, 1872-12-05

Helmbold, it is said, is now head clerk in a
drugstore.
The Indictment against Tweed covers /, ,o50
pages.
"Tho Old Ann Chair, IS bopelessly ii.
Wendell Phillips proposes to review Mr.
Froude.
.-Hepworth Dixon is deyoting six weeks in
Spain to the preparation Of a new work, "The
Two Queens, " on Anne Bo1eyn and Catherine Of
Aagon..
The Duke Of Sutherland and the Marquis Of
Butte have each an annual income Of 81, 500, 600.
The widow Of the founder OF the CitY OF
Adrian, Mich, the late Addison J. Comstock,
recently died She WIS the mother Of the first
child burn in the city, and WAS; at the time Of
her death, the oldest resident.
-Balzic used to say, "There are three Of US
who know French-I, and Hugo, and Gautier."
Gautier has just died, and Bslzac has been long
dead Hugo is approaching dissolution, and
then the French language will bo extinct.
Anthony Trollope has compromised his long
lawsuit with Mr. Tauchnitz, the LeipBic pub
Usher, by accepting from him the sum OF $4,000.
On his subsequent writings lie is to receive
from Mr. Tauchnitz copyright OF per cent.
--Wilhelmina Wo1tman has just been found
guilty at stade, in HanoTer, OF having poisoned
her first and second husbands, the father and
mother of her second, and the son and daughter
Of her third. Arsenic was her Weakness
Bismarck was recently called upon by q
Russian lady, who asked him for his autograph.
After the Chancellor had complied with her re-
your autograph for noble purpoBe?" Seer
tainly," he replied; 'but what is it 2" "My
brother has been exiled to siberia; let me- write
an application for his pardon over your name,
and the Gar will grant it," Bismarck consent
ed, and Alexander II, informed him, when ut
Berlin recently, that the pardon had been
The Shah of Persia will arrive in Europe
next spring. He will first visit the Russian
Court at St. Petersburg, from thence pass on to
Berlin, after which he will proceed to London.
He will pay visit to France also, and will go to
Vienna at the time Of the Universal Exhibition
there.
Hugh Chester, Of Preston, England, ordered
q handsome coffin for q friend, who WAS still
alive, thinking. it capital joke. A few days
afterward he repented Of his lberality, and
called at the undertaker's to countermand the
order; but the coffin being nearly fin
ished, the undertaken replied Hold thy
noise; have hired band Of music and they
are going to bring it up on Tuesday" Chester,
being compelled to DO absent from home On that
day. gave directions to his wife to fasten the
doors, and not take in any coffin. The coffin,
however, arrived with a band Of music and 8
mob of followers, who burst in the stable-door
and deposited it in that building. The UNDER
taker having urged that be could not afford to
take jokes like this, as he had q family to sup.
win probably hesitate in future before, in mo-
ments Of good nature, he treats his friends to
cofne.
A milwaukee, paper says: ."The La Crosse
Democrat contains an advertisement OF q sale
under q foreclosure Of certain described prop
Pomeroy's Opera House, the party forecloaing
being Anna 4. Pomeroy, Of this city, divorced
wife Of Mark II. e Brick } Pomeroy- It is un-
derstood that Mr. Pomeroy gave her mortgage