The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-06-14
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

1t is said that Wade Hampton is to
marry the widow of the late Gov. Pick.
ems, of South Carolina.
Mexico has a Woman's Rights paper,
edited by q fair creature euphoniously
Mr.. Newell (Orpheus c. Kerr has
gone abroad for change of air and rest, in
hopes of killing or curing himself-''per.
manently,p as the Celtic hath it.
George Francis Train has abandoned
hana-shaking on the ground that he can
not afford to part with his magnetism,
electricity and longevity in any such
wasteful way.
Lucy Hooper says that Frenchman
will dress better when he intends to sui
eide than on any other day Of his life.
He likes to make things pleasant for Coro-
ners and reporters.
Ann Eliza, who recently advertised
herself as nineteenth wife, of Brigham
Young, proposes hereafter to conform to
the decision of the Court and advertise
herself as "late menial servant of q
prophet"
The authorship of the Kentucky reso-
lutiuns of '98, which has been attributed
by nearly all histories to Thomas Jeffer-
son, is disputed by the Breckin-idges Of
Kentucky in the name of their ancestor,
John Breckinridge. -
Edmund Quincy was urged to go into
business when young man, and a very
desirable connection was made for him !;
but he refused, saying he thought there
ought to be one gentleman in the family,
and he proposed to be the gentleman.
Until the week before his death, the
late DIR. Taylor Lewis dictated to his
daughter. In the course Of this work he
once stopped and remarked: Ruskin has
written much about the beauties of nature,
but he has never seen anything so beauti-
full as my dear old wife and devoted
daughter tending night and day to all my
wants."
General Grant is the first ex- President
to 60 to foreign parts since the days OF
Frank Pierce. OF the nineteen Presidents,
Washington, Madison, Jackson, Harrison,
Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Lincoln and john
soa, never crossed the ocean. Those who
visited foreign lands were John Adams,
jefferson, Monroe, Quincy Adams. Van
Buren, Fillmore, Pierce and Buchanan.
Somebody who saw Edward s. Stokes
lately in theater writes as follows to the
Chicago Inter- Ocean: His nearly five
years of prison life have seemingly told
but very little upon HIM. There Is that
same defiant expression which shot out,
SO to speak, from his features when he
stood in the crowded court room. he
looked round upon the audience with a
cool unconcern, and wherever he encoun-
tered eyes staring at him he returned the
stare with good interest,"
The world will be glad to know what
is now alleged by personal friend in
New Orleans, that Paul Morphy is not
insane or mentally injured in any way
that he is to-day the best player in the
world, giving a knight to the strongest
PLAYERS, and seldom losing game; but
that lionizing is distasteful to him and his
family, and that !" when he returned from
his European triumphs he entered into an
engs cement with his mother never again
to play for money or other stake; never
to play public game or game in pub.
lie place, and never again to encourage OF
countenance any publication Of any sort
whatever in connection with his name. y
He is successfully practicing law.-N- r
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