The Portland daily press., 1875-11-17
About Women.

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"The One Fair Woman" is said to be Teane
see lady whom Mr.. Miller fell in love with
while in Rome, forgetting "Minnie Myrtle"
Miss Della Cards is extensively paragraphed
because of her odd name. But it is not fair
to Miss Della Cards.
Eugene has rheumatism, and is obliged to
walk on crutches 1t is lucky for the ladies
that she doesn't bead the fashions nowadays.
Mrs. General j. E. B. Stuart, the widow of
General Stuart, Of Virginia, has taken a posi-
tion as Assistant Manager Of the Southern Fe-
male College at Richmond.
Mother Stewart, one of the most prominent
of the leaders in the Temperance crusade in
Ohio two years ago, has received an invitation
to begin similar movement in England.
The Duchess de Medina Coeli, the mother OF
the Duke who recently welded the young
daughter of the Duke d'Alba, was the most
magnifcently attired lady present at the mar.
rage ceremony. She is a stout. sallow Span
ish woman. but she wore dress of pale green
silk, entirely covered with point lace hounces
and ornaments of diamonds and emeralds.
Mrs. Williams, formerly the wife of the late
Stephen A. Douglas, has ordered the pic
lures which her first husband collected in Eu-
rope to be sold. They are now being arranged
and catalogued.
The wife of General Hendrix Van Rens-
selaer, formerly of Albany, celebrated the an
niversary OF her one hundredth birthday at
Randolph, Cattaraugus county, last week.
She received calls from large number of ac-
quaintances, and in the evening Professor Ed
wards of Chamberlain Institute, made an ap
propriate address, in which he recounted some
of the eventful scenes through which Mrs. Van
Rensselaer, had passed.
Mrs. Marie Antoinette Tidball, who died
in San Francisco few days ago, at the age of
eighty five, was in her maidenbood (her maiden
name was Miss Hay), favorite OF Mrs. Madi-
son, and was one of the few ladies ever married
at the White House. General Samuel Ring
gold, wealthy Marylander, was her first hus
band (she afterwards married r. NJ. Tidball, O
Virginian) father of Colonel Geo H. Ring
gold, of San Francisco, Paymaster in the
United States Army.
They have good old lady in Townsend, HUI
ron county. o., Mrs. Elizabeth Trimmer, who
was born July 4, 1776. Her mother lived to be
100 years old, and her mother father to be 110
Her maiden name was Shangler, and she had
10 SISTERS and one brother. Her birth place
was Washingtos, Morris county, N. j., but she
has lived also in Cayuga county and Alleganv
county N. Y, and for the past IA years with
the eldest Of her three sous in Ohio. Her eye
sight is poor and her hearing also but she retains
her faculties we'll and tells much of what hap
pened in her younger days She has an ex-
cellent appetite, reads in her own books,
walks oui and pays visits, and. on the 9TH of
July last, walked to the house of neigbor,
half mile away, and back. She is anxious TO
attend the centennial, next year. and if she
lives and retains her present vigor, the Ohio
centennial committee will doubtless secure her
presence as most interesting centennial
relic.
Postmaster-General Jewell warns all women
to beware of the Dead Letter Office. Few OF
the clerks employed there, male or female,
ever marry, or die, or resign. The division is o
sort of Maasoeum of buried affections-a place
not governed by natural laws.
Mrs. Blackford, the acknowledged queen of
the demi-monde in Paris, was married only
four years ago to gentleman belonging to one
of the most respected families in New York.
She is daughter of the Rev. L. s. Ely, of
Philadelphia, and at the time of her marriage
to the New Yorker was a widow. The mar.
rage referred to took place in Paris, in Sep
'ember, in 1870 or 1871. Blackford is an as
sumed name
Old Aunt Jane. a newspaper carrier Of
Charleston, S. c., died few days since. Al
though she was seventy years of age she at
tended regularly to her work up to within q
few days of her death.
Mrs. Washburne, wife of the American Min
lister to France, has been ordered by her physi-
clan to spend the winter at Cannes on account
of the delicate health of one of her daughters.
The Princess Natalie de Keschko, who was
recently married to Prince Milan OF Servia, is
described as looking like a Greek statue
stepped down from its pedestal, and as having
the air of goddess when goddesses were be-
lieved in. She has ond-shaped brown eyes,
masses of lustrous black hair, pale, olive
complexion, a perfect mouth, and an exquis-
Ite figure.
Miss Nelson, the English actress who re-
tired to private life some time ago, will pro-
sessionally appear in January, at one of the
London theatres, preparatory to returning to
this country.
Maggie Davis, daughter of the ex-President
of the Confederate States, is, it is reported,
about to marry A j. Hayes, jr., Cashier of the
National Bank of Memphis.
Miss Butler, daughter of watchman on the
Southwestern Railroad of Georgia, was in the
habit of putting her foot on the track and
snatching it away again just in time to miss
be passing train. Frequently she stood boldly
| in front of the train and jumped on one side
when it was but few feet from her. Perhaps
| it is unnecessary to say that Miss Butler is
now no more She did not jump quick enough
the last time she essayed her pretty feat.
The recent death of Mrs Black, Byron's
"Maid of Athens" has called out card from
the Secretary of the Byron Club in London, in
| which he says: "Mrs. Black was so we'll
cared for, for the sake of the great Philhellenic
poet, by some of the leading members Of tn Q
Athenian Society, as soon as her difficulties be-
| came known to them through Mr.. Finley. that
from that time to the day of her death she was
in the enjoyment of every comfort which she
could reasonably wish for"
| A CURRENCY BIASED ON FAITH AND RE.
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