Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-03-11
Personal.

| kossuth' g son writes letter denying the
stories of the old hero's poverty.
In Mrs. Somerville's earlier years we are
told that she was preached against in York
Cathedral.
Admiral Wilkes, the captor of Mason
ana Sldeli, is living at High Shoals, Lin
coin county, North Carolina.
A sister of John Bright, the English
statesman, is resident of Brooklyn. She
is said to be lady of culture and vigoroup
mind.
The eight soup houses established il
New York, by James Gordon Bennett, feed
about six thousand applicants day.
Jay Gould has been sued by the lawyer
employed by him in the Erie railroad suits
for S75, 900, which they claim for profes-
sional service rendered.
Minister Bancroft will return to this
country in the srring, and establish his
residence IN Washington, occupying hi
cottage at Newport during the summer.
Alexander Dumas is about to spend
some time in Italy, where, at his leisure,
he will writeia five act comedy for the
Odeon Theater, Paris.
Gallant old Gen. Jake Ammcn, former
ly of Cincinnati, has been appointed by
the Secretary of War an advisory mem
Der of the government to examine wheth-
er the Nicaragua Canal is feasible.
Rev. DIR. Lyman Beecher's salary seven
ty years ago was $500 per annum and free
wood. His son, Henry Ward Beecher, re
ceives $4,000 Il year, but buys his fire
wood.
In seventeen years Spurgeon has re
ceived $4,000 persons into his church
erected thirty-six chapels in London, and
supplied the same with ministers trained
in college OF his own founding.
The King of Portugal is small, deli
cate gentleman of any age from thirty-five
to forty, with a round dusky face and
close cropped hair. He is regular book.
worm, and his private library is marvel
of valuable accumulations.
Bret Harte has found a French transla-.
tor. There must be a wonderful fund of
humor left in his poems when they appear
in foreign tongue. The wild Western idi-
of speech, when done in
French, must be exceedingly funny to the
of the Continent.
George H. Pendleton is our candidate for
the Presidency above all others, for he re-
Gently knocked down Columbus hack
man who was annoying him. If he will
go on knocking down hackmen, occasion
ally killing a few, he shall be Vice Presi-
dent too, and peradventure Congress and
the Supreme Court.-ROchcstcr Democrat.
Miss Jean Ingelow, says the Boston
Transcript, is mostly occupied in the care
and attention of her mother, who has been
very unwell and is now exceedingly in
firm. Work upon her new novel, as q
is very slow. 1t is, however,
growing, and is likely to surpass in inter-
EST all her previous efforts.
The Incidence Of the Rev. Henry Ward
Beecher may be Inferred from the factthat
Turing recent week he preached twice on
sunday, lectured in Trenton Monday, in
Tuesday, at Yale College
Wednesday and Thursday, in Brooklyn on
Friday, and resumed his preaching on
Sunday. In addition, he edits the Chris
ian Union, and writes for Bonners
Ledger.
Edward S. Stokes is bookkeeper in the
Sing Sing hospital wears the stripes and
Velvet slippers, and more or less gray hair,
abors four or five hours a day, and passes
most of his time in reading. He has rath-
II an easy time of it altogether, bat it il
all things considered, that the
Door fellow is we'll enough to do anything
It all.