Knoxville weekly chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1875, 1874-02-04
PERSONAL.

lures.
Charles Francis Adams is reported to be
writing a historical work.
Senator and Mrs. Morton are said to be
now enjoying the best of health.
Ben. Wood of New York, owns the only
morning daily m Charleston, South Oaro-
Lima.
Mrs. Senator Dorsey is described as a
Spanish-looking beauty, with long black
iashos, dark eyes and petite figure.
Grace Greenwood Mrs. Lippincott is
described as dark and rather pale, with
bright hazel eyes and strong face.
The New York SIN wants to see the
Few. Henry Ward Beecher the successor Of
Roscoe Conkling. 1t says che would car
- religion into the Senate"
Mr.. a. H. Stephens is preparing to make
. few brief remarks on the question of Gu
ban independence, and Congressional re-
porters talk of taking weeks holiday.
According to DR.. Holland, "the average
american cats his dinner in the average
American restaurant in the average time
of six minutes and forty-tive seconds
Mr.. a. II. Stephens wishes Georgia pa
pers to report his remarks verbatim when
ue expresses his sentiments touching the
civil rights bill, and Georgia readers are IN
dismay
Sickles is reported to be getting ready
for the political harvest next fall, in order
that, rs a member of Congress, he may
reap-pay for the indignities heaped upon
him.
The model for marble bust of the Rev.
AIR. Spur econ has been made by Mr.. Adj
ans Acton. 1t is said the sculptor has
been very successful in his treatment of
the subject.
Henry w. Shaw Josh Billings has sold
four hundred and ten thousand of his " Al
manax" during the last four years-profits,
$4,000. How much was it that Milton got
for Paradise Lost?
Senator Sumner is sitting, or rather
standing, to Mr.. Ulke, German artist in
Washington, for full-length portrait,
which has been ordered by the Haytien
Legislature for its hail.
The romantic story about the secret mar
riaga of the Grand Duke Alexis, which
has been going the rounds of the papers,
has received an official contradiction. 1t
appears that there was not word of truth
u it.
The old armchair used by Horace Gree
ley for so many years in his sanctum in the
Tribune Office is now in the possession oi
Mr.. Thomas \. Rocker, of Brooklyn, Sec
retary of the Tribune Association. The
chair is battered with age and hard SER
vice.
The Oldest bank president in the United
of Northampton, Mass. He will be nine
ty-tive years of age in March next. He
presided at the annual meeting of stock.
holders of the Northampton National
Eank, and was reelected to the position hC
has long and ably filled.
There is a story of Judge Grier, which
every body delights in. how he set aside
the unjust verdict OF n jury against an un'
popular man, with this remark: "Entel
the verdict Mr.. Clerk. Enter, also, set
aside by the Court want it to he under.
stood that it takes thirteen men to steal q
mans farm in this court"
General Jubal a. Early of Virginia, has
views of his own on the subject of the
Senatorship of that State. He says that
representation in Congress is of no use tC
the State, and is in favor of abolishing il
and then the United States Government
paying over to Virginia the salaries of the
eleven Senators and Members, being about
100000.
Ex Mayor Hall, of New York, has five
daughters and one son. The latter busies
himself with u printing press, preparatory
to learning the art of printing practically,
and then journalism. One of the daugh-
tecs is q designer and etcher, the second q
writer of childIen's books and a pianist
the third a student of lyric art the fourth
an accomplished amateur actress, the fifth
ia learning to be modiste and milliner.
NJ. Guizot lives at present on the third
floor of dwelling house in the Rue Ora
toire de la Roule at Paris. His apartments
include alittle, dark ante'chamber, par
lor, and a study. The parlor, says the FL
gdro, has no carpet. On reception days II
is lighted by but single lamp, and it is
only by the feeble rays of thus one lamI
that visitors can note the array Of faithful
udherents who still consider IL point q
honor not TO forget VI. Guizot.