The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-09-08
Personal.

Queen Isabella is going back to France.
Lord John Russell has been member of
Parliament since 1918. -.t......,
Wendell Phillips has been stumping for
General Butler. -"-. [a.E.
Professor Huxley is in Nashville, Tenn,
on visit to his sister, Mrs. j. G. Scott.
John Bright expects 10 visit this country
in 1873, when he will lecture in the large
cities. ... .u. ......s-... ..
Miss Minnie Palmer's kisses, albeit con-
fined to the stage of Brooklyn theatre, are
the talk OF all paroXysmal society. ss,a
Commodore Vanderbilt is growing weaker
daily, and yet "relapse" is talked Of.
The case is either peculiar or peculiarly re-
ported.
Martin Farquhar Tupper, i. De Witt
Talmage, Eli Perkins, and George Alfred
Townsend, figure in the iecture-bureau list
for the ensuing season.
Suit has been begun in the United States
District Court in New York against Frank
Leslie. the publisher, Oh charge OF irregll-
larities in importing carriages, valued at
$4,000.
Professor Huxley has accepted an invita-
ton from the trustees Of the Johns Hopkins
University to deliver an opening lecture on
university education September 18th, in
the Baltimore Academy Of Music.
Minister Pierrepont's explanation of the
Flint letter is that it was one OF number
of scientific tests which he, "with several
other gentlemen" applied in the way OF an
amateur investigation OF spiritualism.
Edwin Booth opened in Hamlet to a
crowded house in the California Theatre,
San Francisco, on Monday night, and was
enthusiastically received. The premium
paid for the choice box for the opening per-
forlnance was $500. .-...
Mutual friends of Mr.. Lathrop and Mr.
Hawthorne have examined the formers
book with special reference to the papers OF
the elder Hawthorne which his son OBJ
jected to have used. They have assured
him that these papers were not used.
Mr.. Boutwell, expresses his grief for the
death of the two great Republicans OF Mas
sachusetts, Charles Sumner and Henry
Wilson, but he does not say that these two
men died abhorring the practices OF the
Radical party and execrated by its leaders.
General de Cissey's retirement from the
French Ministry of War is said to have
been in consequence Of threatened scandal
about the Minister and the wife OF another
military man known for his researches on
..The Man in the Iron Mask" BY the way,
wasn't de Cissy to marry an American
belle, Miss Willing, or Billing?
Mr.. Black, the English novelist, looks
good deal like what he was when he started
on his career-a "sub" on daily paper.
He is dark, slender, young, almost boylsh-
looking man, with quick movement and
dark eyes that look capable OF very keen
observation, though they are concealed
somewhat by glasses; for, like SO many lite
rary men and journalists, he is near-sighted.
Israel Washburn, Esq, died at his resi-
dence, in Livermore, Me-, Friday morning,
at the age of ninetyone years. nine months,
and fourteen days. His surviving children
are Ex-Governor Washburn, OF Portland;
Minister Washburn, at Paris: Cadwalader
C. Washburn, late Minister to Paraguay;
William D. Washburn, of Minnesota
Aleernon S. Washburn, Of Hailewell; Cap
tain Samuel B. Washburn, OF LiHermore;
Mrs. Martha Stephenson, Of Galena. and
Mrs. Caroline A. Holmes. of Minneapolis.
Miss Lucy Ann Mank, or Mink, OF Lowell.
like Lady Clara We're de We're, is 6not one
to be desired" Some time ago she killed
DR.. Baker, who was her lover. The usual
sympathy for murderous females having left
her at large, on Thursday last she killed
Charles Kicker, young man who had Deen
paying her attention i'll Ignorance OF her
homieiAal experience, but who was fastldl-
Gus enough to object to her CORY associa-
tions when he discovered them. 1t is to be
hoped that her 'vagaries in this direction Will
be now stopped, for while at least