Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-10-28
PERSONAL.
RrIL has CAPTURED h. Bull.


THE present Charles Dickens has all
the social qualities of his famous father,
and inherits his skill as post-prandlal
talker.
w. ID. Howells, the poet, novelist, and
editor of the atlantic Monthly, was in
Cleveland the other day and was exquis-
itely teted by Col. John Hay.
IT is reported that General Grant has
become a stakeholder in the American
Steamship company of Philadelphia, and
that he is to be made director.
Mrs LYDIA DICKINSON, relict OF the
late Daniel ). Dickinson, Is seriously Ill
at the residence Of Her daughter, Mrs.
Samuel q. Courtney, in Binghampton.
MIS-. Beers Ethel Lynn the poetess
had a premOnition that as soon as she
printed her poems she should die. The
first volumes were received from the
press only a fEw days before that event,
ed upon her coffin.
Mr.. r. A. PROCToR will sail from Liv-
erpOol for America Saturday. He will
begin his work of lecturing in PHiladel-
phia on November 3, and after busy
winter both in the east and west will sail
in April for Australia, to lecture there
for six months.
Mr.. HENRY JACKSON is a colored man
who has Just begun the study OF law at
Winthrop, Me. BY industry and frugal
ity he has acquired good education and
considerable property. He was slave
for fifteen years, and was three times
sold on the auction block.
IL a letter received from the poet
Whittier in answer to an invitation 10
attend the recent Boston meeting in
sympathy with the tenant farmers OF
Ireland he SAYS: 81 do not understand
fully the condition of the Irish tenant
farmers at the present time, but my SYM
pathies are with the laboring poor"
The will of the late Prince Louis Ma
poleon was proven in London on the
10Th of September, the personal estate
being sworn as under S3OOOOO. The
document is in the unfortunate youths
own handwriting, and covers two whole
sheets and one-hali sheet of letter paper,
the bottom of each page bearing the sig
nature Napoleon" or IN"
THE magnificent diamonds which were
presented as a bridalgiit to the daughter
OF General Sherman by the khedive OF
Egypt are kept in the vault of the Unit
ed States treasurer, and their casket Is
sealed, so that the treasurer's clerks may
not be put 10 the trouble OF displaying
them TO visitors. The daughter, Mrs.
Fitch. lives in st. Louis. She has three
children, the oldest being boy OF four
years.
PRoF. julius MEIERE died in New
York Monday night at the age OF ninety
wears. He wss born in France. In Ma
poleon's Russian campaign OF 1872 he
was a soldier. Later he was professor
of languages in the Annapolis Academy,
and was William III. SewBrd's French
tutor when he first became secretary OF
state. From June 1862, down TO the
time of his death he was the inter
prefer in the foreign department in the
pOstofiice.
Is response to an item speaking OF
her daughter as "a very liberal Catho-
lie" Mrs. General Sherman writes TO the
Herald:
My DEAR SIR-Please correct this
statement which, although seemingly
unimportant, is really a SANDER. To be
a "hberal Catholic is to be an object OF
pity or contempt, and my children are
all, up TO this day, as true and loyal in
their faith as they are pure and eXem-
plary in their lives.
Very respectfully, yours,
ELLEN T.. SHERMAN.