The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-12-29
PERSONAL.

Ex-Gov. Hendricks will spend the winter in
Washington.
Anderson is now city editor Of the Eureka,
New, Sentinel
The Memphis Avalanche casually alludes to
Hon. Ull Perkins.
inGovernor-elec Roberts, OF Texas, will be
augurated January 6.
Omaha boasts printer who has chewed
tobacco forty years and never purchased an
ounce.
Empress Eugenie recently sold to the
Baron Herself three residences In Paris Tor
100000.
Miss Emma Abbott, after very successful
tour In the West, Is about to start for New
Orleans.
Mr.. Thomas Carlyle has just entered his
eighty-fourth year and 10 said to be In excel
lent health.
Philadelphia people wear a black ribbon In
the button.hole to show that they are In
mourning.
Sixty-two per cent Of negro blood, accord
ing to the Liberian courts entities . man to
rank as negro.
Gen. Grant declined to be King Of Bulgaria
because king wouldn't beat four pair
Carlisle Ky Mercury.
The Sioux Indians are In need OF rations,
and say II their wants are not attended to
they will take to the warpath.
Charles Francis Adams 10 about the heaviest
individual taxpayer IN Boston. His taxable
property is valued at $769, 100.
Mr.. Edison will have to look to his laurels.
Two Philadelphia professors assert their cleo
trio light will throw his In the shade.
Major Atwood, of the regulars, got $4,000
head Of cattle for a wedding present He
married the daughter Of Cattle King Dick
King.
Mr.. Kinglake does not intend to leave his
history OF the Crimean war unfinished, but
will bring out the sixth and last volume In
the course Of the next year.
Subscriptions to the fund to supply some
memorial to the late Earl Russell are being
received at the Mansion House In London.
The maximum limit Of subscription 10 $50.
There IL printed a list Of names OF those
members Of the Indiana Legislature who are
said to be solid for Daniel W. Voorhees, for
Senator, and 1t includes enough to secure his
election.
Mr.. Eordhoff telegraphs to the New York
Herald that "the reports that the President
is Grant man are without foundation. He
takes no part In personal politics and has no
candidate"
Annie Louise Cary Is said to be thirty-four
years Of age. The back townships are not
yet in on Miss Kellogg's age. We are of the
opinion that she is entitled to the bouquet
[Ohio State Journal.
AS the Hebrews have declined to receive
Mrs. Stewards $3.50, the best thing she can do
with that money now Is to give 1t to some
young man who will take 1t and start an
evening ewspaper.-lLo Courier
Journal
There Is something mysterious about the
disappearance of James Gordon Bennett. He
hasn't been heard from for nearly month
Perhaps he is slipping around By, way oi
Spitzbergen to capture the North Pole.-lBal-
timore Gazette.
The Montreal Witness, says the Plattsburg
Republican, publishesa portrait Of the dead
Princess Alice In style OF art which, II dis
seminated and cultivated, will do much to
lessen the almost universal dread OF the ap-
proach Of the king Of terrors.
admitted to probate In New York Tuesday. 1t
IL remarkable for being the shortest document
OF the kind ever before the court. 1t contains
but two sentences, the first OF which bequeaths
all his property to his wife, and the second
appoints her sole executrix.
The Princess Christine, the elder sister Of
the late Queen Mercedes, whom the European
gossips have selected as King Alfonsos sec
Ond wife, Is described as tall, thin and angu-
lar, with pointed nose OF portentious dimen-
sions, but she is also said to be graceful and
elegant In carriage and address, accomplished
and possessed Of strong character.
A woman's rights journal declaims against
the custom Of giving a bride away at a mar
rage ceremony, declaring that 1t is relic oil
the old opinion that daughters were slaves OF
q father, and could be given or sold to any
sutton who pleased him. Women in England
did not acquire the right OF choosing hus-
bands for themselves until the tenth century,
and in other European countries much later
"No woman" says the journal in question,
"of proper self-respect will submit to be given
away"