of his back.
Here is bon-mot from his Holiness.
Some one showing him Marseillaise article
advocating the abolition Of capital punishment
for all but sovereigns, Plus rejoins, 81 thought
that, by the principles of 1898, all men were de
clared equal"
The late Duke DeBroglie was passionately
fond of fishing, and when Minister of Foreign
Affairs he found the best places on the river
constantly occupied by young man. One
day his rival did not appear at the usual place.
The Duke had appointed him Yice-Consul in
the East, and ordered him at once to his post.
The salary Of the Paris correspondent of
the London Times has been very materially
reduced When the former Paris correspon-
dent was informed of the intention of his en-
ployers to give him only two thousand pounds
year, and not to allow him anything for
house and Office rent, and only to pay his car
riage bills hereafter, he Immediately telegraph
ed to London that he would resign his posi-
ton rather than submit to such terms.
Here is the account which the young wife
of NJ. Emile Olivier, the French Prime Minis
ter, gave to one of the editors of the Courier
des Deux Mondes about her courtship and
marriage: 81 came to the watering-place, and
he came to the watering-placc; was little,
and he was great. Next year, when was
again at the watering place, had grown a
little, and he was greater. In the third year,
when he met me again at the watering place,
was nearly grown up, and he was great
great enough for two. He drew me up to him,
and o happiness became his WIFE,"
The recent duel between the son OF Count
Bismarck and fcllow-student at Bonn, Prus-
ssia, provokes much comment. On leaving
Bonn, the fond father handed the surgeon at
tending his son six Friedrichs dor. AS the
case had given the medical man much trouble,
and kept him up every night, he expected
something quite magnificent, and was more
than taken back. Being authorized to de-
mand thaler an hour, he made out a. Dill lor
one hundred and sixty hours, deducted tne
thirty-:our thalers received, and asked for the
balance Payment was refused on the ground
of exorbitancy, and of improper treatment
ofthe wound. Noted chirurgical celebrities,
however, having pronounced the course o.
! the surgeon proper, tie p:l was paid.