Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1879-08-22
PERSONAL.

PERSONAL.
Lord Derby says he has attended
500 public Iii 1ners.
Gen. Lopgstreet, the ex.C Confederate,
is in the hotel business at Atlanta, Ga.
Warm weather has driven Emperor
William and wife into cool-shaded
Ems.
Agnes Booth, the actress, assists her
husband to keep hotel during the
summer at Manchester, N. II.
Mr.. Jefferson Davis is mentioned as
O probable United States Senator from
Mississippi should his political disa-
bilities be removed.
The President does not smoke and
does not offer cigars to his guests,
whom he receives on the southern por-
tico of the White House.
Miss Annie Louise Cary, after sing
ing at one or two college commence
ments, will rest during the summer,
taking part in no concerts.
Mr.. James E. Murdoch, it is said,
will again appear on the stage in the
autumn, giving performances in the
principal cities of the country.
DR.. Hugh Miller, of Scotland, who
lately died, left by will 500, 900 to the
missions of the Free Church of Scot.
land, and $1,000 to the American
Board.
Col. Thos. A. Scott, President of the
great Pennsylvania Railroad, is to re-
turn from his protracted visit abroad in
September next. He hopes by that
time to be in perfect health"
Miss Annie Louise Cary has arrived
at her home in Portland, Maine. She
has signed contract to join Mapleson's
Opera Company for its next season in
this country, beginning in November.
Various Italian cities have begun to
erect monuments in honor of the late
King Victor Emmanuel. The munich
pal authorities of Milan have voted the
sum of 100000 francs for the monu-
ment there.
George Lessard, OF Montreal, aged
80, has Just married his fourth wife.
With his first and third wives he lived
thirty-three and thirty-one years re-
spectively, the second wife dying with
in year after marriage.
Miss Emma Thursby has been en-
gagged for the Hereford Festival. She
will make provincial tour in October
and November. and after that tour on
the Continent, spending next season in
England, and returning to America in
1850.
Mr.. Gladstone still pursues theology.
At the present moment he is writing an
article for the Dissenters organ, the
British Quarterly, on the "Decoy of
the Evangelicanism in the Church Of
England" 1t is said that it will be q
kind of continuation of some articles he
wrote about two years ago on the cur
rent of religious thought.
James Wick, the well-known nursery
man of Rochester, N. Y, used to set
type along side of Horace Greeley.
When Whitelaw Reid was in that city
the other evening delivering an address
before the editors of New York, Mr..
Wick sent him a model of an easy
chair, made of flowers. This was
Nick's Floral Guide" to Whitelaw
when the latter wanted to sit down.
Sydney Smith, after Macaulay's re-
turn from the East, remarked to friend
who had been speaking of the noted
conversationalist: " Yes, he is certainly
more agreeable since his return from
India. His enemies perhaps have said
before, Though l never did so,) that he
talked rather too much but now he
has occasionally flashes of silence that
make his conversation perfectly de-
lightful.
Hon. Samuel J. Tilden has leased
the residence on North Broadway,
known as Graystone, and will occupy
the building this week. The lease is
for six months, and he has the privi-
lege of purchasing the property at the
end of that time. The house commands
fine view of the river, the grounds
embracing thirty three acres, extend
ing from Broadway to the river
Y0nkers Gazette.