Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1875-10-28
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R;ehard Grant White has not lived
.,tooether in vain. The Liverpool
Post saws he is, sin his.way'' almost
genius
A young lady of Brooklyn, who
went abroad to study for the operate
stage, has achieved marked success
by marrying an Italian Count
The vox populi obligate OF ONO
made Uncle Williams fog-horn solo
sound something like a fye-cent
trumpet in a thunder storm.-lChl-
cago Inter Ocean.
A fair Sicillian maiden lately got
on top of house in Palermo, an
ointed herself with oil of petroleum,
and burned herself alive because the
coachman wouldn't marry her.
Mr.. Richards, a member Of the
Alabama Constitutional Convention,
proposed section exempting from
poli-tax for life all MANNED Confeder-
ate soldiers in the State.
Bishop Holly, of Hayti, the only
colored bishop of the p. E. Church In
America, is at present in Washing
ton, where he breaches at the Church
of the Epiphany in behalf OF the
Haytien mission.
The Hon. w. D. Kelley is the
senior member of the Forty fourth
Congress, and in that capacity will
administer the oath to the next
Speaker. Mr.. Kelley has been elect
ed for eight consecutive terms.
Jenny Lind -Goldschmidt has pre-
sented to the Church of the Holy
Trinity, Wimbledon Park, an elegant
Munich window representing the
TRANSPORTATION, as memorial to the
late DR.. Wilberforce, Bishop of Win
chester, England.
Charlotte Cramton, the late actress,
rendered great service as a VIVIAN
diere in Maryland regiment during
the late civil war, being indefatiga-
BILE in her attentions to the sick and
wounded. Miss Champion was once
also a lecturer ON the evils of intem
perance.--Graphic.
One celebrated man-dressmaker of
Paris drives out every day in the
Bois de Boulogne. He wears kid
gloves of a peculiar and delicate
lilac hue, and always rides with one
foot on the front seat, the trouser leg
on that side being slightly drawn up
so as to display silk hose of precise
ly the same hue as the gloves.
Fraulein Won Bismark, who is soon
to marry the Count Wendt, is large
and plump brunette, and possesses all
the German virtues. Apropos of this
young lady, Prosper Merimee wrote
in his Letters to an Unknown"
"Mme. Won Bismarck has the longest
foot in the empire, and mademoiselle,
her daughter, walks in her tracks"
Ahmed -Fedji- Gwalio, one of the
richest rajans tributary to England
in India, is going to mary Miss Emf
ly Decker, daughter of an English
Colonel, who was formerly one of his
fathers ministers, and who has stipu-
lated that Miss Decker is to remain
Protestant. The rajah is model Of
manly beauty, and has already
small collection of 227 ladies.
Senator Sharon said in his speech
on the occasion of the serenade ten
dered to him in San Francisco on the
evening of the day the Bank of Cali
fornia was reopened: ''The Bank of
California fell like a Titan, only to
rise with renewed strength to invig
crate your commerce, aid your enter
prise, and to help again to furnish
labor with its honest reward"
Gen. Andres Ibarra, the favorite
and last surviving aid-de-camp of
Bolivar, died at Caracas, August %.
In his youth he saved the LIBERIA
tors life from assassins, risking his
own life, and losing the use of his
right hand. Afterward, Bolivar died
in his arms. Gen. Ibarra was the
father-in-law of President Guzman,
and his death was mourned through
out the country.
George Gill, who lately died at his
home near Hanover, Pa, is supposed
to have been the oldest vegetarian in
the United States. He eschewed
meat diet twenty-six years ago; and
retiring soon afterward from the busy
haunts of men, he led the life of a
hermit until his death. He was a
good deal Of student, and, unlike
most persons who live in solitude,
possessed very agreeable Manners
Erchaage.
Thomas Haviant, a wealthy French
tradesman, has probably left the
most remarkable will on record.
a number of singular be-
quests was one instituting at the an
nual village fete a race with pigs rid
den by boys or men. The rider of
the winning pig was to have a prize
of $400, on condition that he wear
for the deceased during
two years after the race. The mu-
nicipality accepted the bequest, and
the race was held according to condi-
tions.