, 1879-08-24
PERSONALS.

in our diplomatic relations.
PERSONALS.
Fechter left no will, nor anything else.
Mai, Barksdale's shotgun is a good Dem.
ocrat.
jeff Davis appears to be booming in Mis-
sissippi.
Mark Twain sailed from Liverpool for New
York yesterday.
MIR. Ewing's main reliance is on the Illden
barrel, and not on his War record.
Emotional Democracy will probably be the
plea Of bfaj Barksdaie, Of Yazoo.
Soiourner Truth is 103 years old, and this
probably is the truth that will prevail.
Nv obituaries are very nice; but am still
quite alive, thank you.-Neltie Sdrfor's'
Hint to the managers OF Agricultural Fairs:
The early pumpkin catches the President.
Mr., David Davis will not be very likely to
take his Independent boom down to Yazoo County.
Perhaps Wendell Phillips would make
good President; but the country not good enough
for him.
Count do Chambord;' the Iegitimist pre-
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for England.
Lord Beacons6eld has not very successfully
prorogued Cetywayo. The old savage ID again IN
fighting order.
King Humbert is said to have written a
very sympathetic letter to the cx-EmpEes8 Eugene
On tho death OF her son.
Nellie Grants obituary notices contain
but one statement to which abe can possibly OBJ"
ject, viz. that shc il dead
Mai. Barksanle will undoubtedly be elected
Sheriff OF Tazoo County, and bis first othclal onsl-
ness should be to hang himself.
Mr, Halstead's well-known aversion to ice
water may perhaps accom-: for the gorgeous snake
stories in the Cincinnati Commercial.
Sir John 4. Macdonald has been sworn in
as member of tho Qucen's Priyy Council to
which he was appointed some years ago.
II. de Lessops; the promoter Of the Pann-
ma canal scheme, ia already preparing for his jour
new to tho United States. His wife will accompany
him.
Senator Dlaine is going to Ohio to help
Mr. Foster defeat his cousin, Gon. Ewing. In
1868 Gen. Ewing went to Maine to help defeat MI.
Blnine.
The splendid fish which the Princess
1onise has lust sent home to her mamma may lead
England to increase the cost OF our fishing PRIV
1legcs.
Caratheodori Effondi, the Ottoman Minis
ter at Brussels, has European wife, the sister
Of Count Rivas, the Portuguese Minister a.
Berlin.
A Kentucky man named Sam Chorn has
voted tho straight Democratic ticket for sevcnteen
years. Yet Bob 1ngersoll says ''Thsfe Is 10
Hel1.''
Mrs. Willie:,s, the wife of Grants Attor-
| ney- General, T. back in WASHINGTON, where she
once almost ruled society. She has Ion. been In
Europe.
One would think that Mormonism would
bo 1ts own cures but in Utah they appear to possest
secret for managing wives not known to the rest
OF the world.
| Gen. Grant is quoted as speaking of his
daughters letters from England as " always :yer1
| interesting" He added that = she writes witt
great facility"
james Gordon Bennett backed Webb in
the latter's swimming match against Boyton. One
Of A1r. Benefits Corr reporters could doubles.
| outswfm both Of them.
An exchange calls Anna Dickinson COM
mon scold; and the public is obliged to take wha
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| kind enough to marry Anna:
Lord d:Augustus Lotus, the new Governo
OF New South Wales, who passed through New
York recently On his way thtther, has met with
most cordial reception in Sydney.
It is rather lucky for JEFF Davis that Mrs
Dorscy's death occurred when 1t did. Probably
| she would have been DISPOSED to make him share
| her property with Maj. Ba.ksdale.
King Humbert is reported to have written
very touching letter to ex- Empress Eugenie, say
ing that he vould esteem it high favor II sh
would give him some mcmcnto OF her late son.
'sThe United States Postal Guide " is to b
published monthly, which is good news to person
who are fun to relieve the inevitable ennui 0
summcr-rcsorts with light and pleasant reading.
The cottage in which lived John Macksy
the ~ Bonanza King" when he used to dig gol
in Red Star Guch, is still standing. It ia TIN
shanty, about 12x1o feet in size, with uttl
porch.
Mr. John Clayton, MIR. Boucicnu1es son
in-law, who Ia soon to appear at Booths Theatre
is tall, stout Englishman. blue-eyed and fall
haired. Mrs. Eve Bouccault-Clayton Is prett
young lady, and an invalid.
OF Talmage the Rev. Henry Ward Beeche
SAID day or 1wo ago: ''Talmaee is having dnan
| ciul success. he ls Freuchman in mind; lie sec
everything plctorially dramatically. or tries to
To consequence, he's always on tiptoes"
The late Spanish Princess Maria del Pi1a
is described as having been the loveliest Of oil Kin
A1phonsos sisters. She was tail, fair, and grace
ful, and had most winning manners. The Kin
arrived at Escoraza too late to his sister alive
Kate Baker, the divorced wife Of Edwi
Price, the present husband Of Fanny Davenport
publishes statement that she was not paid SIS. %
to give him up. She says that she got only the So
month nlimony allowed by the Court, accozdlu
to agreement.
Sir William Jenner, the distinguished Ell
glish physician, has been forced by IN attack
whooping- cough TO leave London and hs paticn
| for two months or more He vii! not return unit
the middle OF September, when he will be fire
from the risk of communicating the disease.
Miss Margaret Sinclair, Of Ulbster an
Edinburg, one Of the last survivors Of the Abbots
ford circle, has just died. She was the person
| friend Of Anno Scott, Sir Walters daughter; sll
was intimate with the Princcsses of the old Roy
family, and retained to the last multitude {
recollections Of the world Of two generations ag
She had the curious fortune OF being d-dausht
to Prince Charles Edwards protectress (her greR