, 1872-11-02

Carolina is the Rev. Richard a. CGn, 1ami1iar17
| known as Daddy Cain, m amusing old darkey
who was originally field hand. His education
is imperfect, and his character not much better.
Emily, Countess OF Shaftesbury, died some
what suddenly on Tuesday. The much lament
ed lady, who leaves large family, the eldest
daughter Of the late Viscountess Palmerston, bg
her first husband, Earl Cowper.
| -PEncess Louise has received her first vel
! come to Balmornl as the Marchioness of Lorhe.
| having been escorted with the Marquis from the
lodge to the castle BY torchlight procession Of
servants and tenantry Of the estate.
,r-General Rosecrans is now in the City Of
Mexico, urging Congress to allow him certain
concessions, but do not see how the Govern
ment can afford to pay a cent, having scarcely
enough to pay its own employees; vacant lands
alone would certainly be no lnducement to Eu-
ropean capita1sts-much less Americap-to
invest in Mexican railroad stock-Nazatlan
Letter.
Bret Harte, who woke one morning and
found himself famous on 3 rather insignificant
literary venture, was announced some time ago
as having play nearly ready for production 1T
the Fifth Avenue Theatre. It has not been pro-
duced because h[r. Harte has not written it, and
it may never be produced, because nobody knows
whether he can write it.
-Foublanque, whose death at London was
announced the other day, made his first appenr-
ance III literature in 1922, with Leigh Hint, as
one OF the writer's for the Examiner. His con
uectlon with this paper he kept up after Hunt
vent oil to Italy to be disappointed in his pro
}ect OF great literary journal, to be conducted
Fonblanque has been in the service of the Eng
lish Government, in the Board Of Trade.
.-Napoleon Wyse, an Irish gentleman, was in
Vited by his sister, Madame Rattazz, to visit her
She telegraphed to friend, ''Everything is
prepared; Napoleon can come" Great excite
ment in the official world; the telegraph was
sent to NJ. Theirs at last, who is 8 great friend
to Nine. RattazZi, and who laughed, aud does
still, at the scare the telegram caused-Paris
Letter.
"A Michigan candidate to Congress is said to
be making speeches to the workingmen. with
two artistic black patches Oh the eeat of bis gray
pantaloons, He parts his coat-tai1 in the mid
die, filings q half over each arm, buries his
hands to the elbows in his trousers pockets, and
turns his back to the audience so constantly
that protection" and ''home industry in twin
combination, at once present themselves as the
grafton, If not the very bottom Of his eloquent
fabric
Ulysses Grant, son Of the President, is
IN Germany, perfecting himself n the language
Of the country andi French. He is alno Keep
ward, to which he belongs. He is not at =
university, but is boarding with private family
in Gottingen. Next year he vii return to enter
the senior class at Harvard The young gen
tleman has good foundation already in French
and German, as also has Mist Nellie, though she
does not readily speak eitherlanguage.
The Christian World Noes, in Dr. Samuel
1yler's memoirs Of Chief :hstice Taney that
the Judge VAS an awful smoer. He began to
puff away early in life, anl kept On industri-
ously putting away to the ed. Yet he had one
OF those delicate, nervous e1cltable organiza-
tious which are thought peuliarly susceptible to
injury from the use Of thacco- While on his
sick bed he found his g1ehest relief from pain
in smoking. He died almost with the cigar in
his month Hare (sara tia WDrtN ia a caaa for
the Anti-Tobacco League. # sach an organiza-
ton can stand the pois,n~ for eighty years.
wouldn't it be we'll to ga up soms new arsu-
nent?