The Phoenix herald., 1879-05-31
PERSONAL.
Bishop Ames is said to have left an estate worth S250, ,000.

Bishop Ames is said to have left an estate worth S25O, ,0OO.
 Hon. J. W. Julian is abo ut to begin the practice of law in Washington.
 James Gordon Bonnet will, it is said, go tiger hunting in India next winter
 Rev. Charles Stowe (son of Harriet Beecher Stowe) and Miss Munroe will be married at Cambridge, May 26.
 MT. c. F. Adams says that he is out of the political field, and that he does not care to return. He is wise man.
 Professor Agassiz, the younger, Is a short, slender man, looking like a Frenchman, with a fine forehead and very bright eyes.
 President White, of Cornell, the new minister to Germany, was connected with the legation ln Russia nearly twenty-five years ago, and will not be novice in diplomacy.
 MT. Moody has returned to New Eng land. He spoke in the Central church at Hartford, Conn.,, to 8 congregation of sixteen hundred, over one thousand of who were converts.
 Mrs. Julia Ward Howe has been giving areading with Madame Ristori in Rome for the benefit of the Gould Home. The reading was from {" Marie Stuart. " Ristori taking the chief part in Eng fish.
 A monument is to be erected at Iii tusville, Pa., to Col. Drake, who put down the first oil well in the United States twenty years ago. He died poor, without reaping any benefit from his discovery.
 Ho--,., -aoo---o5 n call the other day from party of fifty boarding school. He shook hands witf them all, and gave them permission tc look at the White House.
 Gail Hamilton writes in the Christian Union against normal schools. The learning which normal and training schools impart, she says, can be better mics already established.
 Nathaniel Hawthorne was no ashamed upon occasion to play nurse It is recorded of him that he was ofter seen on pleasant summer afternoons II Salem, trundling his baby in baby carriage around the paths of the com mon, in solitary and sedate meditation
 One of a party of negroes who re gently arrived in Topeka, Kansas, Ii Isaiah T. Montgomery, one of the ricl colored men of the South, running a this time about one thousand acres o1 the old Jeff Davis" plantation II Mississippi, and one thousand acres O. his own adjoining.
 General Garribaldi on going to cal the other day on the king of Italy wai dressed in his usual unconventiona red shirt-the same costume in whicl he entered London. He suffers griev ously from rheumatism. As a rule during his last campaigns he was unable to put on his right boot or to use his left arm.
 Queen Victoria is said to object seri ously to the feminine fashion of wear ing the hair in fringe across the fore head. It is stated that she instructed the bridesmaids who appeared at the recent wedding of her son, that they would not be permitted to wear their locks in that fashion, nor to don high heeled boots, nor to wear tie-bac k gowns.
 Miss Virginia French, young lady of New Orleans, wrote such pretty poem for the Picdyune some time ago that young Tennesseean fell in love with it and her. He went to New Or leans, pleaded with the Picayetpe ed itor Ia lady) for the name of the poet ess, got it, bobbed down on his knees before Miss French, and before long made her his wife.